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Collections & Docufilms
"Showbiz Goes To War"
documentary feature film [indep 1982]
 | "A star-studded salute to our boys at war!" 90-minute documentary co-directed by Norman & Gail Gibson Sedawie; hosted by David Steinberg; archive footage featuring Bud Abbott, Dana Andrews, Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Robert Benchley, Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Mel Blanc, Humphrey Bogart, Joe E. Brown, James Cagney, Gary Cooper, Lou Costello, Bing Crosby, Linda Darnell, Bette Davis, Jimmy Durante, Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Greer Garson, Betty Grable, Cary Grant, Alan Hale, Rita Hayworth, Adolf Hitler, Bob Hope, Betty Hutton, Harry James, Van Johnson, Al Jolson, Danny Kaye, Gene Kelly, Hedy Lamarr, Carole Lombard, Harpo Marx, Louis B. Mayer, Robert Mitchum, Harry Morgan, Margaret O'Brien, Tyrone Power, Martha Raye, Ronald Reagan, Mickey Rooney, Jane Russell, Ann Sheridan, Phil Silvers, Frank Sinatra, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, Lana Turner, and John Wayne
Focus Films color/b&w DVD [2/2001] out of prodn/used Warner Home Video Late-Show color/b&w VHS [1998] for $47.89 full credits at IMDb |
"Cinema Combat: Hollywood Goes To War" [1998 TV]
 | Directed by Edith Becker; narrated by Martin Sheen
Image Ent. DVD [5/2000] for $22.49 full credits from IMDb |
"War and Civilization: Spanning Over 3,000 Years of History"
[The Learning Channel mini-series airdate Aug 1998]
 | Directed by Stephen Trombley; hosted by Walter Cronkite
Koch Vision color DVD set [9/2007] 3 disks for $35.99 full credits from IMDb |
"The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of The Politics of Fear"
[BBC2 documentary Aug 2004]
 | Written & directed by Adam Curtis; won Best Documentary awards from B.A.F.T.A., D.G.G.B. & R.T.V.S. BN Publng CD-ROM [9/2005] for $19.99 BN Publng video CD-ROM [11/2005] for $19.95 feature DVD [11/2005] for $39.99 full credits at IMDb; B.B.C. News webpage |
"War Classics 50 Movie Pack" [2004]
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Digital 1 Stop DVD [9/2004] 12 disks for $16.47
feature films include "The Adventures of Tartu", "The Avenger", "The Big Lift", "Blood On The Sun", "The Bushwackers", "Captain Scarlett", "The Devil’s Cavaliers", "Eagle In A Cage", "Escape From Angola", "Flying Blind", "Go For Broke", "Gung Ho", "Hell In Normandy", "Kansas Pacific", "The Last Chance", "The Mark of The Hawk", "The Proud and The Damned", "This Is The Army", "Three Came Home", "The Torch", "War Head" & "Yellowneck"; featured actors include Richard Arlen, James Cagney, Montgomery Clift, Claudette Colbert, Chuck Connors, Robert Donat, Sir John Gielgud, Paulette Goddard, Richard Greene, Sterling Hayden, John Ireland, David Janssen, Van Johnson, Sidney Poitier, Ronald Reagan, Steve Reeves & Randolph Scott; plus 28 documentaries including "The Memphis Belle" |
"Voices In Wartime" [indep March 2005]
 | Written & directed by Rick King; based on the WWI poems of Wilfred Owen
Cinema Libre Studio color DVD [12/2005] for $21.99 full credits at IMDb • official movie site companion book "Voices In Wartime: The Anthology" [2005] |
"Why We Fight" [Sony/BBC/CBC documentary January 2006]
 | An examination of U.S. foreign policy and the importance of the military in American life since Eisenhower. Directed by Eugene Jarecki; won Best Documentary Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2005 EDI Video color DVD [8/2005] for $10.99 full credits from IMDb; official website |
"The Great Fox War Movies" [2006]
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Fox widescreen DVD set [12/2006] 6 disks + book for $62.99
