Lesser known war films

[craigjm]

I have just watched JoJo rabbit on the plane. Well it’s certainly a war film and it’s erm off beat for sure

[GravelBen]

Is The Lost Battalion lesser known enough?

[RizzoTheRat]

Might be too well known for the thread but The 9th Company wasn't bad, it's a Russian film based on a battle in Afghanistan.

[hidetheelephants]

"The way ahead" is good old-fashioned stiff upper lip stuff.

"The long and the short and the tall" is from a play so a bit stagey but I like it.

[nicanary]

The Bells Go Down - Tommy Trinder as a Blitz firefighter.

[P5BNij]

Chimune said:

P5BNij said:

'The Hill' from 1965 with Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Roy Kinear and Ian Hendry, about a British POW camp for insubordinate British soldiers. Well worth a look....

Edited by P5BNij on Sunday 2nd February 15:25

One of my favourites. Ace cinematography too!

In the mid '80s both BBC2 and Channel 4 showed a raft of cult or long forgotten films late at night, this was one of them and it had me gripped, it's not been on for years though as far as I'm aware. Others included Villain, Get Carter, the Offence, The Man Who Haunted Himself, Perfect Friday, Morgan - A Suitable Case For Treatment, Smashing Time, The Knack, The Jokers, Bunny Lake Is Missing, Replusion, Privilege, Blow Up, The Servant, Darling etc but this was the only war film amongst them.

Edited by P5BNij on Wednesday 12th February 12:25

[jsc15]

P5BNij said:

In the mid '80s both BBC2 and Channel 4 showed a raft of cult or long forgotten films late at night, this was one of them and it had me gripped, it's not been on for years though as far as I'm aware. Others included Villain, Get Carter, the Offence, The Man Who Haunted Himself, Perfect Friday, Morgan - A Suitable Case For Treatment, Smashing Time, The Knack, The Jokers, Bunny Lake Is Missing, Replusion, Privilege, Blow Up, The Servant, Darling etc but this was the only war film amongst them.

Edited by P5BNij on Wednesday 12th February 12:25

I think I remember that was Moviedrome with Alex Cox, which also introduced me to Something Wild, Carnival Of Souls, and.....Assault On Precinct 13, which is a war film in the sense that it's a remake of Rio Bravo, set in the Hood, so probably still "lesser known" in that sense

[popeyewhite]

jsc15 said:

Assault On Precinct 13, which is a war film in the sense that it's a remake of Rio Bravo, set in the Hood, so probably still "lesser known" in that sense

It's not a remake of Rio Bravo, though it seems an ersatz version. Carpenter did though base the movie on a sort of Rio Bravo and one of the Living Dead zombie flicks hybrid. The original title was ' [........] [........] Alamo' but I can't remember what the first two words of the mooted title were.

[P5BNij]

jsc15 said:

P5BNij said:

In the mid '80s both BBC2 and Channel 4 showed a raft of cult or long forgotten films late at night, this was one of them and it had me gripped, it's not been on for years though as far as I'm aware. Others included Villain, Get Carter, the Offence, The Man Who Haunted Himself, Perfect Friday, Morgan - A Suitable Case For Treatment, Smashing Time, The Knack, The Jokers, Bunny Lake Is Missing, Replusion, Privilege, Blow Up, The Servant, Darling etc but this was the only war film amongst them.

Edited by P5BNij on Wednesday 12th February 12:25

I think I remember that was Moviedrome with Alex Cox, which also introduced me to Something Wild, Carnival Of Souls, and.....Assault On Precinct 13, which is a war film in the sense that it's a remake of Rio Bravo, set in the Hood, so probably still "lesser known" in that sense

Yes I remember him now, Alex Cox (whatever happened to him..?) with Moviedrome on BBC2! Reading back what I posted above has reminded of some of the other films shown on both channels at the time - Performance, Petulia (Julie Christie and Goerge C.Scott get with it in '60s San Francisco, I'm sure it had a cameo from The Grateful Dead in it...?), Shampoo and Kaleidoscope (both Warren Beatty vehicles), Easy Rider, Electraglide In Blue, Vanishing Point, Don't Look Now, Only When I Larf, Bedazzled, Arabesque, The Killing Of Sister George, Accident, Secret Ceremony, Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush and all three Harry Palmer films... they were all on around the same time in the mid '80s. I've got most of them on DVD now .

Apologies for veering off topic!

[InitialDave]

Indigènes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Glory_(2006_...

