What are your favourite "fictional" movies of WW2?

spidge · 18-01-2008, 09:53 AM

There have been threads on many "favourite or worse" movies however it would be interesting to see what works of fiction we enjoy about the WW2 era.

It would be more interesting to know although fiction, could they have been based on something that really did happen?

I will start off with:

Von Ryans Express. - Frank Sinatra & Trevor Howard

Where Eagles Dare. - Richard Burton & Clint Eastwood.

What's yours?

Gotthard Heinrici · 18-01-2008, 10:10 AM

I always liked "The Eagle has landed" or "Cross of Iron", both of which are books that were made into good movies.

djcrtoye · 18-01-2008, 10:37 AM

4th wilts · 18-01-2008, 10:57 AM

one of our planes is missing.lee

plant-pilot · 18-01-2008, 12:25 PM

'Das Boot' has to be up there. One film that shows it how it is. A great film.

spidge · 18-01-2008, 12:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gotthard Heinrici

I always liked "The Eagle has landed" or "Cross of Iron", both of which are books that were made into good movies.

I really liked "The Eagle has Landed"

Great book, great cast, great film. Shows the better side of the German soldier.

"Under 10 Flags" with Van Heflin showed the good side of a German "Captain".

Mark Hone · 18-01-2008, 01:05 PM

Interesting to watch the British wartime film 'Went The Day Well', which is a clear inspiration for 'Eagle Has Landed' and has much the same plot, minus Churchill and the American Rangers! Incidentally, something that has always puzzled me about the village in the film. Are there really places in Norfolk which have ROMAN CATHOLIC parish churches in the middle of the village?

richcarrick · 18-01-2008, 01:07 PM

for sheer realism, I'd say Saving Private Ryan, although technically it's based on a true story

for fictional films, Kelly's Heroes will always get a viewing if it's on TV

Slipdigit · 18-01-2008, 01:35 PM

I've already mentioned my two favs, Mister Roberts and The Caine Mutiny, in another thread. If you are looking for real fictional war movie favs where there is some shooting, explosions and what not, then I guess SPR and Battleground.

adamcotton · 18-01-2008, 03:37 PM

What about last year's Flyboys? Anyone seen that?

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spidge Legendary Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 7,959	What are your favourite "fictional" movies of WW2? There have been threads on many "favourite or worse" movies however it would be interesting to see what works of fiction we enjoy about the WW2 era. It would be more interesting to know although fiction, could they have been based on something that really did happen? I will start off with: Von Ryans Express. - Frank Sinatra & Trevor Howard Where Eagles Dare. - Richard Burton & Clint Eastwood. What's yours? __________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm

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Gotthard Heinrici Ostfront is where its at! Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 3,495	I always liked "The Eagle has landed" or "Cross of Iron", both of which are books that were made into good movies. __________________ *"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)

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djcrtoye Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 57	oops __________________ To my 2 granda's who answered their nations call. Pvte Dominic Toye RAMC and Thomas Quinn Royal Navy. Last edited by djcrtoye; 18-01-2008 at 10:39 AM. Reason: mis read topic

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plant-pilot Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 949	'Das Boot' has to be up there. One film that shows it how it is. A great film. __________________ M3... the ship of the desert 2003

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Mark Hone Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Bury, Lancashire, England Posts: 278	Interesting to watch the British wartime film 'Went The Day Well', which is a clear inspiration for 'Eagle Has Landed' and has much the same plot, minus Churchill and the American Rangers! Incidentally, something that has always puzzled me about the village in the film. Are there really places in Norfolk which have ROMAN CATHOLIC parish churches in the middle of the village? __________________ In memory of Corporal Jack Hone (1923-2004), proud 14th Army 'Steelback'. Last edited by Mark Hone; 18-01-2008 at 02:45 PM.

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4th wilts Discharged Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: wessex Posts: 1,043	one of our planes is missing.lee

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richcarrick Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 9	for sheer realism, I'd say Saving Private Ryan, although technically it's based on a true story for fictional films, Kelly's Heroes will always get a viewing if it's on TV

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Slipdigit The Dixie Division Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Not far enough in the woods Posts: 1,609	I've already mentioned my two favs, Mister Roberts and The Caine Mutiny, in another thread. If you are looking for real fictional war movie favs where there is some shooting, explosions and what not, then I guess SPR and Battleground. __________________ Warmest Regards, Jeff The Bonnie Blue Flag *

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adamcotton Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Brighton, England Posts: 352	What about last year's Flyboys? Anyone seen that? __________________ *Adam* *Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth* *And danced the skies on laughter silvered wings* *Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun split clouds -* *and done a hundred things* *You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air.* *Up, up the long, delerious, burning blue* *I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace Where never lark or even eagle flew-* *And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod* *The high untrespassed sanctity of space,* *Put out my hand and touched the face of God.* - John Gillespie Magee, Jr. 1922-1941

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