Edward Dmytryk, The Caine Mutiny, Columbia Pictures, 1954

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: June 24, 1954.
• Running time: 124 minutes.
• Tagline: At last on the screen!
• Based on the 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Herman Wouk of the same name.

• The Caine Mutiny (1954)
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Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now, United Artists, 1979

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: August 15, 1979.
• Running time: 153 minutes.
• Tagline: The Horror… The Horror…
• Vittorio Storaro won the 1980 Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
• Walter Murch, Mark Berger, Richard Beggs  and Nathan Boxer won the 1980 Academy Award for Best Sound.

• Apocalypse Now (1979)
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Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator, United Artists, 1940

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: October 15, 1940.
• Running time: 124 minutes.
• Tagline: Once again – the whole world laughs!
• Chaplin’s first talking picture.

• The Great Dictator (1940)
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Grant Heslov, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Overture Films, 2009

Rating: 3.5/5 Buy

• Release date: September 11, 2009.
• Running time: 94 minutes.
• Tagline: No goats. No glory.

• The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)
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Oliver Stone, Platoon, Orion Pictures, 1986

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: December 19, 1986.
• Running time: 120 minutes.
• Tagline: The first casualty of war is innocence.
• Oliver Stone won the Academy Award for Best Director.
• Claire Simpson won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing.
• Arnold Kopelson won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
• John Wilkinson, Richard D. Rogers, Charles Grenzbach  and Simon Kaye won the Academy Award for Best Sound.

• Platoon (1986)

Michael Curtiz, Casablanca, Warner Bros., 1942

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: November 26, 1942.
• Running time: 102 minutes.
• Tagline: They had a date with fate in Casablanca!
• Michael Curtiz won the Academy Award for Best Director.
• Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay.
• Warner Bros. (Hal B. Wallis, producer) won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

• Casablanca (1942)

Robert Aldrich, The Dirty Dozen, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1967

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: June 15, 1967.
• Running time: 150 minutes.
• Tagline: Train them! Excite them! Arm them! …Then turn them loose on the Nazis!
• John Poyner won the Academy Award for Best Effects, Sound Effects.

• The Dirty Dozen (1967)

John Sturges, The Great Escape, United Artists, 1963

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: July 4, 1963.
• Running time: 172 minutes.
• Tagline: put a fence in front of these men… and they’ll climb it…

• The Great Escape (1963)