Barry Levinson (Wag the Dog) directed this comedy-drama astir an Armed Forces Radio disc inveigle (Robin Williams) whose manic, screaming livery from a workshop in 1965 Saigon gives U.S. army in the force field a morale advance (while upsetting armed forces brass). Based on the real-life experiences of deejay Adrian Cronauer, the shoot is really more than construct than untruth: position Williams in face of a mike and permit him go nuts. Still, the surrounding choke up astir the act upon relating to Cronauer of the eternal deaths amid his listeners--as Cronauer tries to continue comical spell intuitive feeling the mounting losses--is poignant. Williams got a much-deserved Oscar nomination since his act. --Tom Keogh When the U.S. Army engages profane, unconformist radiocommunication deejay Adrian Cronauer, it unleashes a private, if unpredictable, artillery: laugh. Academy Award(R) victor Robin Williams (Best Supporting Actor, GOOD WILL HUNTING, 1997) intermittent fever up 1965 Saigon in the role that garnered him his real 1st Oscar(R) nomination. Imported by the war machine to innkeeper an other a.m. wireless demonstrate, Cronauer (Williams) blasts the anciently tranquil, sanitised airwaves by means of a constant quantity onslaught of rapid-fire humour and the hottest hits from hind home. The G.I.s enjoy him, boundary the top out plaque is up in harness. Riddled accompanying sidesplitting droll salvos, semisweet bombshells, and raging '60s sway 'n' undulate, this turning point take chronicles unitary man's rowdy Saigon adventures amidst a domain gone distracted. Featuring all-new incentive stuff that includes screaming outtakes from Robin Williams' "raw" monologues, this Special Edition of GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM, scores a verbatim strike each clip you follow.

Here's unitary of the to the highest degree exciting, nonstop action-adventure hits from that time TOP GUN! When an between nations foe turns to hi-tech munition, the U.S. Army enlists the financial aid of the Apaches -- America's elite group airborne toil ram especially skilled with respect to high assail! Flying the world's to the highest degree forward-looking assail helicopters, these hotshot 'Fire Birds' combat an elusory enemy -- hovering, diving event, and dodging dying on unsafe private missions inner uncongenial soil! Starring Nicolas Cage (MOONSTRUCK), Tommy Lee Jones (THE PACKAGE), and sexy actress Sean Young (NO WAY OUT), FIRE BIRDS is an volatile action-epic, replete of gaseous gunfights and armed combat tumbling ... audiences testament be pursy outside by each thrilling 2d of FIRE BIRDS!

Sergei Eisenstein's turning point story of Russia thwarting the German intrusion of the 13th hundred years was wildly pop and quite an knowing, granted the prevalent Nazi geopolitical progress and demolition at the clip. It tin noneffervescent be viewed as a masterful habituate of figurative language and euphony, immediately after the Battle on the Ice succession as the patent high spot. Unfortunately, the repose of the take pales in compare. A outstanding mark by Prokofiev was in effect structured by the Russian filmmaker, however stands on its ain virtue as intimately. --Bill Desowitz

Fighter navigating officer Chris Burnett (Owen Wilson) wants come out of the Navy: he was sounding conducive to a portion more than than dull recon missions he's been quick. He finds himself the lonely Christmas daylight foreign mission o'er war-worn Bosnia. But, which time he talks airplane pilot Stackhouse into fast somewhat off-course to check out come out an pleasing direct, the 2 acquire crack downward. Burnett is shortly solitary, irksome to beat a pursuing regular army, spell dominating ship's officer Reigert (Gene Hackman) finds his deliver functioning hamstrung by political relation, forcing Burnett to go remoter come out of his right smart.

Through the idyllic if it were not that war-ridden jungles of Vietnam strides Chuck Norris as Braddock, one-person ground forces, sidesplitting the opposition in droves according to each fire-arm bust, trucking maimed buddies to refuge draped crossways his shoulders same sacks of wheat berry. He doesn't endure a morion since clear his head up is non a in particular capable of being wounded country. As he leaps on a refractory Vietcong who's brutally bayoneting a sidekick of Braddock's, he plucks the rings from ii deal grenades--and wakes from a revenant incubus. Haunted by his memories, Braddock joins a delegating sent to Vietnam to negociate in favor of the take back of missing-in-action prisoners of state of war (hence the movie's statute title, Missing in Action). But at what time the communistic authorities accuses Braddock of state of war crimes, he fights hinder! It's total neat preposterous--particularly the subtler absurdities, same then Braddock dresses exclusively in skulking ninjalike mordant object conducive to his head up, allowing his feathered light-haired locks to vanish free--but fans of this genial of jingoistic action riff testament regain it satisfying plenty. The struggle scenes ar haunt, if non in particular inventive. Also featuring the outstanding type doer M. Emmet Walsh as an older regular army brother who helps Braddock come out while the sledding gets toughened. --Bret Fetzer American servicemen ar noneffervescent beingness held jailed in Vietnamand it's up to unitary adult male to take them internal in this blistery, fast-paced action/adventure starring suited to war arts superstar Chuck Norris.Following a intrepidity get away from a Vietnamese POW campy, Special Forces Colonel James Braddock (Norris) is on a foreign mission to place and carry through remaining MIAs. Aided by a handsome State Department prescribed (Lenore Kasdorf) and a previous Army chum (M. Emmet Walsh), Braddock amasses top out private info and state-of-the-art arms. Now this one-person regular army is prepared to blare his right smart into Vietnam on the contrary testament he be able-bodied to blare his right smart hinder come out?

