Tag: war films

Top 5 International War Movies: Classic Cinematic Clashes Not Involving the US

In my continuing series of Top 5 war films, I’m covering movies that do not include American characters or U.S. armed forces. ‘War and Peace’ (1966/1967) Poster for Russian-language “War and Peace.” (Continental Distributing) One of the most ambitious undertakings in the history of the film medium, director-co-writer and leading-man Sergei Bondarchuk’s “War and Peace”…


Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘A Walk in the Sun’: A Thought-Provoking World War II Drama

Not Rated | 1h 57min | Drama, War | 1945 Many World War II films from the 1940s and ’50s—at least those set in the overseas theaters of war—follow a pattern: focusing on external events with little insight into what the main characters are thinking and feeling. With his “Walk in the Sun,” director Lewis…