The M-Net Movies Epic (DStv 109) pop-up channel will launch at 13:00 today and run for 24 days until 14 April with more than 70 war and battle films for DStv subscribers.
The M-Net Movies Epic channel has been curated as a showcase of "the greatest war stories ever told and battles that shaped human history for more than two millennia", says M-Net. "You can almost smell the cordite of the trenches, or feel the earth move as a tank brigade rumbles towards enemy lines."
Films will range from harrowing and disturbing yet must-see stark reality like Saving Private Ryan and Apocalypse Now, to fantasy battle stories like Independence Day and Lord of the Rings, to heroic and moving like Braveheart and Heartbreak Ridge.
All of them elicit an emotional cinematic response whether you watch them for the first time or settle in for a rewatch - on some level they change you and how you see and what you want for the world.
Here is the list of titles that will be shown on M-Net Movies Epic:
- The Longest Day
- Red Tails
- Elizabeth: The Golden Age
- 300
- Apocalypse Now
- Platoon
- Spartacus
- Cutthroat Island
- Kingdom Of Heaven
- 300: Rise Of An Empire
- The Deer Hunter
- Brothers In Arms
- Dunkirk
- Letters From Iwo Jima
- The Three Musketeers
- Troy
- Full Metal Jacket
- The Siege Of Firebase Gloria
- Flags Of Our Fathers
- Master & Commander: The Far Side Of The World
- Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl
- Transformers
- Spartacus
- Band Of Brothers
- Empire Of The Sun
- Fury
- Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
- Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen
- The Battle Of Britain
- Zero Dark Thirty
- Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End
- Das Boot (Director's Cut)
- Pearl Harbor
- The Last Samurai
- Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
- Glory
- King Arthur
- The Hunt For Red October
- Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
- Transformers: The Last Knight
- War Of The Worlds
- Gone With The Wind
- U-571
- Tobruk
- Saving Private Ryan
- Battle Los Angeles
- Independence Day
- Gettysburg
- The Battle Of The Bulge
- Predator
- Edge Of Tomorrow
- Gods And Generals
- Raid On Rommel
- Starship Troopers
- War Horse
- Hobbit, The: An Unexpected Journey
- Memphis Belle
- Tora! Tora! Tora!
- Pacific Rim
- Pacific Rim: Uprising
- The Water Diviner
- Hobbit, The: The Desolation Of Smaug
- Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
- Gone With The Wind
- Lord Of The Rings, The: The Fellowship Of The Ring
- Hobbit, The: The Battle Of The Five Armies
- Transformers: Age Of Extinction
- Lord Of The Rings, The: The Return Of The King
- The Thin Red Line
- Hurt Locker, The
- Lone Survivor
- The Pacific
- Beach Red
- Enemy At The Gates
- Heartbreak Ridge
- Empire Of The Sun
- Braveheart
- Flags Of Our Father
- Rob Roy
- We Were Soldiers
