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Great WWII Movies.
Jan, 05 2002 | Justice

Posted on 01/05/2003 7:48:31 PM PST by Justice

My wife and I just finished "Band of Brothers" and "Guns of Navarone". Two WWII movies which we both enjoyed very much. Please post any recommendations that any of you have for more movies of the same ilk. Many thanks!


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To: Justice
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
Stalag 17
War at Sea [documentary]

21 posted on 01/05/2003 7:58:36 PM PST by Alouette
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To: Semper911
bump that. beautiful movie.
22 posted on 01/05/2003 7:59:14 PM PST by Semaphore Heathcliffe
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To: Justice
My personal 5 star favorites:

Command Decision, From Here to Eternity, Pride Of The Marines, Saving Private Ryan, The Bridge On The River Kwai, and The Young Lions.

24 posted on 01/05/2003 8:00:21 PM PST by friendly
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To: RugerM77
"Das Boot"

Ah yes, good call. One of my all time favorites. It's been so long since I have seen it, it might be new all over again. Has to be the subtitled version though. I remember looking for it a few years ago at blockbuster, and all they had was the dubbed version. I didn't waste my time on that. It is a great movie -- maybe I can find it in DVD.

25 posted on 01/05/2003 8:01:04 PM PST by Semper911
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To: Ciexyz
Hart's War (2002) starring Bruce Willis and Colin Farrell (new Irish actor) as American POW's in a Nazi war camp. Another version of a "Great Escape" type movie. Available for rental in video stores. Based on a true story that actually involved British POW's. There was a lot of controversy (from the Brits) that the filmmakers changed the nationalities of the heroes in the film. Oh well, that's Hollywood. (!)
26 posted on 01/05/2003 8:01:16 PM PST by Ciexyz
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To: Justice
"A Bridge Too Far" - excellent photography.

"Soldier of Orange" - they cut some minor scenes out of the version dubbed into English; also available with subtitles.

"Stalag 17"

"Berlin Express" - filmed on location in Germany in 1946. Those aren't Hollywood sets.
27 posted on 01/05/2003 8:01:21 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Justice
If you can find it, get a Russian movie called "Come and See." About Stalingrad, made by Russians, you get the picture...

One American made movie that came in completely under the radar is "When Trumpets Fade," about the Hurtgen Forest. Interesting story, intense combat scenes, very well-made.
28 posted on 01/05/2003 8:02:04 PM PST by Semaphore Heathcliffe
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To: Justice
Steve McQueen did a great WWII flick, the title I'm not sure. Think it was "The War Lover," or something like that. In the end, bringing his beat up aircraft back to England, he crashed into, think the cliffs of Dover. Was first time I noticed McQueen might make it as a serious actor.
30 posted on 01/05/2003 8:02:56 PM PST by looois
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To: Justice
Watch Francis kick some butt in Burma.......


31 posted on 01/05/2003 8:03:51 PM PST by hole_n_one
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Gene Hackman is very good in "Bat21" (vietnam)
32 posted on 01/05/2003 8:03:54 PM PST by cornelis
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To: PAR35
Is the movie "A Bridge Too Far" about the Market Garden fiasco?
33 posted on 01/05/2003 8:04:12 PM PST by Justice
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To: Justice
Anybody like "Thin Red Line"? Not me. Although there was some very good scenes in it, I found it pretty damn pretentious in its artsy-fartsy indulgences and pedantic philosophizing . I guess it's fair to say it was for the most part unwatchable.

I'm a big History channel nut for the real McCoys - the documentaries showing the actual events, shorne of any particular message that movies inevitably are burdened with.
34 posted on 01/05/2003 8:05:50 PM PST by guitfiddlist
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To: Justice
My Dad did convoy duty in WW2 so I rented "Das Bot" for him. He said the scene were the U-boat was in a storm brought back memories of storms in the North Atlantic he was in.
It was a pretty grim movie and showed that the German Navy was the least nazi-fied of their military branches.
35 posted on 01/05/2003 8:06:16 PM PST by Missouri
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To: Justice
WWII from a different angle - Mrs Miniver, Since You Went Away (from David O Selznick), Great Escape (David McCallum in one of the great bucket-kicking scenes of all time IMHO), Mister Roberts, Foreign Correspondent by Hitchcock, Casablanca, and Pimpernel Smith (Leslie Howard)
37 posted on 01/05/2003 8:06:47 PM PST by Moonmad27
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To: Justice
Yes, it was about Market Garden. Very accurate historically. No excessive whitewash.
38 posted on 01/05/2003 8:08:56 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Justice
The Highest Honor is one of the most provocative and unusual movies to come out of WW II.

And it IS a true story.

Australian film, concerning a raid on Singapore Harbor and the eventual capture and imprisonment of the Australian and British raiders.

The film will stay with you for the rest of your life.

40 posted on 01/05/2003 8:09:21 PM PST by okie01
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