Great Guns

Private Snuffy Smith

January 1942 •English

A hillbilly moonshiner enlists in the army. Monogram Pictures' comedy was inspired by the then-popular comic strip character.

Buffalo Soldiers

October 2002 •English

A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.

Idiocracy

September 2006 •English

To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a civilization so dumbed-down that they're the smartest people around.

As You Were

October 1951 •English

In a train station, Army recruiting sergeant Ames attempts to enlist a group of young men with blandishments of travel and glamour in the Army.

23 1/2 Hours Leave

March 1937 •English

Army training Sgt. Gray makes a bet that he can get himself invited to breakfast with his commanding officer, General Markley. But he gets into an unhappy tangle with a couple of enemy spies (and a happy tangle with the general's daughter) before the bet is finally decided.

Meet the Spartans

January 2008 •English

The heroic Leonidas, armed with nothing but leather underwear and a cape, leads a ragtag group of thirteen Spartans to defend their homeland against the invading Persians (whose ranks include Ghost Rider, Rocky Balboa, the Transformers, and a hunchbacked Paris Hilton). No one is safe when the Spartans take on the biggest icons in pop culture!

Little Soldiers

February 1996 •Telugu

When an army general's grand children are orphaned, he is forced to adopt them. The movie follows the story of the children as they learn the reason for their parents' death and warm up to their grand father.

Morgen, ihr Luschen! Der Ausbilder-Schmidt-Film

April 2009 •German

Best Defense

July 1984 •English

An engineer fails to get the bugs out of a tank before an Army officer has to use it in Kuwait.

The Soldier

January 2005 •English

A group of civilians join the Army temporarily as volunteers to combat drug trafficking and border incursions near Burma. On an exercise into the jungle they find a place full of strange figures. They go back to base and discuss their findings with a monk. A Karen woman says the place is haunted. The monk says it isn't and goes back in there with them to prove it but they are captured by the Karen rebels.

Tai-Chi Master

November 1993 •

Falsely accused for cheating in a martial arts competition, two boyhood friends are banished from their Shaolin Temple and go their separate ways. As adults, they join opposing sides in a civil war. When one betrays the other, they settle their differences mano-a-mano.

NVA

September 2005 •German

Hair

March 1979 •English

Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to boot camp.

The Last Band in Lebanon

October 2016 •Hebrew

A comedy about three military band reservists who wake to discover that the Israeli army has withdrawn from Lebanon and left them behind.

Private Benjamin

October 1980 •English

A sheltered young high society woman joins the US Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.

Ravenous

March 1999 •English

Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier, Capt. John Boyd investigates. After arriving at his new post, Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide -- a vicious U.S. Army colonel gone rogue. Fearing the worst, the regiment heads out into the wilderness to verify the gruesome claims.

In China They Eat Dogs

September 1999 •Danish

Arvid is an ordinary bank clerk who lives a rather unassuming life with his dear girlfriend. But his life is turned completely upside down when he bravely manages to avert a robbery against the bank where he works.

Stolen Kisses

September 1968 •French

The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne, and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine.

The General

December 1926 •English

During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.

Idol on Parade

March 1959 •English

A rock'n'roll idol is drafted into the wrong regiment.