What is the last WW2 Film or Series you saw?

I have just watched the complete series of Brothers in Arms (again!) and for me it is still the best WW2 TV series - ever!

Spielberg and Hanks deserve every accolade this incredible production.

 

I agree with you St Ives. A brilliant work of art.

 

Yes, and compelling viewing. Every episode was/is indeed a work of art, those exploding trees were filmed superbly. The characters too, were quite mesmerising, Spears being a prime example.

 

Just finished watching it meself. brilliant!

 

Aye Bof B a good series, shame it has spawned a few thousand overweight over the hill E Co reenactors though.....
ps,in my reenacting days I attended one private event in Kent and did a double take when I realised that the cluster of farm houses we set up in were actualy St mer du mont (sp?) ,worst part though was realising our cars were parked literaly at the top of Currahee
Oh,yeah,last film/mini series for me is Strafbat,or rather Im halfway through it again. A Russian series based around a punishment battalion.Brilliant film but with funny moments like weird german armour and plug firing MP 40s ....

 

mRs miniver the last scene when the aircraft fly over the bombed out church
just fantastic. First saw it in the 1970s understand it better now and a bit more
critical of the class stuff continuity/change etc thats what studying War and Social
change does for you AA318 OU course.
Also Humphrey Jennings documentaries on DVD and I agree Listen To Britain is better
without the COI voice over what could words add to the images and soundsTV re runs of Secret Army on digital television.Also shown some programmes made by ZDF
Hitlers War isnt that personalising it just a tad but a good programme mix of German
and British Interviewees produced/directed by Guido Knopp
and very finally The Boat the final scenes just too awful for words.

 

"Heimat" is still a favourite series for me

 

When Trumpets fade

Amazon have this for sale at $5.99 at the moment in the US and if your in the UK the ba****** will charge you more and in sterling as well robbing gits £6.97

Set during one of the Second World War's most shocking and unforgettable battles - the battle of Hurtgen Forest in the Autumn of 1944. American forces are under orders to secure a bridge flanked by enemy tanks. Men already trapped in a hellish minefield face death from all sides as shells rain down from the sky. Hundreds of lives have been lost, and the surviving troops are bloodied and shell-shocked. There are only four renegade soldiers remaining, who all have one thing in common: a desperate will to stay alive.

 

I ould behave just watched the complete series of Brothers in Arms (again!) and for me it is still the best WW2 TV series - ever!
ery accolade this incredible production.


Was it known as Brothers in Arms in some markets? It was known here after a phrase from Shakespeare's St Crispin's day Speech ( Henry5)...." We Few, We Happy Few, We BAND OF BROTHERS staggering piece of work wasn't it. Direction, writing everything and a bloody brilliant mostly BRITISH cast.

It would be great to get something with such high production values that tells one of our stories

 

Was it known as Brothers in Arms in some markets? It was known here after a phrase from Shakespeare's St Crispin's day Speech ( Henry5)...." We Few, We Happy Few, We BAND OF BROTHERS staggering piece of work wasn't it. Direction, writing everything and a bloody brilliant mostly BRITISH cast.

It would be great to get something with such high production values that tells one of our stories

Doesnt matter where the cast came from its really good!! Take your point about the need for a series from the British point of view though. One about the Desert campaign would be cracking.

 

First of the Few with Leslie Howard & David Niven - the story of R J Mitchell & the Spitfire

 

I watched three in a row the other night while working on the laptop.

The Sea Wolves - David Niven and a stellar cast.

The Devil's Brigade - William Holden

Stalag 17 - Great show

 

I watched Days of Glory last night- Its about how poorly the French treated Algerian troops fighting for them during WW2.

A very very good underated film-probably due to it being French and in subtitles.

 

I watched a rather good post war thriller tonight set in Berlin at the time of Potzdam.

 

I was watching a film on tv probably about 2 months ago about a jewish woman who worked for the resistance and had to go undercover and sleep with one of the german officers in order to get information. It was in subtitles but was in colour. I didn't get to see it all.

Does this ring a bell for anyone? I'd like to watch it again but can't remember what it was called.

cheers
marcus

 

I watched Stalag 17 yesterday, superb as always. When feeling down I tend to see this film, it always gets me in a better mood.

I also watched Drengene fra Sankt Petri (The boys from Saint Petri). A danish film about a resistance group which consists of young lads during ww2. They started out by doing propaganda posters against the nazis etc. but as the film continues they start doing more and more serious sabotage towards the nazis, which eventually results in them being caught.

 

I was watching a film on tv probably about 2 months ago about a jewish woman who worked for the resistance and had to go undercover and sleep with one of the german officers in order to get information. It was in subtitles but was in colour. I didn't get to see it all.

Does this ring a bell for anyone? I'd like to watch it again but can't remember what it was called.

cheers
marcus

Black Book 2005?

Zwartboek (2006)

I really enjoyed the movie. The Netherlands most successful movie ever.

In English here, no subtitles.

The "you have to be a blond" sequence made me laugh.


Cheers

Geoff

 

I re-watched Thin Red Line and Saving Private Ryan. Still can't get enough of this great movies. The opening and final scenes in SPR are IMHO one of the best fight sequences ever made!

 

Watched The Pianist last night. A brilliant film which really brings home the horrors of what it was like to be in e Jewish ghetto. Even more so than Schindlers list. And I thought you couldn't get any more real than that.

A must see if you haven't already.

 

"Conspiracy" - Chilling and excellent.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uXeW0PwaQRI&feature=related

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vMGbZswSz_w

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uXeW0PwaQRI&feature=related

The film centres around the wansee Conference largely takes place in one room.
The interaction between the various players is remarkable as is Heydrich method of lean on others and imposing his authority.
The cast are all good , both the major characters adn the supporting actors , tight well written and sharp - no matter how many times I watch it I still find it disturbing.