Re: Combat films

I think I mentioned "Glory", "Zulu" is a favourite. I've always had a
particular fondness for "Apocalypse Now".  Most of the combat films
listed
have been 19th century, forward, so here are some films from an earlier
era.

I'm quite a samurai movie fan. I just got The Samurai Trilogy on DVD and
have
never seen it. However, for small unit action it's hard to beat "The
Seven
Samurai". If you like your samurai movies more like westerns, there's
the
incomparable "Yojimbo" (though "Yojimbo" is actually from the 19th
Century
just prior to the Meiji Restoration). "Kagemusha" has some wonderful
combat
sequences, but those found in "Ran" are much more intense (and
colourful...
Kurosawa was almost blind when he made "Ran" and yet the colours are
fantastic). "Ran" is essentially a retelling of King Lear.

The Brannagh version of "Henry V" does a wonderful job of evoking
Agincourt.
Okay, the history in "Braveheart" had problems (the battle of Stirling
Bridge
with no bridge???) but it's hard to match it for sheer bloodletting. 

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