MetaFilter posts tagged with movie and war

Nuclear war, Steve Guttenberg, and other horrors

Joe Beese — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:43:13 -0800

Just over 25 years ago, ABC broadcast the most watched made-for-television movie of all time. You probably remember where you were when you saw it. [last link possibly NSFW]

War-porn clearinghouse

stbalbach — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:15:58 -0800

Real Military Flix. Documentaries, combat clips, full-length movies. For all your warporn needs. Iraq/Afghanistan firefights. The Great War etc..

Zeitgeist - Hegel would NOT be proud.

Baldons — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:16:39 -0800

Zeitgeist, the movie [Google Video link embedded] - An interesthing, if bizarre, mix of buffed-up comparative mythology, 9/11 conspiracy theories and New world order rambling about banks, loans, debts and war. Is paranoia the spirit of our times?

Iraq Movie Posters

Ambrosia Voyeur — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:47:05 -0800

Iraq's Horror Movie Posters. According to Sky News, insurgent forces are taking up Worth1000 style criticism to hold up a mirror to citizens of the US and their Military-Entertainment complex.

Charlie Wilson's War

zarq — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:04:55 -0800

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip ends tonight, and Aaron Sorkin will be leaving television production for a while. His current project is Charlie Wilson's War, a movie starring Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman, based on the late George Crile's excellent, funny nonfic book of the same name. The movie will trace "party animal" Congressman Charles "Good Time Charlie" Wilson's (D, TX) rise from a scandal (he was caught in "a hot tub tryst with two cocaine-sniffing showgirls in Las Vegas",) to his role in the 1980's covertly funding Afghanistan guerrillas so they could expand their war with the Soviet Union. Wilson's actions would eventually help collapse the Afghan PDPA government, a power vacuum which would be filled by the Taliban. Who would have thought ending the Cold War would be so easy?

Nazi home movies

bobbyelliott — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:56:02 -0800

A 10 minute home movie taken by an SS officer has been discovered in an English church. It shows SS officers and secretaries relaxing in the summer of 1942 in southern Russia. The last couple of minutes shows footage from a slave labor camp in that area. The footage was taken at the height of the German success in Russia, a few months before the turning point in the Russian campaign - and probably the turning point in the Second World War.

Homecoming

ab'd al'Hazred — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 13:52:53 -0800

Homecoming - anti-war movie from National Amusements featuring the ungrateful dead. This will possibly invoke some controversy.

Apocalypse Right Now

srboisvert — Sun, 06 Mar 2005 09:56:36 -0800

Gunner Palace. See the war we keep talking about. The making of Gunner Palace. The diary of the filmmaker Michael Tucker. Rottentomato reviews.

Feeling lonely? Terrified? Isolated from the World Community?

glenwood — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:23:35 -0800

Feeling lonely? Terrified? Isolated from the World Community? Call now. Real girls are standing by to tell you exactly what you want to hear.

minnesotaj — Thu, 26 Sep 2002 11:32:09 -0800

War as a Way of Life The latest Reggio/Glass collaboration - Naqoyqatsi - is coming out Oct. 18. From the looks of the trailer, this could be the coolest of the trilogy. Of course, who could forget the scene from Koyaanisqatsi where Reggio jumps from scene of Twinkies rushing through production line to fast-forward scene of daily-grinders moving up escalators in subway station - priceless. Just more 70's grad-student dope-smoking backdrop -- or essential media for our age?

kirkaracha — Sun, 23 Jun 2002 18:13:37 -0800

Nuclear war on film The Los Angeles Times [registration required] reviews the potrayal of nuclear war in the movies.