 | Band of Brothers
Buy new: $40.99 / Used from: $41.00 This is a monumental series, and while imperfect historically, it tries much harder than most.
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 | A Bridge Too Far (Collector's Edition)
Buy used from: $6.98 Epic movie, with a tremendous cast.
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 | Saving Private Ryan (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $4.02 Years before this movie came out, I had talked to several vets, and they told me of the horrors of their first combat in Europe. The images in this movie are chillingly familiar.
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 | We Were Soldiers (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $1.50 Perhaps the best film of combat in Vietnam.
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![Zulu Dawn [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515AVWP1PNL._SL75_.jpg) | Zulu Dawn [Region 2]
Buy used from: $27.18 A morality play illustrating imperialist arrogance, and native courage.
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 | Tora! Tora! Tora!
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $2.55 Long, cumbersome, but much better than Bruckheimer's bizarre love triangle...
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 | Das Boot - The Original Uncut Version
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $12.94 A classic submarine movie.
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 | The Eagle Has Landed
Buy new: $6.49 / Used from: $1.85 A great espionage/special operations movie set during WWII.
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 | Where Eagles Dare (Clint Eastwood Collection)
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $7.99 Another commando type movie, and very enjoyable.
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 | Patton (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $9.00 Sure, those are American tanks with German crosses, but George C. Scott is the reason this film won an Oscar.
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 | The Longest Day (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $9.99 Another epic based on a book by Cornelius Ryan. A classic.
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 | The Lost Battalion
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $11.91 A great, no nonsense portrayal of the Great War.
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 | All Quiet on the Western Front
Buy new: $6.49 / Used from: $4.30 I prefer this version to the original version from 1930. The classic anti-war movie.
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 | Gettysburg (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $2.00 Essential for the Civil War buff.
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 | Glory
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.89 Another powerful film of the Civil War.
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 | Full Metal Jacket by Stanley Kubrick
Buy used from: $8.75 Another film depicting the brutal combat in Vietnam.
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 | Apocalypse Now
Buy used from: $12.43 This is Conrad's Heart of Darkness retold, but the fear and confusion are pretty accurately portrayed.
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 | The Mission (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $8.66 / Used from: $7.99 This movie depicts the best and worst of European colonialism in South America. A beautiful film, with a great soundtrack as well.
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 | The Blue Max
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $6.45 Some of the most beautiful aerial photography ever done.
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 | Black Hawk Down (Unrated Extended Cut)
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $2.80 Yet another film depicting a debacle in planning and micromanagement. Shows how self sufficient and professional American troops can be, despite tremendous odds.
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