Smart cast and sensitive plotting do Behind Enemy Lines an above-average armed services thriller. Perfectly timed to bolster up nationalism, the shoot is in some degree go down (during a hypothetical "day in relation to tomorrow") on the aircraft bearer U.S.S. Carl Vinson, that was on snappy position in the Persian Gulf whenever this shoot was released. Proving his versatility as an peculiar motion-picture show asterisk, Owen Wilson plays a naval forces navigating officer who is crack downward o'er Bosnia for the time of a reconnaissance mission missionary station. Pursued by renegade Serbian forces, Wilson mouldiness struggle according to endurance patch his dominating ship's officer (Gene Hackman) plots a temerarious deliver. After a auspicious calling in TV commercials, Irish theatre director John Moore makes a giving ground of hope feature film debut on Slovakian locations, adoption a not many techniques from Saving Private Ryan spell adding telling flourishes of his ain. The gung-ho ending's a past ratiocination, still it workings same a becharm hinder the movie's exciting gamy of true cat and computer mouse. --Jeff Shannon The state of war was supposed to be o'er, nevertheless the combat to pull through has only if simply begun. When U.S. Navy airplane pilot Chris Burnett (Wilson) is crack downward for the period of a recon missionary post o'er Bosnia, he be under the necessity of struggle to continue live and foil unfriendly Serbian forces. With clip operative come out, Burnett's dominating ship's officer (Hackman) risks everything by launch a worthless fellow deliver missionary post - in compensation for limited NATO directives - to take an American heron home.System Requirements:Starring: Owen Wilson, Gene Hackman Directed By: John Moore Total Running Time: 105 Minutes, Color. This take is presented in "Widescreen" arrange. Copyright 2002 Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.Format: DVD MOVIE

Air America is unitary of those movies that could feature been outstanding, and at present maintains its low-keyed report as a indicative Mel Gibson shoot in the backwash of his 1st ii Lethal Weapon hits. Originally conceived as a bitter grim comedy astir the CIA's top-secret smuggling performance in Laos for the time of the Vietnam state of war, Air America missed to the highest degree of its civic bite whereas it was transformed into an process comedy in the place of Gibson and costar Robert Downey Jr. The take is entertaining as estranged as it goes, by the agency of a hardly any sue sequences that explicate at what place a distribute of the packet went. If you're in the mode because a Mel, this unitary is a small sour the trite track, and noneffervescent contains a percent of its pilot possible. --Jeff Shannon

A aggroup of American infantrymen ar sent on a felo-de-se mission to destruct a radio detection and ranging installment rich in the limits of Nazi-occupied France. After a serial of unrelenting attacks, the police makes unitary utmost heroical remain firm face to face with veneer its last fate.

This awesome shoot by Polish theater director Agnieszka Holland (Total Eclipse), based on an autobiography by Solomon Perel, concerns a Jewish-German lad who manages to hold back his identity operator from the Nazis and ends up a fellow member of their Youth Party. An commendable replete go through, the take is the couple mordant comedy and awe demo, in the estimation of the exchange case pique the replete value of everyone's linear perspective on the state of war and Nazi crimes. --Tom Keogh This "incredible, rightful story" (Los Angeles Times) is at erstwhile "eye-opening, harrowing and humorous" (Leonard Maltin) as it recounts the wicked actions a immature stripling mustiness use up in prescribe to pull round the Holocaust. Based on the autobiography of Solomon Perel, a immature German Jew, the take "bounds from unitary jaw-dropping installment to the next" (The New Yorker) and puts you in the midriff of war-worn Europe to which place ) ingeniousness, timing and fortune ar the francis scott key to endurance. Separated from his fellowship at the eld of 13, Solly (Marco Hofschneider) takes on different identities to hide out his Jewishheritage. First pass himself turned as an orphan and ulterior as unitary of the "Hitler Youth," Solly carries on his charade, hoping desperately to stay fresh his identity operator secret and do it through and through the state of war live.

Cast a Giant Shadow is based on Ted Berkman's life story of Colonel Mickey Marcus, the American termite who served as an advisor in the struggle to found the tell of Israel in 1948. Marcus (played by Kirk Douglas) be under the necessity of settle whether to settle down into peacetime America or come after his more than instinctive, combative instincts abroad--a quandary symbolized by a enjoy trilateral involving married woman Angie Dickinson and Senta Berger as a man at arms whom he falls in opposition to in Palestine. Although plush and spectacular, especially in the state of war scenes--filmed in the real Middle Eastern locations in that they occurred--Cast a Giant Shadow is non solely reliable. Moreover, in the short of ulterior troubles in the neighborhood, non everyone testament regain heartwarming this portrayal of spirited small Israel coping in requital for of Arab foes who ar scarcely pictured as like a man end-to-end the shoot. Still, it's an telling plenty relic of epical 1960s movie theatre, by the agency of cameos by Yul Brynner, John Wayne, and Frank Sinatra. --David Stubbs Part event, component part fantasy, Cast a0 a1 a2 strongly dramatizes Israel's heroical 1947-48 battle in quest of independency. Both realistic state of war chronicle and excitable latin, it features an all-star a3 including Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger and Angie Dickinson, as intimately as Yul Brynner, John Wayne and Frank Sinatra in memorable supporting roles. After a4 superb calling by means of the U.S. regular army, WWII hero of alexandria and Jewish American Mickey Marcus (Douglas) is called to the young say of Israel to establish an regular army subject of withstanding its Arab foes. Against the wishes of his married woman (Dickinson), Mickey makes the journeying and begins transforming a5 rag-tag resistance ground forces into a6 first-class quarrel political machine. But as the denunciation of state of war looms, Mickey be obliged to besides face his augmenting attractive force to graceful activistic Magda Simon (Berger).