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May 23, 2024 · The Last Full Measure (2019) Christopher Plummer, William Hurt, Ed Harris, Samuel L. Jackson and Sebastian Stan star in this war drama based on Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air ...
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- Memorial Day movies to stream over the long weekend. Memorial Day was created to honor and remember those fallen members of the Armed Forces who gave their lives to protect the inalienable rights of those who live in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
- Glory. Released: 1990. Rated: R. Memorable quote: “What’s the point? Ain’t nobody gonna win. It’s just gonna go on and on.” Once known as Decoration Day, Memorial Day was first celebrated in 1868 to pay tribute to those lost during the Civil War.
- Apocalypse Now. Released: 1979. Rated: R. Memorable quote: “I love the smell of napalm in the morning!” Eclipsed in fame perhaps only by its making-of documentary (filmed by the director’s wife, Eleanor Coppola), the Francis Ford Coppola film Apocalypse Now is one of the most famous war movies ever made.
- Saving Private Ryan. Released: 1998. Rated: R. Memorable quote: “Tell her that when you found me, I was here, and I was with the only brothers that I have left.
- Black Hawk Down
- Glory
- Courage Under Fire
- Saving Private Ryan
- The Thin Red Line
- Paths of Glory
- The Hurt Locker
- Platoon
- American Sniper
- The Big Red One
Where to Watch: Netflix, Hoopla, rentable on Amazonand other sites Black Hawk Down, from Ridley Scott, was heaped with praise and two Academy Awards (for Best Film Editing and Best Sound) and still remains a solid, gripping look at soldiers caught in a seemingly impossible situation. Detailing the U.S. military's 1993 raid in Mogadishu, which shift...
Where to Watch: Hulu and rentable on Amazonand other platforms Edward Zwick's historical Civil War drama, Glory, stars Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, and Matthew Broderick in the story of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment -- which was one of the Union Army's earliest African-American regiments. Nominated for five Academy Awards, and winn...
Where to Watch: Hulu and rentable on Amazonand other platforms Denzel Washington reunited with Glory director Edward Zwick for a very different war and a very different tale of bravery with Courage Under Fire. Utilizing a Rashomon-style format, the film follows a Lieutenant Colonel (Washington), back home from the Gulf War after a friendly fire inc...
Where to Watch: Paramount+, Pluto TV (with ads) and rentable on Amazonand other platforms A few years after Spielberg changed the course of cinema with Jurassic Park, he made his indelible mark in the realm of war dramas with instant classic Saving Private Ryan. A film featuring battle scenes so shocking and harsh that it was unlike anything audien...
Where to Watch: Starz, DirecTV, and rentable on Amazonand other platforms The same year Saving Private Ryan was released came another, very different World War II film, The Thin Red Line, which was director Terrence Malick's first feature in 20 years. Focusing on a different arena of the war, the Pacific Theater, and operating, in true Malick style...
Where to Watch: Hoopla, Kanopy, Tubi (with ads), Pluto TV (with ads), and rentable on Amazonand other platforms Kirk Douglas stars as a commanding officer in World War I who attempts to defend his soldiers after they refuse to embark on a suicide mission in this early gem from Stanley Kubrick. Based on the novel by Humphrey Cobb, Paths of Glory is ...
Where to Watch: Rentable on Amazonand other platforms Kathryn Bigelow would become the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director after helming this intense, revealing movie about an Iraq War bomb disposal team and their psychological reactions to the stress of combat. Future MCU players Jeremy Renner and Anthony Mackie star in this riv...
Where to Watch: Max and rentable on Amazonand other platforms If you're looking for another war film that cleaned up at the Academy Awards then look no further than Oliver Stone's Platoon, which took home Best Picture, Director, Sound, and Editing. Charlie Sheen stars as a U.S. Army soldier serving in Vietnam while his Platoon Sergeant (Tom Berenge...
Where to Watch: Rentable on Amazonand other platforms Clint Eastwood directed Bradley Cooper in this vivid, sorrowful account of the deadliest marksman in U.S. military history, Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, and the heavy toll that accomplishment took on his personal and family life. Loosely based on Kyle's own memoir, American Sniper boasts a blistering, ...
Where to Watch: Hoopla, Tubi (withs ads), rentable on Amazonand other platforms The Big Red One is one of the lesser-known films on this list, produced independently and shot for very little overseas, written and directed by tinseltown vet (and World War II vet) Samuel Fuller. The Big Red One stars action legend Lee Marvin as a hardened sergeant, a...
May 13, 2024 · Da 5 Bloods (2020) View full post on Youtube. Directed by Spike Lee and featuring an A+ cast, this epic war drama revolves around four Black Vietnam vets who return to Vietnam in search of their ...
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May 24, 2024 · From ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ to ‘Da 5 Bloods,’ here are the best movies to watch over Memorial Day weekend. Enjoy the holiday, folks.
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May 30, 2022 · Platoon was also the first Vietnam War film at the time to be written and directed by a Vietnam War veteran, Oliver Stone. The film went on to win Best Picture, Director, Sound and Editing at the ...
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2. American Sniper (2014) A slow-building and unlikely blockbuster (the biggest film of 84-year-old director Clint Eastwood’s career), this electrifying PTSD war drama became a political ...