includes "The Longest Day" [1962]; "Patton" [1970] {won 7 Oscars} starring George C. Scott; and "Tora! Tora! Tora!" [1970]; plus a hardcover companion book |
"War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits
Keep Spinning Us To Death" [indep May 2007]
 | Directed by Loretta Alper & Jeremy Earp; narrated by Sean Penn, featuring Norman Solomon Disinformation widescreen color DVD [3/2008] for $17.99 full credits at IMDb • official movie site "War Made Easy" book [2005] by Norman Solomon
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"Ultimate War Movie DVD Giftpack" [2007]
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M.G.M. color DVD box set [5/2007] 10 disks orig $64.99 - out of prodn/used
includes: Stanley Kubrick's "Paths of Glory" [1957]; "Run Silent, Run Deep" [1958] starring Clark Gable & Burt Lancaster; "Exodus" [1960]; "The Great Escape" [1963]; "633 Squadron" [1964]; "Zulu" [1964]; "The Devil's Brigade" [1968]; "The Battle of Britain" [1969]; Oliver Stone's "Platoon" [1986]; and "Flyboys" [2006] |
"America: Stories of War" 36 DVD Collection [2008]
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Mill Creek Ent. DVD set [10/2008] 36 disks - out of prodn/used
contains 49 feature films & 1 TV movies on 36 DVD disks in a tin replica ammo box: "Aerial Gunner" [1943] with Robert Mitchum; "Battle of Blood Island" [1960]; "The Battle of El Alamein" [Italy 1969]; "Battle of The Eagles" [Yugoslavia 1979]; "The Big Lift" [1950] starring Mont-gomery Clift; "Black Brigade" [1970 TV]; "Blood On The Sun" [1945] starring James Cagney & Sylvia Sidney; "Bombs Over Burma" [1942] starring Anna May Wong; "British Intelligence" [1940] starring Boris Karloff; "The Bushwhackers" [1951 Western]; "Commandos Strike At Dawn" [1942] starring Paul Muni; "Corregidor" [1943]; "The Dawn Express" [1942]; "Desert Commandos" [Italy 1967]; "Drums In The Deep South" [1951] set in the U.S. Civil War, directed by William Cameron Menzies; "Eagle In A Cage" [1972] set in Napoleanic Era, starring John Gielgud & |
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Ralph Richardson;
"Go For Broke!" [1951] starring Van Johnson;
"Gung Ho!" [1943] starring Randolph Scott, Noah Beery Jr. & Robert Mitchum;
"Hearts In Bondage" [1936] about U.S. Civil War Navy ironclads, directed by Lew Ayres; "Hell In Normandy" [Italy 1968] starring Guy Madison; "Hitler's S.S." [1985 TV]; "Identity Unknown" [1945]; "The Immortal Battalion" [1944] directed by Carol Reed, starring David Niven & Stanley Holloway; "Iron Angel" [1964] set in Korea; "Kansas Pacific" [1953 Western]; "Lady From Chungking" [1942] starring Anna May Wong; award-winner "The Last Chance" [Swiss 1945]; "The Marines Are Coming" [1934]; "The Mark of The Hawk" [1957] set in Africa, starring Sidney Poitier & Eartha Kitt; "Minesweeper" [1943]; "Mutiny" [1952] during the War of 1812, directed by Edward Dmytryk; "The Navy Way" [1944]; "One of Our Aircraft Is Missing" [1942] directed by Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger; "Outpost In Morocco" [Hal Roach 1949] about the Foreign Legion, starring George Raft; "Pacific Inferno" [1979 ] starring Jim Brown; "The Proud and The Damned" [1972] Western set during the U.S. Civil War, starring Chuck Connors; "Sabotage Agent" [1943] starring Robert Donat; "Spitfire" [1942] directed by & starring Leslie Howard, also starring David Niven; "The Steel Claw" [1961] directed by & starring George Montgomery; "Submarine Alert" [1943]; "Submarine Base" [1943]; "Sundown" [1941] starring Gene Tierney; "Then There Were Three" [1961]; "They Raid By Night" [1942]; "This Is The Army" [1943] Irving Berlin musical, directed by Michael Curtiz; "Three Came Home" [1950] directed by Jean Negulesco, starring Claudette Colbert; "The Torch" [Eagle-Lion 1950] set during the Mexican Revolution, directed by Emilio Fernández, starring Paulette Goddard & Gilbert Roland; "War Devils" [Italy 1969] starring Guy Madison; "War Head (Operation SNAFU)" [1961] starring Sean Connery & Stanley Holloway; and "Yellowneck" [1955] set during the U.S. Civil War |
