Your Favourite WW II Movie ?

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  1. spidge

    spidge RAAF RESEARCHER

    My top is for my personal enjoyment value!

    Land

    A Bridge too Far

    The Battle Of The Bulge

    The Longest Day

    The Desert Rats (Richard Burton)

    Patton

    Air

    Battle of Britain

    The Dam Busters

    Tora! Tora! Tora!

    Naval

    In Which We Serve

    Midway

    Sink the Bismarck

    Above Us the Waves

    The Enemy Below (Robert Mitchum / Kurt Jurgens)

    Holocaust

    Schindlers List

    POW

    Bridge on the River Kwai

    Von Ryan's Express

    Special Forces

    Where Eagles Dare

    The Eagle has Landed
     
    spidge, Aug 6, 2006
    #21
  2. Pog

    Pog Junior Member

    German Sniper Training Film from 1944.

    Well its a real WW2 Movie...
     
    Pog, Aug 6, 2006
    #22
  3. Andy in West Oz

    Andy in West Oz Senior Member

    Pretty much what you guys have said.

    Battle of the River Plate is in my top three. Real big gun cruisers banging away...great stuff!

    Cheers

    Andy
     
    Andy in West Oz, Aug 18, 2006
    #23
  4. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    'Come and See'.
    Idi i Smotri.
    Not since the Seven Samurai have I found a long, subtitled film to pass so quickly.

    Cheers,
    Adam.
     
    von Poop, Sep 3, 2006
    #24
  5. Cpl Rootes

    Cpl Rootes Senior Member

    I like pretty much all of Spidge's (except Von Ryans express which i have never seen) I have some more to add:

    1) BoB, yes it isn't a film but it deserves mention any ways.
    2) 633 sqn
    3) Mrs Henderson Presents, and i know it is not a war movie but it is very enjoyable.
     
    Cpl Rootes, Sep 3, 2006
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  6. PearlJamNoCode

    PearlJamNoCode Senior Member

    My favorite for battle realism is Saving Private Ryan, but for story I prefer Band of Brothers, especially the later episodes. I just started watching The Downfall today. An excellent film so far. I hope this isn't off topic, but does anyone know how I could find some WWII propoganda films? It doesn't matter which side, I would just like to see them out of interest, perhaps the "Why We Fight" series?
     
    PearlJamNoCode, Dec 28, 2006
    #26
  7. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    'Come and See'.

    Not since the Seven Samurai have I found a long, subtitled film to pass so quickly.

    Cheers,
    Adam.

    watch trailer here from Play.com site.

    Come and See

    Elem Klimov's powerful, mesmerising and dynamic award winning feature has been deservedly hailed as one of the greatest war films ever produced.

    Set in Soviet Belarus during the Second World War, the story follows Florya, a newly enlisted and innocent partisan, as he staggers dazed and petrified through the merciless horror of the struggle against a cruel German aggressor. Essentially the film is a rite of passage and Florya's face physically ages during the progression of the film as he is subjected to ever increasing brutal warfare and maniacal ethnic cleansing, routinely committed by the German forces.

    The film's title is derived from the Book of Revelation and its call for witnesses to 'come and see' the carnage and devastation wrought by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The imagery created by Klimov is stunning and the battle scenes frighteningly realistic; the director actually used real ammunition during filming for maximum authenticity. Such brutality shocks to the core and the director's careful attention to style and detail make it all too believable whilst leaving the audience stunned and bewildered to the very last.


    http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/902952/Come_And_See/Product.html


    Thanks VP just ordered it.
     
    Owen, Dec 28, 2006
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  8. ErikH

    ErikH Senior Member

    Not sure if I've already posted in this thread, but anyways some of my favs are:
    - Von Ryans Express
    - The Great Escape
    - The Devils Brigade
    - Enemy at the Gates
    - The Eagle Has Landed
    - Guns of Navaore and Force 10 from Navarone

    Edit: Big Red One is pretty good, I'm watching it right now.
     
    ErikH, Dec 29, 2006
    #28
  9. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Wasn't on-line last night because I was watching Come and See.

    Watched it in Russian with subtitles, get a better "feel" that way.
    Boy, you can tell this isn't Hollywood. Rather slow but that is good as it allowed the story to develop. Great insight to forest life in a Partisan camp in Belorussia in 1943.
    Keep having to remember the main character is only a teenage lad.
    Fresh faced at the start of the film, looks about 50 at the end.
    Music to the film is fantastic and very oppressive at times. The droning sound of the over-flying German spotter plane is very sinister.
    The showing of violence is not gratuitous alot of the deaths happen out of shot.
    The scene with the village church is handled well. Really not to be watched before going to bed, especially if you have small children and think of what went on in that church. That is what is good, all you see is the church from the outside BUT you know what is going on and can visualise the scenes inside. Not pleasant.
    In the film they used real explosives (not cinema pyrotechnics) in many scenes and live tracer rounds in the cow stealing sequence.
    Some slightly arty bits, such as the White Stork appearing in a few scenes which the meaning of was lost on me, Eastern Europeans think it is good luck to have them nest on their house so perhaps it is contected with that, in an ironic way because this lad was having no luck.
    Talking of birds it was good to hear Great Snipe calling on the misty morning, well I think it was.

    Film is 137 minutes long with choice of Russian with subtitles or English overdub.

