Cross of Iron (DVD, 2000)

This is a pan-and-scan version, which is a negative from the outset. It is also a weak transfer to boot. Avoid this Hens Tooth Video release, and go for the widescreen version released more recently.

I had been trying to get this DVD, and ebay was the only source. I liked the DVD due to the content,
as it portrayed life on the front lines, and in the trenches. No pabulum here. Sam Peckinpaw did not
hold back and play p.c.. I think when he left, hollywood crashed, and burned.

I bought this DVD for my husband -- he is a BIG movie lover! I couldn't find this movie in our local stores and online places wanted a fortune. This DVD was in perfect shape, had FANTASTIC price and the shipping was fast... direct to the door!! Seller was right on the mark!!

Sam Peckinpah may have gone overboard with the blood but not by much. Life in the field, let alone combat, is dirty and dangerous. The actors did a great job of depicting combat veterans that try to make the best of their day to day lives. The will to survive is strong when the unit is overrun and forced to retreat,they rely on training, experience, and just plain meanness to stay alive and continue to fight the enemy. If someone, someday could include the smells of combat into a movie, no one would go to war. The comradeship is what makes it all bearable and these soldiers(actors) did well in showing that. This is why I like the movie so much. No matter what country, or army, the soldiers become family. It's a shame men such as these have to kill each other.

One of the all time best war movies of which to me number around 10 or 12 and includes Charlie Mopic, Pvt Ryan, Great Escape, Band of Brothers, King Rat. Depicts German soldiers on the Eastern Front, their dispair and bravery facing overwhelming odds fighting the Russians.

This movie shows the German view of W.W.II at the Russian Front. The military equipment was very accurate, except for the aircraft used. The battle scenes are graphic and realist. This movie should be rated in the top ten of any one's list. This movie sells used in lower twenty's and new upper twenty's to the lower thirty's. I got it below twenty, excellent buy.