Curated category
English-language war films
- Star Wars (film)Star Wars opened on the 25th of May 1977, in just 32 theaters across the United States. The cast and crew believed it would be a failure.
- Star Wars: The Last JediIn October 2012, Disney acquired Lucasfilm and announced a new trilogy of Star Wars films. J.J. Abrams directed the first installment, The Force Awakens…
- The Empire Strikes BackThe Empire Strikes Back opens with a single haunting image: probe droids scattered across the galaxy, hunting. It was the 21st of May 1980, and audiences…
- Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom MenaceGeorge Lucas returned to the Star Wars franchise in 1993 after a long hiatus that began with the release of Return of the Jedi in 1983.
- Rogue OneIn 2003, visual effects supervisor John Knoll pitched a story called Destroyer of Worlds during the production of Episode III in Sydney.
- Cold Mountain (film)In 1997, United Artists purchased the rights to Charles Frazier's bestselling novel for Anthony Minghella to write and direct.
- Free State of Jones (film)The year 1863 marked a turning point in Jones County, Mississippi. Confederate soldiers seized crops and livestock from struggling neighbors who were already…
- Paths of GloryPaths of Glory opens in 1916, in the trenches of Northern France, with a snare drum playing rhythms that recall wartime newsreels.
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars (film)Star Wars: The Clone Wars opened not in a galaxy far, far away, but in a boardroom decision that surprised nearly everyone involved.
- Shenandoah (film)Shenandoah, the 1965 film starring James Stewart, opens on a Virginia farm in 1864 where a stubborn patriarch named Charlie Anderson has done everything in…