"Warner Brothers and The Homefront Collection" [2008]
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Warner Home Video DVD set [11/2008] 3 disks for $15.81
contains 3 feature films: "This Is The Army" [1943] Irving Berlin musical, directed by Michael Curtiz; "Thank Your Lucky Stars" [1943] starring Eddie Cantor, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan, Edward Everett Horton, S.Z. Sakall & the Spike Jones band, with cameos by dozens of Warner stars; and "Hollywood Canteen" [1944] starring Dane Clark, Robert Hutton, Joan Leslie, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis & John Garfield, with cameos by dozens of Warner stars; extras include commentary, outtakes, trailers, vintage newsreel, 3 musical shorts, 4 'patriotic' shorts, 5 color cartoons, radio drama broadcast, plus then-new documentary "Warner At War" narrated by Steven Spielberg |
"Warner At War" TV documentary [video release Nov 2008]
47-minute docufilm co-produced, written & directed by Constantine Nasr; narrated by Steven Spielberg; with archive footage of
Jack Benny, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Charlie Chaplin, Winston Churchill, Bette Davis, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Errol Flynn,
John Garfield, Josef Goebbels, Cary Grant, Adolf Hitler, Walter Huston, Ronald Reagan, Roy Rogers, Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
Joseph Stalin, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, and Jack L. Warner •
full credits at IMDb
"Hollywood Goes To War" DVD Box Set [2011]
 | National Archives & Topics Ent. DVD set [11/2011] 18 disks for $53.99
contains 46 films from the U.S. National Archives covering World War II, Korea & VietNam, featuring seven Academy Award winners; Hollywood actors include Lucille Ball, Lloyd Bridges, Clark Gable, Katherine Hepburn, Paul Newman, Ronald Reagan, Ginger Rogers, Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne & Orson Welles; directors include John Ford & William Wyler; featured rare films include "Let There Be Light" [1946] by John Huston, "December 7th" [1943] directed by John Ford, and "This Is Korea!" [1951] directed by John Ford |
"How To Start A Revolution" [indep Feb 2012]
 | "The story of the power of people to change their world, of the modern revolution, and of the man behind it all." • Written & directed by Ruaridh Arrow; featuring Robert Helvey, Jamila Raqib & Gene Sharp; film won BAFTA Scotland New Talent Award available at A.E.I. website as digital download for $4.99 & DVD for $19.95 Amazon Instant Video [2012] currently not available full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia Dr. Gene Sharp [1928-2018] entry at Wikipedia |
"Veterans Day 11.11.11" [indep May 2012]
 | A one-hour forty-minute documentary honoring the service of military personnel that weaves together stories of fifteen veterans, from the terrible impact of the Civil War to modern-day conflicts in the Middle East • Co-produced & written by Patrick Woodard; directed by John C.P. Goheen
DVD/Blu-ray not available • credits at IMDb • official movie site {given up} aired Nov 2012 on Rocky Mountain P.B.S preceded with interview of the producers watch broadcast [1:56:02] online |
Books About War Films
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"The Star-Spangled Screen: The American World War II Film" [1985] by Bernard F. Dick Univ Press of KY 9x6 pb [12/96] for $22.00 Univ Press of KY 9¾x6½ hardcover [8/85] out of print/used |
