May's War-Movie Picks

Let’s face it, for the past month there has been one thing on everyone’s mind: war. Hollywood has always been aware of it, while many, many films have been concerned with it, and the attitudes have ranged from vilification to adulation. We asked our writers and editors to pick favorites that are available on DVD. Here are their choices in order of popularity.

• Saving Private Ryan (DreamWorks Home Entertainment)
• Patton (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment)
• Apocalypse Now (Paramount)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment)
• Glory (Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment)
• Braveheart (Paramount)
• Black Hawk Down (Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment)
• Paths of Glory (MGM Home Entertainment)
• Gettysburg (Warner Home Video)
• Stalag 17 (Paramount)
• Platoon (MGM Home Entertainment)
• Gallipoli (Paramount)
• Hope and Glory (MGM Home Entertainment)
• Lawrence of Arabia (Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment)
• Casablanca (Warner Home Video)

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