Danger Close
by A War Film Podcast
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Gladiator (2000)
Gladiator (2000)
About this podcast
Join a Marine Veteran, a film critic, and a theater director as they laugh, argue, and explore the history of humanity's triumphs and tragedies through war films old and new. War is Hell. People make films about it. And we love to talk about them.
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- Gladiator (2000) · 2 h 21 min · Episode 59This episode was supposed to be...checks notes...The Manchurian Candidate! But since we have been on hiatus for a while, we decided to change it up and pick a film that we know…
- Paths of Glory (1957) · 1 h 47 min · Episode 58Half stoic war epic and half frustrating courtroom melodrama, this early Kubrick film proved unassumingly controversial upon its release in comparison with the auteur’s later…
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962) · 2 h 16 min · Episode 57Well, this one hardly needs an introduction and is as epic and sweeping as it gets. This is a film we have been wanting to cover for over two years, and finally the stars…
- Platoon (1986) · 1 h 50 min · Episode 56A lot can (and has) been said about this film. It's one of the very few that might actually achieve the status of "anti-war" film, or at least refrains from glamorizing it. It…
- Mulan (1998) · 1 h 44 min · Episode 55Buckle up, Danger Close fans! We went way off the usual list this time and chose a Disney renaissance film that is also decidedly a war film. From the training scenes, to the…
- BONUS INTERVIEW - Pulled the Handle! Just Not Very Hard. Part 2 of 2 · 1 h 22 minHere’s part two of Dan’s interview with Fig and RePete from the podcast So There I Was! This half we talk movies a little, with some cool details about the harrier jets in True…
- BONUS INTERVIEW - We're Not Ready, You Idiot! Part 1 of 2 · 1 h 53 minThis week on Danger Close, a Veteran interview with yours truly, Dan! I sat down with two former Marine aviators and we talked about our experiences in the Corps, traded…
- FRIGHT PUB / DANGER CLOSE CROSSOVER: Overlord (2018) · 2 h 11 minFor the first time ever, the Fright Pub crew and the Danger Close team get together in person to record a podcast. In Pittsburgh!! If this film is where the Venn diagram of…
- BONUS EPISODE: Inception (2010) · 2 h 21 minWe’re back! The show returns with a brand new DCE episode that we decided to release free to everyone. We want to thank our generous Patrons for sticking with us during our much…
- Black Hawk Down (2001) · 2 h 12 min · Episode 54Another good example of a modern war film produced before September 11th, this one puts us in the helicopters and humvees of Task Force Ranger during the humanitarian crisis in…
- Reports from the Front: Fourteen Hours in Husaybah · 2 h 16 minDan sits down with former Marine infantry Sergeant Rich Cervantes. Rich enlisted in the USMC in 2001, and trained as a TOW (Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided)…
- To Be or Not to Be (1942) · 1 h 30 min · Episode 53This isn’t the first WWII film we have covered to be filmed and released while the war was still ongoing, but it is our first comedy that fits those parameters. It often pops up…
- Oppenheimer (2023) · 2 h 31 min · Episode 52If you only saw one movie in the summer of 2023… statistically speaking it was probably Barbie. But if you saw two movies in the summer of 2023… okay, statistically it's fairly…
- Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) · 2 h 9 min · Episode 51We've talked Nazis before. And we have covered WWII in several films which varied in style and subject manner, but this is our first time dealing with the Holocaust, so we…
- The Woman King (2022) · 2 h 0 min · Episode 50First conceived in 2015 and released in 2022, The Woman King had a long, turbulent road to the box office. An historical action epic starring and driven by a cast of black women…
- Behind Enemy Lines (2001) · 1 h 13 min · Episode 49Released in November of 2001, Behind Enemy Lines came out in a totally different time in history. 9/11 had just happened, and tensions were high all over the world, especially in…
- Reports from the Front: The End Goal Is to Make It Home Alive · 1 h 45 minDan sits down with good friend and former Marine Sergeant Tyler Funk. Tyler enlisted in the USMC as an Air Traffic Controller in 2003. After some initial training, he volunteered…
- Top Gun (1986) · 2 h 14 min · Episode 48Last episode, we talked about a military aviation film. It had some pretty great aerial scenes, the best Cessna vs motorcycle race we have ever seen, and a fun soundtrack! But…
- Iron Eagle (1986) · 1 h 49 min · Episode 471986 was a landmark year for military aviation in cinema. Top Gun came out in May, the very start of the Summer blockbuster season, and immediately boosted Navy recruitment by 10…
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) · 1 h 56 min · Episode 46One of the most famous and most successful retellings of one of the most infamous and highly mythologized incidents in the history of the British Navy, this 1935 adaptation of…
