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Hail the Conque...
 Very Good 66 Points 1944
Wick – with 66 Trust Points – rated it Very Good

Hail The Conquering Hero is a welcome stop on the Tour de Sturges, even if not one of the best.

The Greatest Generation dealt with challenge differently than we 2nd Millenniums do, to put it mildly. Preston Sturges made Hail The Conquering Hero during World War II, right after the Marines…

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WikChip Image Demarest turns Bracken into a hero
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Hacksaw Ridge
 Great 83 Points 2016
Wick – with 66 Trust Points – rated it Great

Okinawa was once a byword for the savagery of war. Hacksaw Ridge plumbs the depths of that savagery, and the grace that also attended it in the form of Medal of Honor recipient Desmond Doss. A conscientious objector, Doss was unsurpassed in bravery, personally rescuing 75 wounded men from the "…

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WikChip Video Vince Vaughn talks war movie
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Guerilla
 None Yet 0 Points 2008
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Greyhound
 Great 66 Points 2020
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Good Kill
 Really Great 83 Points 2015
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Gods and Generals
 Very Good 83 Points 2003
Wick – with 66 Trust Points – rated it Very Good

The battles of 1st Bull Run, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville get brought to terribly glorious life in this opening salvo of a planned Civil War trilogy. Funded by a son of the South, Gods and Generals focuses on sympathetic Confederate heroes Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee. It could …

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WikChip Video One of the signal moments in US history.
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God of War
 Great 66 Points 2017
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Glory
 Very Good 83 Points 1989
Wick – with 66 Trust Points – rated it Very Good

Old fashioned and reverential, Glory shines in its rendering of an important bit of American history, its vivid recreation of several Civil War battles, and via Denzel Washington’s Oscar-winning performance.

The important history recounts how the first African-American regiment….

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WikChip Video Morgan & Denzel: Moving, Rhythmic, Ma...
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Gettysburg
 Very Good 83 Points 1993
Wick – with 66 Trust Points – rated it Very Good

The Civil War’s decisive battle can get extensively aired over nearly 4½ hours, and does in Gettysburg. The real battle lasted three days in July of 1863, say 36 hours actually fighting. The movie covers fully an eighth of that. Stamina is required, a long plane ride ideal.

Consider it a …

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WikChip Image Hell saved the Exceptional Nation.
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Fury
 Really Great 83 Points 2014
Wick – with 66 Trust Points – rated it Really Great

The pantheon of essential WWII movies has a new entrant. David Ayer’s Fury stars Brad Pitt as an American Staff Sergeant who must lead a platoon of Sherman tanks against the Germans’ superior Panzers. Think Chevies vs. Benzes, with Brad and his battle-hardened crew in an outgunned Sherman named…

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WikChip Image Bad Brad etches another Rushmorian pe...
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