War Movies - Based on a true story

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  1. spider

    spider Very Senior Member

    spider, Dec 16, 2010
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  2. jainso31

    jainso31 jainso31

    has anybody mentioned:-
    Austerlitz
    Waterloo
    All quiet on the western front
    Paths of glory
    Zulu and zulu dawn
    Gettysburg

    jainso31
     
    jainso31, Dec 16, 2010
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  3. Jedburgh22

    Jedburgh22 Very Senior Member

    Tunes of Glory deals with the tensions in the mess of a post war battalion
     
    Jedburgh22, Dec 16, 2010
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  4. spider

    spider Very Senior Member

    spider, Dec 21, 2010
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  5. Roxy

    Roxy Senior Member

    At a presentation by a holocaust survivor recently, 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' came in for some criticism - the individual intimated that schools are presenting it to pupils as a historically accurate story. She was adamant that, at least at Theresienstadt, there was now way the child is a Nazi would have had anything to do with an inmate.

    Roxy
     
    Roxy, Mar 1, 2014
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  6. dbf

    dbf Moderatrix MOD

    My son had to study the book as part of his curriculum*. Suffering from the same nit-picking affliction that many of us on here do, he still found it good as a basis for discussion and further research. I think some people (on both sides) however have yet to realise that historical fiction is just that, and not history.

    His grammar school was visited recently by this lady who also criticised the accuracy of the film but couldn't recommend Schindler's List and The Pianist to her young audience either, because of the level of violence portrayed. (My son has however already watched Schindler's List.)
    http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/holocaust-survivor-born-concentration-camp-3023533


    *It was for English Literature, not for History.
     
    dbf, Mar 1, 2014
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  7. Hesmond

    Hesmond Well-Known Member

    The French movie on the rounding up in Paris and deportation of French Jews is very good it stars Jean Reno and is called Round up
     
    Hesmond, Mar 18, 2014
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  8. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    Tricky Dicky, Mar 18, 2014
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  9. phylo_roadking

    phylo_roadking Very Senior Member

    As well as The Gift Horse, the Lloyd Bridges' vehicle Attack On The Iron Coast was based on the St. Nazaire raid.
     
    phylo_roadking, Mar 18, 2014
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  10. Hesmond

    Hesmond Well-Known Member

    Days of Glory is a great film ,but the comments made as to France whitewashed and forgot its North Africian soliders is very misleading, try collecting any colonial matrial ,cheaper to have a cocain habit, there are many many histories of the colonial units who served France, and remeber Algiers fought to leave metropoltian France,you leave a club you cant cherry pick what benefits to still use.
    And the final scene with the old solider in a council flat ,well so was my dad till quite recently , crack head neiubours ,police and council did not care, we eventually had him transferd to a resedential home at 90, then falls and care of NHS which has been from good to very bad ,so whats the diffrence! Except Days had a political point to make and the French luvvies had a touch of the vapours
     
    Hesmond, Mar 19, 2014
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