August 2024 marks the 40th anniversary of the classic Hollywood film Red Dawn. As the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East continue to feed fears of a wider global conflict, the movie is worth ...

In Red Dawn (1984), during the Cold War grip of 1984, Soviet forces invade a small Colorado town, turning American teenagers into unlikely guerilla fighters. Led by brothers Jed and Matt Eckert, they ...

We’ve used the occasion of the remake’s release to dig up the Chronicle‘s review of the original, which appeared in the September 7, 1984 issue, right around the time of the paper’s third anniversary.

Be sure to check out a 1980s action film while it's free to stream on Kanopy (just skip the Chris Hemsworth starring remake.) ...

The original “Red Dawn” was released in 1984, five years before the Berlin Wall fell. The Cold War hadn’t yet ended, so the film’s vision of an America invaded by the Soviets — with the help of their ...

If ever a film has been ripe for rediscovery and reevaluation, it is Red Dawn, John Milius’s 1984 movie about a group of Colorado children who become guerilla resistance fighters during a Soviet–Cuban ...

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the iconic Cold War thriller "Red Dawn," a film by a Hollywood conservative that showcased patriotism, a love for the American military and warned of the ...

I just watched the original Red Dawn movie. John Milius' 1984 film features a group of Colorado high school students who go from the football field to fighting Cuban and Soviet (it was 1984, after all ...