What is the last WW2 Film or Series you saw?

Great 4 part mini series/ docu drama... just watched this again and it really gives you the sense of panic and bewilderment that must have been overwhelming at Dunkirk and the collapsing perimeter. Good recognition given to the rear guard units as well as the actual evacuation, the re-enactment of the action in which Lt Jimmy Langly of the Coldstream Gurads won his MC is particularly well done. On a whole I'd have to give this series full marks...very watchable.


Watchable yes - but a lot of people would disagree with you for two reasons;

1/ the BBC(or whoever made this for the BBC) got round the necessity for major production values by simply employing VERY tight camera angles - you don't actually see any great reconstructed open vistas. Look for example of Bill Tennat's arrival in Dunkirk; as he winds his way through the chaotic town you don't actually SEE any chaos! Because the camera is tightly focused on JUST him and those with him. Typical of the series; it covers the ground...but you don't SEE the ground!

2/ the SOUNDTRACK...and this was the one thing that REALLY got on my t1ts...did you notice something? The BBC went for a very iconic cound of war - MODERN war....the entire series is filled with more helicopter-like "chop" than Apocalypse Now! Okay, I KNOW it's supposed to trigger the emotions of TODAY'S generation....but it just didn't fit the programme at all, totally anachronistic.

 

Imo Tobruk is a very good and deeply impressive film - there isn't so much action but somehow I had the feeling that it gets closer to what war is like than other films. Watch it if you get the chance!

 

I'd agree with Kate.....Very Watch-able and there is something about the film I can't put my finger one.

 

I just finished watching the 11 disk collectors edition of World at War put out by the BBC. Excellent series, and well worth the price. There were a few section which were duplicates of themselves, but in context they made sense.

Some of the interviews with the last people in the bunker with Hitler were apropos in more than one place, like Trude Junge's contributions.

 

I just watched Band of Brothers. I have been thinking of getting World at war. I did not know if it was any good. I guss I will have to get it now

 

I sat and watched "Ice Cold in Alexs" yesterday aftenoon, I really like the old B&W war films, However I did notice a glearing mistake when they went to get petrol from a British fuel dump they used "Jerry Cans" and not the British petrol tins which was the standard issue in that period.

 

Just watched Tobruk, quite dark and broody as most reviews said, but a good war film nonetheless, the weapons, uniforms and vehicles were spot on, always a good thing!

 

film=saving private ryan
series=the world at war

 

either a bridge too far
or band of brothers

 

Just had "Theirs is the Glory" delivered dispite the Postal Strike, I sat down this afternoon and watched it.

 

Sea of Sand...Richard Attenborough, John Gregson etc.
Standard LRDG story ruined by several silly mistakes; Afrika Korps using Brens & Stens and driving American half-tracks for instance.
It was common for each side to use captured vehicles and other materiel. So the scene which generated the comment could, in real time, actually have been factually correct.

 

Band of Brothers.

 

Went the day well....yet again...the old they are amongst us feeling...and of course the stiff upper lip..Totally unbelievable but great nostalgia.

 

sea of sand

stiff upper lip stuff

 

The Eagle Has Landed.

I'm not a big fan of fiction,and i realise films are always made for entertainment but i make the odd exception as i did here.

 

Watched "Good" the other day, starring Viggo Mortensen and Jason Isaacs. They both do a great job. A very good movie that I would recommend watching.

Here's from imdb:

"John Halder is a 'good' and decent individual with family problems: a neurotic wife, two demanding children and a mother suffering from senile dementia. A literary professor, Halder explores his personal circumstances in a novel advocating compassionate euthanasia. When the book is unexpectedly enlisted by powerful political figures in support of government propaganda, Halder finds his career rising in an optimistic current of nationalism and prosperity. Seemingly inconsequential decisions lead to choices, which lead to more choices... with eventually devastating effect."


Jakob

 

BoB (Battle of Britain)

 

"Theirs Is The Glory"

 

Just watched this film:
A bit long and can be complicated to follow with the subtitles but still quite good none the less. The film contains some rather graphic original propaganda footage from the Germans and Russians.

What I did enjoy was the post war part of the film set in Poland showing how the Russians suppressed the truth.




Katyn [DVD] [2007]: Amazon.co.uk: Artur Zmijewski, Jan Englert, Maja Ostaszewska, Magdalena Cielecka, Pawel Malaszynski, Andrzej Chyra, Danuta Stenka, Andrzej Wajda: DVD

 

Got given a couple of freebie films from the paper. Ice Cold In Alex and The Long And The Short And The Tall now I just need time and peace and quiet:mellow: to watch them