20 War Movies EVERY Film Fan Should Have Seen
4. The Dirty Dozen
A genuinely subversive classic, 1967's The Dirty Dozen may seem downright harmless now and be relegated to rainy Sunday afternoon viewings.
But upon its release this gritty, funny, and unapologetically dark WWII thriller was infamous for eschewing the heroic chest-puffing expected by more staid, stoic depictions of the military.
The titular dozen, a set of rogues and cut-throats who undertake what is in essence a suicide mission into Nazi France, are a far cry from the clean cut heroes of most American WWII films, and their edgy antics redefined cinematic ideals of heroism alongside the likes of The Wild Bunch and Bonnie and Clyde.