Classic war movies on Blu-ray

[blurayisnice]

There are a lot of classic/old war movies which are not released on blu-ray.
Where can I find a list with planned releases? What is the chance that every old/classic war movie will be released on blu-ray? I'd like to see the following war movies on blu-ray:

- Battleground 1949
- Sergeant York 1941
- Destination Tokyo 1943
- Sands of Iwo Jima 1949
- Halls of Montezuma 1951
- Operation Pacific 1951
- Stalag 17 1952
- Battle Cry 1954
- The Purple Plain 1954
- The Sea Chase 1955
- Attack! 1956
- The Enemy Below 1957
- Run Silent, Run Deep 1958
- Young Lions 1958
- Sink the Bismarck 1960
- Hell is for Heroes 1961
- Judgment at Nuremberg 1961
- In Harm's Way 1965
- The Flight of the Phoenix 1965
- Is Paris Burning? 1966
- Anzio 1968
- The McKenzie Break 1970
- Midway 1976
- The Big Red One 1980

Will the above movies be released on blu-ray, or is the demand not high enough?

[Arkadin]

at least half of those will make it out imo.
Flight of the Phoenix is a perfect choice for Twilight Time for instance.
I'd have to think Warner will certainly release The Big Red One at some point, as well as Sergeant York and possibly Operation Pacific.
In Harm's Way should get released by Paramount, but as far as all the MGM/UA films, those may have to be released by some foreign entity like Koch in Germany perhaps.
hard to know what Fox is thinking regarding some of their just below top tier war classics.
I would think Battleground and Battle Cry are probably a long shot from Warner, but maybe eventually.
btw: I would think a lot of classic war film buffs would love to see all of those films get bd releases.
a good list for sure.
let's hope for the best.

[jacksonwalker]

Wow. Nice list, blurayisnice.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by blurayisnice

There are a lot of classic/old war movies which are not released on blu-ray.
Where can I find a list with planned releases? What is the chance that every old/classic war movie will be released on blu-ray? I'd like to see the following war movies on blu-ray:

- Battleground 1949
- Sergeant York 1941
- Destination Tokyo 1943
- Sands of Iwo Jima 1949
- Halls of Montezuma 1951
- Operation Pacific 1951
- Stalag 17 1952
- Battle Cry 1954
- The Purple Plain 1954
- The Sea Chase 1955
- Attack! 1956
- The Enemy Below 1957
- Run Silent, Run Deep 1958
- Young Lions 1958
- Sink the Bismarck 1960
- Hell is for Heroes 1961
- Judgment at Nuremberg 1961
- In Harm's Way 1965
- The Flight of the Phoenix 1965
- Is Paris Burning? 1966
- Anzio 1968
- The McKenzie Break 1970
- Midway 1976
- The Big Red One 1980

Will the above movies be released on blu-ray, or is the demand not high enough?

I want all of these for sure. Don't forget To Hell and Back, Back to Bataan, PT 109, The Fighting Seabees, and Merrill's Marauders.

[blurayisnice]

Originally Posted by jacksonwalker

Wow. Nice list, blurayisnice.

Thanks .

There are a lot more classic war movies, but these are my most wanted for now.

They should also re-release Battle of the Bulge & Where Eagles Dare. Not the best blu-ray transfers ever... .

[Akijama]

Originally Posted by blurayisnice

- Battleground 1949
- Sergeant York 1941
- Destination Tokyo 1943
- Sands of Iwo Jima 1949
- Halls of Montezuma 1951
- Operation Pacific 1951
- Stalag 17 1952
- Battle Cry 1954
- The Purple Plain 1954
- The Sea Chase 1955
- Attack! 1956
- The Enemy Below 1957
- Run Silent, Run Deep 1958
- Young Lions 1958
- Sink the Bismarck 1960
- Hell is for Heroes 1961
- Judgment at Nuremberg 1961
- In Harm's Way 1965
- The Flight of the Phoenix 1965
- Is Paris Burning? 1966
- Anzio 1968
- The McKenzie Break 1970
- Midway 1976
- The Big Red One 1980

I want bolded ones +

Gallipoli (1981)
King Rat (1965)
The Night of the Generals (1967)
Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
Play Dirty (1969)
Too Late the Hero (1970)
Go Tell the Spartans (1978)
Casualties of War (1989)

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by blurayisnice

Thanks .

There are a lot more classic war movies, but these are my most wanted for now.

They should also re-release Battle of the Bulge & Where Eagles Dare. Not the best blu-ray transfers ever... .

This is Warner we are talking about so they're probably not going to look any better. However, I would like to see Battle of the Bulge released with lossless audio.

[Duke_45]

Great list of titles. I'd like to add one more, quite possibly the finest war movie ever made..."They Were Expendable".

[blurayisnice]

Originally Posted by Duke_45

Great list of titles. I'd like to add one more, quite possibly the finest war movie ever made..."They Were Expendable".

