Some Cold War & Gun Flicks For Hot Summer

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I'm assembling a list of cold weather war flicks for viewing when you get the fan out. Feel free to add. They must have snow or very cold rain.

Death Hunt
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082247/
Awesome Charles Bronson film tells a semi-accurate version of the Albert Johnson manhunt in the 30's. The real story is even more incredible.

Talvisota
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098437/
The ultimate winter war movie. It's literally about *the* Winter War.

Fixed Bayonets
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043540/
This one is fresh out on DVD for ten bucks or so. A solid Fuller war movie set in the Korean winter. Think of it as "300" in the snow, where a small platoon holds a pass against a huge Chicom army.

Ice Station Zebra
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063121/
Forget the Red October, this is the ORIGINAL cold war submarine epic. Technically detailed with excellent fx for the time.

Island in the Sky
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045919/
Not exactly a gun flick, but an interesting John Wayne/Winchester Pictures movie about a forgotten part of WWII--the air corps that ferried supplies in old military DC-3's across the Greenland/Canada/Iceland route.
 
Jeremiah Johnson.

Not totally set in the winter, but there are plenty of winter scenes, and he wants a "genuine Hawken" rifle, the second of which he acquires in some very frigid circumstances.
 
The Wild Geese (not really a winter movie, but neverless a good merc movie, especially for those of us that love FALs)
 
Enemy at the Gates

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0215750/

World War III

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084919/

Okay this was a made for television mini-series that aired in 1982, starred Rock Hudson, David Soul and Brian Keith. However it does have Alaskan Army National Guardsmen fighting Soviet Spetznaz for control of an oil pump station on the Alaskan pipeline. For the time that it was made it wasn't too awful. Anybody remember it?

Battleground

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041163/

When Trumpets Fade

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0135706/

The Duellists

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075968/
 
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The Wild Geese (not really a winter movie, but neverless a good merc movie, especially for those of us that love FALs)
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Actually if you want to get technical it is a winter movie. At one point a priest tells Roger Moores character that it's Christmas. So just because they're in tropical Africa and it's hot it is winter - well at least for the Northern hemisphere.
 
Ironically, I already have Island in the Sky, Jeremiah Johnson, Where Eagles Dare, Ice Station Zebra, and Enemy at the Gates.

*Note: Where Eagles Dare, Ice Station Zebra, and The Guns of Navarone are all closely based on books of the same title by the great Alistair Maclean.
 
Transformers! Go see it July 3rd!

It's not cold war related but does have a lot of Good vs Evil. Plus apparently Ironhide is a "weapons enthusiast" :) and the best shot in the Autobots.

Peter Cullen, the voice of Optimus Prime modeled Prime's character partly on his Brother who was a Marine in Vietnam. Also some John Wayne I think.
 
Some interesting choices, but what do Die Hard and Die Harder have to do with snow? I remember them being rather hot.
 
Die Hard is set on Christmas Eve.
Die Harder is set around Christmastime, at Dulles, in the middle of a blizzard.
 
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