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- Audio Commentary with screenwriter William Goldman
- Trivia Track
- Interactive menus
- Scene selection
- 'A Bridge Too Far: Heroes From The Sky' original documentary
- 'A Distant Battle: Memories Of Operation Market Garden' stories told by real life soldiers who fought in the battle
- 'Richard Attenborough - A Filmmaker Remembers'
- Photo gallery
An epic film that "re-creates in stunning detail one of the most disastrous battles of World War II"(The Hollywood Reporter), A Bridge Too Far is a spectacular war picture. Painstakingly recreated on actual battlefield locations and boasting a remarkable cast that includes Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins, Sir Laurence Olivier and Robert Redford, A Bridge Too Far accurately recaptures the monumental scope, excitement and danger behind one of the biggest military gambles in history.
In September 1944, flush with success after the Normandy Invasion, the Allies confidently launched Operation Market Garden, a wild scheme intended to put an early end to the fighting by invading Germany and smashing the Reich's war plants. But a combination of battlefield politics, faulty intelligence, bad luck and even worse weather led to the disaster beyond the Allies' darkest fear.
Average rating (4 reviews)
One of the Great War Films (even though it's WW2!)
paul1956 | 09/01/2009 | See all paul1956's reviews (10) »
In true Attenborough style the film was made before CGI but still packs the punch. An all star cast including Michael Caine, Anthony Hopkins, Sean Connery, Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Elliot Gould and Lawrence Olivier show just how epic this film is. The plot is straight forward, the Allies decide to send three groups of paratroopers to hold three bridges so that a huge line of tanks and trucks can ride through and make a huge amount of ground on the Germans. In other words, it is "Operation Market Garden". As the name says it was a bridge too far due to intelligence showing panzer tanks was ignored as rubbish from Holland. If you like the history of the Wars then this is a great film to watch, if you like war films, this is a great film to watch, basically this is a great film and should be up there with the best. It is possibly my favourite military film based in the Second World War ever (though Saving Private Ryan is also good!).
too good to miss
0001al | 17/03/2008 | See all 0001al's reviews (11) »
in my opinion the best second world war film. A great cast delivered a great performance and the setting was made to be as authentic as possible. A must see film.
Sean Connery, Michael Caine, James Caan, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Ryan O'Neal, Robert Redford, Denholm Elliott, Edward Fox, Liv Ullmann, Elliott Gould, Dirk Bogarde, Alun Armstrong, Hardy Kruger & Maximilian Schell | |
15 years and over | |
1977 | |
Widescreen 2.35:1 Anamorphic | |
English ; French - Dolby Digital (5.1) | |
English for the hearing impaired ; English ; Danish ; French ; Portuguese ; Dutch ; Polish ; Swedish ; Greek ; Finnish ; Hungarian ; Norwegian ; Czech | |
2 hours and 49 minutes (approx) | |
Region 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players. |
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