It is a good war movie. There are many war movies I like, but I've only selected the ones that I really want to have on blu-ray. This is a list with all of my war movies:

[Show spoiler]All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 1930
La Grande Illusion 1937
A Yank in the R.A.F 1941
Objective! Burma 1941
Sergeant York (SE) 1941
Casablanca 1942
Casablanca 1942
Casablanca [SE] 1942
Mrs. Miniver 1942
To the Shores of Tripoli 1942
Crash Dive 1943
Destination Tokyo 1943
Five Graves To Cairo 1943
Guadalcanal Diary 1943
Gung Ho! 1943
Sahara 1943
The Flemish Farm 1943
We Dive at Dawn 1943
The Purple Heart 1944
The Way Ahead 1944
Wing and a Prayer 1944
Blood on the Sun 1945
Best Years of Our Lives 1946
13 Rue Madeleine 1947
Battleground 1949
Sands of Iwo Jima 1949
Twelve O'Clock High 1949
Three Came Home 1950
Halls of Montezuma 1951
Operation Pacific 1951
The African Queen 1951
The Desert Fox 1951
Appointment in London 1952
Forbidden Games 1952
Stalag 17 1952
From Here to Eternity 1953
08/15 - Teil 1 1954
Battle Cry 1954
The Bridges at Toko-Ri 1954
The Caine Mutiny 1954
The Purple Plain 1954
The Purple Plain 1954
08/15 - Teil 2 1955
08/15 - Teil 3 1955
A Generation 1955
Carrington VC 1955
Cockleshell Heroes 1955
Des Teufels General 1955
The Colditz Story 1955
The Dam Busters 1955
The Sea Chase 1955
Attack! 1956
Away All Boats 1956
Between Heaven and Hell 1956
The Battle of the River Plate 1956
A Farewell to Arms 1957
Der Stern Von Afrika 1957
Einer Kam Durch 1957
Heaven Knows Mr. Allison 1957
Hellcats of the Navy 1957
Kanal 1957
Paths of Glory 1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957
The Enemy Below 1957
Ashes and Diamonds 1958
Ice Cold in Alex 1958
Kings go Forth 1958
Run Silent, Run Deep 1958
The Hunters 1958
Young Lions 1958
Ballad of a Soldier 1959
Die Brücke / The Bridge 1959
Hunde, Wollt Ihr Ewig Leben 1959
Never So Few 1959
Pork Chop Hill 1959
Rommel Ruft Kairo 1959
Sinck the Bismarck 1960
Battle at Bloody Beach 1961
Hell is for Heroes 1961
Judgment at Nuremberg 1961
The Guns of Navarone 1961
Lawrence of Arabia 1962
The Longest Day 1962
The Longest Day 1962
The War Lover 1962
633 Squadron 1963
Als Twee Druppels Water 1963
The Great Escape 1963
The Great Escape [SE] 1963
Backdoor to Hell 1964
The Train 1964
Weekend at Dunkirk 1964
Zulu (SE) 1964
Battle of the Bulge 1965
Battle of the Bulge 1965
In Harm's Way 1965
In Harm's Way (ISBN: 5014437118134) 1965
Morituri 1965
The Flight of the Phoenix 1965
The Heroes of Telemark 1965
Von Ryan's Express 1965
Ambush Bay 1966
Is Paris Burning? 1966
La Grande Vadrouille 1966
The Blue Max 1966
The Night of the Generals 1966
The Sand Pabbles 1966
Beach Red 1967
Raid on Rommel 1967
The Dirty Dozen 1967
Anzio 1968
Hell in the Pacific 1968
Where Eagles Dare 1968
Where Eagles Dare 1968
Where Eagles Dare (CE Collection) 1968
Army in the Shadow 1969
Battle of Britain 1969
Castle Keep 1969
Patton 1969
The Bridge at Remagen 1969
Catch-22 1970
Kelly's Heroes 1970
Kelly's Heroes 1970
Kelly's Heroes (CE Collection) 1970
The McKenzie Break 1970
Too Late the Hero 1970
Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970
The Beguiled (CE 8 ME) 1971
Massacre in Rome 1973
Midway 1976
The Eagle Has Landed 1976
A Bridge Too Far 1977
A Bridge Too Far 1977
Cross of Iron 1977
MacArthur 1977
Soldaat van Oranje 1977
Force 10 From Navarone 1978
The Real Inglorious Bastards 1978
All Quiet on the Western Front 1979
Apocalypse Now Boxset 1979
Escape to Athena 1979
From Hell to Victory 1979
The Big Red One 1980
Das Boot (SE) 1981
Escape to Victory 1981
Escape to Victory (ISBN: 5051892008914) 1981
Eye of the Needle 1981
Gallipoli 1981
La Pelle 1981
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence 1983
The Scarlet and the Black 1983
Das Boot 1984
The Killing Fields 1984
Salvador 1985
The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission 1985
Heartbreak Ridge 1986
Heartbreak Ridge (CE Collection) 1986
Platoon 1986
Empire of the Sun 1987
Escape From Sobibor 1987
Full Metal Jacket 1987
Hamburger Hill 1987
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission 1987
The Last Warrior 1987
Grave of the Fireflies 1988
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission 1988
Farewell to the King 1989
Return From the River Kwai 1989
Memphis Belle 1990
De Bunker 1992
Heaven & Earth 1993
Schindler's List [LE] 1993
Stalingrad 1993
Braveheart (Steelbook) 1995
The Last Bullet 1995
In the Presence of Mine Enemies 1997
La Vita E Bella 1998
Saving Private Ryan 1998
When Trumpets Fade 1998
Harrison's Flowers 2000
The Patriot 2000
The Thin Red Line 2000
U-571 2000
U-571 2000
Apocalypse Now: Redux 2001
Black Hawk Down 2001
Captain Corelli´s Mandolin 2001
Enemy at the Gates 2001
Hart's War 2001
Pearl Harbor 2001
The Lost Battalion 2001
To End All Wars 2001
Uprising 2001
Windtalkers 2001
Amen. 2002
The Pianist 2002
We Were Soldiers 2002
Cold Mountain 2003
Hitler: The Rise of Evil 2003
Saints and Soldiers 2003
Conspiracy 2004
Der Untergang [DC] 2004
Ike: Countdown to D-Day 2004
NaPolA 2004
Operation Valkyrie 2004
The Brotherhood of War 2004
The Fallen 2004
Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific 2005
Merry Christmas 2005
Sophie Scholl 2005
The Great Raid 2005
Der Letzte Zug 2006
Dresden 2006
Flags of our Fathers 2006
Flags of our Fathers 2006
Flags of Our Fathers (CE Collection) 2006
Flyboys 2006
Ghetto 2006
Letters from Iwo Jima 2006
Letters From Iwo Jima (CE Collection) 2006
The Aryan Couple 2006
The Crossroads 2006
Zwartboek [LE] 2006
Die Fälscher (SE) 2007
Eichmann 2007
Leningrad (SE) 2007
March of Millions (SE) 2007
Rescue Dawn 2007
The Children of Huang Shi 2007
Flame and Citron 2008
Gustloff 2008
The Red Baron 2008
A Courageous Heart 2009
City of Life and Death 2009
Inglourious Basterds (LE Boxset) (Steelbook) 2009

