141. The Boys in Company C
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Actors: Stan Shaw, Andrew Stevens, James Canning, Michael Lembeck
Plot: Follows the lives of five young Marine inductees from their training in boot camp in 1967 through a tour in Vietnam in 1968 that quickly devolves into a hellish nightmare.
142. Run Silent, Run Deep
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Action
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Wise
Actors: Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden, Brad Dexter
Plot: A captain survives the sinking of his sub. After a year relegated to a desk job, he finally is given command of another sub. Yet his dogged determination to sink the destroyer responsible for his original ship's destruction puts his crew in danger.
143. Pork Chop Hill
Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lewis Milestone
Actors: Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn, George Peppard
Plot: Grim story of one of the major battles of the Korean War. While negotiators are at work in Panmunjom trying to bring the conflict to a negotiated end, Lt. Joe Clemons is ordered to launch an attack and retake Pork Cop Hill. It's tough on the soldiers who know that the negotiations are under way and no one wants to die when they think it will all soon be over. The hill is of no particular strategic military value but all part of showing resolve during the negotiations. Under the impression that the battle has been won, battalion headquarters orders some of the men withdrawn when in fact they are in dire need of reinforcements and supplies. As the Chinese prepare to counterattack and broadcast propaganda over loudspeakers, the men prepare for what may be their last battle.
144. Go for Broke!
Year of Release: 1951
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Pirosh
Actors: Van Johnson, Lane Nakano, George Miki, Akira Fukunaga
Plot: The story of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team - a group comprised of Japanese-American soldiers during WWII. Though commanding officer Lt. Mike Grayson had his doubts, the unit proves their honor and sacrifice in battle and Grayson realizes his prejudice is looking in the wrong place as he turns the mirror on himself.
145. Green Zone
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Greengrass
Actors: Matt Damon, Jason Isaacs, Brendan Gleeson, Greg Kinnear
Plot: Roy Miller is a U.S. officer looking for the truth in Iraq. When faulty information and the failure of covert operations uncover a different truth, he goes rogue, hoping to track down the truth on his own.
146. Battle for Haditha
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nick Broomfield
Actors: Matthew Knoll, Eric Mehalacopoulos, Nathan De La Cruz, Andrew McLaren
147. Devotion
Year of Release: 2022
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: J.D. Dillard
Actors: Glen Powell, Jonathan Majors, Joseph Cross, Joe Jonas
Plot: A pair of fighter pilots, Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner, risk everything for one another in the Korean War and their camaraderie and friendship, not to mention skills in the air, lead them to becoming some of the most celebrated wingmen.
148. Damned, The ( caduta degli dei, La )
Year of Release: 1969
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NC-17
Director: Luchino Visconti
Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger
149. Uncommon Valor
Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Actors: Gene Hackman, Robert Stack, Fred Ward, Randall 'Tex' Cobb
150. Desert Victory
Year of Release: 1943
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: J.L. Hodson
Actors: Harold Alexander, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Bernard L. Montgomery
Plot: In this documentary, complete with re-enactments, the WWII battle of El Alamein - considered on of the key victories in the campaign in North Africa, is examined using footage from both sides of the battle as well as home-front support.
