What is the last WW2 Film or Series you saw?

Don't know if this counts, but I've been watching a DVD I got at the museum of the 48th Highlanders (of Canada) here in Toronto that they titled "That Dileas Spirit" (from their Gaelic motto, Dileas Gu Brath). Mix of archival footage, a narrator, and vets describing their experiences in WW2.

 

Operation Crossbow

Pretty good. Sophia Loren was stunning, per usual. Good cast with some great vehicles and planes.
IMCDb.org: "Operation Crossbow, 1965": cars, bikes, trucks and other vehicles

 

I remember reading a book called the "Feather Men" about the SAS after VE Day - was it true?

 

I'm through the first three episodes of Dad's Army.
I'm enjoying it very much. Very funny

Dad's Army (TV Series 1968–1977) - IMDb

 

Very good episode of Combat! Great sets and a good story line. Kirby still has his M1. I don't think he got the BAR until the second season. Handly's carbine has a bayonet clip but we'll overlook the minor anachronism.

 

Another quality episode of "Combat!"

Were there any similar series out of the UK?

 

Some of the episodes in the later seasons are a bit weak but this one is back to being very funny.

"Oh, just an ordinary sort of Rolls"

 

No wonder he was my favourite character on that show. He's a fellow Canuck.

Amazing he survived. Saunders always had him take the point.

Pierre Jalbert (9 January 1925 – 22 January 2014) was a Canadian skier, actor, and motion picture film and sound editor, primarily known for his role as "Caje" on the US television 1960's World War II program Combat!.
He was christened Joseph Jacques Pierre-Paul Jalbert in Quebec City, Quebec, the son of a newspaperman. He graduated from Ouellet College, and attended Laval University, where he was part of the University Air Training Corps??? during World War II.
Pierre Jalbert
Born Pierre-Paul Jalbert
9 January 1925
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Died 22 January 2014 (aged 89)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Cause of death heart attack

He is the brother of René Marc Jalbert, the sergeant-at-arms of Quebec's legislature whose bravery saved lives during Denis Lortie's 1984 attack on that institution

 

"Gage, take the point!"

Everyone claimed Gage when we "played guns" as kids. Next best was Little John because he would always win when we had to go hand to hand with the Krauts.

 

One of the funniest episodes yet.

Dad's Army in German uniforms

 

I cancelled my Pay TV account (Foxtel) due to the irritating increase in their self promotion of upcoming movies etc. I got all my old war movies out and enjoyed every one of them again and saved $100 a month.
Guns of Navarone,
The Dambusters,
Sink the Bismark,
Churchill's War (Documentary),
ANZAC's (Series) 524 minutes, WW1 Paul Hogan
A Bridge too Far,
Band of Brothers (Series)
The World at War (Series)
Midway,
Patton,
Under Ten Flags (Van Heflin)
San Demetrio London,
The Longest Day,
In Which We Serve (Noel Coward)
The Battle of Britain.
Tobruk (Richard Burton)
Even watched Zulu again (still a great movie)

Now I have to look through my VHS collection and get them out.

 

Great series Combat.

 

Objective Burma. Very good

 

Just watched the Spanish Civil War film, Guernica. Enjoyed this much more than Dunkirk. Link takes you to a trailer and it can be downloaded via YouTube, Google or iTunes.
guernica movie - Google Search

 

This week I finally managed to watch HHhH (or The Man With The Iron Heart to use it's UK title) on Netflix. It tells the story of Reinhard Heydrich and Operation Anthropoid but it is based on the fictional book HHhH rather than a strictly true account of events plus it also delves into Heydrich's past as a Naval officer and his rise within the SS instead of just sticking with the events in Prague.
If you have seen the films Anthropoid & Operation Daybreak then the crypt scene could of been better but the film covers a wider story than just Operation Anthropoid and I think this is the reason for it lacking the tension in the build up to the assassination and manhunt. What has to be remembered is that the film is based on a fiction book interwoven with true events rather than just a true depiction of events so it was never going to be 100% genuine, for example (SPOILER ALERT - have always wanted to say that!) anyone with an interest in the real events knows that the hiding place was given away by the young boy when he was shown the decapitated head of his mother but in HHhH he does it while being forced to watch a man being tortured.
Also, where I thought the film Anthropoid was better is in the use of locations. I have no idea if the crypt scene in Anthropoid was actually filmed in the very crypt where the heroes made their last stand or if it was a mock-up but if it is the latter than it was very well done as it is identical to the real thing (would they allow a film company to stage a battle including flood water in the real crypt?)

Overall i would say it is worth a watch but I personally thought Anthropoid was better but whereas Anthropoid concentrated on the agents and the mission, HHhH covers a wider area.

 

Narrow Escapes of World War 2-Wingate and the Chindits:

 

Yesterday I watched a new showing on Sky Cinema - The Zookeeper's Wife starring Jessica Chastain and which I thought was a good film. It tells the true story of a man & wife who own the Warsaw Zoo and at the start of WW-2 the Germans bomb it and an old family friend from Germany returns as an SS officer. The couple set out to help the persecuted Jews and set up the zoo as a pig farm while the SS officer uses it for a breeding project to bring back an extinct species of bison. But the couple use the zoo/farm to hide Jews from the nearby Ghetto, smuggling them out in various ways. By the end of the war 300 had been hidden there, some for just a few days and others for a lot longer.
After the war they set up the zoo again and were honoured at Yad Vashem as 'Righteous Among The Nations'.

 

The Human Comedy

Real nice, realistic American home front movie made in 1943

The Human Comedy (1943) - IMDb


www.dailymotion.com/video/x55rznc Part 1

www.dailymotion.com/video/x55rzuj Part 2

 

The Book Thief.

A really good film.

 

Little Boy

Another good film I enjoyed.