What is the last WW2 Film or Series you saw?

das boot,with subtitles,brilliant.

 

The Bunker. The Bunker (2001)
Medium budget thriller, not bad actor's play and i've noticed that german uniform reproduced very good And there are MP44s and they are firing from them ) i've been amazed )

 

Out here, where I live in China, some 'western films' are available, copied no doubt.
The other day , I chanced upon 'As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me'
Not really a war movie but I think it merits mention as it is based upon a true and quite moving story.
Clemens Forell, a German soldier during WW II, is sentenced to a labour camp in far east Siberia and the film is the story of his escape and the adventure of his long long journey home to his family.

 

The Downfall or (Der Untergang)

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his Generals and advisers to fight to the last man. "Downfall" explores these final days of the Reich, where senior German leaders (such as Himmler and Goring) began defecting from their beloved Fuhrer, in an effort to save their own lives, while still others (Joseph Goebbels) pledge to die with Hitler. Hitler, himself, degenerates into a paranoid shell of a man, full of optimism one moment and suicidal depression the next. When the end finally does comes, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender
Swiss born actor Bruno Ganz does an exceptional job of playing Hitler.

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Watched Ice Cold in Alex last night on DVD, one of my favourites.
Maybe tonight it'll be Dambusters or the Colditz Story.

I've seen them all dozens of times but could watch them a dozen more times again

 

I watched "The Pianist" last weekend, isntead of doing my homework. My mother's fault for turning it on and getting me interested. It was very good, though. I liked the claustrophobic focus on the just one man. I think I may like it better than "Schindler's List", which I saw for the first time only a few months ago. "The Pianist" is so straight forward in its direction, and I do like that. "Schindler" looks almost too beautiful sometimes. The direction is amazing, but it can distract me, as a movie buff, more.

Oh hell, they're both pretty amazing movies.

 

das boot,with subtitles,brilliant.

I am dying to see that movie, and somehow haven't yet! It was on TV recently, and I was excited and ready to dvr it, but alas, there was a reason it was on AMC (isn't that American Movie Classics?), it was dubbed! The dubbing looked better than it might be, but I still just turned it off. I can't take any live action movie seriously that has been dubbed. Nothing wrong with subtitles, they just mean you have to keep your eyes on the screen!

 

Just finished watching Band of Brothers on dvd, excellent

 

I watched "The Pianist" last weekend, isntead of doing my homework. My mother's fault for turning it on and getting me interested. It was very good, though. I liked the claustrophobic focus on the just one man. I think I may like it better than "Schindler's List", which I saw for the first time only a few months ago. "The Pianist" is so straight forward in its direction, and I do like that. "Schindler" looks almost too beautiful sometimes. The direction is amazing, but it can distract me, as a movie buff, more.

Oh hell, they're both pretty amazing movies.

That's right, blame your mom. She's only sacrificed everything for you the past 20 years, slaving over a hot stove, powdering you butt after a diaper change, bandaging your scrapped knee, making sure you got to karate practice, getting you that job at Hooters...oops, you didn't want them to know about that, did you?:p

 

That's right, blame your mom. She's only sacrificed everything for you the past 20 years, slaving over a hot stove, powdering you butt after a diaper change, bandaging your scrapped knee, making sure you got to karate practice, getting you that job at Hooters...oops, you didn't want them to know about that, did you?:p

I only blame her for cultivating my history nerdness further! She's the one who rented "The Great Escape" when I was 15, and now she distracts me with "The Pianist". Clearly, she's got to start renting horrible romantic comedies, like a proper mother... She's leading me astray.

 

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

 

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.

 

Just watched Stalag 17, love it

 

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)

 

'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

 

'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.

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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