Unit+Five+Films


 * Unit 5 Films**




 * Battleground**(1949) - A squad of the 101st Airborne Division copes with being trapped in the besieged city of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. The film stars Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, and George Murphy. It was directed by William Wellman and produced by Dore Schary and Robert Pirosh. The film was one of MGM's largest grossing films at the time and was praised as one of the best films of 1949. The film was two Academy Awards for Best Cinematography for a black and white movie and for Best Writing for a story or screenplay. The film also got nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing, and Best Actor in a Supporting Role.


 * Stalag 17**(1953) **-** Released in 1952 and directed by Billy Wilder, who was nominated for best director for this film. It stars William Holder, who won an Oscar for best actor. Stalag 17 manages to make a combat film into a comedy. When two escaping American World War II prisoners are killed, the German POW camp barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.



It was nominated for four Oscar awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Film Editing, Best Sound (Recording), and Best Writing (Motion Picture Story) and it won the Most Popular Male Star in the Photoplay Awards.
 * The Sands of Iwo Jima**(1949) -A dramatization of the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima. Also was about a group of marines who were under the direction of their leader, Stryker, throughout the entire war. Directed by Allan Dwan and starring John Wayne as Stryker.


 * Sahara**(1943) - Sahara is a war film directed by Zoltan Korda and starring Humphrey Bogart. Bogart plays a U.S. tank commander in Libya during the North African Campaign of World War II. They get lost in the desert and are on a constant search for water. They then try to trade the enemy, who was dying of starvation, guns for water. The movie earned three Academy Award nominations including Best Sound, Best Cinematography and J. Carrol Naish was awarded Best Supporting Actor for his role as an Italian prisoner.




 * Paths of Glory **(1957)- When soldiers in WWI refuse to continue with an impossible attack, their superiors decide to make an example of them. This film was not shown in France due to the touchy subject of the soldiers being executed because power had corrupted their superior officers. It is a tragic film directed by Stanley Kubrick and is about the French soldiers and how they were executed for being unable to enact an impossible order.


 * Kelly's Heroes ** (1970)- A group of U.S. soldiers try to get in behind enemy lines in order to get a stash of Nazi treasure. This movie was released in 1970 and was directed by Brian Hutton. Kelly's Heroes stars Clint Eastwood as Pvt. Kelly, Telly Savalas as MSgt. Big Joe, and Don Rickles as SST.


 * The Great Escape**(1963)- Allied prisoners of war during WWII attempt to construct a tunnel from one of their bunk houses to the outside of the camp, so a few hundred can escape Nazi Germany. The film was directed by John Sturges and stars Steve McQueen as Hilt, James Garner as Hendly and Richard Attenborough as Bartlett. The film showed what it was like as an allied POW during WW2. Not only did it show what it was like to be captured, but it showed the troubles prisoners went through after they escaped. It was a very climatic film.