10 Great Combat Movies. Combat
Classics contains films on the biggest wars.
Digitally Remastered onto 4 DVDs
Specifications:
4 DVD Disc set
Region 0, NTSC
Full Frame
Audio - English
War Head: A weapons expert is
reluctantly sent on a mission to a
Middle-East war zone to locate a lost nuclear warhead and dismantle it
before it
falls into the wrong hands, Star: David Janssen
Hell in Normandy: During World War II in the days just prior to
the
D-Day invasion, a special parachute unit is sent out to destroy a German
flame
thrower installation on Ornaha Beach. Star: Peter Lee Lawrence
Gung Ho: The new 2nd Marine Raider Battalion's purpose is to
raid
Japanese-held islands. After a perilous submarine journey, they continue
on to
annihilate the much larger Japanese garrison on Makin Island. Star:
Randolph
Scott
Go For Broke: This film is a tribute to the U.S. 442nd
Regimental
Combat Team, which was formed in 1943 by Presidential permission, Star:
Van
Johnson
Three Came Home: The true story of Agnes Newton Keith's
imprisonment in several Japanese prisoner-of-war camps from 1941 to the
end of
WWII. Separated from her husband and with a young son to care for, she
was
subject to torture, starvation and humiliation at the hands of the
guards. Star:
Claudette Colbert
The Proud and the Damned: A group of
American Civil War veterans
are led into San Carlos, Columbia, where they meet the local mayor who
is
unaware they are scouting out the town for a Columbian General. Star;
Chuck
Connors
Eagle in a Cage: This is an underrated film about Napoleon
Bonaparte in his years of exile on St. Helena. It's story is told from
the
island governor's point of view, played by Sir John Gielgud, Star: Sir
John
Gielgud
The Big Lift: A reenactrnent of the Berlin airlift of 1948. When
the Russians blockade the Western sector, refusing to allow the Allies
to ship
supplies to the starving Berliners, a group of courageous American
flyers risk
their lives to transport supplies by air. Star: Montgomery Gift
Blood on the Sun: After two of his friends are murdered, an
American editor of a Tokyo newspaper suspects that the "peaceful"
Japanese
military government is up to no good. Star: James Cagney
This is the Army: During WWII the son of a Broadway producer
gets
the order to stage an all-soldier show. The cast is largely comprised of
real-life servicemen. Star: Ronald Reagan
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