Posted on 06/06/2024 10:36:10 AM PDT by nickcarraway
They missed the greatest of them all: All Quiet on the Western Front, 1930.
The recent remake bore little resemblence to the original.
“The Big Red 1”
This is actually a pretty good show about the lead-up to WWII
Countdown To War (Ian McKellen plays Hitler)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVsRkRGZySA
Battle of the Bulge is an excellent depiction of when NATO stopped Nazi NATO on the plains of Spain.
The sudden switch from snowy to barren terrain should have been enough to get somebody black-balled from movies.
I actually liked Kelly’s Heroes. It’s depictions of wise-assery and screw ups was probably more realistic of U.S. Army life than the more somber movies.
Good catch .
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Another good one is “Operation Crossbow” w/Sophia Loren 🤤
My Dad liked John Wayne movies about the war. He would not have set foot in a theater showing a realistic film. Maybe he would have when old except he died in Vietnam. He hated war with a passion. He fought in 3 of them.
People should watch the Tom Hanks movie “Greyhound” about the Navy convoys.
... never heard of most of those selections ...
The 317th Platoon, after the fall of Dien Bin Phu, a platoon of French and Laotian soldiers operating behind Viet Minh lines attempts to rejoin the main body of French forces.
Directed by a French veteran of Dien Bin Phu taken prisoner there.
Also, The Battle of Algiers, about another French colonial war that ended badly for France.
I knew a French Foreign Legion veteran of the First Indochina War, Jean Pierre, who said La 317éme section was pretty accurate.
I saw “China” recently starring Alan Ladd and William Bendix (1943) and thought it was very good. Had never heard of it before. Free on YouTube.
Then there was the one where Jack Palance got run over by a tank……
Makes me wonder about the validity of the list.
Oops. I missed the single Pacific film. My point remains, though.
I found Black Book horribly depressing, naked van Houten notwithstanding. So much killing, mostly of good guys. Half the good guys turned out to be bad guys, everyone betraying everyone else!
“Stalingrad (1993 film)”
Definitely belongs on this list before SPR, Schindler, or Shoah.
I just finished the novel. My eyes still fill with tears when I think about it. It was banned and burned by Hitler, of course.
I love the way Remarque writes.
“Danny Boy calling Broadsword...”
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