May Movies.

I'm terribly behind in my blogging. Of course since they switched over to 'new Blogger' I don't have a clue if anybody is still reading since comments have almost completely stopped. You might call my May DVD order 'War Month'. I found a bunch of history DVD's on various famous wars and battles. I picked them up with history teachers in mind but my May order was also a continuation of a War movie buy I was working on last year and forgot about. It's not all guy stuff though. I found a couple of Wedding 'how-too' DVDs and several classic motion pictures I missed last year. Body and Soul is a John Garfield classic, while Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines and the Great Race are two period comedies that still make me laugh. So who is the better Snidely Whiplash, Terry Thomas in Those Magnificent Men, or Jack Lemon in the Great Race? (Peter Falk is hands down the best comic henchman in the Great Race)

The May Movies are:

Balaclava 1854: The Charge of the Light Brigade
Zulu Wars 1879
Boer War and other Colonial Adventures
Battle of Hastings 1066
Armada 1588
Franco-Prussian War 1870-71
Ultimate Line Dancing
Perfect Wedding Volume 1
Perfect Wedding Volume 2
Super Soccer Skills: Advancing the Skills
Super Soccer Skills - Just Kickin' it
Soccer Shooting Drills
Learn Baseball from the Pros
All Star Training and Conditioning for Baseball
Body and Soul - the John Garfield Boxing Classic, maybe Raging Bull finally did it better, maybe.
Force of Evil - A Film noir classic with John Garfield as a racketeer's lawyer.
We Were Strangers - John Huston directs John Garfield, Jennifer Jones and Gilbert Roland.
Full Metal Jacket - Stanley Kubrick does Viet Nam but D I Ermey steals the show.
Gallipoli - A very young Mel Gibson goes to Turkey to fight WWI. Directed by Peter Weir.
Midway - Forget the cheese ball plot, the battle scenes steal the show. Historically very accurate.
Tora! Tora! Tora! Americans directors did the American point of view. Japanese directors did the Japanese.
Where Eagles Dare - Non stop action, written by Alistair MacClean with Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton.
Battle of Britain - All star cast, authentic WWII aircraft, accurate historically, and Leonard Maltin was bored.
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines - another all star cast period comedy including early Benny Hill and late Red Skelton.
Great Race - Hit and miss comedy with Tony Curtiss, Jack Lemon, Peter Falk, and I'm still in love with Natalie Wood.
Green Berets - John Wayne does Viet Nam
Battle of the Bulge - Robert Shaw as the shark from Jaws in a German tank. Think about it.
Battle of Algiers - French Classic.
Paths of Glory - Still the best anti war movie ever made and the transition from behind the line opulence to front lines trench warfare horror is the best long shot ever made.
Horse Soldiers - John Wayne and William Holden fight each other and Rebels. Directed by John Ford.
Stalag 17 - Billy Wilder directs William Holden in an Oscar winning performance.
Cover Girl - Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Phil Silvers, Eve Arden do Jerome Kern & Ira Gerswin
Big Clock - I still don't know how this ended up on a list of war movies but it sounds fascinating. Ray Milland, Charles Laughlin, Maureen O'Sullivan, and Harry Morgan in a murder mystery.
Foreign Correspondent - Early Hitchcock spy story.
Star Trek: Next Generation Complete Fifth Season
Star Trek: Next Generation Complete Sixth Season
Star Trek: Next Generation Complete Seventh Season
Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy.