Uncle Rays Movie List

Setting Date	Era	TITLE	Year Released	My Grade	NOTES
-9999	FANTASY	Army of Darkness	1993	B	What category would this go in?
-9999	FANTASY	Excalibur	1981	B-	Though based on Le Morte d'Arthur (c1485) about the Arthurian legends of the late 5th Century, it's a mish-mash of legends and lore. Visually stunning but a little chaotic I still liked it! Loads of great actors early work including Helen Mirren, Liam Neeson and personal fav Ciarán Hinds (HBO's ROME).
-9999	FANTASY	Game of Thrones	2011	AA+	HBO has done it again! Awesome screenplay of a personal fav book series! GRR Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" is recounted here in breathtaking (and VERY adult) form. A can't miss for the fantasy/medieval buff!
-9999	FANTASY	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	2012	A+	Not as good as LOtR but then...
-9999	FANTASY	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug	2013	A+	Not as good as LOtR but then...
-9999	FANTASY	The Hobbit: There and Back Again	2014	A+	Not as good as LOtR but then...
-9999	FANTASY	Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	2001	AA+	Awesome.
-9999	FANTASY	Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	2003	AA+	Awesome
-9999	FANTASY	Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	2002	AA+	Awesome
-9999	FANTASY	Jack the Giant Slayer	2013	A	Tame plot but the giants were really cool!
-9999	FANTASY	Snow White and the Huntsman	2012	C	Okay version. Liked that they had many of the story elements in a twisted sense. Good fight scenes.
-9999	FANTASY	Mirror, Mirror	2012		Did we really need two of these?
-3074	FANTASY	Scorpion King, The	2002	C	Fun adventure romp unencumbered by any historical claims whatsoever. The date is based on the "The Mummy" occurring 5,000 years later.
-1190	ANCIENT	Helen of Troy	2003	B	Enjoyable retelling of the Iliad. I like Achilles here better even if he isn’t close to the original writings.
-1190	ANCIENT	Troy	2004	B	Neat action variation of the Iliad. Has an interesting take on Achilles.
-480	FANTASY	300	2006	D	Adaptation of comic book version of history. No history except the names and the results. Very stylish CGI.
-480	ANCIENT	The 300 Spartans	1962	B	The 1962 movie depicting the Battle of Thermopylae. It inspired the 300's comic artist. Enjoyable
-73	ANCIENT	Spartacus	1960	B	‘Gladiator’ when gladiatin’ wasn’t so cool. I’m a Kirk Douglas fan.
-73	ANCIENT	Spartacus	2004	C-	Goran Visnjic in title role. No history, only modest script.
-73	ANCIENT	Spartacus: Blood in the Sand	2010	C-	Starz entry into the quasi-historical race. Fun, adults only and just as much history as a Xena episode!
-44	ANCIENT	Rome	2005	AA	Simply Awesome! License with the history but the feel of the lives of real people of the Roman world is amazing.
60	ANCIENT	Boudica	2003	B+	Good fighting scenes, a little light on history. Ends kind of abruptly, as if they ran out of money!
140	ANCIENT	Eagle, The	2011	B	Based on the 1954 novel "The Eagle of the Ninth" about the Legio IX Hispana the movie is a solid adventure tale. Early fight scenes are really good. Rest of movie is serviceable. Watch the alternate endings.
185	ANCIENT	Fall of the Roman Empire, The	1964	A	Before ‘Gladiator’ was this epoch. Some names are the same only the faces change.
185	ANCIENT	Gladiator	2000	A	What’s not to like? Light on history but aces on fighting!
450	ANCIENT	Attilla	2001	D-	Watched because I like both Gerard Butler and Powers Boothe. Enjoyed some really good combat sequences with Roman on barbarian action but the Roman equipment is too old for the period and the Hx is really bad. See list here.
467	ANCIENT	King Arthur	2004	B-§	Interesting attempt to blend an action movie with a quasi-historical view of Arthur. Kudos for creativity, history is hazy at best (Rome left Britain c406AD) but an enjoyable movie!
920	MEDIEVAL	The 13th Warrior	1999	A+	From “Eaters of the Dead” it’s AD 922 and Vikings head off to fight monsters. Awesome combat! Really good!
1030	MEDIEVAL	The Great Wall	2016	B	Matt Damon may be miscast (just imagine him as Bourne 1000AD) but this movie was pretty good. Kind of a "13th Warrior" for another generation. Great fantasy yarn with some Chinese culture thrown in! I liked it better than the critics!
1057	MEDIEVAL	El Cid	1961	C	Heston as the 11th century Castilian knight Don Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar. Beautiful even if slow! Sophia Loren sued over the billing. Heston hated Loren for the money she got.
1060	MEDIEVAL	War Lord, The	1965	B+	Heston as an 11th century Norman knight fighting Druid/barbarians for his tower. Awesome fighting! Lauded for its reasonable history of life of the period and feudalism.
1130	MEDIEVAL	Pillars of the Earth	2010	A-	Ken Follet's excellent novel brought faithfully to life. Prior Phillip et al building a cathedral in Kingsbridge during “The Anarchy” (1135–1154). This is the period of civil war After Henry I dies and King Stephen of England claims the throne.
1140	MEDIEVAL	Cadfael	1994-96	A+	Set during “The Anarchy” in English history (1135–1154). This is the period of civil war during the reign of King Stephen of England with his cousin Maud (Matilda). Many good fight scenes and a lot of military references. Cadfael himself is a reformed soldier turned monk. Ellis Peters' books are must reads.
1170	MEDIEVAL	Beckett	1964	B	Peter O'Toole as Henry II. Story of the murder based on a play by Jean Anouilh with many historical inaccuracies. Richard Burton in titular role. Very well acted and engrossing.
1183	MEDIEVAL	Lion in Winter, The	1968	B	Peter O'Toole as Henry II. (again!) fictionalized account of a decision on succession. Names true, actions not, no war. Hepburn won an Oscar.
1187	MEDIEVAL	Kingdom of Heaven	2005	B-	12th century, siege of Jerusalem by Saladin. Not terribly historical but good fight scenes.
1190	MEDIEVAL	Talisman, The	1980	B	Walter Scott’s variations on the 3rd crusade and Richard I.
1194	MEDIEVAL	Ivanhoe	1982	B+	James Mason, Sam Neill and John Rhys-Davies. Solid version.
1194	MEDIEVAL	Ivanhoe	1952	B	Liz Taylor and Robert Taylor do Scott. Enjoyable version.
1206	ANCIENT	Conqueror, The	1956	C- §	A Howard Hughes-funded box-office bomb featuring John Wayne as Genghis Khan and the redheaded Susan Hayward as a Tatar princess. This is one of those guilty pleasures for me.
1215	ANCIENT	Genghis Khan	1965	B	Much better (if not historical) effort with Omar Sharif as Genghis Khan. James Mason, Eli Wallach and Robert Morley all play asians. (setting date from the siege of Yanjing [Beijing])
1215	MEDIEVAL	Ironclad	2009	B	James Purefoy, Brian Cox in this historically challenged telling of the Siege of Rochester Castle. Still a decent war movie with lots of bloody combat. Just be sure to check out the real history as well.
1242	MEDIEVAL	Alexander Nevsky	1938	B	Pure Soviet propaganda, but set the cinematic standard for battle scenes even to today. You gotta want to watch it as it is a product of its day, but worth the effort to see the origin of so many things we take for granted. Not a lot of history, but that wasn't the purpose.
1298	MEDIEVAL	Braveheart	1995	B	What’s not to like? Little history but great fighting! (My setting date is based on the Battle of Falkirk)
1304	MEDIEVAL	Outlaw King	2018	B	Chris Pine as Robert the Bruce, rough on history (Edward II wasn't at the Battle of Loudoun Hill) but fun movie and Pine's portrayal is cool if not very realistic!
1348	MEDIEVAL	Black Death	2010	A	Sean Bean as a knight sent to find a necromancer. Very good! Keep seeing it referred to as a "horror" movie but really not a good fit, More of an "adventure story with some scary bits."
1403	MEDIEVAL	The King	2019	C	Derivative "GoT" version of Shakespeare's Henriad made to look like history. No single combat with HotSpur, No Dauphin at Agincourt and the "heroic" Falstaff make this meh for me. Ok as a fantasy film.
1415	MEDIEVAL	Henry V	1944	B	Laurence Olivier starred and directed.The film was made during WWII as a morale booster for Britain. Olivier intentionally leaves out some of Henry's harsher actions. Solid version.
1415	MEDIEVAL	Henry V	1989	B	Kenneth Branagh knows Shakespeare. Great adaptation!
1429	MEDIEVAL	The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc	1999	A	Very cool telling of the story with some liberties taken. Milla Jovovich as Joan. Great period battle scenes!
1483	MEDIEVAL	Richard III	1955	A	Shakespeare’s play about Richard III, adapted many times, but Laurence Olivier’s 1955 version is a fav, as well as one of the best adaptations of Shakespeare, period.
1500	ANCIENT	Apocalypto	2006	A+	During the post-classical period of the Mayans (c.1500?) and arrival of the Spanish (end of film.) A cool fighting and chase flick. Lavish and exciting even if sub-titled.
1510	RENAISSANCE	Agony and the Ecstasy, The	1965	A	Lots of Pope Julius II (Rex Harrison) in battle, more of Heston’s Michelangelo painting. Enjoyable!
1525	HISTORICAL	The Tudors	2007- 2010	B	I was prepared to hate it but I didn't! Pretty good, heavily modified, fictionalized and heated-up-for-modern-audiences telling of old Henry VIII. Interesting take on Thomas More as a zealot and inquisitor is very different from "A Man for All Seasons". Worth watching and much more engaging than most. Just don't start thinking it is history.
1535	HISTORICAL	A Man for All Seasons	1966	AA+	A thinking man's movie. Paul Scofield as Sir Thomas More. Shaw as Henry. Classic.
1536	HISTORICAL	Anne of the Thousand Days	1969	B	Burton as Henry. Good.
1558	HISTORICAL	Virgin Queen, The	2005	B	Better than all of the Elizabeth’s out there. The players are much more age-appropriate than any other production. Elizabeth was 26 on coronation.
1600	SWORD & SHOT	Taras Bulba	1962	B	Yul Brenner is great! I wasn't as fond of Tony Curtis in the role of one his sons. Movie is good, nice fighting. Suffers from same historical issues as the original novels.
1600	SWORD & SHOT	Shogun	1980	B+	Early 17th century Japan. If you can sit through it, it’s worth it!
1640	SWORD & SHOT	Cyrano de Bergerac	1990	B	I know…but it’s got some neat army/combat scenes while Cyrano (Gérard Depardieu) fights in the war.
1640	SWORD & SHOT	Cyrano de Bergerac	1950	A	I happen to like Jose Ferrer better in the role, but then…see Cockleshell Heroes (1955)
1640	SWORD & SHOT	The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge	1974	B	Cool sequel with an interesting back story.
1640	SWORD & SHOT	Musketeer, The	2001	B	Very cool modern version. Story way off and the martial style very asian but fun to watch.
1640	SWORD & SHOT	Three Musketeers, The	1993	B	A hipper, more ADD version. Fun to watch, though!
1640	SWORD & SHOT	Three Musketeers, The	1973	AA	It’s sixteen-hundred and something or another, it’s France and this is a good yarn. Still the best!
1642	DOCUMENTARY	Rembrandt's J'accuse	2008	A	Documentary by Peter Greenaway on Rembrandt's "The Nigh Watch" painting, detailing a conspiracy theory that it could document a murder.
1645	SWORD & SHOT	To Kill a King	2003	B-	An English hit job on Cromwell (Roth) as psycho and a fawning portrait of Fairfax. Lot of errors from the historical view kept it from being a slam-dunk for me. Cromwell was instrumental in the formation of the New Model Army and a great general.
1649	SWORD & SHOT	Cromwell	1970	A+	If you’re an ECW fan, here’s your flick. Lots of battle scenes.
1660	SWORD & SHOT	Man in the Iron Mask, The	1977	A	Awesome TV mini-series version of the classic adventure story with Richard Chamberlain
1660	SWORD & SHOT	Man in the Iron Mask, The	1998	C	DiCaprio was miscast. But who wouldn’t like Malkovich, Depardieu, Irons and Byrne?
1660	SWORD & SHOT	Return of the Musketeers, The	1989	A	Solid sequel with same actors plus additions as the '73 and '74 versions!
1660	SWORD & SHOT	Restoration	1995	C	Enjoyable period piece with Neill and Downy. Like Vatel, just a solid story and good drama. Note: The author of the novel didn't like the screenwriting.
1661	SWORD & SHOT	Vatel	2000	C	Gérard Depardieu as a famous French chef/"Master of Festivities and Pleasures". A french love story wouldn't normally get a mention from me but the historical life aspects of the King's visit made it a very interesting movie.
1683	HISTORICAL	The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683	2012	D	Beginning after the First Siege of Vienna the century before. It shows the alleged circumstances of the 2nd siege of Vienna and the assault of Ottoman Turks led by Kara Mustafa (Enrico Lo Verso) against the Habsburg monarchy. Generally bad all around. Setting aside the historical concerns, weapons and costumes grim.
1694	HISTORICAL	The Draughtsman's Contract	1982	C	Weird Peter Greenaway period piece about the murder of a lord and subsequent events involving a quirky artist. Great music, involving (if not quite sane) characters and plot.
1700	HISTORICAL	Kidnapped	1995	B	If you can believe Armand Assante as Alan Breck…you will love it. Better action than the Disney version.
1746	HISTORICAL	Culloden	1964	C	Interesting "docudrama" take on the battle. Treated as if war reporting were a feature of the period.
1754	SYW/FIW/AWI	Barry Lyndon	1975	D+	18th Century piece lavish in period, good story but plods along. Takes liberties with Thackeray's novel in many places.
1757	SYW/FIW/AWI	Last of the Mohicans, The	1992	AA	One of my favs. F&I fare with good cast and great fights.
1759	SYW/FIW/AWI	John Paul Jones	1959	B-	Not history but exciting all the same.
1759	SYW/FIW/AWI	Northwest Passage	1940	B+	Roger's Rangers and their attack on the Abenaki town of St. Francis in the fall of 1759. Good acting by Spencer Tracy and Walter Brennan. Great fun with enough historical accuracy and action to keep you happy.
1760	HISTORICAL	Longitude	2000	B+	Granada TV series about John Harrison, the inventor of a marine clock accurate enough to determine longitude at sea. Michael Gambon and Jeremy Irons star.
1775	SYW/FIW/AWI	Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor	2003	A+	Kelsey Grammer as Washington and Aidan Quinn as Arnold. I liked this movie a lot! Well done historical account.
1776	SYW/FIW/AWI	1776	1972	B	The film version of the Broadway musical of the same name. Not a “war” movie but cool.
1776	SYW/FIW/AWI	Crossing, The	2000	A+	Washington whips the Redcoats at Trenton! Jeff Daniels makes a surprisingly good Washington! Very cool movie.
1776	SYW/FIW/AWI	Drums Along the Mohawk	1939	B	John Ford's classic with Henry Fonda as a farmer/warrior.
1776	SYW/FIW/AWI	John Adams	2008	A+	First two episodes center around the war and later the “Quasi-War”. Unlike the critics, I loved Paul Giamatti as Adams.
1776	SYW/FIW/AWI	Patriot, The	2000	A-	Not completely historically true to Cowpens or Guilford Courthouse but a good war movie.
1776	SYW/FIW/AWI	Revolution	1985	D+	It’s Pacino as the reluctant patriot. Watch it for the battles alone.
1777	SYW/FIW/AWI	Valley Forge	1975	B+	No battles but a lot of good drama in this adapted play. Not to everyone’s taste. Richard Basehart stars.
1788	HISTORICAL	Madness of King George, The	1994	A+	Great movie with Nigel Hawthorne as the titular character.
1792	ADVENTURE	Scarlet Pimpernel, The (TV series)	1999	A	Personal fav with Richard Grant in the title role. Lots of fun!
1792	ADVENTURE	Scarlet Pimpernel, The	2005	A	Wonderful old movie with Leslie Howard as Sir Percy and the great Raymond Massey as Citizen Chauvelin.
1795	HISTORICAL	Beau Brummell: This Charming Man	2006	B	James Purefoy as the title character in this cool period piece. Fun, but mainly for the period enthusiast as it deals with fashion and royalty. Beau Brummell is credited with introducing and establishing as fashion the modern man's suit, worn with a tie.
1800	NAPOLEONIC	Duellists, The	1977	C	Some of the best fencing scenes ever. (Even if it is Harvey Keitel)
1800	NAPOLEONIC	Horatio Hornblower Series	1999-03	AA+	A MUST SEE! No bad episodes. Ioan Gruffud before that super-hero dreck. Simply Awesome!!!!
1805	NAPOLEONIC	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	2003	A	Not as good as the HH series, but a very cool.
1807	NAPOLEONIC	Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.	1951	B-	Gregory Peck as H. Fun movie with lots of swashbuckling!
1809	NAPOLEONIC	Sharpe Series	1993-97	AA	A MUST SEE! I became a Sean Bean fan because of this series.
1812	NAPOLEONIC	War And Peace	1956	C	If you can take the miscasting of Henry Fonda as Pierre Bezhukov then it isn't too bad. Typical of the abbreviated (3+hrs!) literature-to-film genre. A young Jeremy Brett in his first major film role plays Nicholas Rostov.
1815	SWORD & SHOT	Count of Monte Cristo, The	2002	A	Less true to the book than the '75 version (if possible) but a great romp! Think of it as more of a "reimagining" or "reboot" of the classic tale. Stands on its own. A very good movie!
1815	SWORD & SHOT	Count of Monte-Cristo, The	1998	_	Gérard Depardieu as Edmond Dantès in this subtitled French TV miniseries. Waiting on my DVD!
1815	SWORD & SHOT	Count of Monte-Cristo, The	1975	A	Richard Chamberlain’s TV version. Plot suffers from condensed form and compressed characters making aspects of the Edmund's ordeal somewhat confusing. Dated but still good!
1815	NAPOLEONIC	Eagle In A Cage	1972	B	Gielgud and Richardson as Brit officials holding Napoleon after Waterloo. Conjecture regarding UK offer to let him retake control of France.
1815	NAPOLEONIC	Waterloo	1970	B+	Rod Steiger as Napoleon Bonaparte. Very plodding/ introspective. THE BATTLE SCENES ARE EPIC IN SCALE but not as many as I would have liked considering all of the Soviet soldiery used as extras! Plummer as Wellington is fun. Orson Welles as LouisXVIII.
1821	NAPOLEONIC	The Emperors New Clothes	2001	B	Clever and charming twist on the Bonaparte story with his escape and subsequent adventures. Ian Holm as Napoleon. Not a war movie (unless you count fruit sales) but an enjoyable romp for the "Napophile".
1824	SWORD & SHOT	Shaka Zulu (series)	1986	B	South African story of the Zulu King. Henry Cele in the title role and Edward Fox were superb. I really like dthe portrayal of Shaka's court as a political entity as opposed to the "heathen" cliche of tribal leaders so often seen. Budget battle scenes are made up for by lavish costumes. Loooong series of 10 one-hour episodes. Worth watching!
1830	MUSKET	Texas	1994	B	I happened to enjoy the battle scenes in this one though the whole thing is a little long.
1836	MUSKET	Alamo, The	1960	B §	A classic and enjoyable non-historic look at the battle.
1836	MUSKET	Alamo, The	2004	B+	A classic and enjoyable. More historic look at the battles of both the Alamo and San Jacinto. I enjoyed this movie very much. Its character studies were much more true to life than the classic but not quite as heroic. Thornton’s “Davy Crockett” steals the show.
1846	MUSKET	One Man's Hero	1999	B+	The little-known story of the "St. Patrick's Brigade" or "San Patricios". Americans that fought for Mexico Tom Berenger stars in a very good movie.
1848	VICTORIAN	Royal Flash	1974	C-	Adventure based on George MacDonald Fraser's second Flashman novel. Stars Malcolm McDowell as Flashman. Not anywhere near as good as the book, but enjoyable enough.
1853	WESTERN	Walker	1987	F-	Ed Harris in the title role. Weird mix of history, anachronism and surrealism telling the story of this "filibuster". Lots of fighting. Too freakin' weird for me. At end a helicopter (yep, helicopter) lands in the town. This movie was a statement against western involvement in Latin America in the eighties I guess.
1854	VICTORIAN	Charge of the Light Brigade, The	1936	C-	Errol Flynn in a non-historical but very cool version of the Crimean battle.
1854	WESTERN	Hawmps?	1976	C-	TV movie comedy dealing with the US Cav's experiment with camels in the west. Little history. Fun but VERY 70's!
1857	VICTORIAN	King of the Kyhber Rifles	1953	C	Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, Captain Alan King (Tyrone Power) is a mixed race officer in Her Majesty's Service.
1860	ACW	Blue and the Gray, The	1982	B	Better than N&S imho. Best line “We all’s got a balloon corps?”
1860	ACW	North and South I & II, The	1985	C	Patric Swayze aside, I liked this one. Good cast and sweeping story. Book adaptation.
1861	ACW	Gods and Generals	2003	C+	Okay movie. Good battles. Very dull in between. Only for the ACW aficionado. Battles of First Bull Run, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville
1862	ACW	Great Locomotive Chase, The	1956	B	A pretty good story (if not completely accurate) of the event.
1862	ACW	Journey to Shiloh	1968	C	Very "sixties" take but decent adventure. More of a quest movie but has some decent battle scenes.
1863	ACW	Escape From Fort Bravo	1953	B+	Typical Western soldiery yarn with good military ending. The ACW hx is weak (The CSA in the NM Territory was done after the Battle of Glorieta Pass in 1862) but acceptable. Movie is typical of the period. I'm a Holden fan so it gets a bump!
1863	ACW	Gettysburg	1993	A+	Great movie!
1863	ACW	Glory	1989	B	Good movie! Attack on Fort Wagner. As always, history suffers (54th was all freedmen, not runaway slaves)
1863	ACW	Horse Soldiers, The	1959	AA	A favorite! The Duke & Bill Holden. Union cavalry behind the lines. Great charge scene!
1863	ACW	Red Badge of Courage, The	1951	B
1863	ACW	Red Badge of Courage, The	1974
1864	ACW	Andersonville	1996	B+	Great movie. Compelling and depressing.
1865	ACW	Dances with Wolves	1990	C	Yeah, okay. I put it in.
1865	ACW	Lincoln	2012	A	A thinking man's movie about the political efforts to pass the 13th Amendment. Really good.
1865	ACW	Undefeated, The	1969	A	I’m putting this here because I like it and it is ACW driven. Rock Hudson and John Wayne.
1870	WESTERN	Magnificent Seven, The	1960	A	A “war” movie…maybe not but is a war for a village less than a battle of nations? Some would say Kurosawa’s “Shichinin no samurai” (1954) (The Seven Samurai) is better but it’s in Japanese and doesn’t have Yul Brynner or Eli Wallach. Bah!
1871	VICTORIAN	Rhodes: The Life and Legend of Cecil Rhodes	1996	B	Eight-part television drama about Rhodes' life. Very cool with some modern sentiments getting in the way of the story of a great man.
1873	WESTERN	Arrowhead	1953	B	Heston stars as Ed Bannon, a scout that helps the US Army fight renegade Apaches. Good tactical explanations and battle scenes raise this movie above others of the era. Solid acting. The Bannon character is based on a real man named Al Sieber who's life was very interesting.
1873	SCIFI	Cowboys and Aliens	2011	B	Liked it. Couldn't help myself. Acting was decent, story unassailable due to the subject matter and the aliens were interesting if unprepared. Still don't get what they were actually doing with the gold though.
1876	VICTORIAN	7th Cavalry	1956	B	Suffers from 50s syndrome. Defends Custer by making all of his staff look evil along with a bad love story. The scenes to retrieve the dead offers command drama but the resolution is weak.
1876	VICTORIAN	Last Samurai, The	2003	B	The mood is all “Shogun” and the movie is okay. (GUNS BEAT SWORDS, every time it’s tried!) Decent movie though.
1879	VICTORIAN	Zulu	1964	AA+	Stanley Baker and Michael Caine at Rorke's Drift! A must see!
1879	VICTORIAN	Zulu Dawn	1979	A+	Historical prequel of sorts to ‘Zulu’ and a damn fine movie! Burt Lancaster and Simon Ward.
1880	VICTORIAN	Conduct Unbecoming	1975	B	Stellar cast in essentially a courtroom drama set in British India. Good for the viewer that likes the period!
1880	VICTORIAN	Gunga Din	1939	B
1880	WESTERN	Quigley Down Under	1990	A	Tom Selleck as the ultimate sharpshooter. Great Movie! One of those I can't pass up on TV. Has one of my favorite lines. After repeatedly stating he doesn't like pistols throughout the movie, Quigley uses one to devastating effect stating; "I said I never had much use for one. Never said I didn't know how to use it."
1883	VICTORIAN	Khartoum	1966	B+	Heston as Gordon. 'nuff said.
1884	VICTORIAN	Four Feathers, The	2002	B	Heath Ledger; Placed during the 1884-1885 campaign, includes the Battle of Abu Klea (which the Brits actually win)
1886	WESTERN	Geronimo	1962	B-	If you can accept Chuck Connors as a native american then the movie is really pretty good. History is a little mixed-up (Geronimo actually claimed to have been a good farmer) but reasonable. Good old-school, pre-political correctness movie.
1890	WESTERN	Open Range	2003	A+	Duvall & Costner in a modern classic! I especially enjoy Costner's reluctant but efficient gunfighter.
1890	VICTORIAN	Jeremy Brett’s Sherlock Holmes		AA+	Definitive screen version of the stories. Includes several cool Victorian war episodes. These are historically accurate insights to the British army of the period or of other regions in flashbacks. The Crooked Man (1/5), The Illustrious Client (5/32), The Master Blackmailer I & II (6/34-35), The
1891	VICTORIAN	Sherlock Holmes	2009	A	Very enjoyable actioner variation of the traditional character. Downey's Holmes is a combination of Tony Stark and Batman but he and Law deliver a very enjoyable, if not canonical, take on the sleuth.
1891	VICTORIAN	Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows	2011	A §	A sequel that is actually an IMPROVEMENT on its predecessor! Same great flavor but a much improved storyline. Stephen Fry is a nice addition. Fits right in to the troupe.
1893	VICTORIAN	Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India	2001	A	I really enjoyed this Bollywood crossover. Set during the colonial period. The “battle” is a cricket match.
1894	VICTORIAN	I Accuse!	1958	B	Classic version of the Dreyfus Affair starring Jose Ferrer.
1894	VICTORIAN	Prisoner of Honor	1991	B	TV version of the Dreyfus Affair with Richard Dreyfuss (no relation) in the role of Colonel Picquart. Also includes Oliver Reed and Jeremy Kemp!
1894	ADVENTURE	Way of the West, The (The Mountie)	2011	C	Really not a great movie as an art form, but I kind of liked the story. Andrew Walker did make the Mounties look like bad, bad men. Learned more about Canada than I thought I would.
1897	VICTORIAN	Four Feathers, The	1939	B	Placed during the 1897 campaign, includes the Battle of Omdurman
1900	VICTORIAN	55 Days at Peking	1963	A	Chuck Heston with a group of diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The entrance of the International forces is one of the coolest moments in all of cinema (I do have peasant tastes!)
1900	VICTORIAN	Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The	1935	B	Gary Cooper in a fun pic. Reported to be one of Adolph Hitler’s favs!
1900	VICTORIAN	Young Winston	1972	A+	I happen to love this film for the political intrigues, however, the Boer War combat is pretty good too; especially the train attack.
1902	VICTORIAN	Breaker' Morant	1980	C+	More court room drama than Boer war battle but good flick. I like Woodward.
1904	VICTORIAN	Wind and the Lion, The	1975	B	Brian Keith as Teddy Roosevelt and Sean Connery as a Muslim. ‘Nough said.
1912	WWI	Beau Geste	1939	A	“Keep shooting, you scum!” Sgt Markof (Brian Donlevy) steals the show from Cooper’s “Beau”! Classic!
1913	ADVENTURE	Shout At The Devil	1976	B	Lee Marvin and Roger Moore. Fun comedy/adventur movie set in Africa just prior to WWI.
1914	WWI	All Quiet on the Western Front	1979	C	Very good version of this movie with Richard Thomas (JohnBoy Walton)
1914	WWI	My Boy Jack	2007	B	Story of Rudyard Kipling's son's military service and death. Well-done period piece, if sad.
1915	WWI	Dawn Patrol, The	1938	B	If you don’t like ‘em old stay away… otherwise this one is fun!
1915	WWI	Zeppelin	1971	B	Michael York. More spy thriller than war but some good fighting towards the end. Story of German attempt to raid Great Britain and steal the Magna Carta from its hiding place in Scotland. The vehicle for the assault was a giant Zeppelin.
1915	WWI	All the King's Men	1999	C+	BBC drama of the fate of the "Sandringham Company" (volunteers from the King's servants) in 1915 at Gallipoli. Choppy and it really ticked off the Turks. Only for the die-hard.
1915	WWI	Gallipoli	1981	C	Aussie war film about Battle of the Nek with Mel Gibson. Okay history of 1900s Australia with anti-British and anti-war slant. For the period fan.
1916	WWI	Fraulein Doktor	1968	C	With the exception of some pretty good WWI battle scenes towards the end, this one was at best "choppy". Neat idea, questionable execution, weak acting. Like "Waterloo" of the same era (1970) suffered from the "art attack" at the expense of the viewer. Only for the die-hard.
1916	WWI	Paths of Glory	1957	B	Kirk Douglas as French officer is odd casting. Movie is good drama.
1916	WWI	Red Baron, The	2008	C-	Good movie, light history. Does make WWI aircraft seem more potent than other movies. The Baron is a little too "mod" but an interesting take.
1917	WWI	Aces High	1976	B-	Christopher Plummer, Simon Ward, Malcolm McDowell. Solid outing for the genre lover. Re-uses some sequences from The Blue Max.
1917	WWI	Flyboys	2006	C-	Watchable but weak and mixed-up history of the Lafayette Escadrille. Hated the love story. Close ups of the pilots in air were laughable.
1917	WWI	Lawrence of Arabia	1962	A+	Great battle scenes mixed with a warped view of the real man.
1917	WWI	Passchendaele	2008	C+	Canadian patriotic film. Early on, a solid war movie but the whole crucified soldier thing towards the end is way 'over-the-top' (so to speak). Decent history (excluding the protagonist's bit) and stunning visuals for the WWI fans.
1917	WWI	Wonder Woman	2017	F-	Latest super-hero dreck. Reboot of titular character; with the most illogical, poorly written crap about WWI. "Battle" scenes are laughable, action almost impossible to follow. Just really bad.
1918	WWI	Blue Max, The	1966	AA	A “must-see” movie for the WWI aviation lover! Peppard & Kemp are great in this movie!
1918	WWI	Lost Battalion, The	2001	A+	Good movie with some incredible combat scenes. Very realistic feel. Highly recommend!
1918	WWI	Sergeant York	1941	AA	Awesome! Gary Cooper at his finest.
1919	WWI	March or Die	1977	C	Gene Hackman as an FFL Officer. Okay.
1920	IRELAND	The Wind That Shakes the Barley	2006	B	Engrossing, pro-Republican (IRA) story of Irish independence. Anti-British.
1926	FANTASY	Mummy, The	1999	B	Not a war movie but a great adventure. And let's face it, Rachel Weisz is hot!
1926	INTERWAR	Sand Pebbles, The	1966	A	A peculiar film (set in 1926, China) for this list but I liked the way the sailors fight the ship.
1928	INTERWAR	Task Force	1949	B	Gary Cooper in a history of USN Aviation. Navy cooperated, plodding, feel good movie for a past audience.
1929	INTERWAR	Babylon Berlin	2017	B+	German mini series police thriller dealing with the politics of the Weimar Republic including the Reichswehr's "state within the state" of the period. Interesting period details in the music and clothing. Solid story.
1932	WWII	Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil	1985	B+	Thought provoking movie about the German experience during the rise of the NAZI party. Solid acting by Bill Nighy, John Shea, José Ferrer, Tony Randall. Bad title for a compelling and solid movie.
1933	FANTASY	Mummy Returns, The	2001	B	Solid sequel. And...Rachel Weisz is still hot!
1937	WWII	The Hindenburg	1975	B	Enjoyable George Scott film (he's a German) with fanciful intrigue surrounding the inevitable doom.
1939	WWII	Battle of the River Plate	1956	B+	Solid recounting of the titular battle and surrounding intrigues. Look out for Christopher Lee in an early role as the Uruguayan bar owner!
1939	WWII	Sailor of the King (aka Single-Handed)	1953	B+	Jeffrey Archer as a rescued survivor trying to pin down a German commerce raider. Based on the novel "Brown on Resolution" by C. S. Forester. Two alternate endings shot AND shown in theaters.
1939	WWII	Sea Chase, The	1955
1939	WWII	Winds of War, The	1983	A+	Impressive mini series set in the world events leading up to Pearl Harbor. European focus made it much better than I expected. Loved Mitchum, meh on Jan-Michael Vincent, hated Ali MacGraw (character good, her acting bad.) Minor historical and equipment issues but overall a great series!
1940	WWII	Battle of Britain	1969	AA+	Near the top of finest war movies!
1940	WWII	Danger: UXB!	1979	B+	British series about unexploded bomb disposal during the Blitz. Stars Anthony Andrews. Very good, though later episodes get a little "soapy". The disposal scenes are some of the most tense ever filmed IMHO.
1940	WWII	Darkest Hour	2017	A	Great flick! Oldman is great! Didn't love the portrayal of Churchill but the Labour guys hate their portrayal more! Minor historical tropes abound for the Briton, but a great movie!
1940	WWII	Dunkirk	2017	A	The history is great, the characters and drama are amazing...the only thing that detracted from it was the differing viewpoints being jumbled in "time". Must see flick for the enthusiast. Mark Rylance is great!
1940	WWII	49th Parallel	1941	A	Classic Canadian propaganda feature AND a GOOD movie. Stranded U-boat shore party tries to get out of the Dominion. Gerry officer a real baddy. Canucks are awesome. Hutterites, trappers, and natives prove their worth against the Master Race. Massey's scene a must see in an ending that is a real pleasure!
1940	WWII	Foyle's War (Series)	2002	A+	Michael Kitchen plays Cristopher Foyle, an English police detective during the war. Well done vision of the era and the populace. Many of the crimes center around the wartime issues. Highly recommend!
1940	WWII	Heroes of Telemark, The	1965	C
1940	WWII	Island at War	2004	B	The story of a fictional Channel Island occupied during WWII. Phillip Glenister stars. Good drama.
1940	WWII	Under Ten Flags	1960	B	Heflin, Laughton in the true story of the Navy German raider the "Atlantis" and its commander, Captain Bernhard Rogge. Old Italian flick but very good.
1940	WWII	Young Lions, The	1958	C	Not a great war movie. Brando is hard to digest as a German officer.
1941	WWII	Boot, Das	1981	A+	Gripping and gritty German sub drama. Must see.
1941	WWII	Hell Boats	1970	C	Standard special-mission-against-all-odds fare. Minor absurdities like Germans never noticing the Eboat in the harbor despite flying over every day and senseless love story involving a promiscuous wife who still longs for her husband, don't deter too badly from an okay final battle. Meh.
1941	WWII	In Harm's Way	1965	A+	The Duke really can act, you know. This is one of those times.
1941	WW2	Mission To Moscow	1943	C-	Pure wartime propaganda. Interesting enough as long as you don't forget that.
1941	WW2	Operation Petticoat	1959	B	Cary Grant & Tony Curtis romp. Comedy WW2 sub flick.
1941	WWII	Pearl Harbor	2001	D	Dreck. Many like it. I wasn't one. The effects were good, I guess.
1941	WWII	Sink the Bismarck!	1960	A+	Light on combat action but a real thriller, just like the book!
1941	WWII	The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel	1951	B	James Mason as Rommel. Lots of actual war clips.
1941	WWII	They Were Expendable	1945	B+	Very historical since Robert Montgomery had really been a PT skipper. John Wayne also starred.
1941	WWII	To Hell and Back	1955	C+	Audie Murphy. Good enough combat scenes. Bad tanks. Need insulin to get through.
1941	WWII	Tora! Tora! Tora!	1970	A	An awesome movie of the events leading to Pearl. Superior to all others. (Excuse the Jap ships!)
1941	WWII	Tuskegee Airmen, The	1995	A	A great picture and a thoughtful one. Well-written and acted with some history revised but still good.
1941	WWII	War And Remembrance	1995	A+	Nothing but praise for this "last of the great miniseries". Still loved Mitchum. Thought the cast changes were a welcome improvement on some questionable choices in the first series.
1941	SCIFI	Final Countdown, The	1980	B §	Another one that defies categorization. The USS Nimitz goes back to Pearl Harbor. I split the difference on the dates. It's guilty pleasure of mine.
1942	WWII	Age of Heroes	2011	C+	Solid commando fare. Liked Sean Bean.
1942	WWII	Battle Cry	1955	C	War scenes decent, love stuff interminable. Van Heflin
1942	WWII	Battle of El Alamein, The "La battaglia di El Alamein"	1969	C-	Italian war movie for Italians. Typical of the "war is hell" genre. Equipment bad, acting not good, BUT the brothers' story grew on me and the Italian perspective made for a novelty. For the die-hard but watchable..
1942	WWII	Battle of the Coral Sea	1959	C	Mistitled movie using the battle to shill a weak POW yarn about captured sub crew. Cliff Robertson got paid but...best to avoid.
1942	WWII	Battle of Midway, The	1942	B	Documentary. Actual footage from the battle narrated by Fonda
1942	WWII	Big Red One, The	1980	B §	A personal fav. Great combat with good characters. Suffers only from its anti-war morality play.
1942	WWII	Bridge On the River Kwai, The	1957	B	Classic piece of cinema.
1942	WWII	Cockleshell Heroes, The	1955	B+	José Ferrer starred and directed this homage to the real life kayak Commandos that gave their all.
1942	WWII	Combat!	1962	B	Has some great episodes! I personally like the one where the Sarge holds up a tank single handedly!
1942	WWII	Commandos	1968	FF	One of the worst war movies ever made. Could almost make you hate Lee Van Cleef.
1942	WWII	Enemy at the Gates	2001	B+	Your Russian friends will hate the well-fed Reds, but a solid movie with limited history.
1942	WWII	Flying Leathernecks	1951	B
1942	WWII	Gallant Hours, The	1960	C	Cagney as Bull Halsey. Solid fare for the navy fan. Great music.
1942	WWII	Gung Ho!	1943	A	Propaganda film for the Marines! Oooh-Rah!
1942	WWII	Halls of Montezuma	1951	A
1942	WWII	Hellcats of the Navy	1957	B	Pure fantasy sub flick but a fun movie with my beloved Ronald Reagan.
1942	WWII	MacArthur	1977	A+	Not as good as Patton but still pretty cool! Good history, especially the post-war period.
1942	WWII	Malta Story	1953	B	Alec Guinness. Limited action, okay story with reasonable history. Great cast.
1942	WWII	Marine Raiders	1944	B
1942	WWII	McHale's Navy	1964	C
1942	WWII	Midway	1976	B	In spite of a stupid Anglo/Asian love story which does nothing, still worthy. Heston and Fonda
1942	WWII	Midway	2019	A	Surprisingly really good! Takes on a lot (starts in the 30's!) but handles the history ok with some forgivable omissions. Action sequences are typical Emmerich fare but will keep non-buffs in the seats!
1942	WWII	Morituri	1965	C	Brando and Yul Brenner in a sabotage caper. Slow pace crimped what would have been a solid movie otherwise. Good acting in a poor script that actually had a good idea.
1942	WW2	Night of the Generals, The	1967	A	Sharif, O’Toole, & Plummer in wartime, German view, crime drama. Excellent!
1942	WWII	Pacific, The	2010	C+	HBO's not-quite-as-good counterpart to Band of Brothers. IMHO the writing was too "TV" trying to include everything and appeal to everyone. 10 episodes.
1942	WWII	Passage, The	1979	D	Anthony Quinn as Basque guide leading German scientist's family across mountains. Too artsy, McDowell's Nazi really over the top.
1942	WWII	Play Dirty	1969	D	Michael Caine, Nigel Davenport. Great actors wasted in a mediocre flick. Dirty Dozen does Tobruk. A lot of time wasted on scenes that don't do anything to advance the very thin plot.
1942	WWII	PT 109	1963	B+	I liked it. Very much a puff piece in its day, it has since become just another decent war movie
1942	WWII	Run Silent Run Deep	1958	A+	Clark Gable as a sub commander from the Ed Beach book. Better than ‘Hellcats of the Navy’
1942	WWII	Sahara	1943	B	Humphry Bogart (as a guy named Sergeant Joe Gunn) and a Lee tank holding off thirst and the Germans!
1942	WWII	Sahara	1995	B	James Belushi takes on the Bogart role and does okay in this remake.
1942	WWII	Stalingrad	1993	B+	Based on the 1958 German version of Stalingrad and the Italian film of Stalingrad called Attack and Retreat. Great action and combat. Very depressing.
1942	WWII	Tobruk	1967	A	The original movie. Rock Hudson, George Peppard. Very good!
1942	WWII	Too Late the Hero	1970	C	With Cliff Robertson and Michael Caine, you would think it a great movie. Aldrich makes it an "okay" movie.
1942	WWII	Torpedo Run	1958	A+	Producers make a highly realistic sub movie in the 50s
1942	WWII	Triple Cross	1966	A	Based on a true story, Christopher Plummer plays British bank robber Eddie Chapman playing spy.
1942	WWII	Twelve O'Clock High	1949	A+	Personal favorite! Peck as General Savage is an awesome study in “command decision” and psychology.
1942	WWII	U-571	2000	B-	Not history and a little tedious at times, but if you like sub flicks…Brits hate it.
1942	WWII	Up Periscope	1959	A	Very good James Garner film. Tense drama.
1942	WW2	Victors, The	1964	C	All art, no meat. Peppard and Wallach make it watchable but little battle scenes and a lot of angst.
1942	WW2	Victory	1981	B	Sly Stallone in an “escapist” soccer game.
1942	WW2	Wackiest Ship in the Army, The	1960
1943	WW2	Assisi Underground, The	1985	B	Intrigue and the Church in WW2.
1943	WW2	Attack Force Z	1982	C	Weak characters and unrealistic decision-making doom this commando adventure. Early Mel Gibson and Sam Neill.
1943	WWII	Baa Baa Black Sheep	1976	A	We all loved it!
1943	WWII	Beach Red	1967	D	A little too artsy for my taste but a whole lot of shooting.
1943	WWII	Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, The	1988	A	Stage play adaptation of the court-martial segment from the novel "The Caine Mutiny". Stands on its own.
1943	WWII	Caine Mutiny, The	1954	AA	Not much combat but an awesome movie.
1943	WWII	Command Decision	1948	B
1943	WWII	Cross of Iron	1977	A §	James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason in a Peckinpah war film…OH YEAH!
1943	WWII	Devil's Brigade, The	1968	B §	Under-appreciated because of its similarities to “The Dirty Dozen”. It is formulaic, but cool!
1943	WWII	Eagle Has Landed, The	1976	AA+	Enough combat for a war movie but it’s the behind the lines stuff that’s cool. Robert Duval and Michael Cain as Germans. One of the best!
1943	WWII	Edge of Darkness	1942	C	Starts great!! Germans find occupied Norwegian town with their own garrison and townsfolk all dead. Errol Flynn wartime propaganda film. Standard fare but kind of slow since you know the end.
1943	WWII	Enemy Below, The	1957	A+	I love this movie. The perfect sub/destroyer chess match with excellent actors!
1943	WWII	Force 10 from Navarone	1978	B	One of the few sequels I really like. Edward Fox makes up for including Carl Weathers.
1943	WWII	Guns of Navarone, The	1961	AA	A personal fav. Great characters and intrigue.
1943	WWII	Man Who Never Was, The	1956	A+	Very enjoyable true spy thriller. Highly recommend.
1943	WWII	Memphis Belle	1990	B	Enjoyable with a heavy dose of sentimentality. Interesting note: The BF-109s used in the pic are actually Spanish Air Force Ha-1112s. The variant used in the "Battle of Britain".
1943	WWII	Merrill's Marauders	1962	B
1943	WWII	Monuments Men, The	2014	B-	Enjoyed this movie! Good storytelling with a lot less history than I would have liked. Almost all the characters are fictional even though some of the situations were real. Clooney is a good moviemaker though!
1943	WWII	Objective, Burma!	1945	B
1943	WWII	Operation Crossbow	1965	B-	Peppard & Kemp aid Allied efforts to impede the V-1 and V-2 programs. Sophia Loren got lead billing but only played a cameo role to help with the box office. I enjoyed it, but it's not a must-see.
1943	WWII	Patton	1970	AA	Simply one of the finest movies ever made. End of discussion. Follow-up is good but depressing.
1943	WWII	Raid on Rommel	1971	A	Richard Burton reworking of “Tobruk”. Look for the actual scenes clipped from that 1967 movie!
1943	WWII	Sands of Iwo Jima	1949	B
1943	WWII	Scarlet and the Black, The	1983	B	More Church intrigue. Gregory Peck is more enjoyable than Assisi.
1943	WWII	Sea Wolves, The (Last Charge of the Calcutta Light Horse)	1980	A	Peck, Macnee, Niven & Moore in a delightful adventure!
1943	WWII	Where Eagles Dare	1968	AA	Richard Burton &Clint Eastwood. This is a VERY cool movie. Pure adventure!
1943	WWII	Windtalkers	2002	B	I liked this one and its combat sequences are good. But lacks something…
1943	WWII	Unbroken	2014	C	Life of celebrity POW in the control cruel Japanese. Exactly what you'd expect.
1944	WWII	36 Hours	1965	B	James Garner as a captured American with the D-Day plans in his head. Nazis trying to get them out by fooling him.
1944	WWII	633 Squadron	1964	C	Classic with a fav actor in Cliff Robertson. Not bad and considered a classic, the best I could muster was a "meh".
1944	WWII	A Bridge Too Far	1977	A	Classic war movie! Solid history with minor issues. (Redford's 'composite' role being one of them). Attenborough's insistence on real locations and great special effects make it a must see!
1944	WWII	The Last Drop	2005	C-	Billy Zane in a special unit tasked with capturing treasure instead of bridges during Market Garden.
1944	WWII	Anzio	1968	B-	Robert Mitchum as a war correspondent and Peter Falk as a Cpl.
1944	WWII	Back Door to Hell	1964	C	Early Jack Nicholson flick. Commando raid in occupied Philippines. Cheap, drive-in style war movie.
1944	WWII	Band of Brothers	2001	AA+	Worth every minute! A must for gamers.
1944	WWII	Battle of the Bulge	1965	B- §	I know, it’s awful…but I love the fight scenes! What can I say! Amero-German tanks.
1944	WWII	Battleground	1949	B	Classic and good flick for its time. Early Ricardo Montalban and James Arness.
1944	WWII	Breakthrough	1979	D	Wow. A "sequel" to Sam Peckinpah's Cross of Iron this movie is terrible. It wastes several great actors (Not however, Burton. Who is actually "wasted" while doing the film!) Music is even BAD! Equipment grim.
1944	WWII	Churchill	2017	_	(To be reviewed) Brian Cox as Churchill. Not well-received.
1944	WWII	Counterpoint	1968	C	Heston as orchestra conductor captured with USO during Bulge by Max Schell. So contrived as to be silly. Heston very unlikable. Rooting for the Germans!
1944	WWII	Code Name: Emerald	1985	C	Ed Harris in a WW2 espionage flick. Formulaic but solid.
1944	WWII	Dirty Dozen, The	1967	A	Still a great romp after all these years!
1944	WWII	Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission	1985	C	Not so good sequel, but still fun.
1944	WWII	Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission	1987	D	Even worse follow-up. Avoid.
1944	WWII	Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission	1988	D	Even worse follow-up. Avoid.
1944	WWII	Eye of the Needle	1981	B	Follett novel with Sutherland starring. Solid spy flick.
1944	WWII	Fireball Forward	1972	B	Non-historical but acceptable war flick. Ben Gazzara taking over a hard-luck division at the front but also utilizes lots of extra footage from "Patton".
1944	WWII	Great Escape, The	1963	A	Classic.
1944	WWII	Ike: Countdown to D-Day	2004	B	Tom Selleck as a surprisingly realistic Eisenhower. Good D-Day command view script. Would have been an "A" but they did a horrible hit-job on Patton (Gerald McRaney)
1944	WWII	Kelly's Heroes	1970	B- §	A guilty pleasure.
1944	WWII	Last Panzer, The/ "Battaglia dell'ultimo panzer, La"	1969	FF-	Possibly THE worst war movie ever made.
1944	WWII	Longest Day, The	1962	AA+	Personal fav. Good story and good action!
1944	WWII	Long Ride, The	1984	D-	Hungarian locations are the only good thing about this "behind-the-lines" aviator movie. Liked the Hungarian "cowboys" and learned about the "Hortobágy".
1944	WWII	Miracle at St. Anna	2008	B	Good movie could have been great. Suffers from its director's racism. Intriguing plot.
1944	WWII	Only the Brave	2006	B+	Solid movie about little-known contributions of the Japanese 442nd Regimental Combat Team and specifically the 100th Btn. Told as flashbacks and a little heavy on emotion, so not an "A" but good battle scenes.
1944	WWII	Plot to Kill Hitler, The	1990	B+	Less star-studded but better version of Valkyrie. Ian Richardson as Gen Beck
1944	WWII	Red Ball Express	1952	C+	Story of the Army truckers in early invasion France. Not a sexy subject. Okay movie.
1944	WWII	Red Tails	2012	C	Tuskegee Airmen story. Not bad, not good...so cliche ridden it got in the way of the story. More like a movie made in the 50s but with really good special effects! I liked "The Tuskegee Airmen" better.
1944	WWII	Rhinemann Exchange, The	1977	B	Mini-series of Ludlum Novel about an American facilitating an exchange of diamonds and technology between the Yanks and Gerrys. Not electrifying but solid. 4 hours long. But I'm Jeremy Kemp fan.
1944	WWII	Saving Private Ryan	1998	AA+	If not the best war movie ever made, damn close.
1944	WWII	Stalag 17	1953	A	Gotta love Bill Holden.
1944	WW2	Train, The	1964	A §	Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield Train full of art trying to avoid the Germans. VERY GOOD John Frankenheimer film!
1944	WW2	Valkyrie	2008	C	Not bad, not good. Cruise as a German, meh.
1945	WWII	Bridge at Remagen, The	1969	B+	Robert Vaughn and the German part of this movie is great. George Segal and Ben Gazzara are tedious. Lots of combat. Neat political story behind the making of this film in pre-Soviet invasion Czechoslovakia and the escape of the film crew in the aftermath.
1945	WWII	Brother's War	2009	D	Acting is poor, plot is just odd (the Masonry thing), equipment pretty good but the 50-star American flag at the end is just too much. Not a lot to commend this unless you're in the mood for the "Noble Nazis". The Russians are almost cartoonish.
1945	WWII	Bunker, The	1981	B+	Anthony Hopkins as Hitler. Based on O'Donnell's book that was sympathetic to Speer. Solid made-for-TV fare.
1945	WWII	Ensign Pulver	1965	C	Lame comedy sequel to "Mister Roberts" made clearly for $$$. Lemon replaced in title role but many other famous actors appear including Robert Walker, Burl Ives, Walter Matthau, Peter Marshall, and Jack Nicholson. Only for the diehard naval WWII buff!
1945	WWII	Flags of Our Fathers	2006	C+	Great combat and good cinematography. Slow pace when not fighting. It's as if it was made to be "art" as opposed to being entertaining. Bad choice. Meh
1945	WWII	Fury	2014	A	Pitt is good. Equipment is great. Script is "meh". End is over-the-top! Solid action!
1945	WWII	Great Raid, The	2005	B+	Slow but reasonably historical account of the Cabanatuan raid. Book “Ghost Soldiers” was better.
1945	WWII	Hacksaw Ridge	2016	A	Better than expected! Good war movie with a great story of Desmond Doss. His requirement for accuracy (with the exceptiopn of some personal details) makes this one a must see!
1945	WWII	Last Days of Patton, The	1986	B	Follow-up to the 1969-70 movie. Neat early life flashbacks but depressing.
1945	WWII	Letters from Iwo Jima	2006	C+	Better than "Flags" with a good insight into the Japanese soldier.. Mostly in Japanese and suffers from 'moody' Eastwood direction. Meh
1945	WWII	Mister Roberts	1955	A	Call it a "dramedy" with Cagney as the overbearing captain and Fonda his popular XO. Lemmon is the comic relief but an important character (and got an Oscar for it.) Good story, great movie!
1946	FANTASY	The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor	2008	A	Another fun sequel in a franchise that gave so much. No Academy awards fare but a good time. Love the Yetis, miss Rachel Weisz!
1946	WWII	Stranger, The	1946	A	Edward G. Robinson vs Orson Welles. A very good thriller with Welles as Holocaust architect and Robinson as his pursuer in a Connecticut town. I really enjoyed this one!
1948	ISRAEL	Cast a Giant Shadow	1966	A+	Story of Mickey Marcus (Kirk Douglas) with roles for John Wayne, Sinatra, and Yul Brenner. Great movie!
1948	ISRAEL	Exodus	1960	AA+	Founding of the state of Israel as directed by the great Otto Preminger Very good!
1951	KOREA	Tae Guk Gi	2004	A+	Really good! Even with the cliché characters. Lots of very intense battle scenes. South Korea's Saving Private Ryan.
1951	KOREA	Bridges at Toko-Ri, The	1954	B	How can you not like Holden and Rooney in a movie? Good drama. Tragic end.
1951	KOREA	Fixed Bayonets!	1951	C	Richard Basehart as Cpl Denno forced into command. Okay, but very 50’s.
1951	KOREA	Tank Battalion	1958	FF-	True challenger for worst ever. Bad everything. Inaccurate to the point of laughable. Horrible acting, script and situations. Utterly unbelievable. You can see Frank Gorshin (The old Batman Riddler) in an early role.
1952	KOREA	Glory Brigade, The	1953	B	Victor Mature (acquired taste) as a combat officer with Greek UN troops. Acceptable.
1953	COMEDY	Captain's Paradise, The	1953	A	Alec Guinness as a ship's captain maintaining two wives in two ports. Lot of fun!
1953	KOREA	Cease Fire!	1953	C+	Korean War propaganda film. Real soldiers as actors made for an interesting back-story but bad acting. Since it was filmed during the war and in-country though, the equipment is the real-deal even if the way it's implemented isn't. Good for minis and gamers but for the aficionado only.
1953	COLDWAR	Fidel	2002	C	TV drama (3+hours) about the life of Castro. Enjoyed more than I thought I would, with some interesting combat and decent acting. Choppy and very sympathetic to the dictator.
1953	KOREA	Pork Chop Hill	1959	B+	Peck as company commander in hopeless cause. Solid war picture. I like, but very pessimistic.
1955	COLDWAR	Company, The	2007	A	Really well done 6-part epic on the CIA's early years through to 1991. Though O'Donnell isn't great, the rest of the cast is. Michael Keaton as James Angleton is worth the time spent! Based on the best-selling novel by Robert Littell.
1955	COLDWAR	Soldier of Fortune	1955	B	Clark Gable, Susan Hayward. Good Gable adventure yarn in exotic locale. Not war flick but fun romp into commie China without all of that pesky character development!
1955	COLDWAR	Strategic Air Command	1955	B	James Stewart as SAC pilot. Good but…
1959	COLDWAR	K-19: The Widowmaker	2002	B	Harrison Ford as a Russian captain of the first Soviet ballistic missile nuclear submarine. It's no October, but still a decent naval drama.
1960	COLDWAR	Bridge of Spies	2015	B	Tom Hanks as the lawyer for a Russkie spy and later the negotiator for his exchange for Gary Powers. Some deviations and embellishments for drama but very good!
1960	COLDWAR	Town Without Pity	1961	C	Kirk Douglas as an Army lawyer in occupied Germany. Good drama. Frank Sutton as one of the defendants in a rape trial.
1962	POLITICAL	Advise and Consent	1962	A	Last role for Laughton. Good political drama. They don't make thoughtful movies like this nowadays.
1962	COLDWAR	Manchurian Candidate, The	1962	A	Really fine thriller and still holds up.
1962	COLDWAR	Topaz	1969	C+	Overated Cold War spy thriller from Hitchcock. Really wanted to like it...based on recent events of the day (1962 Sapphire Affair).
1963	COLDWAR	A Gathering of Eagles	1963	B	Rock Hudson as Col. Jim Caldwell, commander of a Strat bomber wing. Good movie even if the drama centers around only an ORI “Operational Readiness Inspection” Predictable.
1963	VIETNAM	Green Berets, The	1968	B §	This movie is to Vietnam what ‘Gung Ho’ is to WWII. I like it, of course!
1964	POLITICAL	Best Man, The	1964	A	Henry Fonda as a prez candidate opposing Cliff Robertson. Very good! Stands up in today's political climate. The more we change, the more we stay the same.
1964	COLDWAR	Fail-Safe	1964	A	Henry Fonda as the prez in a Cold War thriller. Very fine movie making. Crappy nuke protocols.
1964	COLDWAR	Fail Safe	2000	B	Richard Dreyfuss & Noah Wyle do a great job in this remake of a classic.
1964	VIETNAM	Go Tell the Spartans	1978	B	Burt Lancaster as a military advisor in Vietnam
1964	COLDWAR	Seven Days in May	1964	AA	John Frankenheimer thriller about an American junta. Too cool.
1965	COLDWAR	Bedford Incident, The	1965	B §	Widmark and Poitier. Suspenseful, suffers from Fail Safe’s unrealistic nukes.
1965	VIETNAM	Good Morning Vietnam	1987	C	Less war movie, more Robin Williams vehicle. Fun but forgettable.
1965	VIETNAM	We Were Soldiers	2002	B	Everyone liked this better than I did. Good ‘Nam stuff. Sam Shepherd is pretty cool.
1967	VIETNAM	Boys in Company C, The	1978	B	R.Lee Ermey. ‘Nuff said.
1968	VIETNAM	Full Metal Jacket	1987	B	R.Lee Ermey with Kubrick.
1968	COLDWAR	Ice Station Zebra	1968	A	You can argue it’s not a war picture, but still a military thriller. Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan
1968	VIETNAM	Siege of Firebase Gloria, The	1989	A	R.Lee Ermey. ‘Nuff said.
1969	VIETNAM	Apocalypse Now	1979	D-	I hate this movie. It’s here so knobs don’t yell at me for leaving it out.
1969	VIETNAM	Hamburger Hill	1987	B	Better than "Platoon." Not as good as “Jacket”.
1969	COLD WAR	Phantom	2013	B	Decent Russky sub movie with no pretense at accents. Good acting (Ed Harris, David Duchovny) with weak script. Loosely based on the speculative mission of the real K129 with closer parallels than expected. Special DVD feature on real sub worth a watch.
1970	ISRAEL	Eagles Attack at Dawn	1970	B	Cheap movie for Israeli audiences of the time. Not as bad as you would think. Bad guys were kind of clever! Excellent review worth reading here. Made by the same guys that made "Delta Force"
1972	VIETNAM	*Bat21**	1988	B	Solid movie.
1972	VIETNAM	Flight of the Intruder	1991	A	Cool aircraft movie with lots of action!
1972	ISRAEL	Sword of Gideon	1986	B+	Designed for television, it runs a little long and the acting by Bauer is rough. Otherwise, a solid, reasonably historic account of the real "Operation Wrath of God" by the Israelis.
1973	COLDWAR	Day of the Jackal, The	1973	AA+	Classic thriller! Fox is very cool.
1973	ISRAEL	Kippur	2000	C+	Gitai's overly artsy film of his own experiences as a member of a helicopter rescue crew during the 1973 Yom Kippur war. Typical anti-war war film, heavy on chaos and blood, light on patriotism. I was impressed with the equipment which was period and seemed accurate with the modified Centurion MBTs.
1973	VIETNAM / ADVENTURE	Kong: Skull Island	2017	B-	Sam Jackson, John C. Reilly and John Goodman in a very entertaining if not improbable tale about the big ape! Lots of fun! Mills: We just got taken down by a monkey the size of a building! Cole: Yeah. That was an unconventional encounter.
1973	COLDWAR	Night Flight to Moscow (Le Serpent)	1973	C+	Yul Brenner and Henry Fonda in Cold War spy thriller. A "techno-thriller" in 1973 with the cutting edge espionage stuff. Good movie with odd ending.
1974	MODERN	Marathon Man, The	1976	D	Watched for Olivier and the fact that it is rated a classic thriller. Stayed with it out of duty. Cannot believe this thing was the toast of '76. Good grief. How bad were the other movies then? You are warned.
1974	COLDWAR	Odessa File, The	1974	B	Solid adaptation of Forsythe novel starring Voight
1975	MODERN	Terrorists, The	1975	A	Connery and Ian McShane in a hijacking/political thriller. Very good with lots of plot twists to the end.
1976	ISRAEL	Raid on Entebbe	1977	B+	Charles Bronson/ Yaphet Kotto version. Cool, a little more action than the 1976 version with better production quality.
1976	ISRAEL	Victory at Entebbe	1976	A	I liked this version better even if it’s a little less realistic. Wolper productions are paced well and more like watching a play. The videotape is a little distracting. Linda Blair, Kirk Douglas, Richard Dreyfuss.
1978	MODERN	The Boys From Brazil	1978	B	Classic with great actors! Aging Nazis trying to breed a new Adolph. Very good!
1978	MODERN	The Wild Geese	1978	A	Solid mercenary flick with many of my fav Brit stars of the period (Burton, Harris, Moore.) The theme song is in the running for one of the most incongruous I've ever heard for an adventure movie. It was terrible.
1979	MODERN	Argo	2012	A-	Good movie with some historical issues. Worth watching as long as you read up on those issues. Really good at capturing the mood of the Hostage Crisis.
1979	MODERN	North Sea Hijack	1979	B	Roger Moore as Ffolkes. A non-Bond flick right in the midst of all that “007” fame. Good action!
1979	MODERN	Dogs of War	1980	C	Christopher Walken as war veteran mercenary. Slow but interesting. Predictable.
1981	MODERN	The Beast	1988	C-	Interesting. Gritty. Lots of technical issues. For the armor junkie who can stand a heavy morality play.
1981	COLDWAR	Farewell	2009	A+	ColdWar spy (Operation Farewell) thriller. Colonel Vladimir Vetrov, a KGB defector gathers documents and gives them to the French DST. But he chooses an unlikely contact. Good movie!
1981	COLDWAR	Pentagon Wars, The	1998	C	Entertaining liberal skewering of the process that created the Bradley Fighting Vehicle. It highlights the worst, emphasizes with satire and completely ignores the contemporary Soviet developments of the BMP IFV. Fun movie though!
1982	COLDWAR	World War III	1982	B	A Soviet paratroop drop into Alaska defended by National Guard troops. Not bad. Hudson and Kieth.
1982	COLDWAR	Firefox	1982	A	Clint Eastwood stealing futuristic Soviet fighter. His Russian is questionable but he's still awesome!
1984	COLDWAR	Hunt for Red October, The	1990	AA+	Simply one of the finest pictures ever made from one of the finest books ever written. End of discussion.
1984	COLDWAR	Red Dawn	1984	A §	If you are my age this is freakin' cool flick! Kids opposing a Cubano-Russian invasion...Oh yeah!
1984	COLDWAR	The Lives of Others	2006	A+	A truly impressive movie on life under totalitarianism. In German with English sub-titles. Great flick!
1985	COLDWAR	The Holcroft Covenant	1985	C	Caine and Frankenheimer fall short in this standard Ludlum thriller. Not horrible but not good either.
1986	MODERN	Heartbreak Ridge	1986	B §	This is the kind of movie you can watch and just enjoy. Nothin’ heavy, just fun.
1986	MODERN	Top Gun	1986	B	I know, you're puking…but come on, it made us all love the Navy!
1986	MODERN	Whistle Blower, The	1986	C	Caine, Edward Fox and Geilgud!! Well acted but kind of dull “spy” yarn thst really never pays off.
1987	MODERN	Debt, The	2011	C+	Okay Mirren film. Thankfully, the real Mossad isn't quite so squeamish.
1987	MODERN	Fourth Protocol, The	1987	A	Caine & Brosnan in good thriller about Soviet nuke sleeper.
1988	MODERN	Doomsday Gun, The	1994	B+	Frank Langella and Kevin Spacey in an HBO movie about Gerald Bull, designer of Iraq's “Supergun”. Well acted, heavy political bias but solid movie about the man.
1988	MODERN	Taffin	1988	C	Brosnan in a tough-guy role.
1989	MODERN	Dick Francis Mysteries	1989	C	Ian McShane as the jockey David Cleveland in these very revised Canadian/Irish versions. 3 episodes.
1989	MODERN	A Very British Coup	1988	B	A cool political thriller. Not quite House of Cards but a worthy entry. Mcnally plays the kind of socialist you can't help but like.
1989	COLDWAR	Jarhead	2005	C	The same kind of dreck we always get when libs want to portray soldiers.
1989	COLDWAR	Package, The	1989	B	Cold War romp with slightly implausible setup. Tommy lee Jones and Gene Hackman.
1990	MODERN	Navy SEALS	1990	B
1990	MODERN	House of Cards	1990	AA	Yep, awesome! Francis Urquhart's (Ian Richardson) Shakespearean rise to PM after Thatcher. "You might very well think that; I couldn't possibly comment."
1991	THRILLER	By Dawn's Early Light	1990	D-	Good actors wasted in ludicrous nuclear war debacle. Based on a 1983 novel, there really no redeeming value from the scenario to the character actions to the equipment. The stupid salute crap at the end was just incredibly stupid.
1991	THRILLER	Company Business	1991	C	Hackman spy yarn in end-of-cold-war yawner. Interesting other actors including Baryshnikov and Kurtwood Smith. Movie suffered from being made almost literally as the Soviet Union fell!
1991	THRILLER	Spygames	2001	A	Awesome movie! Tight script, great acting. Must see thriller!
1993	MODERN	House of Cards II: To Play the King	1993	AA	Less stirring but still fun. FU goes after a thinly veiled "King" Charles er ...see if you can pick out the royals!
1994	MODERN	Fatherland	1994	A+	Rutger Hauer as Xavier March. Germany wins WW2 and March, a detective in the Kriminalpolizei and a Major in the SS, is about to uncover some dark secrets. Under appreciated book adaptation. Pretty well done!
1995	MODERN	Crimson Tide	1995	B-	Intense, if somewhat implausible, sub flick.
1996	MODERN	Broken Arrow	1996	C	Nuclear bomb theft via bomber. Fun stuff. Travolta and Slater are good.
1997	MODERN	Jackal, The	1997	A	So different from the original that it is its own movie. Very good thriller.
1998	MODERN	Ronin	1998	A	Love this movie. I've re-watched it a hundred times and still stop when it pops up on TV
1999	MODERN	House of Cards III: The Final Cut	1995	AA	Set ten years after Thatcher, it's the end for FU but not without some mischief eh?
1999	MODERN	Thomas Crown Affair, The	1999	B+	Brosnan in good remake of old caper film. Better than original.
1999	MODERN	Three Kings	1999	C	Yeah, yeah…Clooney does Army…who cares.
1999	SCIFI	Space 1999	1975	B	A childhood fav that launched me into a lifetime love of Sci-Fi
2001	MODERN	Black Hawk Down	2001	A+	A masterpiece.
2003	MODERN	Tears of the Sun	2003	B	Intense. African mili-thriller with Bruce Willis.
2004	MODERN	Archangel	2005	C	Rusky variation on the "Boys From Brazil" with a young Stalin as the object of the exercise. Daniel Craig is an unlikely intellectual.
2004	MODERN	Hurt Locker, The	2008	B	Renner is good. Story is intense. A lot of cliché war movie stuff like the beloved native child, unprofessional renegade behavior, etc. make it just another AWWM. Unis and equip were okay but not perfect.
2004	MODERN	Manchurian Candidate, The	2004	A+	Remake of classic with Denzel Washington and Liev Schreiber. Very good!
2005	MODERN	Jarhead	2005	D+	It has moments…but I can’t recommend. Yet another anti-war, war movie.
2006	MODERN	16 Blocks	2006	A	Willis as a world-weary cop. Good rehash of the Eastwood classic "The Gauntlet"
2006	MODERN	E-Ring (TV Series)	2005	C	Short-lived Benjamin Bratt series about the Pentagon.
2006	MODERN	The Guardian	2006	B+	Okay, a "military movie" not a war movie with Costner and Kutcher. I was prepared to hate it but ended up liking it. If you want a modern Coastie movie...this is the only one I've seen!
2006	MODERN	The State Within	2006	A	A 6-part thriller that was a touch on the anti-American side BUT still very watchable. I enjoyed it!
2008	ADVENTURE	5 Days of War (aka 5 Days of August)	2011	B	Decent movie about journos trying to get the word out to the world about Russian atrocities during the 2008 Russian - Georgian war. Russians are painted as monsters, personal story gets in way. Some scenes very scary though. Solid movie with several good combat scenes.
2009	MODERN	Princess of Mars	2009	C	Direct to DVD version of Burroughs classic. Takes massive liberties but worth the watch for Traci Lords! John Carter is a US sniper in Afghanistan when he is whisked away to Barsoom by a military experiment.
2010	POLITICAL	Ghost Writer, The	2010	C	Good cast, okay script about a man plunged into the intrigue of a former Prime Minister while writing his memoirs.
2010	ADVENTURE	Red	2010	A	Willis, Mirren, Malkovitch as retired CIA operatives. Good Stuff!
2010	ADVENTURE	Red 2	2013
2010	THRILLER	Salt	2010	B	Really enjoyable! Neat plot with tons of action.
2010	MODERN	Sherlock	2010	AA	Modern take on Holmes has him as a tech savy investigator. Watson is a blogging MD recently back from Afghanistan. Very cool update with good writing! Updating some of the old stories with modern twists!
2010	MODERN	Skyline	2010	C	This is a pure action flick. The aliens are just there to give us a reason to watch the humans flee and die.
2011	SCIFI	Battle: Los Angeles	2011	B	A great romp with cool battle scenes. Don't look too close at the script or you will notice characters and lines from every war movie ever made. Acting - over the top...but we ain't here for the acting right?!
2012	SCIFI	Battleship	2012	C	Pure fun. No realism. So just sit back and enjoy the ride! The personal story of Col Gregory D. Gadson (the double amputee) in real life is incredible and probably the real takeaway from this movie for me...that is aside from an obvious Oscar snub for Rihanna! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_D._Gadson
2012	MODERN	Red Dawn (2012)	2012	C-	Weak remake with bad acting and an inconsistent setup. North Koreans take the original's Cuban slot.
2013	MODERN	Olympus Has Fallen	2013	C	Fun action flick. Not much else to offer. Made more enjoyable by the current political clime.
2013	MODERN	Red Dawn (new)	2012	C-	Interesting if hard to swallow premise provides the setting for redux of past version. Characters less developed (if that is possible) but fun romp!
2014	MODERN	Black Sea	2014	B	Jude Law as modern salvage captain trying to get away w/ Nazi gold from his backstabbing employer. Implausible but interesting.
2016	MODERN	Atlas Shrugged	2011	B	Tough read to update and take down to a movie length. I really liked it but more as a political treatise than for it's movie making. Only a war movie if you consider the Eternal Libertarian Struggle!!
2016	MODERN	Atlas Shrugged II	2012	B	Solid second part. Maybe better than first. I liked the different actors.
2017	MODERN	Okkupert (Occupied)	2015	A	Norwegian political thriller TV series with 10 episodes. Well acted and taut script that goes where others have gone before but a great ride! You will learn a lot about Norway!
2027	SCIFI	Children of Men	2006	B	Not a dystopian fan but liked this. Caine was memorable!
2063	SCIFI	Space: Above and Beyond	1995	B	This one didn’t get very far (only 22 eps) but a fair stab at “Black Sheep” for a new age.
2132	SCIFI	Alien	1979	B	The beginning.
2151	SCIFI	Star Trek: Enterprise (TV Series)	2001	D-	Really? Somebody liked this? Really?
2154	SCIFI	Avatar	2009	C-	Great effects. Cardboard characters. Banal story. The ~~Indians, Natives, Green worshipers~~, Na'vi beat the big, bad, corporatist, eco-meanies (You and me.) Any given Captain Planet episode has a better plot. I have to give it a "C" though just for the special effects. I might of even given it a "B" if the main native chick had been a little less good looking. Apparently, the old Star Trek, Star Wars rule still has sway. Alien good-guy women need to be "Human Hot" or we just won't buy the love story.
2179	SCIFI	Aliens	1986	A	Game over man... Game over! The best.
2180	SCIFI	Alien³	1992	D	Sometimes it's just best to let the series die. If Ripley could have just jumped a little earlier, could have saved me two hours.
2255	SCIFI	Star Trek (The Future Begins)	2009	A	I liked this reboot. Nicely done!
2259	SCIFI	Star Trek Into Darkness	2013	A	Still feelin' it!
2265	SCIFI	Star Trek (TV Series)	1966	A	Classic whose reruns were the basis for my love of sci-fi.
2364	SCIFI	Star Trek: TNG (TV Series)	1987	A	I loved right up till the holodiction began.
2369	SCIFI	Star Trek: DS9 (TV Series)	1993	A	Cardassians are the the best Fed foe since the taming of the Klingons!
2371	SCIFI	Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)	1995	C	Whatever.
2270	SCIFI	Star Trek: The Motion Picture	1979	B+	Okay. I'm in. Little artsy but servicable.
2281	SCIFI	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan	1982	A+	That's what I'm talkin' about!
2285	SCIFI	Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	1984	B	Timidly optimistic
2286	SCIFI	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home	1986	D	Whales, really...whales?!
2287	SCIFI	Star Trek V: The Final Frontier	1989	D	The last gasp of a tired crew. Sad.
2293	SCIFI	Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country	1991	A+	Wait a minute...we're not dead yet!
2293 & 2371	SCIFI	Star Trek Generations	1994	C	I guess it had to be done.
2063 & 2373	SCIFI	Star Trek: First Contact	1996	C-	Not a fan of time travel or the Borg.
2375	SCIFI	Star Trek: Insurrection	1998	C	At least it didn't include real time travel.
2379	SCIFI	Star Trek Nemesis	2002
3000	SCIFI	Battlefield Earth	2000	D §	I really enjoyed the book (in spite of its author) and was distraught this movie is SOOOO bad. Still...
9999	SCIFI	Starship Troopers	1997	A-	Awesome movie! Captured the flavor of the novel but departed from the story so much as to be a different animal entirely.
9999	SCIFI	Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation	2004	D-	Just crap. No real relationship to any portion of the book and really not even the first movie. Bad everything.
9999	SCIFI	Starship Troopers 3: Marauder	2008	C-	Improvement over the 2nd one with at least some relationship to the original movie. Still bad acting (but hey, wasn't getting an Oscar anyway, right?) and the story was weird. Between the singing Sky Marshal, the religious bashing and the "jump-the-shark" super brain bug I cant say it was good, but there was a lot of bug guts!
9999	SCIFI	Wing Commander	1999	B	Actually, surprisingly…kind of good!
9999	SCIFI	Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (BBC)	1981	A	A personal fav even if the production is old-school! Simon Jones as Arthur and Richard Vernon as Slartibartfast are a lot of fun!
9999	SCIFI	Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	2005	C	Cute take. I like Deschanel and Marvin. The rest...meh.
9999	SCIFI	Dr Who	1963	A	Original BBC Series
9999	SCIFI	Dr Who	2005	A	BBC "renewed" Series. I lo0ve that they maintain the links to the past.
9999	SCIFI	Dr Who: Day of the Doctor	2013	A	Fun movie! Included many charming links to the old series including a wonderful cameo by Tom Baker!



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1942		Operation Daybreak	1975		Assasination of Reinhard Heydrich

1805		Napoléon (miniseries)	2002		A&E miniseries. Bio of the big "N:. First episode starts in 1795.


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2009	ADVENTURE	Ironman	2008	A+	Yep! http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/5395/A-Marvel-Cinematic-Universe-Timeline/#vars!date=1327-04-05_03:01:08!
2009	ADVENTURE	Ironman 2	2010	A+	Yeppers!
2011	ADVENTURE	Ironman 3	2013	A+	Wow! Maybe I do like these comicbook movies. Hmmmm...
1943	ADVENTURE	Captain America: The First Avenger	2011	B	Weak but okay. I guess.
2010	ADVENTURE	Thor	2011	D	Dorky.
2003	ADVENTURE	Hulk	2003	D	Even Lou Ferigno's was better than this.
2006	ADVENTURE	The Incredible Hulk	2008	C	Better.
2011	ADVENTURE	Avengers, The	2012	B	I had enjoyed the comicbook (believe it or not) and this was better than I expected.

1962	ADVENTURE	X-Men: First Class	2011	A+	Liked the tir-in with the Cuban Missile Crisis. http://www.nextmovie.com/blog/x-men-movies-chronology/
2004	ADVENTURE	X-Men	2000	A	X
2004	ADVENTURE	X2	2003	C	X
2005	ADVENTURE	X-Men: The Last Stand	2006	B	X
1979	ADVENTURE	X-Men Origins: Wolverine	2009	A	X
2006	ADVENTURE	The Wolverine	2013	B	X
1973	ADVENTURE	X-Men: Days of Future Past	2014

-----	-------------	--------- Legal: ---------	-----	---	Just wanted to put them somewhere.
1978	Legal	Rumpole of the Bailey	1978	A+	What got me interested in the English system, poetry and the great Leo McKern.
2011	Legal	Silk	2011	A	Solid legal drama with a lot of political intrigue.