What is the last WW2 Film or Series you saw?

I watched 'The Sea Shall Not Have Them' last night on Amazon. 'Albert RN' for tonights viewing if I can get away with it. I remember both titles taking years to finally make it to DVD, so they didn't get the heavy repeat viewings the more famous b/w British films got from me.

 

I watched the new 'reboot' of Midway and it was no where nearly as good as the original.

The only informative part was at the end when they said what became of the major players.

I am not a massive fan of the concept of to throw as much CGI into a film will guarantee success.

That said I do still think that Dunkirk needed more CGI as the scale of everything didn't feel right.

Gus

 

Per Slick's recommendation

Pretty good. Closed caption

 

Really interesting article about the making of a new mini series in the mould of BOB and The Pacific called "Masters of the Air" involving Tom Hanks, Spielberg and Apple TV.
What we know about WWII miniseries 'Masters of the Air' — Apple's follow-up to 'Band of Brothers' and 'The Pacific'

 

Has anyone one of you watched the movie "Eight Hundred"?

 

Currently watching the latest Netflix release, The Bombardment. It is a Danish film based around the 1945 RAF bombing raid on The Shell House in Copenhagen.
The story line mainly centers on the lives of 3 kids, a nun, a traitor and a Mossie crew.
It has some cracking flying sequences and the cgi is properly done as it looks pretty realistic but the main theme of the story is the aftermath with the deaths and rescue of the children at the school that was also hit. Overall, a well made film that is worth watching.

 

Yes, it is a good film and surprising in some ways that the Communist government allowed a film to be made about the Nationalist Chinese forces.

 

The Way Ahead with David Niven

 

Watched The Bombardment last night. As Hucks says, well worth a watch. The tension levels as soon as the raid takes off to pretty much the end of the film are through the roof. I thought it was a superb effort.

 

One of their sillier ones but has some anti-Japanese stuff in the last five minutes. Now banned on TV.

 

Watched this film on Netflix last night, the cgi was pretty near seamless, unlike most other efforts I've seen. The only puzzle for me was the opening sequence of the Mosquito shooting up the wedding party. I get the tie-in with Henry's trauma but that scene seemed (to me) not to be very pertinent to the rest of the film. On the whole though, very realistic.

 

I get what you mean, seemed a bit out of place to the rest of the trajectory. I suppose it was intended to show that the main horror show wasn’t isolated and civilians were always in danger?

 

It struck me as being critical of the RAF, like they (the RAF) were shooting at anything that moved, which seemed totally unnecessary to the rest of the story. But maybe I'm looking at it from the wrong end of the telescope!

Here is a link to a youtube video that explains the raid in detail:

Three Mosquito squadrons were involved (6 a/c each, plus two photo reconnaissance Mosquitos) from No. 21 Squadron, R.A.F.; No. 464 Squadron, R.A.A.F.; & No. 487 Squadron, R.N.Z.A.F.
No. 64 Squadron & No. 126 Squadron, R.A.F. provided fighter support (27 a/c, Mustang IIIs).

 

That kid on the bike in A Bridge Too Far had a lucky escape then!

 

Routine plot but the original color footage of Devastators and Vindicators on both the Enterprise and Saratoga is really great.



Douglas TBD Devastator - Wikipedia

Vought SB2U Vindicator - Wikipedia

 

I'm currently working through Indy Neidell's WW2 series on YouTube. It covers every element week by week.

First part here:

 

New WW2 drama being trailed on iPlayer, isn't really long enough to give an idea if its gonna be any good.
BBC Trailers, SAS Rogue Heroes: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0bzwrsn via @bbciplayer