D-Day, June 6, 1944: Favorite D-Day Movies

Vanity | June 6, 2010 | Vanity

[PROCON]

Last week, during Memorial Day weekend, we had fun telling of our favorite WWII movies .

On this solemn day, what are you're favorite D-Day movies?

[PROCON]

My favs are (again), "The Longest Day" and "Saving Private Ryan"...how about your favs?

[unkus]

“The Longest Day” and “Saving Private Ryan”. No contest.

[THX 1138]

Private Ryan.

[dfwgator]

The Big Red One

[Man50D]

The Longest Day. Saving Private Ryan had excellent special effects but the plot was ludicrous and had many factual errors per my father who landed on Omaha Beach On D-Day.

[PROCON]

These were REAL MEN!!

[ILS21R]

The Longest Day.

The Dirty Dozen. (The raid took place on D-Day)

[BulletBobCo]

My son and I watched the first two episodes of “Band of Brothers” last night.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Hard to beat the “Longest Day”.

John has a long mustache

[Berlin_Freeper]

The Allied forces face the daunting cliffs at Normandy June 6, 1944.

[Lmo56]

"Saving Private Ryan" for the realism portrayed at Omaha Beach - you REALLY could feel what it must have been like for those guys ...

Brig. Gen. Norman Cota (Robert Mitchum) in "The Longest Day" for the following quote:

"Only two kinds of people are gonna stay on this beach: those that are already dead and those that are gonna die. Now get off your butts. You guys are the Fighting 29th."

[tallyhoe]

The Longest Day!

[dfwgator]

My favorite scenes involved the two lone German pilots, and how much disdain they had for their superiors.

Col. Josef ‘Pips’ Priller: [speaking in German] Thank you, my dear Hans! You have just killed both of us!
[slams down phone]

Luftwaffe major: It is getting very difficult to get any sleep around here.

Col. Josef ‘Pips’ Priller: Your prospects for a long sleep have just improved. The invasion has begun at Normandy. We are to fly there and attack with our two planes.

[blackbart.223]

"Hard to beat the “Longest Day”."

No doubt.

[PROCON]

My son and I watched the first two episodes of “Band of Brothers” last night.

Just a GREAT series, have the DVD's and watch often!

[unkus]

Absolutely!

[unkus]

I can picture that scene without even trying. I must have seen that movie 10 times. “Patton” at least 15 times.

[PROCON]

BTW, I served in RVN a year before you with A 1/9 Cav, thank you for your Service!!

[HereInTheHeartland]

Has anyone visited Normandy and walked the beaches?
It's high on my list of things to do.

[dfwgator]

That is one of the great things about The Longest Day, the Germans weren’t just these blood thirsty madman like they are usually portrayed. They were just as scared out of their wits as the Allies storming the beaches, and knew they were screwed.

Like the scene with Richard Burton, when he pointed out that the dead German soldier there next to him had put his boots on the wrong feet.