Cinema Combat: Hollywood Goes to War

In the trenches with the greatest war movies ever made!

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1998

1h 41m

Documentary

War

TV Movie

History

Overview

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.

Directed by Edith Becker