Along Came a Soldier

A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.

Runtime

2h 9m

Director

Zoltan Korda

Cast

John Laurie, John Clements, Ralph Richardson

The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their country, their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell, but this is worse. Hamburger Hill ...

Runtime

1h 50m

Director

John Irvin

Cast

Dylan McDermott, Anthony Barrile, Michael Boatman

Based on the long running play by Jang Jin, the story is set in Korea during the Korean War in 1950. Soldiers from both the North and South, as well as an American pilot, find themselves in a secluded and naively idealistic village, its residents unaware of the outside world, including the war.

Runtime

2h 13m

Director

Bae Jong

Cast

Jung Jae-young, Shin Ha-kyun, Kang Hye-jung

During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors are dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble in...

Runtime

1h 55m

Director

Paul Greengrass

Cast

Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Brendan Gleeson

North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.

Runtime

2h 3m

Director

Sidney Lumet

Cast

Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen