War > P War > Bronson, Charles

Advantages: Everything, seeing Steve McQueen lots is a bonus =]
Disadvantages: none!

...of this movie but never the whole film, I decided to buy it on DVD. I bought it as part of a 'Great Films Starring Steve McQueen' box set. What an investment! Produced in 1963, this DVD is based on a true story of a group of Allied P.O.W's who planned an escape from an 'escape proof' camp. This was the largest planned Allied escape attempt from a German POW camp. This film features some famous names such as: Steve McQueen James Garner Charles ...
...The first half of the film focuses on various escape attempts made by the POWs, as well of the planning of the escape and digging the tunnels, Tom, Dick, and Harry. This half of the film is quite comedic, and the characters work well together. The second half of the film follows the escape of the prisoners, and follows their various journeys as they try and get back to Britain safely. It is much more dramatic than the first half, and is quite fast ... Read review

Advantages: Sinply Brilliant
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THE GREAT ESCAPE. *************************** ~Introduction~ **************** T his movie is based on a book by Paul Brickhill, who was actually in the camp in March 1944 Shown every Christmas and some would argue it wouldn't be Christmas without it being on telly. It is the story of British and American POWs escaping from their prison camp. The Movie. ************* Set during the Second World War, the Germans decide to build Stalag Luft ...
...one basket'. Sick of chasing the best escape artistes, the German high command decide to put them all together where they can ALL be watched. The camp is said to be escape proof. We follow the ups and downs of the prisoners as they plot to escape the 'Perfect' prison. You see the ingenuity of making tools, provisions and even uniforms almost literally from nothing. We see the tactics used, such as blackmailing guards to get what they want. Played ... Read review

Advantages: Still the best war film ever with loads of extras
Disadvantages: Maybe not suitable for Scots, Welsh + Irish

"It is the duty of any officer in time of war...to do all in his power to escape" - General George Harsh. Never has this been shown in such passionate detail as in the The Great Escape. Based on a true story, it is set in 1943 in a brand new POW camp in Germany. This camp was constucted by the German's to hold all the troublesome Allied POW's - Summed up by Von Luger, the Commandant in the movie as "Putting all our rotten eggs in one basket". ...
...McQueen(Hilts - The Cooler King), James Garner(Hendley - The Scrounger), Richard Attenborough(Bartlett - Big X), James Donald(Ramsey - SBO), Charles Bronson(Danny - Tunnel King), Donald Pleasence(Blythe - The Forger) and James Coburn(Sedgwick - The Manufacturer). All these stars play huge parts in the film with none having a 'more important role' than another although viewers will tend to remember Steve McQueen more due to the charasmatic character ... Read review

Advantages: actors, thrilling scene, music tracks
Disadvantages: none

Lakshya - Hindi word which means goal or aim. Lakshya is a story about young student who doesnt have any goal of his life, and later how he become responsible army officer. It is directed by young director Farhan Akhtar so it is his second film on youth and their problems after Dil Chahta Hai. Story is like this - Karan Shergil (Hrithik Roshan) is a young man who has no actual goal in mind or plans for his future. He represents those urban youth ...
...purpose in their lives. His father is a businessman; his brother is a successful individual living in America, but Karan is drifting along. His girlfriend, Romi (Preity Zinta), a student activist and reporter who espouses fashionable causes out of well-meaning sincerity, tells him he needs to find a goal in life. When a friend announces he is going to join the Indian Military Academy, Karan applies as well despite dissent from his parents. Karan's ... Read review

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...surrounded by hostile militia. Two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down and many men lost their lives. Mark Bowden of the Philadelphia Inquirer told the story of the battle in his exhaustively researched,critically acclaimed book,BLACK HAWK DOWN,and filmmaker Ridley Scott (GLADIATOR) and screenwriter Ken Nolan have done an amazing job of bringing the dramatic story to the screen. Like Bowden's book,the film does not thoroughly examine the context ...
...a desk jockey who excels when sent into combat,Eric Bana (THE INCREDIBLE HULK) as a cocky and enigmatic Delta,and Ron Eldard as a downed Black Hawk pilot. The violence of the film is brutal and nearly constant. Scott unflinchingly captures the chaos and mayhem of battle with tremendous visual finesse. ... Read review