war films

There I was, innocently flicking through hundreds of pages of documents from the Marine Corps entertainment liaison office when all...

Apocalypse Now and Francis Ford Coppola were rejected by the Pentagon when they asked for production support. A decade later...
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Opening battle sequence.  Religious symbolism.  Chronically terrible screenwriting.  All this and more as Henri invites me onto Fortress on a...
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In 1986, during the filming of Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam War tragedy Gardens of Stone, his eldest child Gian-Carlo died...

You know how it goes: you wait years for a movie that reframes the war in Afghanistan as a Saving...
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When it comes to rolling over in response to demands from the world’s most powerful military, many film makers are...

In this guest article my friend and collaborator Matt Alford offers his thoughts on moviedom, deceit and the campaign to...
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The 2012 attacks on a US diplomatic outpost and a nearby CIA base in Benghazi caused enormous controversy and political...
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The Office of War Information’s Bureau of Motion Pictures was the US government’s first formal office for liaising with Hollywood...

Henri and I delved into the 2005 sci-fi alien invasion film/Tom Cruise vehicle War of the Worlds.  We discuss the...
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