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To: SJSAMPLE
Or how about the more recent, “Stalingrad”.

Or "Enemy at the Gates" - the first thirty minutes of that movie is even more gut-wrenching than the opening of Private Ryan - where the poor conscripts are stuck between the machine guns of the Nazis and the machine guns of their commanders.

36 posted on 11/11/2009 6:07:01 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy

If you liked the movie, you should read the book it was partially based on, “War Of The Rats”


73 posted on 11/11/2009 7:00:11 AM PST by Roccus (My anger is manufactured.......................................in the WHITE HOUSE and CONGRESS!!)
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To: dirtboy
Stalingrad and Enemy at the Gates make a great "Stalingrad" double-feature.

I love Bob Hoskins portrayal of Khrushchev, and his repetition of the expression "shitting his pants."

80 posted on 11/11/2009 7:08:54 AM PST by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: dirtboy

I agree.
The rest of the film was somewhat revisionist and overly dramatized.


114 posted on 11/11/2009 9:41:07 AM PST by SJSAMPLE
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