I guess we can't have them all .

[AgentOrange]

Good list, sadly I've seen but a few of those in the OP.

If I had to add one, it would be Zoltan Korda's SAHARA (1943).

Really hopeful Criterion gets this one. They have a few of Korda's films already, they have done some great stuff with Sony/Columbia as well. I would think Twilight Time would be all over Sahara if they could get their hands on it, but it might be a bit above their pay grade.

[blurayisnice]

Originally Posted by AgentOrange

Good list, sadly I've seen but a few of those in the OP.

If I had to add one, it would be Zoltan Korda's SAHARA (1943).

Really hopeful Criterion gets this one. They have a few of Korda's films already, they have done some great stuff with Sony/Columbia as well. I would think Twilight Time would be all over Sahara if they could get their hands on it, but it might be a bit above their pay grade.

Lol...

I thought about putting all the movies you guys have mentioned till now in the list, but I didn't do it. Don't know why, but I have thought about every single one of them .

Edit: I lied, I didn't think about this one: King Rat (1965).

I've never even watched King Rat .

[CinemaScope]

A great list but The Flight Of The Phoenix is not a war movie. I've seen Stalag 17 in HD & it looks great, the very early Columbia DVD looks really poor. Battleground is on TV in HD next week (UK), worth recording. My favorite on that list is, Run Silent, Run Deep, & I'd just love They Were Expendable, another DVD that doesn't look very good. I'd add The Naked & The Dead & a great British P.O.W. escape film, Danger Within. Oh, & The Victors, the BBC showed the long version a couple of months ago, I hope it makes it onto Blu some day.

[blurayisnice]

Originally Posted by CinemaScope

A great list but The Flight Of The Phoenix is not a war movie. I've seen Stalag 17 in HD & it looks great, the very early Columbia DVD looks really poor. Battleground is on TV in HD next week (UK), worth recording. My favorite on that list is, Run Silent, Run Deep, & I'd just love They Were Expendable, another DVD that doesn't look very good. I'd add The Naked & The Dead & a great British P.O.W. escape film, Danger Within. Oh, & The Victors, the BBC showed the long version a couple of months ago, I hope it makes it onto Blu some day.

The best war movie ever made, The Great Escape (1963), also a P.O.W escape film, will come out on blu-ray next year (50th anniversary) .

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I watched Von Ryan's Express last night, with Memorial Day in mind. Good movie!

EDIT: One more thing ... in some of the action sequences, they would hit the piano keys really hard. It seemed familiar to me. I thought it was very similar to music used in the action sequences in Planet of the Apes.

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I see this thread got moved to a different location since I made the last post. I'm not sure why the move, but if I was the cause, my apologies.

[Jett Blu]

From Here To Eternity.

[Dvd Aficionado]

I'm hoping Mill Creek to release a double feature of:

COMMANDOS / WAR DEVILS


COMMANDOS (1968) stars the great Lee Van Cleef and Jack kelly
WAR DEVILS a.k.a. I diavoli della guerra (1969) stars Guy Madison

These are Italian WWII movies of the late 1960s.