What is the last WW2 movie/series you saw?

[Slipdigit]

You need to watch Sleepless in Seattle. It is more fitting for a young lady to watch than those violent...gasp...war movies.

[4th wilts]

lucy,das boot,with subtitles is terrific,adds to the atmosphere,wonderful,i could watch that over and over just like shawshank or forrest gump.yours,lee.

[Kjaersgaard]

Just watched Stalag 17, love it

[GrossBorn]

Just watched "Decision Before Dawn"...1951. All I can say is "How in the world have I missed this one in the past". Excellent movie and great acting by Oskar Werner and the guy who played Werner Pluskat in the Longest Day.

Decision Before Dawn (1951)

[Nige GSX1400 UK]

'Brotherhood' a Korean film with English subtitles. Graphic at times but it does give an impression of what it must have been like to see waves of Chinese Infantry coming over the hill as well as the suffering of the people.

Otherwise '9th Company' a Russian film with English subtitles about Afghanistan in the 1980s. If thats what Afghanistan is really like e.g. mountains, passes and nothing else no wonder the Soviets got out. Why the hell are we there STILL? According to the techno-buffs, modern munitions should have dealt with things but still the poor bloody Infantry have to take and hold ground as always.
Rant over
Nige

[Nige GSX1400 UK]

'lucy,das boot,with subtitles is terrific,adds to the atmosphere,wonderful,i could watch that over and over just like shawshank or forrest gump.yours,lee.' 4th Wilts.

Totally agree I watched it when it originally came out in German (I speak NO German) with English subtitles and was amazed. An excellent film you dont even need the script at times the acting is so good and the way it was directed to heighten tension so clever you forget its German.

I think its also available in English now but not certain. I never thought I would feel sympathy for German U-Boat crews but I genuinly did. Jurgen Prochnow is the Skipper I think and is excellent.

[Nige GSX1400 UK]

Originally Posted by Slipdigit

I have never understood how they could name that movie after the book. They essentially took a single paragraph out and expanded it expotentially.
The book was a good, educational read. The movie was...bleh.

Yes its Hollywood style slush but it has to be to make money. Besides it does show some of the brutality of Stalingrad and makes a change to see a film where the Russians get some credit for their courage instead of Uncle Sam all the time.
No I am not anti American, I just get a bit erked at the contribution of other nations not getting a mention e.g. 'Saving Private Ryan'.
Cheers
Nige

[Nige GSX1400 UK]

Originally Posted by Ivan1

Kokoda (2006)

An excellent film really brought across how awful it was in the jungle. Edge of my seat in places, how anyone survived in the jungle is beyond me. Showed Aussies doing what they do best though, fighting like Lions no matter what the odds.

Cheers
Nige

[Nige GSX1400 UK]

Anyone else think we need a newer, tougher version of the Tuskegee Airmen?

Not knocking the version already made, but I would like to have seen more of the hardships the men had to go through and combat footage to show just how good and brave these men were.
Main star for a re-make only one man IMO Will Smith playing it serious and from the heart, with Denzil Washington and Samuel L. Jackson 2 excellent actors backing him up. Will Smith is actually the double of one the real Tuskegee Airmen but I cant remember which one.

Oh one other thing when will someone make a modern film about the Air War over Korea. Sabres, B29s, P51s and MIG15s sounds good to me.

[Nige GSX1400 UK]

Originally Posted by Gibbo

I'm just back from seeing Days of Glory (the English title for the French film Indigenes), which is about North African troops serving in the French army in 1943-5. it's an excellent film; parts of it resemble Saving Private Ryan but I think that this may be a deliberate ploy to contrast the treatment of Private Ryan with that of the North Africans. The film persuaded President Chirac to reverse a decision not to freeze the pensions of French colonial veterans when their countries were given independence.

On a similar note. Why cant we Brits pay an equal pension to the Kurkhas who take the same risks as our lads but don't get the same pension?
I know living standards are different in Nepal but they deserve it.
Cheers
Nige