Much of the argument stems from the way the film portrays both the Vietnam War and the 1960s counter-culture that accompanied it. During his time in the army, Forrest Gump is explicitly praised ...

Clint Eastwood is known for his Western films, but his World War II drama, Where Eagles Dare, was so popular that it inspired a hit heavy metal song. The Western star Eastwood has appeared in and ...

The films immediately after the war often had an audience that had experienced the conflict first hand. From the 1960s on, revisionists have told the stories to a wider audience with no memory of ...

The climactic scenes take place around the set of How I Won the War, and I ask the ... his Oscar-nominated short film The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1960). The director says of ...

One of the best war movies of the 1960s, J. Lee Thompson's classic is led by an all-star cast including the likes of Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn. Effortlessly translating one of ...

Von Ryan’s Express is my pick for best war film of the 1960s, writes Scott Reid Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including ...

He once shared his all-time favourite titles with BFI’s Sight and Sound list of filmmakers’ own list of greatest movies of all time. Among his top picks is a war film from 1966, a political ...

Among their favourites of the recently released are a very popular war film, an Oscar-winning dark comedy, and a cult ...

Jackson distilled the stories of 120 veterans who spoke on some 600 hours of BBC audio tape done in the 1960s and ... also have given movie-goers a glimpse into the part of war so rarely ...

It is no exaggeration to say that Sergei Bondarchuk’s 1960s adaptation of ... as these characters.” Yet “War and Peace,” while an enormously popular film at first, didn’t enter the ...