The Great Military March Forward: Liberate the Northwest

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.

Runtime

2h 58m

Director

Mel Gibson

Cast

Catherine McCormack, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

Runtime

1h 57m

Director

Stanley Kubrick

Cast

Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

Runtime

2h 11m

Director

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Cast

Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

Runtime

1h 28m

Director

Stanley Kubrick

Cast

Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou

Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" is very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians; the battle is said to have inspired all of Greece to band together against the Persians, and helped usher in the world's first democracy.

Runtime

1h 56m

Director

Zack Snyder

Cast

Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Dominic West