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10 Best World War I Movies Ever Made
guns & ammo ^ | 7-24-12 | garry james

Posted on 07/30/2012 7:53:45 PM PDT by TurboZamboni

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To: decal

Abel Gance’s J’Accuse is frightening.

I’ll never forget the scene where the thousands of soldiers rise from the dead...spooky.


81 posted on 07/31/2012 4:06:11 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: mnehring

In addition to being happily surprised to see an Albatross aircraft, they included some stuff that had been in a biography of the Red Baron that I had recently read. There is a scene when he is home on leave and someone is looking at a photo of his squadron; she asks him questions about different people in the photo and he replies, “Dead. Dead. They’re all dead.” That story was in the biography, and at the time I read it, I thought it was very revealing about the toll the war had taken on Richthofen personally.


82 posted on 07/31/2012 4:15:18 AM PDT by Flag_This (Real presidents don't bow.)
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To: TurboZamboni

ANZACS. If you can find it you’ll see exactly why it’s the best or among the best.


83 posted on 07/31/2012 4:22:47 AM PDT by Rashputin (Only Newt can defeat both the Fascist democrats and the Vichy GOP)
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To: dfwgator

Pacshendale, Iron Maiden heh


84 posted on 07/31/2012 5:00:36 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: jocon307
Oh my goodness. I have no idea how accurate any of this was, but I said to myself as I was reading it: no matter how terrible my life may become I will always be grateful to not be one of these poor coal miners!

Sounds like Emile Zola's Germinal.

85 posted on 07/31/2012 5:05:50 AM PDT by Moltke ("I am Dr. Sonderborg," he said, "and I don't want any nonsense.")
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To: TurboZamboni

Grand Illusions
Sergeant York
Lawrence of Arabia
All Quiet on the Western Front
Dr. Zhivago
Blue Max

Just a few of my Favorites, in no particular order


86 posted on 07/31/2012 5:45:56 AM PDT by left that other site
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To: STJPII

I second the Blue Max.


87 posted on 07/31/2012 6:09:40 AM PDT by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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To: TurboZamboni

They forgot “The Lost Battalion”


88 posted on 07/31/2012 6:39:13 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: TurboZamboni

Colonel Redl


89 posted on 07/31/2012 7:06:27 AM PDT by Mashood
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To: ansel12

Its always been beyond me how those soldiers on

both side stood up to life in the trenches,being

shelled,lving in mud and lice.Sorry food,lack of

water.Death all around the screams of the wounded

They were tough sob`s back then...there is no way

that people of today would endure what they endured


90 posted on 07/31/2012 8:07:55 AM PDT by Harold Shea (RVN `70 - `71)
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To: WILLIALAL

Zulu is also one of my all time favorites. I enjoyed the firing by ranks drill. I had never seen mass volley fire done by ranks before. Very impressive.

The Zulu shouting and banging their shields was also very impressive. BTW the Zulus phoney deaths were the result of showing old cowboy movies to them so they could get the hang of acting a death scene.

The song “Men of Harlech” was done specifically for the movie. A very nice touch having the Welsh sing it in response to the Zulu’s chanting.

Colour Sgt Bourne was a favorite of mine. His coolness under fire was impressive as well as his general demeanor. I always remember his answer to one of his troops getting the vapors and asking why it had to be them to stand against impossible odds and most likely be slaughtered. “Because we’re here lad, because we’re here. No one else, just us.”

Zulu was a movie about real men fighting impossible odds and surviving. One of three fights like that: Xenophon and the Retreat of the Ten Thousand, the battle of Roark’s Drift and the Rangers at Mogadishu.


91 posted on 07/31/2012 8:07:59 AM PDT by TomMix
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To: TurboZamboni
I've seen one documentary/film on WWI and I saw it recently.It must have been by an Australian or New Zealand company because it focused almost entirely on ANZAC forces.Can't recall the name but it was *outstanding*.I'm almost certain it was on a PBS station.
92 posted on 07/31/2012 8:16:24 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Poor Barack.If He's Reelected,Think Of The Mess He'll Inherit!)
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To: TurboZamboni
On second thought there's another thing,apart from the previously mentioned “Blackadder”,that I've seen...one of the series of Upstairs/Downstairs was set in England during WWI and,while fictional,was still quite informative and *very* well done.
93 posted on 07/31/2012 8:20:36 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Poor Barack.If He's Reelected,Think Of The Mess He'll Inherit!)
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To: TheRhinelander

If you have the chance, go see the World War I Museum in Kansas City at Liberty Memorial. This was re-built a decade ago (I had a small part in its renovation and addition) and it is the offical WWI musuem for the nation.

Its history can be read here
http://www.theworldwar.org/s/110/new/index.aspx?sid=110&gid=1&pgid=1114

The rest of that site is interesting as well. I would say it is a little hot to visit Kansas City this week — it might be more fun in the fall.


94 posted on 07/31/2012 8:38:28 AM PDT by KC Burke (Plain Conservative opinions and common sense correction for thirteen years.)
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To: TurboZamboni
It's good to see this list. It's hard to find a WWI picture on TV, saturated as it is with WWII pics. I suppose it's due to WWI taking place in the silent era, WWII coming during the sound era and just as television was about to burst onto the scene, and the nature of the villains we fought in the latter. I imagine there are lots of decaying old silent propaganda films made during the war that no one has seen for ages.

Why isn't The African Queen on the list? Not even an honorable mention?

95 posted on 07/31/2012 8:39:10 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: The_Reader_David
Zulu, depicting the Battle of Rorke's Drift in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.

Umm . . . what does that have to do with World War I?

96 posted on 07/31/2012 8:43:11 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: TomMix

so many realistic elements to the movie and all the actors fit in well, without one actor overshadowing the others or dominating the screen. You had the feeling you were there with them.
The ranked volley scene was one of the most dramatic battle scene filmed. still gives me chills to watch it.


97 posted on 07/31/2012 8:43:44 AM PDT by WILLIALAL
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To: Lancey Howard
Although it may not qualify, exactly, as a “World War I movie”, the 1926 film, ‘Tell it to the Marines’, starring Lon Chaney (in his only starring role where he didn’t wear sophisticated makeup), is truly a great movie. I got to watch it on TCM last summer and was floored.

Chaney's character was the prototype for all the "tough marine seargeants" that came after. I understand that he was made an honorary Marine for his performance.

98 posted on 07/31/2012 8:46:48 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

“Zulu, depicting the Battle of Rorke’s Drift in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.

Umm . . . what does that have to do with World War I?”

We know, but its such a great historic movie that I’m glad it (drifted) into the thread.


99 posted on 07/31/2012 8:47:01 AM PDT by WILLIALAL
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

Ya gotta love those WWI German uniforms!


100 posted on 07/31/2012 8:51:23 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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