Search - War Stories: 50 Years of Classic Combat Movies on DVD

K. K. (GAMER)
Reviewed on 3/18/2024...

Disc One:

In the Border States

The Birth of a Nation

The Heart of Humanity

Disc Two:

Abraham Lincoln

A Farewell to Arms

British Intelligence

They Raid By Night

Disc Three:

Tiger Fangs

Gung Ho - Cruddy black and white audio but decent video but not great. The story was pretty good and the ending was explosive! A must watch!

This is the Army

Submarine Base

Disc Four:

Corregidor

Blood on the Sun

A Walk in the Sun

Disc Five:

The Big Lift

Go for Broke! - True war stories that were pretty good minus being in black and white with poor sound quality.

Battle of Blood Island

Ski Troop Attack

18 movies

Lori Kaminsky | AZ | 07/04/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"In the Border States

The Heart of Humanity

Abraham Lincoln

British Intelligence

They Raid by Night

Tiger Fangs

Submarine Base

Corregidor

A Walk in the Sun

Battle of Blood Island

Ski Troop Attack

A Farewell to Arms

Blood on the Sun

Gung Ho!

The Big Lift

Go For Broke!

This is the Army

The Birth of a Nation



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This is a waste of time and plastic

Alfred C. Dutton | Kansas | 08/13/2007

(1 out of 5 stars)

"I will try to keep this short because I hated the set so much. It should have been called "A Hundred and Two Years of Bad War Movies.". Out of 5 discs, there were only one or two films I wouldn't burn immediately. "A Walk In The Sun" was tolerable. I hadn't seen it in over forty years, so I forgot how it dragged on and on, and used every trite trick to get the audience to see it as a serious attempt at War Filmmaking.

I am sickened by the thought that I paid $17.99 for such a Ripoff. Most Movies made over 100 years ago aren't worth the celluloid they are printed on. This set was full of bad movies.



Whoever put it together didn't even bother to improve the quality of the images. They just left in the streaks,flashes, and black swatches and lines. Perhaps this peice of crud may have been more worthwhile if it had been improved in a good lab. The folks who released it are charletans, looking for a bunch of films so out of date they had to pay no royalties. Stuck the movies on 5 DVD's and gave it a catchy, if misleading title. I'm sorry I wasted the money. I should have donated the money to a Veterans Organization like the DAV."

Better than Nothing...Maybe

j.wade.g | Atlanta, GA United States | 04/22/2008

(2 out of 5 stars)

"While it's nice to have a professional DVD release of "Heart of Humanity," the word professional must be placed in very large quotes. The print might be fine, as has been mentioned by another reviewer, but the digital treatment is not particularly good. This is a 100 minute film that is packed onto a single-sided disc that already contains "Birth of a Nation"...which is a three hour movie on its own! (That's right, each disc here contains over 300 minutes of footage - a ridiculous amount.)



Point being, "Heart of Humanity" has actually been accorded less disc space than would be found on a DVD-5 (roughly 2/3rd of the space, to be exact), and significantly less than would be granted to it on its own DVD-9 disc. The end result is a print that pixelates and motion blurs to a degree that is only passable due to a lack of any other copies on the market. (Unless one counts Grapevine Home Video's semi-professional release.)



Of course, the same goes for all of the films. And war movies, being action films, rely on quite a bit of frenetic motion, meaning motion blur crops up rather a lot.



Ultimately, it's better to have "Heart of Humanity" than not to have it, as it is an interesting silent film from the nearly forgotten husband and wife team of Allen Holubar and Dorothy Phillips, but I'm wondering if I wouldn't have been better off buying the Grapevine Home Video version."