[Halmyre]

popeyewhite said:

jsc15 said:

Assault On Precinct 13, which is a war film in the sense that it's a remake of Rio Bravo, set in the Hood, so probably still "lesser known" in that sense

It's not a remake of Rio Bravo, though it seems an ersatz version. Carpenter did though base the movie on a sort of Rio Bravo and one of the Living Dead zombie flicks hybrid. The original title was ' [........] [........] Alamo' but I can't remember what the first two words of the mooted title were.

Supposedly Carpenter was inspired by Rio Bravo's premise of Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson and Walter Brennan under siege in a jail while guarding a prisoner. It doesn't really work because in Rio Bravo they're free to come and go for the most part. Carpenter also used the pseudonym of John T Chance (Wayne's character) while writing an early version of the script.

[Big-Bo-Beep]

its a bit of a stretch to call rio bravo a war film at all, that its not set during a war is the major complaint, its a sheriff and a motley crew of gunslingers holding out against another bunch of gunslingers.

come to think of it, that's the plotline to most horse-operas.

[Chimune]

P5BNij said:

jsc15 said:

P5BNij said:

In the mid '80s both BBC2 and Channel 4 showed a raft of cult or long forgotten films late at night, this was one of them and it had me gripped, it's not been on for years though as far as I'm aware. Others included Villain, Get Carter, the Offence, The Man Who Haunted Himself, Perfect Friday, Morgan - A Suitable Case For Treatment, Smashing Time, The Knack, The Jokers, Bunny Lake Is Missing, Replusion, Privilege, Blow Up, The Servant, Darling etc but this was the only war film amongst them.

Edited by P5BNij on Wednesday 12th February 12:25

I think I remember that was Moviedrome with Alex Cox, which also introduced me to Something Wild, Carnival Of Souls, and.....Assault On Precinct 13, which is a war film in the sense that it's a remake of Rio Bravo, set in the Hood, so probably still "lesser known" in that sense

Yes I remember him now, Alex Cox (whatever happened to him..?) with Moviedrome on BBC2! Reading back what I posted above has reminded of some of the other films shown on both channels at the time - Performance, Petulia (Julie Christie and Goerge C.Scott get with it in '60s San Francisco, I'm sure it had a cameo from The Grateful Dead in it...?), Shampoo and Kaleidoscope (both Warren Beatty vehicles), Easy Rider, Electraglide In Blue, Vanishing Point, Don't Look Now, Only When I Larf, Bedazzled, Arabesque, The Killing Of Sister George, Accident, Secret Ceremony, Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush and all three Harry Palmer films... they were all on around the same time in the mid '80s. I've got most of them on DVD now .

Apologies for veering off topic!

O/t
Yes was a fan of moviedrome too. Performance blew me away and I really got into N Roeg after that. Would have been the time I first saw the hill and Ice cold in Alex.

[Wacky Racer]

[TTmonkey]

Siege of jadotville. Netflix, worth a look.

[Frank7]

Free State of Jones, Matthew McConaughey, Mahershala Ali, Keri Russell.
Interesting American Civil War film about a Confederate male nurse who rebels against the Confederacy and leads his band of deserters, freed slaves, and civilians against the Confederate military.
Interspersed with fast forward courtroom scenes from the 40s-50s where his great-grandson is accused of miscegeny in marrying, or wanting to marry a white woman, when he’s declared one eighth negro in Mississippi law, by being descended from McConaughey’s liaison with a mixed race woman.

[alpertonian]

Chimune said:

P5BNij said:

'The Hill' from 1965 with Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Roy Kinear and Ian Hendry, about a British POW camp for insubordinate British soldiers. Well worth a look....

Edited by P5BNij on Sunday 2nd February 15:25

One of my favourites. Ace cinematography too!

And another vote from me...one of my all time favourites. Never shown on TV now, maybe as there's a mention of the N word in one scene, although that should be easy enough to edit out these days.

Edited by alpertonian on Wednesday 12th February 23:36

[XCP]

Paths of Glory.
Excellent WW1 staring the late Kirk Douglas.

[robemcdonald]

Johnny got his gun [1971]

Or in the spirit of most answers on this thread...

Dam busters.

[Japveesix]

Grave of the fireflies 1988

Animated studio Ghibli film set in world war 2 and based around the relationship between a brother and his younger sister. It's really grim and incredibly moving.

Also beautifully animated and a genuinely good depiction of the horrors of war.