The 317th Platoon (1965)

Join us this week as we discuss the greatest piece of French cinema you've never seen! The boys discuss an incredible French Army training film 'Le combat motorisé dans les localités' or 'Motorized Combat in the Localities' in which a French unit must retake a town from blue-face alien mutants (no really!). [You can watch the film here - https://imagesdefense.gouv.fr/fr/le-combat-motorise-dans-les-localites.html]Check out our website for more - www.fightingonfilm.comWe are thrilled to be partnered with www.warfaremedia.net who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code FoF20 at check out at for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/fightingonfilm. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we bring you an early review of a new Belgian film - 'The Last Front', staring Iain Glen of Game of Thrones fame. He portrays a farmer thrust into fighting at the beginning of the First World War as his Belgian town is set upon by a German unit. We also have the large question and some Moomin based war film title puns...Check out our website for more - www.fightingonfilm.comWe are thrilled to be partnered with www.warfaremedia.net who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code FoF20 at check out at for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/fightingonfilm. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We dish out a big helping of Macaroni Combat this week with the 1978 Euro War feature 'The Inglorious Bastards'. This classic is part 'Dirty Dozen' part 'The Train', a relentless action film that never ceases to amaze. Join us as we tell all about this cult classic, we also cover which films you'd like to have been behind the scenes on in this week's large question!Check out our website for more - www.fightingonfilm.comWe are thrilled to be partnered with www.warfaremedia.net who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code FoF20 at check out at for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/fightingonfilm. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

To celebrate 4 years of the podcast we asked you, the listeners, to ask us anything! From who would play Robbie and Matt in a war film to why is marmalade called marmalade? The boys try their best to answer the hard questions pitched! Thanks all for joining us over the past 4 years!Check out our website for more - www.fightingonfilm.comWe are thrilled to be partnered with www.warfaremedia.net who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code FoF20 at check out at for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/fightingonfilm. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Casper Van Dien stars in 2001s 'Under Heavy Fire' also known as 'Going Back' in some regions. Directed by Sidney J. Furie, the film has an interesting premise with Van Dien playing Captain Ramsey, a US Marine Corps Vietnam War veteran, who accompanies a documentary crew as they go back to Vietnam with members of his old Company as they attempt to find out exactly what happened when he did (or maybe did not) cause an accident that caused the death of troops under his command. This makes for a film that is trope and cliche heavy with an ending that must be seen to be believed...Check out our website for more - www.fightingonfilm.comWe are thrilled to be partnered with www.warfaremedia.net who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code FoF20 at check out at for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/fightingonfilm. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pierre Schoendoerffer's 1965 film 'The 317th Platoon' follows an ill-fated French platoon as they attempt to reach a village held by friendly forces during the final days of the battle of Bien Dien Phu. Shot in black and white in Cambodia around the time of the U.S. ramping up their military involvement in Vietnam, the film depicts jungle combat with a stark realism often unseen in Western cinema of that era. We also look at your favourite depictions of French Forces on film!Check out our website for more - www.fightingonfilm.comWe are thrilled to be partnered with www.warfaremedia.net who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code FoF20 at check out at for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/fightingonfilm. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we pull up at the Drive in, to cover 1959's Paratroop Command. A classic 50s B movie, directed by cult 50's director William Witney. The film follows a squad of U.S Paratroops from North Africa to Italy during the 2WW who have to deal with the aftermath of one of their squad making a fatal mistake. We also talk about your desert island war films!Check out our website for more - www.fightingonfilm.comWe are thrilled to be partnered with www.warfaremedia.net who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code FoF20 at check out at for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/fightingonfilm. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Big Red One - The Reconstruction was debuted at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. It was a reworked version of the late Samuel Fuller's 1980 passion project 'The Big Red One' with additional footage added. We take a look at the updated film and talk about the film's themes and shortcomings in its 20th anniversary year. The boys also round up your most disappointing war films.Check out our website for more - www.fightingonfilm.comWe are thrilled to be partnered with www.warfaremedia.net who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code FoF20 at check out at for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/fightingonfilm. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

'LEE' stars Kate Winslet as the revered model-turned-war correspondent Lee Miller, in this new biopic from Sky Cinema. The boys were lucky enough to watch an advanced screening of the film and give their thoughts ahead of its full theatrical release on the 13th September in the UK. From Miller's time in France pre-war to her time at the front in 1944. The film shows Lee's work with care and respect for not only her craft but the people she captured with her trusty Rolliflex.Check out our website for more - www.fightingonfilm.comWe are thrilled to be partnered with www.warfaremedia.net who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code FoF20 at check out at for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/fightingonfilm. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Konvoi (The Arctic Convoy) is a new Norwegian war film that charts the journey of a Norwegian merchant vessel and her crew on a convoy run to Murmansk in the summer of 1942. Interpersonal conflicts between the crew and the dispersal of the convoy, only add to the tension. The boys also go through some our your most overrated war films and even fit in a tangent or two...Check out our website for more - www.fightingonfilm.comWe are thrilled to be partnered with www.warfaremedia.net who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code FoF20 at check out at for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/fightingonfilm. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.