Name ______The Combat Film - 2 credits. Watch one movie made before the end of WWII and one made in the 70s or after. Compare and contrast the movies using what you learned watching The Combat Movie. Cultural importance of the cinema by providing a rallying point for patriotism in some combat films How did the Office of War Information influence Combat Films? Did the message in combat films change? Is there one central hero, or does the film create a community of heroes? What do the combat scenes look like? How is the enemy characterized? How is the ideal platoon made up? Influence of newsreels on combat films.

Action in the North Atlantic (1943) Home of the Brave (1949) Air Force (1943) Immortal Sergeant (1943) All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) In Harm’s Way (1965) Apocalypse Now (1979) Bataan (1943) Let There Be Light (documentary, 1945) The Battle of Midway (documentary, 1942) The Longest Day (1962) The Battle of Russia (documentary, 1943) Memphis Belle (1990) The Battle of San Pietro (documentary, 1945) The Naked and the Dead (1958) The Big Parade (1925) The Negro Soldier (documentary, 1944) The Big Red One (1980) Patton (1970) Born on the Forth of July (1989) Platoon (1986) The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1955) Casualties of War (1989) Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) Cry Havoc (1943) Sergeant York (1941) The Deer Hunter (1978) A Soldier’s Story (1984) The Enemy Below (1957) The Steel Helmet (1950) Fixed Bayonets (1951) They Were Expendable (1945) From Here to Eternity (1953) Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) Full Metal Jacket (1987) Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) Glory (1989) Go Tell the Spartans (1978) Twelve O’Clock Hight (1949) The Great Escape (1963) Verboten! (1959) The Green Berets (1968) Wake Island (1942) Guadalcanal Dairy (1943) A Walk in the Sun (1946) Gung Ho! (1943) What Price Glory? (1926) Hamburger Hill (1987) What Price Glory? (1952) Hitler’s Children (1943)