Von Ryan's Express
The thrilling VON RYAN'S EXPRESS stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from Nazi Germany by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding. Excellent performances by the g...
| Patton
PATTON is a three-dimensional bronze bust of World War II field general George S. Patton (George C. Scott) who wrote poetry, fired pistols at strafing fighter planes, and loved America with a lofty and historical zeal. Tracing his personal rivalries ...
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Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (Special Edition)
This revisionist Western comedy, which served as the prototype of the buddy film for years to come, stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, respectively. At the turn of the 20th century, they've become notorious fo...
| The Blue Max
The Blue Max, a coveted medal, is ruthlessly sought by a poor-boy soldier who climbs out of the trenches and into the elite Air Force.
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The Comancheros
A Texas Ranger is assigned the task of preventing a band of out-laws supplying guns to the Indians. Shortly after an arrest the Ranger is attacked by Commanches... Based on the novel by Paul I. Wellman.
| Sink The Bismarck!
It is 1941..The German Battleship Bismarck, the most powerful warship ever built, is loose on the high seas. Major Shephard (Kenneth Moore) is tasked with co-ordinating the Admiralty operation to Sink the Bismarck, but first they have to find her and...
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The Horse Soldiers
THE HORSE SOLDIERS, John Ford's only attempt at tackling the subject of the Civil War, is based on Grierson's Raid, part of the Union's assault on Vicksburg in April 1863. After a number of failed efforts at taking the Southern stronghold, Union lead...
| The Unforgiven
It's 1865 and the southwest is plagued by post-Civil War tensions. But beautiful, winsome Rachel Zachary lives blithely with her mother Matilda on a Texas Panhandle cattle ranch. The Zacharys are a hearty frontier family finally reunited when brother...
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A Bridge Too Far (Special Edition)
Richard Attenborough's ambitious, all-star adaptation of Cornelius Ryan's book, scripted by William Goldman, gives an account of the Battle of Arnhem during 1944, part of an Allied attempt to expedite the end of the war with a costly operation to cap...
| The Missouri Breaks
It's the wild frontier and anything goes, especially in the untamed territory of Montana. Tom Logan (Jack Nicholson) leads a gang of cattle thieves out for revenge when one of its members is hanged by wealthy rancher David Braxton. Braxton, however, ...
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The Scalphunters
Sydney Pollack directs this amiable comic Western in which fur trapper Joe Bass (Burt Lancaster) is returning from a successful expedition only to find himself ambushed by a small group of Indians. The Indians force Joe to trade his pelts for Joseph,...
| For A Few Dollars More (Special Edition)
In the second film in Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western trilogy (A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS being the first and THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY the last), the Man with No Name (Clint Eastwood) teams up with gunslinger Colonel Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef) in orde...
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The Return Of A Man Called Horse
During the 1840s, a tyrannical government forced the Yellow Hands Sioux off their sacred land. Lord John Morgan, bored of his mundane life in England, decides to return to the Yellow Hands, and once he discovers their situation, urges them to take ac...
| The Thin Red Line (Wide Screen)
Terrence Malick returns to Hollywood after a two-decade hiatus with this adaptation of the classic WWII novel by James Jones. The story follows the efforts of an army platoon to capture the Japanese-controlled island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific Oce...
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The Alamo (Wide Screen)
The Duke directs (with the uncredited help of his friend and mentor John Ford) this flag-waving spectacular about the courageous struggle by 182 American heroes to defend a small Catholic mission to the death and eventually win Texas with the help of...
| Mosquito Squadron
Two fighter pilots have become close friends while fighting for the RAF in World War II. When one of the fighter pilots dies, the survivor develops a relationship with his dead friend's wife. Boris Sagal's combat film is memorable for its incredible ...
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Platoon (Wide Screen)
In PLATOON, Oliver Stone uses his experience as an infantryman in Vietnam to convey the immediacy of guerrilla warfare: the brutal heat of the jungle, the brushes with such wildlife as snakes and leeches, and, most powerfully, the presence of the uns...
| The Big Country (Wide Screen)
Wyler's powerful Western covers a lot of territory with Gregory Peck a fish out of water as a sea captain who travels west to marry and settle, but finds himself in the middle of a bitter dispute over water rights and a jealous clash with the ranch f...
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A Fistful Of Dollars (Wide Screen)
The first true spaghetti Western, A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS follows a nameless drifter who plays two feuding families off each other to his own benefit. As members of each family are planted in the ground, the gold in his pocket gets heavier and heavier. ...
| The Great Escape (Wide Screen)
Arguably the best World War II adventure film ever made, John Sturges's dramatisation of the true story of a group of British, American, and Canadian POWs who executed a massive escape from Stalag Luft III in Upper Silesia in March 1944, stars Steve ...
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