What is the last WW2 Film or Series you saw?

Never So Few (1959) Starring Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen, Dean Jones, Charles Bronson, Brian Donlevy

During WW2, the American OSS mounts covert operations with the native Kachin against the Japanese army in the jungles of Burma.

 

Watched Reisistance last night re Marcel Marceau, helping evacuate Jewish children to safety. I learnt something new.!!! Really good film.

 

Haven't made my way through the entire thread so it may already have had a mention but I'm just watching 'Eagles over London' on Talking Pictures and it's fantastic. So wrong in so many ways, but so much so that you don't find yourself nit-picking but just enjoy the movie for what it is. And the odd thing is that not only is it great fun - Van Johnson as an RAF air vice-marshal is especially worth watching - but in places it's actually quite clever too. You can catch it on Talking Picture's 'Encore' service.

 

Oh, that looks very good. Available for free on youtube as well.



Van Johnson went from an USAAC captain in Thirty Seconds over Tokyo to RAF air vice-marshal in one war.

 

Tobruk........Today

 

Last night I watched "All Quiet on the Western Front" on Netflix, its a 2022 German remake of the classic. Follows the theme OK but not that close to the original story, detail was good, and I enjoyed it, but not a classic.

 

Sobibor on Amazon Prime. Russian produced. Excellent remembrance of the brutality of the SS and how those prisoners broke through.

 

A must view if your name is Putin.

 

Not very good

 

BBC 2 today
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

 

Excellent

 

Finally watched my copy of Days of Glory (2006) about the Algerian infantry fighting for the French.

 

Sadly, Tony Vaccaro passed away on Dec 29th 2022 shortly after his 100 th birthday.

 

I read about it on twitter.

 

https://podbay.fm/p/the-rest-is-history-667328/e/1672624845

Tom and Dominic are joined by Jonathan Freedland to discuss the incredible story of Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler, who escaped from Auschwitz in April 1944.

 

I watched the Great Escape over Christmas with my family. They loved it, and it had been a good many years since I last saw it, for it to be fresh and as brilliant as it ever was:

 

All on the bounce

In which we serve

The man who never was

Battle of the River Plate

 

Donald Blackburn organized and lead a guerilla unit on Northern Luzon during WW II and authored the book Blackburn's Headhunters. He went on to command MACVSOG in 1965.