War movies provide help for heroes

The film industry has thrown open its archives to create cinema history -  the first, definitive DVD of the greatest war movies ever made goes on sale on 25th January, with a groundbreaking minimum of £7 per copy going to the Help for Heroes charity.

From Platoon to Schindler's List, Zulu to Lawrence of Arabia - all of these iconic movies were voted for in a recent nationwide poll and the best scenes have been chosen to feature in a ground breaking new DVD supporting Help for Heroes.  Charity spokesman Ross Kemp says, “The money raised from this DVD will go towards helping some very brave young men and women who have been wounded in the service of our country.”

The result is an extraordinary high octane, breathless ride through epic land battles, mind blowing aerial duels and Oscar winning drama. So what is the greatest war movie ever made?

Is it Sir Alec Guinness, crying out “what have I done?” at the end of Bridge on the River Kwai, and making a last ditch effort to get to the detonator amid a hail of bullets?

Or perhaps the opening minutes of Saving Private Ryan, with the intensity and devastating realism presented during the storming of Omaha Beach by Allied soldiers in World War II?

'The Greatest War Movies Ever' is a limited edition DVD which will be on sale for just a few months honouring the men and women of the UK’s armed services; its hoped it will raise at least a million pounds towards a new Army Recovery Centre for seriously wounded soldiers.

“They do not consider themselves to be Heroes” says Ross, “[but] we know differently. We may not be able to prevent them getting wounded, but by supporting projects like this one we can do something to help them get better.”

In the following video, Andy McNab Ex-SAS & Author and founder of Help for Heroes Bryn Parry, discuss the inspiration for the DVD and explain how the money raised will be spent.

For more information visit helpforheroes.org.uk.

£7 of the retail price (£9.99) will go towards building new Army Recovery Centres (ARC).

The DVD is available from 25th January in all DVD retailers, including Tesco, Morrisons, Sainsbury's, Play.com, Amazon, Love Film, Asda and WH smith and HMV.