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Edith Becker

Cinema Combat: Hollywood Goes to War

  • Documentary
  • War
  • TV Movie
  • History

In the trenches with the greatest war movies ever made!

RELEASE

1998-01-01

BUGET

N/A

LENGTH

101 min

Description

Tracing the evolution of the war-film genre from 1898 to 1996 by combining real-life combat footage with excerpts from Hollywood movies. Clips range from "Wings" (1927) to "Courage Under Fire" (1996). Also: Thomas Edison's shots of American soldiers in the Spanish-American War. Narrated by Martin Sheen.