What is the last WW2 Film or Series you saw?

Discussion in 'Books, Films, TV, Radio' started by Ivan1, Apr 9, 2007.

  1. Jedburgh22

    Jedburgh22 Very Senior Member

    The film Katyn by the Polish director Andrzej Wajda - one of the most moving pictures I have seen in recent years it covers the fate of the Polish Officer class at the hands of the Soviets as well as the fate of the intelligentsia at the hands of both the Nazis and the Soviets - I got the DVD for a fiver - money well spent!
     
  2. Gerard

    Gerard Seelow/Prora

    Watched "The Fall of Berlin - Anonyma" the other day. Its based on the book "A Woman in Berlin" and its a good film. I say good because although the subject matter (German women trying to survive in Berlin in Spring 1945) is horrific its compelling viewing. Nina Hoss as the Woman gives a fantastic performance. Although the film does encapsulate the atrocities well, they dont try to cast the Germans as victims;you are left in no doubt that this was payback to the German population for what happened in the Soviet Union years previously.

    anyways worth watching.
     
  3. schuee

    schuee Junior Member

    My dad used to say that this movie did a good job of showing what life was like for the American soldier in western Europe during the winter of 44/45.

    I'm paraphrasing his words. He's been gone since 92, sadly.

    Dave

    Sorry to hear that Dave, to me this film portrays how behind the action the ordinary soldier was just a real person who still had a life and family back at home, I never get tired of watching it.

    Keith
     
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  4. James S

    James S Very Senior Member

    "World at War" disc which covers North Africa, Stalingrad , The Atlantic and Russia 1942-43.
     
  5. WhiskeyGolf

    WhiskeyGolf Senior Member

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  6. Nicola_G

    Nicola_G Senior Member

    Love Foyle's War :) I can see why the guys like Honeysuckle Weeks :)
     
  7. At Home Dad (Returning)

    At Home Dad (Returning) Well-Known Member

    Just making my way through series two
    of "It Ain't Half Hot, Mum"...

    proper comedy
     
  8. canuck

    canuck Closed Account

    Halfway through Spielberg's The Pacific.

    Very well done and especially meaningful after having recently read With the Old Breed, by Eugene Sledge.
     
  9. Gabriel

    Gabriel Junior Member

    The film Katyn by the Polish director Andrzej Wajda - one of the most moving pictures I have seen in recent years it covers the fate of the Polish Officer class at the hands of the Soviets as well as the fate of the intelligentsia at the hands of both the Nazis and the Soviets - I got the DVD for a fiver - money well spent!

    That is a movie I would like to see.

    I remember in 1943 (I was 10) the germans posters on the walls denouncing the massacre of polish officers in the forest of Katyn.
    It was very graphic.
     
  10. Gabriel

    Gabriel Junior Member

    Jedburgh22

    With the help of Google Chrome I found the german poster about Katyn.
    It is exactly the one I saw so many years ago!

    At that time I tough the poster was showing Bolcheviks shooting german prisoners.

    [​IMG]
     
  11. jetson

    jetson Junior Member

    I saw a rerun of "The Cruel Sea" yet again last week and never tire of it. It sums up the routine boredom of patrol work by the little ships of the RN in horrendous weather conditions, interspersed with action and death by torpedo, gunfire and air attack. The film contains no false bravado, it instead shows human beings as possessing all the human frailties and weaknesses with instances of compassion and rare heroism. The "film noire" atmosphere engendered by the black and white reproduction rather than technicolour adds to the realism in my opinion.
     
  12. Gabriel

    Gabriel Junior Member

    To night sur TMC "Decision before Dawn", 1951 movie with Oskar Werner and Hildegarde Neff.

    I already saw that movie 3-4 times, but I gonna watch it again!
     
  13. At Home Dad (Returning)

    At Home Dad (Returning) Well-Known Member

    It's (Cruel Sea) one of my all time favourites and it was only
    recently that I read the book - found an old
    penguin copy on ebay for a couple of quid.

    The book is stunning, you read things that should
    have been in the film but couldn't... I'd highly recco
    it to you.
     
  14. Scout Sniper

    Scout Sniper Senior Member

    Many of the movies made about WW II during the 1940s and 1950s have long been forgotten. Last week I posted a thread on the movie RED BERET. Tonight I watched the movie ODETTE which is about SOE operations in France.

    Odette - Anna Neagle, Trevor Howard 1950 - YouTube
     
  15. MarkVdK

    MarkVdK Junior Member

    Got 'the Pacific' as a present, and just finished it.
    I don't think it's better than Band of brothers, but a bit different, rougher, 'darker' if that's the correct term.
    But I really liked it, they should make more series of this calibre, maybe about the British this time...
     
  16. singeager

    singeager Senior Member

    a freind of mine just posted me this. thought it was good

    The German

    (is not totaly historicaly correct - ME109's did not have the feul range, i doubt if anyone could land with out a wing etc...but a good effort)
     
  17. Kbak

    Kbak Senior Member

    a freind of mine just posted me this. thought it was good

    The German

    (is not totaly historicaly correct - ME109's did not have the feul range, i doubt if anyone could land with out a wing etc...but a good effort)

    That was great especially the dog fight scenes
     
  18. son of a rat

    son of a rat Senior Member

    I love the old black and whites such as I was Monty's Double and San Demetrio, London and for a bit of colour D-Day to Berlin by George Stevens and Britain at War in colour Narrated by John Thaw, I love DVDS also D-Day the price of freedom i bought this in Ste Mere-Eglise very good.
     
  19. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    I am currently watching the T V series,'The World At War' on DVD. I am watching the second DVD, out of 9 DVD's.

    Best documentary ever. Enjoy! :)
     
  20. Clint_NZ

    Clint_NZ Member

    'Battle of Britain' for like the millionith time, never tire of it.
     

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