What is the last WW2 Film or Series you saw?

Wasn't that the plot of The Wild Geese II? Getting Hess out of Spandau? Which they did, successfully, but then realized they had to return him.

Crap film, I thought.

 

Saunders has to cope with an uncooperative TSgt attached to his squad.

 

No never saw that one

 

Got that mixed up with 'The Wild Geezer' in which Lord Longford gets a team of mercenaries to break Myra Hindley out of prison so that they can run away together and live happily ever after.

Or did I just dream that?

 

National Army Museum Chelsea Festival Talks

The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive - Crowdcast

MI9: A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War Two - Crowdcast

Secret Alliances: British Special Operations and Intelligence in Norway, 1940-45 - Crowdcast

The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination - Crowdcast

The Victoria Cross with Michael Naxton - Crowdcast

Bletchley Park and the History of Intelligence - Crowdcast

https://www.crowdcast.io/e/chelseap...e&utm_medium=profile_web&utm_campaign=profile

Sicily 43: The First Assault on Fortress Europe - Crowdcast

https://www.crowdcast.io/nationalarmymuseum

 

Pretty good.

 

I discovered I had streaming access from my library with the Kanopy service to Dunkirk(1958)! So I am watching that.

 

My thoughts, which you might not like: it makes Christopher Nolan's film look ridiculous. The beach scenes were fantastic. However, it was hampered by the need to document... Take for instance the scene in which they carry an injured man to the medical post near the beach, and then we get told about how some of those personnel will have to stay behind with the wounded and then they draw lots. Or the final scene where they were drilling. I would have cut those. I think you could probably cut half an hour from the film and it would be more enjoyable.

 

The Secret Invasion (1964) Stewart Granger, Raf Vallone, Mickey Rooney, Henry Silva

Part 1

Part 2

 

I don't think Henry Silva ever made a bad movie. I'll have to watch this one.

 

I watched “The Captain” (Der Hauptmann) on Amazon today, the true story of somebody I admit to never having heard of, Willi Herold, who impersonated a Luftwaffe captain and then proceeded to commit some horrendous war crimes at war’s end, primarily against his own.

A very powerful but dark film, made darker by it being true.

The Captain -- Official HD U.S. Trailer

(trailer courtesy of IMDb)

 

Kelly's Heroes -

This movie has aged very well IMO.
Lots of laughs and drama.

LOTS of WW2 equipment. I think it was shot in Yugoslavia. Politics of the day might have seen The USA supplying WW2 surplus to Tito, maybe.?

Anyway......they did a real good job with the three Tiger Tanks. I suppose they made them from the T-34.?


Kelly's Heroes (1970) - IMDb

 

Up from the Beach (1965)

"Following the Normandy landings at Omaha Beach, an American squad frees a group of French hostages but takes several casualties in an assault in Vierville-sur-Mer. They capture a German officer who has treated the French in his jurisdiction with kindness, but the American sergeant discovers that no one on the busy beachhead wishes to be bothered with prisoners."

Produced by 20th Century Fox were able to use footage of Omaha beach on The Longest Day which they also produced

 

Yes, the Tigers were T34s; check the chassis.

Most of the US equipment in the picture is indeed ex-US, but there are some oddities. Oddball's Shermans look like the vehicles ordnance retro-fitted postwar with new 76mm guns in place of the old 75s, I forget the exact model designation for those. I also remember reading somewhere that the halftrack with the 105 was not a genuine T19 HMC but some sort of extemporization. The BARs are not standard GI issue M1918 series guns but commercial guns, probably made by FN (Type 30 or Type D). If I remember rightly, Gutowski the sniper has a Mosin-Nagant.

 

I see that this one is available free on youtube. Looks good. Thanks.

 

"War and Remembrance" was the follow up, I can remember watching it in the late 1980s. I think at the time I was quite shocked by the holocaust aspects of it even though I`d read about the goings on in books, it was the first time I`d seen executions etc. dramatized on television. The "Babi Yar" type event, and Himmler watching a gassing stuck in my mind to the point that I`m loathe to watch the series again.

 

And a bit of a heads up that the 1966 film "Is Paris Burning" is on Talking Pictures channel on Saturday 31st October at 6pm.

 

I am right there with you...... not easy to Watch/Contemplate

 

Yes.!
A bit dated... aren't we all ..........but it holds up quite well. I am too lazy to look him up, but the general that disobeyed Hitlers orders to burn it down......Cholitz, or some name like that.?
He is an interesting story himself.

GOOD Call.!
This titled does not get mentioned as much as some others, but it is well worth seeing IMHO