Fighting On Film - The War Movie Podcast!

Zip up your SRU vests and prepare for take off! This week the boys cover 1990's Fire Birds, staring Nicolas Cage and Tommy Lee Jones, think Top Gun but with helicopters! With plenty of Apache action, Cage and Lee turning it up to 11 and Dale Dye positively stealing scenes, is the film just a Top gun knock off or does it offer something more? Check out our website for more - www.fightingonfilm.com We are thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net , who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Double Feature Friday is back! This time Matt gives us two end-of-the-century classics, both featuring Sean Connery, and Robbie goes for two Lumet-directed Al Pacino films! Let us know if you give either of these double features a go! Check out our website for more - www.fightingonfilm.com We are thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net , who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we take to the skies with Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins as they struggle to defend Malta from the Luftwaffe onslaught in Brian Desmond Hurst's 'Malta Story'. We discuss steam rollers, Spitfires, production intrigues and miscasting, so be sure to join us! Check out our website for more - www.fightingonfilm.com We are thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net , who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we open up the FoF Archive and listen back to some of our favourite moments from the last 6 years of the show! Matt's away this time for work, so Robbie has enlisted the talents of 50s movie star and legally safe soundalike 'Hack Jawkins'... Check out our website for more - www.fightingonfilm.com We are thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net , who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gregory Peck leads 'Only The Valiant' this week, for some b-movie 50s Western fayre! With Winchester in hand can Peck hold the fort for the relief to get to him nd his men in time? join us to find out! Check out our website for more - www.fightingonfilm.com We are thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net , who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rod Lurie (of ''The Outpost' fame) brings us 'Lucky Strike' a new WW2 film. The film stars Scott Eastwood as Captain Castle an engineers officer who gets trapped behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge! Does he make it home and does the film cut the mustard? Join the boys to find out... *An early screener of Lucky Strike was kindly provided by Vertigo Releasing, the film is out now on most major UK streaming platforms! Check out our website for more - www.fightingonfilm.com We are thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net , who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jack Hawkins leads André De Toth's spy/war hybrid 'The Two Headed Spy' this week! Join Matt and Robbie as they dive into one of Jack's lesser known war film turns. Check out our website for more - www.fightingonfilm.com We are thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net , who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We take to the depths this week with the legendary 'Das Boot'! Das Boot romped home to win the inaugural FoF World Cup of War Movies, beating Bridge Over the River Kwai handily. So join Matt and Robbie as they batten down the hatches and ready the torpedoes to cover a piece of cinematic technical mastery which continues to be a much loved submarine classic! Check out our site at www.fightingonfilm.com We are also thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net , who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Check out our website for more - www.fightingonfilm.com We are thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net , who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

450 US Marines, led by Brian Donlevy, find themselves fending off a Japanese onslaught on an isolated Pacific atoll. Directed by John Farrow and made with the assistance of the USMC, Wake Island (1942) is a fascinating early-war US propaganda film that seeks to recreate the desperate battle for the island. Join us this week! Check out our site at www.fightingonfilm.com We are also thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net , who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Check out our website for more - www.fightingonfilm.com We are thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net , who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we climb into our Chevrolet trucks and head off into the North African desert with Michael Caine and Nigel Davenport with 1969's 'Play Dirty'. Directed by Andre De Toth the film sees a Dirty Dozen-esque band of ex-criminal commandos try to blow up an Axis fuel dump! Check out our site at www.fightingonfilm.com We are also thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net , who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Check out our website for more - www.fightingonfilm.com We are thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net , who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on FoF we belatedly celebrate the United States' 250th anniversary! Robbie is on holiday this week but Matt is thrilled to be joined by Dr Alexander Burns . Alex is a professor and author of 'Infantry in Battle, 1733-1783', he is also co-host of the excellent Prime & Load podcast so who better to join us to talk about Young Washington! Check out our site at www.fightingonfilm.com We are also thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net , who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Check out our website for more - www.fightingonfilm.com We are thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net , who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We take to the muddy No Man's Land of Passchendaele this week with 'Landship', a new film from Tin Hat productions. Does the film hit the mark or get bogged down like the famed 'Fray Bentos' tank? Check out our site at www.fightingonfilm.com We are also thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net , who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Check out our website for more - www.fightingonfilm.com We are thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net , who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, the boys sift through Savage Dawn/The Bad Pack and then 24 Hour Party People/Control. Plus an extra double feature! Will you be giving any of the featured Double Features a go? Let us know! Check out our site at www.fightingonfilm.com We are also thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net , who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Check out our website for more - www.fightingonfilm.com We are thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net , who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Robbie unveils his World Cup of War Films! A brand new cinematic tournament from FOFA (the Fighting On Film Association) featuring 4 groups of nations, each with a war film (chosen at random) to represent them! Who will win? You decide! We'll be reviewing the winner later this month. Will it be Bridge Over the River Kwai for the UK? Pearl Harbour for the US? or will plucky Norway beat them all with Max Manus: Man of War? - join us on the the FoF X and Facebook pages to vote in each match up! Check out our site at www.fightingonfilm.com We are also thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net , who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Check out our website for more - www.fightingonfilm.com We are thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net , who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We head back to the 30s this week and cover the 1936 Flynn feature 'Charge of the Light Brigade'. One of only a handful of films focused on the Crimean War. It's part colonial adventure, part swashbuckler, part western, part adventure film all rolled into one! But does it get the Battle of Balaclava right? Join us to find out! Check out our site at www.fightingonfilm.com We are also thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net , who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Check out our website for more - www.fightingonfilm.com We are thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net , who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's Double Feature Friday ! This week the Double Features are ALL listener suggestions! We asked you guys what your ideal war movie pairings were and you did not disappoint with some sensational picks! Join us as we dig in! Check out our site at www.fightingonfilm.com Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Check out our website for more - www.fightingonfilm.com We are thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net , who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week the boys dig into the bleak, grimness of the German 1993 epic 'Stalingrad.' The film follows men of a German company that arrives in the embattled city at the height of the fighting, pulling no punches it shows the German prospective of the bloody and brutal battle. We also talk your favourite War Movie medics! Check out our site at www.fightingonfilm.com Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Check out our website for more - www.fightingonfilm.com We are thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net , who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We continue Our 'FOF Fixes...' series as the boys attempt to try and fix the James Bond franchise and of course pitch their own Bond projects! Check out our site at www.fightingonfilm.com Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Check out our website for more - www.fightingonfilm.com We are thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net , who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DFF returns this week with 2 Vietnam War movie double features! Matt goes for Platoon and Hamburger Hill, and Robbie opts for Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket! Will you be giving either of these pairings a go? Check out our site at www.fightingonfilm.com We are also thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net , who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Check out our website for more - www.fightingonfilm.com We are thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net , who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We are joined by legendary historical advisor and Vietnam War veteran Captain Dale Dye, who takes us through his time working on Oliver Stone's 'Platoon' (1986). Stone's seminal film is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, so who better to join us than the man responsible for much of its authenticity. Dale explains how 'Platoon' became his first foray into filmmaking and how it became the proving ground for his now industry-revered boot camps. Dale talks us through the challenges and the intricacies of working on the film. So join us as Dale takes us through it all! Check out our site at www.fightingonfilm.com Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Check out our website for more - www.fightingonfilm.com We are thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net , who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.