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 JediStar Wars: The Last Jedi is dedicated to Carrie Fisher, who played General Leia Organa and died on the 27th of December 2016.
- 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 MenaceStar Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace was still shooting in the Tunisian desert outside the city of Tozeur when disaster struck.
- Rogue OneRogue One: A Star Wars Story ends with two lead characters trapped in a citadel on Scarif, unable to escape a demolition beam.
- Cold Mountain (film)Cold Mountain opens with a scene it insists on getting slightly wrong on purpose. The Battle of the Crater actually began at 4:44 in the morning, with the…
- Free State of Jones (film)Free State of Jones is a 2016 American historical war film about Newton Knight, who led an armed revolt against the Confederacy.
- 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…