Your Favourite WW II Movie ?

Discussion in 'Books, Films, TV, Radio' started by History Buff, Jul 23, 2006.

  1. History Buff

    History Buff Junior Member

    I was wondering which WW II war movie is your favourite ?

    I liked The Thin Red Line - a little too 'arty' but very good nontheless, The Great Escape is a classic and I never tire of watching it, but top of my list would have to be Saving Private Ryan, the landings and the end battle I thought were very good!

    Schindlers List is also in my top five

    What is your personal favourite movie ?

    Regards

    H.B.
     
  2. CROONAERT

    CROONAERT Ipsissimus

    "Battleground", "Theirs is the Glory" and "Stalingrad"

    dave
     
  3. History Buff

    History Buff Junior Member

    Stalingrad is a good movie too, the highest battle casualty rate of any conflict I once read !
     
  4. mahross

    mahross Senior Member

    My top five would be, in no particular order:

    1. Das Boot
    2. Downfall - though one of my students borrowed this and never gave it back:mad:
    3. Bridge too Far
    4. Battle of Britian
    5. Longest Day

    Ross
     
  5. mf1941

    mf1941 Junior Member

    The Great Escape

    Kelly's Heroes

    Patton

    Midway

    The Thin Red Line

    Saving Private P

    Das Boot

    more than (5) but hard to narrow down the list!.
     
  6. Herroberst

    Herroberst Senior Member

    Battleground 1949, Timeless...he found a home in the Army, That's for sure that's for dang sure.

    Das Boat

    Band Of Brothers

    Great Escape...Wow(cough)

    Stalingrad

    Battle of Britain...The lads spoil her(She looks like my dog)

    Von Ryan's Express...Americano

    Dunkirk with Richard Attenborough

    They Were Expendable

    In Harms Way...Who could forget Barbara Bouchet?

    The Longest Day...I heard 2 clicks

    A Bridge Too Far...Hail Mary full of Grace...Start the Purple!

    Murphy's War

    Island's in the Stream
     
  7. 52nd Airborne

    52nd Airborne Green Jacket Brat

    The Dambusters - They've done it, they got the Eder as well!

    Patton - When you put your hand in a pile of goo!

    A bridge too Far - what did you expect, Destroyers!!

    The Longest Day - Hold and secure, Doing the lambert walk!

    A Journey Together - Well what was he doing? Well show me, show me!

    The Great Escape - Two Hundred and Fifty, I think you're crazy!

    Battleground - You left a good home and you're right!

    Band of brother - Currhee!
     
  8. Kiwiwriter

    Kiwiwriter Very Senior Member

    I have a bunch:

    Battle of Britain

    Tora! Tora! Tora!

    The Longest Day

    The Dam Busters

    Saving Private Ryan

    A Bridge Too Far

    Bridge on the River Kwai

    Enigma

    Conspiracy

    Nuremberg

    Schindler's List

    Above Us the Waves

    Sink the Bismarck

    Battle of the River Plate

    Band of Brothers

    Piece of Cake

    Patton

    Downfall

    Hitler -- The Last 10 Days

    The Bunker

    For starters.
     
  9. Gerard

    Gerard Seelow/Prora

    ok

    Downfall - by a mile the best film about the end of Hitler

    A Bridge too Far - Busy Times

    Battle of Britain - That was a wizard prang!

    Kellys Heroes - Yes its total bull from a history viewpoint but just quit with the negative waves!

    Stalingrad

    The world at war

    Band of Brothers - Currahee!!

    Dambusters
     
  10. Gnomey

    Gnomey World Travelling Doctor

    Battle of Britain - a classic...
    Kelly's Heroes - if only for Oddball...
    Stalingrad
    Band of Brothers - the whole series
    The Longest Day
     
  11. Herroberst

    Herroberst Senior Member

    Two movies that People usually have opinions about:

    Captain Corelli's Mandolin

    Force Ten from Navarone
     
  12. spidge

    spidge RAAF RESEARCHER

    Two movies that People usually have opinions about:

    Captain Corelli's Mandolin

    Force Ten from Navarone

    With good cause!

    Captain Corelli's Mandolin was a great book cut to pieces and a hard to believe romance with historical errors.

    Force Ten from Navarone was about ten years too late with the wrong cast although I do like Shaw and thought Fox was great as Dusty Miller.

    Having Carl Weathers in it was a joke and his story line was disastrous.

    Having said that I have it and "Guns" sitting on the shelf but don't watch them one after another.
     
  13. Kitty

    Kitty Very Senior Member

    Dambusters - "It's Nigger Sir!"

    The Wooden Horse

    Waterloo Road

    Kelly's Heroes - "Quit it with those negative waves man!"

    (That one with Edward Fox blowing up a Dam, think it was a follow on from Navarone.)
     
  14. kiwimac

    kiwimac Member

    Triumph of the Will

    Kiwimac
     
  15. morse1001

    morse1001 Very Senior Member

    The Dambusters,

    Battle of Britian,

    The Sea shall not have them - if only for the sight of Mk2 TTLs in full speed.

    The longest day
     
  16. Herroberst

    Herroberst Senior Member

    Dambusters - "It's Nigger Sir!"

    The Wooden Horse

    Waterloo Road

    Kelly's Heroes - "Quit it with those negative waves man!"

    (That one with Edward Fox blowing up a Dam, think it was a follow on from Navarone.)

    Hmmm, Others have quoted as well, could it be another quiz in the making? Hmmm.:)
     
  17. Kitty

    Kitty Very Senior Member

    Hmmm, Others have quoted as well, could it be another quiz in the making? Hmmm.:)
    Like, most excellent idea Dude! (sorry, I'm in a B&T discussion on another forum,and it's leaking into my real world.)
     
  18. VonLuck

    VonLuck Junior Member

    Its not my favorite (Stalingrad probably takes that post) but I just saw a movie called "Napola". It is the story of a poor kid that gets invited to join a Hitler Youth school (a Napola). While not precisely a war movie it does deliver on all the human emotions and personal discovery surrounding national socialism, war, friendship and death. Done by a young German director that doesn't have the usual politically correct hangups as his predecessors.
    I highly recommend it.
     
  19. Herroberst

    Herroberst Senior Member

    Try Models, better looking women and no NSDAP.:cool:
     
  20. Mostonian

    Mostonian Member

    My top five would be:
    1- A Bridge Too Far
    2- The Big Red One
    3- The Battle Of The Bulge
    4- Sink The Bismarck
    5- The Bridge At Remagen

    As an aside, has there ever been a more stellar cast for any film than A Bridge Too Far? The Longest Day comes close, but I can't see anything like it being done again.
     

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