With Sean Connery’s passing today I wanted to take some time and watch one of my favorite films of his: Highlander. I must have watched this show 50 times when I was a teenager. This movie has one of my favorite bad guys of all time: The Kurgan! This movie was one of the primary…
Category: Movie Suggestions
Military History Movies Worth A Damn: Asian Top 5 List
1. City of Life and Death (2009) This gritty epic from 2009 depicts the Rape of Nanking by the Japanese Imperial Army in 1937 during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The majority of the movie is in black and white which adds to the authenticity and historical realism. Chinese with English subtitles. 2. Back to 1942 …
Foreign WW2 Movies Worth A Damn: Back to 1942
Back to 1942 a Chinese Made Period Piece/War Movie from 2012 that tells the tragic story of the great Henan Famine of 1942-43 and the invasion of mainland China by the Japanese. It stars Adrien Brody and Tim Robbins. (Chinese with English subtitles.) I will warn you right now, this is a tough, gritty watch….
Historical Films Worth A Damn: Beowulf and Grendel (2005)
There have been may versions of this Old Norse story/poem told through the ages and although this one did not get a lot of fanfare or love from “critics” when it was released in 2005, I personally think it is one of the most authentic Fantasy/Viking movies made in the last twenty years. It is…
Historical Movies Worth A Damn: The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Any Martial Citizen worth his salt should own a book or two on the Irish Struggle for Independence against the British Empire, also know as “The Troubles”. When it comes to this topic and Guerilla Warfare as a whole, few movies are as historically accurate and as well made as The Wind that Shakes the…
WW2 Movies Worth A Damn: The Railway Man (2013)
It’s no secret I am a Writer, Veteran and all around Military History Nut, but I am also somewhat of a amateur film enthusiast. So when I come across a film(particularly a WW2 film) that I feel is worthwhile (which is not very often since as you know very FEW films that come out of…
Bravo Two Zero
A classic on the realities of the small unit for Sunday viewing that I brought up in the last Scout Course. Lots of lessons and one of the top among them, you should be training in communications. via Bravo Two Zero — American Partisan
Mad Max
Watch George Miller’s Post-Apocalyptic Masterpiece, The Mad Max Saga from beginning to end.
Inside the Left: The Battle Of Algiers — American Partisan
Here is an Older film anthology post of mine on similar subjects. Considered one of the most important films on understanding insurgencies, “The Battle Of Algiers” is a fictionalized account of the urban Marxist insurgency in Algeria’s capitol city during the Algerian War. Originally a socialist propaganda film, it endures for its continual relevance…
Worthy and Memorable Sayings From Jeremiah Johnson
From a time when Movies were Movies. No Political Agendas, No Propaganda. Just a Good Story with Memorable Characters. One of my all time Favorite Mountain man Westerns: Jeremiah Johnson. “Watch Your Top Knot” “Keep Your Nose in the Wind and your Eyes along the Skyline” “I am Bear Claw Chris Lapp, Blood…