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"The World War II Combat Film: Anatomy of A Genre" [1986] by Jeanine Basinger, with Jeremy Arnold Wesleyan Univ Press 9x6 pb [4/2003] for $16.47 Columbia Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [3/86] out of print/used |
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"Doing Their Bit: Wartime American Animated Short Films, 1939–1945" [1987] by Michael S. Shull & David E. Wilt McFarland & Co. 9x6 pb [4/2004] for $38.50 McFarland & Co. 9½x6½ hardcover [10/87] out of print/used |
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"Hollywood Goes To War: How Politics, Profits & Propaganda Shaped World War II Movies" [1988] by Clayton R. Koppes & Gregory D. Black Univ CA Press 9x6 pb [9/90] for $24.95 I.B. Tauris hardcover [8/2000] out of print/rare I.B. Tauris hardcover [1/88] out of print/used |
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"The Great Combat Pictures: Twentieth-Century Warfare On The Screen" [1990] by James Robert Parish Scarecrow Press 9x6½ hardcover [9/90] for $74.80 |
 | "Celluloid Wars: A Guide To Film & The American Experience of War" [1992] by Frank J. Wetta & Stephen J. Curley Greenwood Press 9½x6½ hardcover [6/92] for $89.95 |
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"Brassey's Guide To War Films" [2000] by Alun Evans Potomoc Books 12x9 pb [7/2000] for $12.21 |
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"War Movie Posters: Illustrated History of Movies Through Posters" [2001] by Bruce Hershenson self-published 11x8¾ pb [1/2001] for $13.60 |
 | "The Power and The Glory: An Illustrated History of The U.S. Military" [2002] from the Editors of LIFE Magazine Life Magazine 11¼x9 hardcover [9/2002] out of print/40+ used |
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"Time Goes to War" package [2002] from the Editors of TIME Magazine includes book, Life 22 Dec 1941 issue reprint & 28-issue subscription to TIME Time, Inc. 13x11¼ hardcover & magazines [11/2002] for $29.95 |
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"The Encyclopedia of War Movies: A Complete Guide To Movies About Wars of The 20th Century" [2003] by Robert R. Davenport Checkmark 10¾x8½ pb [10/2003] for $16.97 Facts on File 11½x8½ hardcover [2/2004] for $75.00 |
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"War Movies: The Belle & Blade Guide To Classic War Videos" [2004] by Gary Freitas Robert D. Reed Publrs 9x6¼ pb [1/2004] for $0.00 |
 | "Operation Hollywood: How The Pentagon Shapes & Censors The Movies" [2004] by David L. Robb Prometheus 9½x6½ hardcover [4/2004] for $17.64 |
 | "The War Film" [2004] Edited by Robert Eberwein Rutgers Univ Press 10x7 pb [11/2004] for $22.95 Rutgers Univ Press 10¼x7¼ hardcover [11/2004] for $62.00 |
 | "The Hollywood War Machine: U.S. Militarism & Popular Culture" [2006] by Carl Boggs & Tom Pollard Paradigm pb [9/2006] for $16.47 Paradigm hardcover [9/2006] for $60.00 publisher book page |
 | "Hollywood and War: The Film Reader" [2006] Edited by J. David Slocum Routledge 9x6 pb [10/2006] for $33.95 Routledge 9¼x6¼ hardcover [10/2006] for $125.00 |
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Russian War Films: On The Cinema Front, 1914-2005 [2006] by Denise J. Youngblood Univ Press of Kansas9¼x6¼ pb [11/2006] for $27.96 |
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"101 War Movies You Must See Before You Die" [2009] Edited by Steven Jay Schneider Barron's Educational Series 6x5 pb [10/2009] out of print/many used Barron's Educational Series 6x4¾ pb [10/2009] out of print/used |
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"War Films" [2010] by James Clarke
Virgin Film 9¼x6 pb [6/2010] for $24.95 |
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