![]() ![]() ![]() And if you haven’t, perhaps it will give you some small measure of understanding for what those who’ve fought have seen, experienced and felt. ![]() (Although we did not count Star Wars – sorry, nerds.) If you’ve seen battle yourself, many of these movies will resonate somewhere deep within you. For this list, we’ve compiled films that span the historical and fictional gamut, from both World Wars to Vietnam to Iraq to imaginary interplanetary conflict. Simply asking those questions in the right way can produce compelling, often harrowing cinema. Why do we fight? Why do people enlist? What happens afterward? Is war ever justified? Is it ever worth it in the end?Įven if there’s rarely ever any clear answer, the best war movies attempt to examine combat from all sides. It’s the basis for exploring a slew of existential questions. Few events are such natural conduits for drama, suspense, horror, heroism and examination of the human condition. Military conflict has formed the background of many great films, including some of the best of all time. ET on PBS.War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing – well, except for movies. “Around the World in Eighty Days” premieres January 2 at 8 p.m. Granted, eight hours of “Eighty Days” is a bit too much, but ultimately the series not only answers the “why” of doing a TV version but cleverly plants seeds for another season, as improbable as that sounds given the premise.Īll in all, not a bad day’s (or 80 days) work. Around the World in 80 Days 1956 G 2 h 55 m IMDb RATING 6.7 /10 28K YOUR RATING Rate POPULARITY 3,031 3,046 Play trailer 4:19 1 Video 99+ Photos Adventure Comedy Family A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. “You’ve undertaken this great journey and you don’t even know why,” Fogg is told by one of the people he encounters, an observation that eventually leads to some uncomfortable soul-searching about his life and motives. That’s thanks in large part to Tennant, a versatile actor whose busy TV schedule has cast him as everything from a demon ( “Good Omens”) to Doctor Who. The individual episodes have an anthological quality, from encounters in Paris, Italy and India to the American West following the Civil War, teasing out the daring escapes while confronting issues like race and colonialism.ĭeveloped by Ashley Pharoah (“Life on Mars”), this international co-production manages to bring a revised spin to Fogg’s role as a bored rich guy, embellish Passepartout into much more than a humble servant and still make the former a sympathetic figure. ![]() The greater latitude and time enhances the travel aspects (after movie versions, featuring David Niven and Jackie Chan, in 19, respectively), while introducing more detailed backgrounds and relationships among the central trio fleshes out the characters. His not-really-a-valet French aide Passepartout (Ibrahim Koma), who, in need of a job, lies to secure the gig and an ambitious young journalist, Abigail Fortescue (Leonie Benesch), who are both generally more resourceful than the starched English gentleman they’re accompanying. Where this “Eighty Days” stands out, however, is in Fogg’s companions. Naturally there’s a ticking clock (and a terrific score approximating that by Hans Zimmer and Christian Lundberg) as Fogg undertakes his global trek in the 1870s, in an impulsive response to a challenge from Bellamy (Peter Sullivan), an oily member of Fogg’s snooty club secretly in desperate need of winning their high-stakes wager. David Tennant plays the unlikely adventurer Phileas Fogg, in a slick retelling that significantly updates and expands the story. What seems like a not-necessary idea actually turns into a pretty good one with “Around the World in Eighty Days,” adapting Jules Verne’s novel into an eight-episode Masterpiece series, one already renewed for another voyage. ![]()
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