What is the last WW2 Film or Series you saw?

Discussion in 'Books, Films, TV, Radio' started by Ivan1, Apr 9, 2007.

  1. Scout Sniper

    Scout Sniper Senior Member

    I enjoy the old black and white films. Tonight I watched one of my early war favorites, DUNKIRK.

    Dunkirk (1958) - YouTube
     
  2. IanW15

    IanW15 Junior Member

    I've built up a little library of films on DVD , including Battle of Britain, A Bridge Too Far, Battleground, Tora Tora Tora, Went The Day Well. I can watch some over & over again & not get bored with them.
    Another film I love is "The Longest Day" which I still watch on DVD or when it's on TV Though not the colourised version which I can't bear to watch. The sea looks like layers of tin foil being rustled.
    However, having visited Normandy & having read alot about it prior & after going, nowadays when I watch it I either end up pointing out places I've been to or pointing out the errors. Which I suppose is quite irritating when I'm watching it with someone else & just plain sad when I'm watching it alone.
     
  3. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    Watched Hogans Hero's last night.

    General Burkhalter's sister, Gertruda, had the hots for Col. Klink.

    Hilarious episode.
     
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  4. Clint_NZ

    Clint_NZ Member

    Just saw 'Age of Heroes' about a Commando raid on a German Radar site in Norway. I think its based along the lines of the Bruneval Raid in France. A good little movie, and it didn't have a sappy love story attached to it!
     
  5. wowtank

    wowtank Very Senior Member

    Pathfinders.

    Pathfinders: In the Company of Strangers (2011) - IMDb

    Terrible.

    According to this peace of dross street gangs were recruited 3 days before a drop to bolster the Pathfinders!!! and Pathfinders were dropped on zones protected by specialist anti paratrooper regiments!! I am not kidding lol so much at this film.
     
  6. At Home Dad (Returning)

    At Home Dad (Returning) Well-Known Member

    Last week I grabbed a box of Ealing dvd's from Amazon
    and mostly watched -

    The Ship That Died Of Shame - well shot, well acted, badly written

    Nine Men - FANTASTIC story of "what the papers would call a skirmish" up the desert

    The Bells Go Down - story of the auxiliary fire service in the east End during the early Blitz

    The Night My Number Came Up - quite a quirky little story set in far east

    Interestingly, both "The Night..." and "The Ship That Died..." were
    both set around (or feature characters involved in) the buying up
    of surplus military equipment post war. Enough to make many here
    jealous and wishing they could time travel! Who wouldm't want to buy
    an old motor torpedo boat!


    should be getting the Wereth Eleven next week, just released on DVD
     
  7. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Old Hickory Recon

    I watched bits and pieces of Victory at Sea a couple of nights ago.

    It was okay, but was overly melodramatic. In one section about the war in the west in 1940, it showed the same scene of Ju-87s dive bombing a position 4 times in row. It got tedious.
     
  8. Bodston

    Bodston Little Willy

    Just watched City of Life and Death. Wow, that is some brutal piece of work. I recorded it off the TV a couple of weeks age and only just got round to seeing it. Anything rather than the bloody Titanic. Marvelous film of a dreadful campaign.
     
  9. James S

    James S Very Senior Member

    Alan Bleasdale's "The Sinking of The Laconia".
     
  10. Jedburgh22

    Jedburgh22 Very Senior Member

    Stalingrad by the same team as produced Das Boot - one of the best depictions of the tragedy of the battle I've seen as well as excellent wounds equipment etc.
     
  11. KingTiger

    KingTiger Junior Member

  12. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Old Hickory Recon

    I guess this counts as a WWII movie, even if it is fiction:

    The Secret of Santa Vittoria

    I watched it this weekend. I remembered it from my childhood.
     
  13. Tunnellad

    Tunnellad Junior Member

    Resistance 2011, after the Nazi invasion of Britain, focusing on a small Welsh village and relations between Invader and invaded, a different perspective on how things may of been.
     
  14. DoreenC

    DoreenC Member

    I've seen a lot of war movies and just watched one of the most chilling I ever saw, and not a single shot is fired and the only action is talking.

    Conspiracy
     
  15. At Home Dad (Returning)

    At Home Dad (Returning) Well-Known Member

    I just bought my daughter the first series of the
    Linda Carter Wonder Woman, which she loves...

    some of the Nazi uniforms are a real hoot!
    Cuff titles worn as armbands etc
     
  16. At Home Dad (Returning)

    At Home Dad (Returning) Well-Known Member

  17. canuck

    canuck Closed Account

    The Train, with Burt Lancaster.

    For some reason, I've always been a sucker for this movie. That must have been the 15th viewing for me.
     
  18. HAMSEARCH

    HAMSEARCH Junior Member

    I have some recollection of a 1970's TV series 'Pathfinders'. Anyone else remember that?
     
  19. BC610E

    BC610E Junior Member

    Hi All,

    Just found this thread and forgive me if someone has already mentioned this but I recently came across a US outfit selling a set of seven DVDs of "The Valiant Years", an American documentary series on Churchill's part in WW2, originally aired in the 1960s. I was interested in this as my late Dad and I watched the whole series back then and I can recall the stirring musical score to this day. My Dad's interest was that he spent 3 and a half years as a POW and missed a lot of the news at the time.

    The series has the usual footage we're used to seeing on any History Channel series but it does contain some pieces of interest where significant figures give their versions of events, most of the main players were still alive in the early 60s. There are some classic howlers like a piece on the loss of the "Hood" with HMS Barham rolling over and exploding as the covering film. However, those errors aside, well worth watching, if only for Richard Burton doing Churchill's speeches.

    Cheers

    '610
     
  20. Gouldy

    Gouldy Junior Member

    I have recently bought the complete remastered edition of World at War

    and have also watched Fortress of War which is about the Brest Fortress
     
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