Cinema Combat: Hollywood Goes To War (1998) Rating: Starring: Cinema Combat-Hollywood Goes T Director: Edith Becker Category: Special Interest, Documentary Studio: Image Ent. Subtitles: [None] Length: 101 mins     In The Trenches With The Greatest War Movies Ever Made! For nearly a hundred years Hollywood has been bringing movie audiences to the front lines of battle with heartstopping combat spectators, intense psychological dramas and laugh- out-loud comedies.Host Martin Sheen narrates this compelling documentary featuring spectacular highlights spanning generations of great war films from Cecil B. De Mille's The Little American in 1917 to 1989's Born on the Fourth of July.This comprehensive look at combat and film also includes riveting real-life newsreels, archival photographs and rare behind-the-scenes footage that chronicle some of the greatest war films ever made. Cinema Combat, the definitive collection of war films, features scenes from such Best Picture Oscar-winning classics as Wings (the first ever Best Picture Oscar-winner), All Quiet On The Western Front, Cavalcade, Patton and The Deer Hunter.This brigade of highlights also takes a look at Hollywood's wartime morale boosters from battlefield heroics to rousing musical numbers -- D.W. Griffith's Hearts Of The World, A Yank In The R.A.E., Guadalcanal Diary and Pin-Up Girl -- and includes a rare look at Leni Riefenstahl's striking Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will.The comedy hit M*A*S*H and the nightmarish drama Apocalypse Now explore anti-war themes with a darker look at combat and its effects on soldiers.Cinema Combat also takes viewers to the front lines, with actual battle footage from more than 70 years of armed conflict -- from the Spanish American War through the Vietnam War.This incredible collection is a must for the history buff and the movie fan alike as Hollywood goes to war!