    A very thought provoking film, made me abhorr anything remotely connecting with Nazism. Not one to watch late at night if you want to get to sleep afterwards but it was only time I could view it with no small children around.

    If this is Russian cinema then show me more and keep Hollywood's war movies away.
     
    Owen, Jan 4, 2007
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  10. Shörner

    Shörner Member

    Wasn't on-line last night because I was watching Come and See.

    Film is 137 minutes long with choice of Russian with subtitles or English overdub.

    A very thought provoking film, made me abhorr anything remotely connecting with Nazism. Not one to watch late at night if you want to get to sleep afterwards but it was only time I could view it with no small children around.

    If this is Russian cinema then show me more and keep Hollywood's war movies away.

    Wasnt this movie made in poland? For some reason it seems it might have been :|

    Just wondering
     
    Shörner, Jan 4, 2007
    #30
  11. djcrtoye

    djcrtoye Member

    A Bridge Too Far will never tire of it. Reason being grandfather was there and captured so a bit personal for me.
     
    djcrtoye, Jan 4, 2007
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  12. owenkane

    owenkane Junior Member

    Bridge to far its all a question of bridges
     
    owenkane, Jan 4, 2007
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  13. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Wasnt this movie made in poland? For some reason it seems it might have been :|

    Just wondering

    No Belarussia.
    Good long interview with Director on two disc version.
    100% sure of Belarussia.
     
    Owen, Jan 4, 2007
    #33
  14. Lucy Stag

    Lucy Stag Senior Member

    The Great Escape
    Reach for the Sky
    Saving Private Ryan
    Casablanca (yeah, I know it doesn't quite count)
    Downfall

    Important mentions to the documentary/docudrama "The Blitz, December 29th: 1940 London's Longest Night" for being as absorbing as a great movie, and plenty of reinactments. A great "Dunkirk" documdrama as well.

    That's all my brain can think of at the moment. The Attenburough "Dunkirk" is out of print, correct? I would love to see that.

    Someday maybe some of the movies I want to make will be on someone's list. There are so many that don't exist, that need to.
     
    Lucy Stag, Jan 8, 2007
    #34
  15. BulgarianSoldier

    BulgarianSoldier Senior Member

    Saving Prv. Ryan
    Osvobozhdenie (Russian movie)
    Enemy of the Gate
    And my favorit ww2 movie is Band of Brothers.
     
    BulgarianSoldier, Jan 9, 2007
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  16. BulgarianSoldier

    BulgarianSoldier Senior Member

    Wasn't on-line last night because I was watching Come and See.

    Watched it in Russian with subtitles, get a better "feel" that way.
    Boy, you can tell this isn't Hollywood. Rather slow but that is good as it allowed the story to develop. Great insight to forest life in a Partisan camp in Belorussia in 1943.
    Keep having to remember the main character is only a teenage lad.
    Fresh faced at the start of the film, looks about 50 at the end.
    Music to the film is fantastic and very oppressive at times. The droning sound of the over-flying German spotter plane is very sinister.
    The showing of violence is not gratuitous alot of the deaths happen out of shot.
    The scene with the village church is handled well. Really not to be watched before going to bed, especially if you have small children and think of what went on in that church. That is what is good, all you see is the church from the outside BUT you know what is going on and can visualise the scenes inside. Not pleasant.
    In the film they used real explosives (not cinema pyrotechnics) in many scenes and live tracer rounds in the cow stealing sequence.
    Some slightly arty bits, such as the White Stork appearing in a few scenes which the meaning of was lost on me, Eastern Europeans think it is good luck to have them nest on their house so perhaps it is contected with that, in an ironic way because this lad was having no luck.
    Talking of birds it was good to hear Great Snipe calling on the misty morning, well I think it was.

    Film is 137 minutes long with choice of Russian with subtitles or English overdub.

    A very thought provoking film, made me abhorr anything remotely connecting with Nazism. Not one to watch late at night if you want to get to sleep afterwards but it was only time I could view it with no small children around.

    If this is Russian cinema then show me more and keep Hollywood's war movies away.
    Jesus i though that if a west europen watch Come and See he wont understand a thing, but great work owen :)
     
    BulgarianSoldier, Jan 9, 2007
    #36
  17. phifflon

    phifflon Junior Member

    Ice cold in Alex

    Cruel Sea

    How you lot managed to miss these classic films i will neaver know
     
    phifflon, Jan 9, 2007
    #37
  18. spidge

    spidge RAAF RESEARCHER

    spidge, Jan 9, 2007
    #38
  19. Kyt

    Kyt Very Senior Member

    A couple of others that I like:

    The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp
    OK - so it was was wartime propaganda but still a great film (and notorious for saying that some Germans weren't bad)

    Hell In The Pacific
    With Lee Marvin and a Japanese actor (whose name I've forgotten) playing two pilots who crashed on a Pacific island. The story of their antagonism and then their co-operation is well played
     
    Kyt, Jan 9, 2007
    #39
  20. Stephen White

    Stephen White Member

    Saving Private Ryan
    Memphis Belle
    Enemy at The Gates
    A Bridge to Far
    Schindlers List
    Downfall

    Would be my list of favourite films, that are of a more recent vintage (although I think A bridge to Far, isn't very recent)

    If you go back a few more years, I'd add to my list.

    Ice Cold in Alex
    The Cruel Sea
    Reach for The Sky
    The Malta Story
    Dambusters

    Stephen
     
    Stephen White, Jan 15, 2007
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