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10 Must See War Movies

November 8, 2017 by Robert J. Avrech 20 Comments

myrna loy sailors — Alas, not a single Myrna Loy film shows up here. But I just can’t resist posting this uplifting photo of Loy serving coffee to American sailors in the Hollywood Canteen during World War II. Lucky guys.

There is no subject as well suited for the movies as war.

In war there is conflict, love, and of course lots of action. Movies, said Hitchcock, are just like life, but with the boring parts cut out. Thus, movies about war delete the incredible boredom of most war-time experiences in favor of the hyper-drama that characterizes training, combat, and the bursts of romance and friendship that invariably help define characters within a blasted landscape.

Seraphic Secret would like to draw your attention to ten spectacular war movies. Each film seethes with a specific national and regional point of view. And yet war and man’s experiences in war are universal, and each film left yours truly horrified, enlightened and deeply moved.

State TV in Finland Teaches Women How to Get Raped by Muslim Invaders

February 2, 2016 by Robert J. Avrech 19 Comments

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ4EQFcFQQo[/youtube]

The left always betrays the people it claims to represent.

Surprise! IslamoNazis Actually Operate in Gaza

August 6, 2014 by Robert J. Avrech 6 Comments

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTdNvNXMOGk[/youtube]

Those liberals who report on Operation Protective Edge from Gaza fail to mention that they are severely restricted by Hamas in reporting what actually happens on the ground. If they report the truth Hamas will retaliate against them, often with fatal consequences.

For instance, have you ever seen a Hamas terrorist in news footage? Of course not. You only see heart-breaking images of grieving civilians amid the rubble of their homes. Do you ever see a dead Hamas terrorist? No way. Because according to Hamas guidelines every corpse is labeled an innocent civilian.

Hamas terrorists, according to the liberal media, are as rare as Bigfoot.

Postmodern Liberalism is a pliable tool of propaganda for IslamoNazism.

Ten Greatest War Movies of All Time

September 13, 2012 by Robert J. Avrech 27 Comments

Last week, Seraphic Secret picked the Ten Greatest Movies of all time. Our ruthlessly reductive list eliminated dozens of great movies that we love. Ultimately, we decided on movies that we return to over and over again because there is always something new to see and because they never fail to entertain and astonish.

This week, we’ve decided to concentrate on war movies, a genre particularly suited to the kinetic energy of motion pictures. Readers will immediately notice the absence of silent films and movies from Hollywood’s golden age. Yes, in spite of our love of classic cinema, we are the first to admit that sound and modern special effects have rendered most older war movies tame and stylized.

We have also excluded war movies that treat war as “senseless killing” or set forth a pacifist narrative. As far as Seraphic Secret is concerned, a just war is the only method by which moral states can triumph over evil nations. In short, war is too serious to be intellectually castrated by fuzzy minds who traffic in moral equivalence.

We concentrate on movies that feature intense warfare, yet whose narrative line does not neglect the more intimate, personal stories. We have eliminated home-front movies, fantasies of good Nazi soldiers ( Auf Wiedersehen, Das Boot), movies about Holocaust victims, tales of spies, and POW movies, sub-genres that—except good Nazi movies, historically suspect and morally loathsome—deserve and will receive ten best lists all their own.

As always, we invite our readers to list their own ten best war movies.

Three Notable War Movies from Britain, Russia, & Finland

May 31, 2012 by Robert J. Avrech 20 Comments

IDF armor in the Sinai, Yom Kippur War, 1973.

After the 1973 Yom Kippur War, a close friend who commanded a tank in the Sinai and killed at least 35 Egyptian tanks—“You forget to count after a while”—in a drunken moment said to yours truly: “You know what’s great about desert warfare? No civilians. No cities. No nothing. Just you and the enemy. If it wasn’t so damned bloody and awful it would be romantic.”