From "Jarhead" is slang for the marines, or, as the jarheads themselves see it in this Gulf War movie from Sam Mendes, it's what you call sorry suckers who get lost along the way and are left to bear the brunt of combat even long after they return home. Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln.
War Machine, for one, is a satirical look at power-hungry personalities in the military and politics.
Haven't seen it for a while, but excellent scenes which spring to mind are the Confederate attack from the train and the 'battle' with the the cadets. A naval battle between two large ships: the "Monitor" and the "Merrimack".TV movie about the Battle of Hampton Roads between the Monitor and the Merrimac. In 2003, Adrien Brody became the youngest person ever to take home the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal During the pursuit Palance's Captain Quincy Whitmore reminises about the war and George H. Thomas in particular. Historical events often appear differently through the eyes of a child. I think that's what it was about anyway, I confess to falling asleep during a large part of it and have no burning desire to watch it again. A woman asks her ex-lover for help in order to save her outlaw husband from a gang out to kill him.Natalie Portman, hiding from a gang of outlaws asks former lover Joel Edgerton to protect her. The story of two friends and their families on opposite sides of the American Civil War.Haven't seen this for nearly 25 years, again pretty good on the whole.
Dreadful spaghetti western with very few, if any, redeeming points. When a black Civil War veteran becomes co-owner of the southern McMasters ranch, the incensed local Confederate veterans come gunning for him and his Indian wife.Four years after he ran away to join the Union army, a black veteran returns to the dusty southern town where he grew up.
When a group of new recruits arrive he is surprised to find his son amongst them. In 1863, a Union outfit is sent behind Confederate lines in Mississippi to destroy enemy railroads but a captive southern belle and the unit's doctor cause frictions within ranks.I grew up watching John Wayne and cavalry films so this is one of my favourites.
5 Confederate soldiers desert, make their way through the Everglades and try to make it to Cuba.Seriously bad story about five confederate deserters attempting to cross the everglades to reach a British blocade runner.
Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.My favourite film in John Ford's cavalry trilogy.
An emotional tale of a boy… and, you guessed it, his horse. I didn't enjoy this nearly as much as expected. Big John, aided by Jeffrey Hunter, then spends years searching for her. Set in 1892 and on the eve of his retirement, Cavalry Captain Christian Bale reluctantly leads a small detachment of men accompanying a dying Commanche chief back to his former tribal grounds. Or more precisely as many films (and TV shows) as I can find (excluding documentaries) about, set or with characters shaped by the civil war. Angelina Jolie is a full-on humanitarian filmmaker these days. A former Confederate officer and a Mexican try to prevent a former Confederate colonel from selling stolen rifles to renegade Apaches in Mexico.Two years after the end of the Civil War a former rebel major reluctantly agrees to join forces with a yankee captain and a black sergeant to destroy a shipment of stolen repeating rifles before they are sold by a renegade rebel colonel to the Apaches. The film stars Mel Gibson as a colonist who joins the war after his son (Heath Ledger) ends up caught in the fighting. Netflix is a perfect streaming service for movie fans, as there are great options for every genre of movies, and this is true for war movies as well.
The period piece garnered six deserving Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, as the Despite the title of this list it contains not only the good films, but the bad and several downright ugly ones as well! Joanne Dru provides the love interest without her yellow ribbon. Not her first foray in directing a war movie, This Western may as well be your dad's favorite movie, even if he has yet to see it. When Union spies steal an engineer's beloved locomotive, he pursues it single-handedly and straight through enemy lines.Wonderful silent movie with Buster Keaton attempting to save his girl and his train from Yankee spies.
Wagon train survivors of an Apache attack entrust the sheriff's prisoner, scout Comanche Todd, with their lives despite his wanted-for-murder status.Set in Arizona in 1873, this starts off life as a revenge western with Richard Widmark's renegade being hunted by the sheriff whose brothers Widmark is supposed to have murdered. A former confederate colonel Joseph Cotton and his sons steal a US Army gold consignment with the hope of restarting the Civil War.
The leader of the wagon train, on meeting the sheriff and his prisoner, announces himself as a former Union army Colonel. An American Civil War veteran embarks on a journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches.Excellent post war western with John Wayne's Confederate veteran returning home to find Commanches have raided his brothers farm and captured his niece, played by a young Natalie Wood. During the American Civil War, two friends join the Bushwhackers, a militant group loyal to the Confederacy.Hugely underated film about the Missouri/Kansas border conflicts during the war. When the American Civil War breaks out, a family of french settlers must abandon their Missouri home to flee and go back to Paris. There's a very small but nice little museum there.
At the beginning of the Civil War, seven friends embark on a cross-country journey in order to join the Confederate army.A group of seven texans leave their homes in West Texas to enlist in Hood's Texas Brigade in Virginia.
During the Civil War, a father living in a border state leaves to join the Union Army. But they have one thing in common: They're all available to