| Best WWII films:
- Das Boot, The Director's Cut (watch with subtitles, not dubbed)
- The Great Dictator (Chaplin)
- Force Ten From Navarone (Robert Shaw & a baby-faced Harrison Ford)
- Bridge on the River Kwai (Alec Guiness)
- Patton (George C at his best)
- From Here to Eternity (ole blue eyes could act!)
Most overrated WWII film:
- Saving Private Ryan (c'mon, after the beach scene it's bollocks!--the Americans weren't alone in Normandy!)
Worst WWII film:
- 1941 (the Blues Brothers go ballistic)
Most disastrously ignored propaganda film:
- Triumph of the Will (the signs were all there in 1934!)
Best Holocaust film:
- Shoah (Claude Lanzmann - 7 hours long, every minute of it gripping) |