The Red Baron, a new film about Manfred von Richthofen by Nikolai Muellerschoen, was a labor of love. Rick Martin interviews the writer – director – co-producer for ArmchairGeneral.com.

ARMCHAIR GENERAL’s Editor-in-Chief Jerry D. Morelock reviews Circle the Wagons!, a book aiming to set straight the historical record of skirmishes between Indians and pioneer wagon trains.

HBO Films’ Taking Chance is neither a John Wayne flag-waver nor an Oliver Stone question-authority film. In many ways, it is best compared to an Andrew Wyeth painting: powerful because of its nuances of strength, beauty and sadness.

This review of the movie Defiance from director Edward Zwick and Paramount Vantage focuses on the moral conflicts depicted in this film about a little-known but effective resistance movement by a group of Polish Jews in World War II.

Greatest Western Movie elimination tournament! Vote for your favorites to decide the Greatest Western Movie of them all.

Tom Cruise stars as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg in this new film about the July 20, 1944 plot to kill Adolph Hitler. Armchair General reviews Valkyrie.

A Christmas shopping list of recommended military history books and DVDs for your armchair general.

Executive Producer Alex Holmes talks in an exclusive interview about House of Saddam, a four-hour miniseries that debuts on HBO December 7, 2008. The miniseries examines the life of Iraq’s brutal dictator and the lives of those around him.

Introducing a new online tournament to select the Number One Western of all time from a list of the 100 Greatest Westerns.

Oscar-winning screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie talks with Armchair General in an exclusive interview about the movie Valkyrie, what inspired him to write it, and the historical events behind it.

How did you first learn of the Katyn Massacre? If you’ve seen the film, how did it affect your understanding of this long-concealed atrocity?

What did you think of The Counterfeiters’ portrayal of OPERATION BERNHARD?

Award-winning screenwriter Kirk Ellis on John and Abigail Adams, sacrifice, civic responsibility, and bringing David McCullough’s Pulitzer Prize – winning Adams biography to television.

Armchair General tells you what to expect in this new television event from the creative team that brought Band of Brothers to HBO.

Still the best of Hollywood’s Coming Home films and among the greatest American produced ensemble pieces, there is good reason why the film won seven Academy Awards.

Wyatt Kingseed takes a look at some of the most egregious instances in the genre of directors tinkering to improve ticket sales.