About the show

Join a Marine Veteran, a film critic, and a theater director as they laugh, argue, and explore the history of humanity's triumphs and tragedies through war films old and new.

War is Hell.
People make films about it.
And we love to talk about them.

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Episodes

  • Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

    October 5th, 2024  |  2 hrs 16 mins
    cinema, film, military, veterans, war, war film, war movie

    Dan, Kt, and Liam discuss David Lean's 1962 desert biopic of T. E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia.

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    Platoon (1986)

    August 10th, 2024  |  1 hr 50 mins
    cinema, film, military, veterans, war, war film, war movie

    Dan, Kt, and Liam discuss Oliver Stone's best-picture and best-director Oscar winner, Platoon.

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    Mulan (1998)

    July 19th, 2024  |  1 hr 44 mins
    cinema, film, military, veterans, war, war film, war movie

    Dan, Kt, and Liam discuss the Disney classic, and possibly Disney's only animated war film, Mulan.

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    BONUS INTERVIEW - Pulled the Handle! Just Not Very Hard. Part 2 of 2

    July 13th, 2024  |  1 hr 22 mins
    cinema, film, military, veterans, war, war film, war movie

    The second half of Dan's interview with Fig and RePete, former Marine harrier pilots from the podcast So There I Was - It's how all great aviation stories begin!

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    BONUS INTERVIEW - We're Not Ready, You Idiot! Part 1 of 2

    June 24th, 2024  |  1 hr 53 mins
    cinema, film, military, veterans, war, war film, war movie

    Dan sits down with Fig and RePete, former Marine pilots as they discuss their military careers, movies, and more. Check out their show So There I Was - It's how all great aviation stories begin!

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    FRIGHT PUB / DANGER CLOSE CROSSOVER: Overlord (2018)

    June 3rd, 2024  |  2 hrs 11 mins
    cinema, film, military, veterans, war, war film, war movie

    For the first time ever, the Fright Pub crew and the Danger Close team get together and cover a horror war film!

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    BONUS EPISODE: Inception (2010)

    May 1st, 2024  |  2 hrs 21 mins
    cinema, film, military, veterans, war, war film, war movie

    Bonus episode of our kinda...sorta war film podcast Danger Close...Enough!

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    Black Hawk Down (2001)

    January 12th, 2024  |  2 hrs 12 mins
    cinema, film, military, veterans, war, war film, war movie

    Dan, Kt, and Liam discuss Ridley Scott's 2001 action film Black Hawk Down, about the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993.

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    Reports from the Front: Fourteen Hours in Husaybah

    November 18th, 2023  |  2 hrs 16 mins
    cinema, film, military, veterans, war, war film, war movie

    Dan interviews former Marine infantry Sergeant Rich Cervantes about his multiple deployments between 2004 and 2006 in the War in Iraq. Listener discretion advised.

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    To Be or Not to Be (1942)

    November 7th, 2023  |  1 hr 30 mins
    cinema, film, military, veterans, war, war film, war movie

    Dan, Kt, and Liam discuss the classic Carole Lombard and Jack Benny WWII dramedy, To Be or Not to Be.

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    Oppenheimer (2023)

    September 20th, 2023  |  2 hrs 31 mins
    cinema, film, military, veterans, war, war film, war movie

    Dan, Kt, and Liam discuss Christopher Nolan's critically acclaimed biopic about the father of the atomic bomb.

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    Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

    August 31st, 2023  |  2 hrs 9 mins
    cinema, film, military, veterans, war, war film, war movie

    Dan, Kt, and Liam discuss Stanley Kramer's award-winning fictionalization of the post-WWII Judges' Trial in Nuremberg in 1947.