Military Movie Night

This Friday, we will be showing the movie Battleground. A true story about a squad of the 101st Airborne Division coping with being trapped by the Germans in the besieged city of Bastogne, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge in December of 1944. We follow a band of American soldiers as they engage the Germans in a snowy, foggy winter near Bastogne in World War II. They're low on fuel, rations, and ammunition; the Germans are constantly encouraging their surrender via radio and leaflets, and most importantly, the pervasive thick fog makes movement and identification difficult and prevents their relief by Allied air support. This film focuses much more on the psychology and morale of the soldiers than on action footage and heroics. Directed by William Wellman, the movie stars Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, James Whitmore, and many others. Battleground was filmed in 1949 and won Oscars…