In moviespeak, war's got legs. But its range is wide, with classic battle movies such as Henry V , Braveheart , and Gallipoli joining ranks with Vietnam dramas such as Platoon and The Siege of Firebase Gloria . International sections cover British, French, Japanese and Russian war stories, while times between the World Wars, during the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, and postwar adjustment periods are also given unique treatments. Chuckle at the title cards from silent dogfight film Wings . Note how Waterloo is like a spaghetti western.
Italian officers are vain and love opera.
French Resistance fighters wear black leather jackets and berets. Female French Resistance fighters wear tight black sweaters. Nazi officers enjoying a glass of Pernod at a Paris sidewalk cafe will be victims of a Resistance drive-by shooting. The parachuting Allied pilot is killed by an enemy fighter while he's hanging helpless in his 'chute. But that's only one side of the war film and overall, the good far outweighs the bad in the ones considered here.