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Battle of Britain
Battle of the River Plate
Sink the Bismark
Tora Tora Tora

BTW is there any movies about the Battle of Jutland? I like the Battle of the River Plate, except everytime I see it I keep wishing (heh) that the Langsdorff(?) doesnt believe the Brit propoganda and just blasts his way to freedom..then again I also pray that the Bismark makes it back to port.. :D
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They might be on loan from the Spanish military, but they are still M-60 Patton tanks, iirc.
The German tanks where M-47's, considering that the German army got more of those then the American army did, which quickly moved onto the M-48, its not the worst option. Anyway I believe both Patton and The Battle of the Bulge where made before fiberglass became readily available with which to modify vehicles. Overall old military equipment is actually pretty rare in Europe, when they went to make A bridge To Far for example only five Sherman's could be found, one of which was borrowed off a monument, the rest of the ones you see are just shells ontop of VW bug's.
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pellaeons_scion wrote:Battle of Britain
Battle of the River Plate
Sink the Bismark
Tora Tora Tora

BTW is there any movies about the Battle of Jutland? I like the Battle of the River Plate, except everytime I see it I keep wishing (heh) that the Langsdorff(?) doesnt believe the Brit propoganda and just blasts his way to freedom..then again I also pray that the Bismark makes it back to port.. :D
No Jutland movies. :cry:

Which could be a good thing, I'd fucking DIE if a Jutland flick turned out like Pearl Harbor....

There was a Japanese movie about Tsushima made in the 50s, though. I remember neither it's title or who made it, and have never seen it.
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Which could be a good thing, I'd fucking DIE if a Jutland flick turned out like Pearl Harbor....
Having never seen Pearl Harbor I have no idea how bad that is...but from that comment I think Ill put it in the same category as "dude, wheres my car"...IE Ill never watch it even if Im forced with imminent death!

No jutland movies? *sulks*
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Stalingrad,
Das Boot,
Cross of Iron.
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Saving Private Ryan
The Great Escape
Where Eagles Dare
Force Ten From Navaroe
Schindlers List
Enemy at The Gates
Band of Brothers
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pellaeons_scion wrote:
Having never seen Pearl Harbor I have no idea how bad that is...
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Stalag 17 and Harts War were also fairly good.
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Someone mentioned Where Eagles Dare...

I just wanna know what the fuck was up with Clint and his bottomless bag of dynamite. He must pull a truckload of dynamite out of it over the course of the movie!
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More or less in this order:
1) A Bridge Too Far - a relatively good mix of showing the various high and low levels.
2) Tora, Tora, Tora
3) Sink the Bismarck
4) Battle of the River Plate - for some reason, despite 10x+ re-watchings, I could not quite catch exactly what Langsdorff said to Captain Dove (sp?)
5) Saving Private Ryan
6) Windtalkers
7) Das Boot
8) The Longest Day
9) Patton
10) Battle of the Bulge
11) Enemy at the Gates - great scene of "The man with the rifle shoots. The man without follows him. When the man with the rifle falls down, the man without picks up the rifle and KEEPS SHOOTING..." Too much romance for my taste. Rather amusing (in a perverse way) to see all those asshole comissars cowering in the back with their submachine guns and machine guns to shoot their own retreating people. One could not help but wonder whether any one of the commissars might have thought his weapon is perhaps better suited to support the assault, or what they are going when the Germans come for them, now that they've shot all the surviving soldiers on their team. Sad...
12) Midway

And at the very bottom of the shit pile:
Pearl Harbor.

Now, I want to talk briefly about a middling Japanese WWII film, Admiral Yamamoto, I once saw (I mostly the subtitles, but I know a tiny bit of Japanese, enough to tell when some of the the translations are crappy or failed to comprise some small detail.) It was about a 50s, maybe 60s production, obviously low budget. I wondered who copied who for the Midway armament change scenes, for Midway and this film used what seemed to be the same pictures - coincidence, or reusage of footage?

Anyway, one of my favorite parts was when they tried to depict the Santa Cruz (October 26, 1942) battle. They had only a few minutes, for the film tries to use maybe 90 minutes to show Yamamoto from about 1940 to his death in 1943:

They depicted the planes (apparently Val models of some sort) diving through a flak field that was the densest in the film. You see a few Vals getting blasted apart. But finally they made some hits on what obviously was supposed to be the Hornet, and the Hornet blows up in some pretty cheesy explosions (it is BLATANTLY obvious it is a model.) Then we have a cut to Yamamoto, obviously lounging on the Yamato, . When they got back, it was evening:

In the sunset, we see a Grand Total of THREE Vals. The three Vals catch up to a badly shot-up Zero. There are some pretty corny encouragements sent to the badly wounded Zero pilot. Of course, the Zero eventually rolls over into the sea. I'm not sure about you, but I was quite impressed by how the combination of scenes managed to make me appreciate how utterly costly the Santa Cruz battle was for the Japanese.
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My checklist for good WW2 flicks...

Is it depressing [ ]
Is it gritty [ ]
Are the characters realistic as opposed to Hollywood cardboard cut-out heroes [ ]
Does it bear at least a passing resemblance to reality [ ]
Is it German [ ]

If 4 of those are ticked it makes me a happy man.
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Pearl Harbor rocked!
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No seriously now. Another good World War II flick is The Final Countdown.
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Classic Favorite WWII Movies

In Harm's Way
John Wayne/Kirk Douglas/Patricia Neal/Carroll O'Connor/and Brandon de Wilde (YUM)
1965/B&W/165 min.

MIDWAY
Charlton Heston/Henry Fonda/James Coburn/Glenn Ford/Hal Holbrook/Robert Mitchum/Cliff Robertson
1976/Color/2 Hrs. 12 Mins.
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Enemy At The Gates, a bit too much romance for my tastes but still a good flick.


Does anyone know of any good war movies told from the perspective of a German infantryman?
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I know it wasn't a movie but I'd like to recommend Hogan's Heroes.
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Dam Busters
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not really....I just wanted to say it 'cause Lucas seems to have based the trench runs scenes in ANH off this movie...he even almost steals a line right out of the movie, he just changes a number in the line.
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justifier wrote: Does anyone know of any good war movies told from the perspective of a German infantryman?
Stand up from your computer and go to the phone and call every video store in your neighbourhood/city/state until you find one that has the German film Stalingrad. Goddamn motherfucking spectacular. It gets 5/5 on my WW2 movie scale.
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weemadando wrote: Stand up from your computer and go to the phone and call every video store in your neighbourhood/city/state until you find one that has the German film Stalingrad. Goddamn motherfucking spectacular. It gets 5/5 on my WW2 movie scale.
Or you could just buy it like i did :P
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Is it in English or have English subtitles?
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Here are two new movies to the list..

The Final Solution
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