War Movie Theatre | for Fans of Classic War Films and Cinema History

In case you've missed it, there's a World Cup going on in Qatar. And there's only one place that football and war movies collide: Escape to Victory (known to our cousins in America as just Victory! ). With Michael Caine and Sylvester Stallone providing the acting chops, and Pele and Bobby Moore keeping the football end up, is Escape to Victory a successful fusion of these genres? Rob and Duncan si...

Welcome to A Pod Too Far, where authors Robert Hutton and Duncan Weldon sit down each week to rewatch a classic war movie. Today, it's the big one: Richard Attenborough's A Bridge Too Far. The big budget depiction of Operation Market Garden – the Allied forces' failed attempt to seize the bridges at Arnhem – had one of the great casts of cinema history. Sean Connery and Anthony Hopkins, Robert Red...

Join authors Robert Hutton and Duncan Weldon on their journey through the good, the bad and the ugly of old war movies – basically, anything that was on the telly during the Saturday afternoons of their youth! First episode: A Bridge Too Far (watch along in advance, or enjoy from memory!). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastc...