Wyatt Kingseed takes a look at some of the best films to emerge from Hollywood that dealt with the topic of the Cold War – filled with tension, drama, intrigue and sometimes humor.

Based on the book of the same name, HBO’s new film uses the infamous massacre as a backdrop to explore the central issues of cultural identity and assimilation.

A long-time staple of Hollywood action films set in wartime is the Impossible Mission. A small group of highly-trained soldiers and assassins attempt an extraordinarily difficult operation behind enemy lines.

World War I films have a commonality – senseless mass charges into machine-gun fire, tangles of barbed wire, clouds of poison gas, and denuded landscapes.

Director Steven Soderbergh uses black and white film, along with old cameras in an attempt to re-create the style and feel of classic noir cinema.

Professor Paul Cartledge, author of Thermopylae. The Battle That Changed The World, takes a timely look at the real battle of Thermopylae, the battle dramatised in the recent cinematic release 300.

Fellow actor Jimmy Stewart said that John Wayne stamped AMERICA across the face of the motion picture industry. Quite a tribute.

Some will see it as propaganda to be sure, but it is nowhere as inflammatory as M. Moore’s Fahrenheit 911, and draws on a wide variety of sources to attempt to show all sides of this complex issue.

This film presents the gritty and ugly truth of the flag-raising on Mount Suribachi. To Marines on Iwo Jima and to citizens on the home front, the flag became a beacon of hope.

Zulus! Thousands of them! We cast a kindly retrospective eye over this classic war movie. Fix bayonets and read on…

Wild Bill Wilder lists the movies and documentaries focusing on the Pacific War that rank among his personal best. See if your favorite is on the list!

September the 11th marked the beginning of the Global War on Terror, but despite the shocking events of that day, the occupants of Flight 93 were determined not to be victims.

BBC Video’s upcoming release, Hiroshima, is an in-depth, comprehensive presentation of one of history’s most controversial events, and it’s a refreshingly even-handed production.

The date was 2 October 1918, and it seemed as if fate was determined that this group of mostly American immigrants should never live to see another day.

Set during the Spanish-American War, Rough Riders is an action movie, with a pretty brisk pace.

The Italians were unprepared, ill-equipped, and only half-heartedly interested in being in the fighting of World War II. This movie tells their story.