This classic series helped launch the careers of classic filmmakers Robert Altman and Richard Donner.
There are plenty of important war movies and TV shows from over the years, but none would have as big of an impact on the genre as the classic 1960s series Combat! This television show ran from 1962 to 1967, programmed in an era when war was rarely ever shown on screen as gravely serious as it was here. Today, we take that for granted.
That said, most of the early-to-mid-20th-century war stories were told on screen with a sort of romantic, adventurous flare. The deep sadness of war, the loneliness that it meets soldiers with, and the devastating effects that it has on the people fighting in it were not priorities to be addressed. Instead, movies and TV shows could be used as propaganda tools, rallying and riling viewers up to want to go out on the battlefield and fight for their country.
In order to achieve this realism and accuracy, actors weren't just expected to read up on accounts of soldiers' experiences in the war. Instead, series executive producer Selig Seligman had the cast go through a week's worth of basic training at the Army's Infantry Training Center at Fort Ord in northern California. Seligman even requested that the army assign a technical advisor for the show so that they could maintain the show's desired level of realism.
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