In the Battle of the Bulge Nazi Panzer forces stage a last-ditch Belgian front offensive that could turn the tide of World War II. Henry Fonda Robert Shaw and Robert Ryan star in the this recreation of a crucial campaign.
The high definition brilliance of blu-ray makes this classic war film jump off the screen and in to your living room. On top of this you get some extra footage too.
There’s a 10-minute featurette on the making of the movie called The Filming of Battle of the Bulge and there is also something called History Recreated. This is a nine minute set of vintage cast interviews. On top of this there is a commentary track by director Ken Annakin and actor James MacArthur who played Lt. Weaver.
Another more modern but still a classic war movie is We were Soldiers.
This story is a testament to the young Americans who died in the Valley of Death and a tribute to the young men of the People's Army of Vietnam, who died by our hand there. It is Based on the book "We Were Soldiers Once, and Young" by Retired Lieutenant General Hal Moore.
We Were Soldiers stars Mel Gibson and is a must-have for all war movie lovers.
On top of the high definition version of the film there is a feature-length commentary track with director and writer Randall Wallace
And there’s also a piece called Getting it Right which is a Behind-the-Scenes peek at the movie and you also get to see ten deleted scenes.
Another must have for the war movie collector is Hart’s War which was released in 2002.
It is aMoody and powerful WWII drama and stars Colin Farrell as a lieutenant and senator's son who is captured in 1944 and sent to a German Prisoner of War camp. When a racist white prisoner is murdered and a black airman becomes the prime suspect, former law student Farrell is chosen by American commanding officer Bruce Willis to defend the flier before a tribunal. With Terrence Howard, Linus Roache.
This is not your typical war movie, in that it is not necessarily all about the battles yet it still captures the essence of that time. There are no real extras just the theater trailer and a few others but the high definition viewing is excellent.
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So that is my list of three must have War movies on blu ray DVD.
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