Fighting On Film

This week on FoF we belatedly celebrate the United States' 250th anniversary! Robbie is on holiday this week but Matt is thrilled to be joined by Dr Alexander Burns. Alex is a professor and author of 'Infantry in Battle, 1733-1783', he is also co-host of the excellent Prime & Load podcast so who better to join us to talk about Young Washington! Check out our site at www.fightingonfilm.comWe are also thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net, who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out.Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm

We take to the muddy No Man's Land of Passchendaele this week with 'Landship', a new film from Tin Hat productions. Does the film hit the mark or get bogged down like the famed 'Fray Bentos' tank?Check out our site at www.fightingonfilm.comWe are also thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net, who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out.Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm

This week, the boys sift through Savage Dawn/The Bad Pack and then 24 Hour Party People/Control. Plus an extra double feature! Will you be giving any of the featured Double Features a go? Let us know!Check out our site at www.fightingonfilm.comWe are also thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net, who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out.Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm

This week Robbie unveils his World Cup of War Films! A brand new cinematic tournament from FOFA (the Fighting On Film Association) featuring 4 groups of nations, each with a war film (chosen at random) to represent them! Who will win? You decide! We'll be reviewing the winner later this month. Will it be Bridge Over the River Kwai for the UK? Pearl Harbour for the US? or will plucky Norway beat them all with Max Manus: Man of War? - join us on the the FoF X and Facebook pages to vote in each match up!Check out our site at www.fightingonfilm.comWe are also thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net, who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out.Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm

We head back to the 30s this week and cover the 1936 Flynn feature 'Charge of the Light Brigade'. One of only a handful of films focused on the Crimean War. It's part colonial adventure, part swashbuckler, part western, part adventure film all rolled into one! But does it get the Battle of Balaclava right? Join us to find out!Check out our site at www.fightingonfilm.comWe are also thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net, who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out.Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm

It's Double Feature Friday! This week the Double Features are ALL listener suggestions! We asked you guys what your ideal war movie pairings were and you did not disappoint with some sensational picks! Join us as we dig in!Check out our site at www.fightingonfilm.comSupport Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm

This week the boys dig into the bleak, grimness of the German 1993 epic 'Stalingrad.' The film follows men of a German company that arrives in the embattled city at the height of the fighting, pulling no punches it shows the German prospective of the bloody and brutal battle. We also talk your favourite War Movie medics!Check out our site at www.fightingonfilm.comSupport Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm

We continue Our 'FOF Fixes...' series as the boys attempt to try and fix the James Bond franchise and of course pitch their own Bond projects!Check out our site at www.fightingonfilm.comSupport Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm

DFF returns this week with 2 Vietnam War movie double features! Matt goes for Platoon and Hamburger Hill, and Robbie opts for Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket! Will you be giving either of these pairings a go?Check out our site at www.fightingonfilm.comWe are also thrilled to partner with www.warfaremedia.net, who have an incredible range of Cold War posters! Use the code 'FoF20' at checkout for a huge 20% discount. Don't miss out.Support Fighting On Film via Patreon and get a range of thank you perks! - www.patreon.com/fightingonfilm