INDIGENES - DAYS OF GLORY

This is a foreign movie that has english subtitles, if you speak french and some arabic you won't need the subs. I really enjoyed this movie. I have not seen any info on the french using north african troops so it was an enlightening movie for me. There is not much fighting in the movie but if you hold out to the end there is a dramatic ending with a fair bit of fighting. I would recommend this movie and give it two thumbs up.

Test of Will

Here is a great documentary on the Canadian involvement in the Korean War. There is lots of film footage and photographs, radio reports, speeches and letters. If you like watching the Why we Fight series of war films you will love this one. The audio is crisp and clear on this one unlike many documentaries that have just taken old footage and audio and put them to disk.
This DVD is distributed by Morningstar Entertainment in Canada (www.morningstarent.com) . The video is about 120mins, 4:3 aspect ratio with B/W and colour footage. A must have for anyone collecting war history dvds.

the last legion

Here is a newer movie (2006) I picked up at Walmart the other day. It is set during Roman times and is not too bad a movie. It has a good plot from start to end with a lot of action. Don't buy this if you are hoping for a lot of battle scenes, I found it lacking in this respect. It is more of an adventure type movie with a couple short battle scenes. There are many fight scenes in the movie thou some with a fair bit of comedy thrown in.



I found the part Romulus Augustus given toThomas Sangster to be lacking and seeing this kid walk around knowning nothing about fighting bothered me. I would think that someone being groomed to be the next Ceaser would at least know how to fight even if they were only 11 or so.



This movie also features Colin Firth and Ben Kingsley, both did excellent jobs in their rolls. Aishwarya Rai played a type of mercenary and had excellent fighting scenes.



The part that drew me to this movie was the reference to the sword Excalibur. It was interesting to see how they brought the origin of this sword into the movie and how they exit the movie, leaving it open for the tales that we all know with King Arthur and Merlin.



This movie is rated PG . There is no swearing in it, no nudity or sex scenes but beware that there is a fair bit of violence; scenes of sword fights, archery, chopping off body parts, warfare, etc. That being said my 11 year old who does not like frightening scenes was able to watch it.



The version I got was in widescreen (2.35:1) with 5.1dolby.