What is the last WW2 movie/series you saw? - Page 9

St. Ives · 16-03-2008, 09:48 AM

I have just watched the complete series of Brothers in Arms (again!) and for me it is still the best WW2 TV series - ever!

Spielberg and Hanks deserve every accolade this incredible production.

marcus69x · 16-03-2008, 10:19 AM

I agree with you St Ives. A brilliant work of art.

St. Ives · 16-03-2008, 10:29 AM

Yes, and compelling viewing. Every episode was/is indeed a work of art, those exploding trees were filmed superbly. The characters too, were quite mesmerising, Spears being a prime example.

Gotthard Heinrici · 16-03-2008, 11:13 AM

Just finished watching it meself. brilliant!

chipmunk wallah · 30-03-2008, 08:41 PM

Aye Bof B a good series, shame it has spawned a few thousand overweight over the hill E Co reenactors though.....
ps,in my reenacting days I attended one private event in Kent and did a double take when I realised that the cluster of farm houses we set up in were actualy St mer du mont (sp?) ,worst part though was realising our cars were parked literaly at the top of Currahee

Oh,yeah,last film/mini series for me is Strafbat,or rather Im halfway through it again. A Russian series based around a punishment battalion.Brilliant film but with funny moments like weird german armour and plug firing MP 40s ....

BERESFORD · 22-05-2008, 02:52 PM

mRs miniver the last scene when the aircraft fly over the bombed out church
just fantastic. First saw it in the 1970s understand it better now and a bit more
critical of the class stuff continuity/change etc thats what studying War and Social
change does for you AA318 OU course.
Also Humphrey Jennings documentaries on DVD and I agree Listen To Britain is better
without the COI voice over what could words add to the images and soundsTV re runs of Secret Army on digital television.Also shown some programmes made by ZDF
Hitlers War isnt that personalising it just a tad but a good programme mix of German
and British Interviewees produced/directed by Guido Knopp
and very finally The Boat the final scenes just too awful for words.

Trincomalee · 22-05-2008, 05:28 PM

"Heimat" is still a favourite series for me

cash_13 · 30-06-2008, 04:42 PM

When Trumpets fade

Amazon have this for sale at $5.99 at the moment in the US and if your in the UK the ba****** will charge you more and in sterling as well robbing gits £6.97

Set during one of the Second World War's most shocking and unforgettable battles - the battle of Hurtgen Forest in the Autumn of 1944. American forces are under orders to secure a bridge flanked by enemy tanks. Men already trapped in a hellish minefield face death from all sides as shells rain down from the sky. Hundreds of lives have been lost, and the surviving troops are bloodied and shell-shocked. There are only four renegade soldiers remaining, who all have one thing in common: a desperate will to stay alive.

16-03-2008, 11:13 AM	#84 (permalink)
Gotthard Heinrici Ostfront is where its at! Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 3,252	Just finished watching it meself. brilliant! __________________ *"The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse."* - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino)

30-06-2008, 04:42 PM	#88 (permalink)
cash_13 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Coulsdon Surrey UK Posts: 199	When Trumpets fade Amazon have this for sale at $5.99 at the moment in the US and if your in the UK the ba****** will charge you more and in sterling as well robbing gits £6.97 Set during one of the Second World War's most shocking and unforgettable battles - the battle of Hurtgen Forest in the Autumn of 1944. American forces are under orders to secure a bridge flanked by enemy tanks. Men already trapped in a hellish minefield face death from all sides as shells rain down from the sky. Hundreds of lives have been lost, and the surviving troops are bloodied and shell-shocked. There are only four renegade soldiers remaining, who all have one thing in common: a desperate will to stay alive. __________________ My website www.leefinneyracing.com

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16-03-2008, 09:48 AM	#81 (permalink)
St. Ives Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Co. Tipperary Posts: 71	I have just watched the complete series of Brothers in Arms (again!) and for me it is still the best WW2 TV series - ever! Spielberg and Hanks deserve every accolade this incredible production.

16-03-2008, 10:19 AM	#82 (permalink)
marcus69x Very Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Middlesbrough, UK Posts: 1,238	I agree with you St Ives. A brilliant work of art.

16-03-2008, 10:29 AM	#83 (permalink)
St. Ives Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Co. Tipperary Posts: 71	Yes, and compelling viewing. Every episode was/is indeed a work of art, those exploding trees were filmed superbly. The characters too, were quite mesmerising, Spears being a prime example.

30-03-2008, 08:41 PM	#85 (permalink)
chipmunk wallah Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: By the mighty Don,no,not the Russian one :) Posts: 175	Aye Bof B a good series, shame it has spawned a few thousand overweight over the hill E Co reenactors though..... ps,in my reenacting days I attended one private event in Kent and did a double take when I realised that the cluster of farm houses we set up in were actualy St mer du mont (sp?) ,worst part though was realising our cars were parked literaly at the top of Currahee Oh,yeah,last film/mini series for me is Strafbat,or rather Im halfway through it again. A Russian series based around a punishment battalion.Brilliant film but with funny moments like weird german armour and plug firing MP 40s ....

22-05-2008, 02:52 PM	#86 (permalink)
BERESFORD Junior Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: SHREWSBURY Posts: 15	mRs miniver the last scene when the aircraft fly over the bombed out church just fantastic. First saw it in the 1970s understand it better now and a bit more critical of the class stuff continuity/change etc thats what studying War and Social change does for you AA318 OU course. Also Humphrey Jennings documentaries on DVD and I agree Listen To Britain is better without the COI voice over what could words add to the images and soundsTV re runs of Secret Army on digital television.Also shown some programmes made by ZDF Hitlers War isnt that personalising it just a tad but a good programme mix of German and British Interviewees produced/directed by Guido Knopp and very finally The Boat the final scenes just too awful for words.

22-05-2008, 05:28 PM	#87 (permalink)
Trincomalee Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 156	"Heimat" is still a favourite series for me

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