It also uses some of the most vivid and close-up combat film we are ever likely to see.

So far, the Image catalogue is heavy with mad slasher and combat films.

I do not know, for example, whether he chose comedies or combat films to while away the downtime, if such a thing exists.

His supervisor there was Ronald Reagan, who hired him as sound effects editor for training and combat films.

Spy films, unlike combat films, clearly defined the enemy.

During Vietnam, for instance, when the war was right there on our television screens every night, we didn't want Vietnam combat films.

A demo version of "Freak" is featured in trailers for the 1995 space combat film Screamers.

Combat Films, American Realism.

An exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Allied landing at Normandy, with videos, newsreels, combat film, photographs and memorabilia.

Near the end of the film, the film changes from black and white to Technicolor in order to unobtrusively use actual combat film shot in color.

The Howard Hughes air combat film "Hell's Angels" suffered from numerous crashes and three (or four, depending on who you ask) fatalities.

With his long cat-hair beard and eyebrows, Mr. Liu, a veteran of scores of combat films - including "Vol.

Roughly thirty percent of the film Eagles Over London was cut into the macaroni combat film From Hell to Victory.

Recalling classic Hollywood World War II combat films, it features strong performances, stirring speeches and gripping combat sequences.

Compared to most combat films of its time, Sands of Iwo Jima was fairly nuanced in its view of war and military people.

The propagandistic combat films of World War II, like Howard Hawks's 1943 "Air Force," were in their own way just as contrived.

The film was mostly shot at Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas and featured extensive use of actual combat film footage.

Film historian Jeanine Basinger argues that a sub-genre, the World War II combat film, emerged in 1943.

There are all kinds of war movies, but no type encapsulates the genre better than the combat film, with its grunts and generals performing in the theater of war.

Several types of 'national policy films' or propaganda pictures were used in World War II including combat films depicting fighting soldiers, spy films and costume pictures.

This trend towards greater acceptance of ethnic and racial minorities was evident in popular culture in the combat films of the Second World War, starting with Bataan (1943).

Combat films often gave a vague depiction of the enemy, possibly because Japan had the monumental task of not only inciting support from its own people, but also those it conquered.

Much like the Italian spaghetti western, the Macaroni Combat film mimicked the success of American films such as The Dirty Dozen and Where Eagles Dare.

"Hail the Conquering Hero" does not puncture the he-man mythology of the combat films so much as complement it, by reminding us that they also serve who only stand and sneeze.