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Well, I'll go first. I like Patton, U-571, Das Boot, A Bridge Too Far, Von Ryan's Express, and The Eagle Has Landed. http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/smile.gif http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/cool.gif I know there are many I have forgotten, and I'd like to add to my collection of WWII DVD's (drama or documentary). I have The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich(1968) and The Triumph of the Will. I would like to pick up The World AT War series. Any suggestions would be helpful to me and, probably, others! http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/smile.gif http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/cool.gif Regards, Walter
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Brian, could you use whole words, please. http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/blink.gif I don't like to guess. http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/smile.gif I assume that means Band of Brothers and Saving Private Private Ryan. I must be abbreviationally challenged this evening. http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/blink.gif http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/laugh.gif Regards, Walter
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I'll second (and third) all the previous, and then add:

Twelve O'clock High

Dirty Dozen

Great Escape (bike escape scene is unforgettable!!)

Guadalcanal Diary

 

and I'll leave lots of great titles for the next.....

 

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Undoubtedly my most authentic made WW2 fave would be "Saving Private Ryan", followed close by the series "Band of Brothers", "The Longest Day", "Conspiracy"(Kenneth Branagh as Heydrich ???) http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/blink.gif , "The Pianist", "Pearl Harbor", "U-571", "Enemy at the Gates", "Hart's War" and "Windtalkers". Didn't think much of "The Thin Red Line"or "Midway"...pretty much all of the Duke's (John Wayne's) flicks are good Patriotic-All-American- Mom-and-Apple-Pie-Let's-Kill-Them-Dirty-B@$t@rd$-So-We-Can-Go-Home nostalgia flicks, although a little heavy on the schmaltz..."The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946) was a particularly thoughtful piece...read all of Donald Burgett's Screaming Eagles series; all of Stephen Ambrose's WW2 works ("Citizen Soldiers" is most excellent); most all of William L. Shirer's WW2/Third Reich works; Gerald Astor's...the list goes on and on...I am always looking for a new book that explores the American fighting man's perspective (whether WW2, Korea or Vietnam) ..for you guys inclined to interstate travel, a visit to The National D-Day Museum in New Orleans is a MUST, and a trip to The National Prisoner of War Museum in Andersonville, Georgia is highly enlightening...
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I've watched the entire series at least 5 times now. Band of Brothers is the best/most realistic show about WWII you can find. Saving Private Ryan has a very realistic first 30-45 minutes and then gets to Hollywood for me. I still want to meet Major Winters. Just to say thank you.
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Kelly's Heroes (not very realistic, but fun)

 

The Great Escape

 

The Eagle Has Landed

 

Band of Brothers

 

 

Saving Private Ryan started with potential, but fell way short after Omaha Beach.

 

U-90210 was too Hollywood. I'm surprised they didn't have female crew members (a big tata'ed bimbo and a femanazi) and a fashionably effeminate, foppy, dandy crew member and a leftist pacifist crew member and a rabidly environmentalist crew member in it. I mean, other than rewriting history (IIRC the Brits captured Enigma prior to Pearl Harbour) and the crew selection and the ease in which they out foxed those mean old Germans......... At least Harvey Keitel didn't have his obligatory ass showing scene.

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O.k., My favorite WWII movies are (in no particular order)

 

Where eagles dare

The eagle has landed

Kelly's heroes

Bridge on the river Kwai

A bridge too far

Iron cross

Enemy at the gates

The longest day

Bataan

Back to Bataan

The fighting seebees

The great escape

Saving private Ryan

U-571

Too late the heroe

Stalag 17

Thats all I can think of now. There is one movie that I did not like that I hear alot of you guys did like which is Wind Talkers. I thought the acting was kinda hooky and there was too much Hollywood in it. I did like to see all of the Thompson's in it but even that couln't save the movie for me. Also, to prove to my wife that I'm not nuts, how many of you will put in one of your favorite war movies and breakdown one of your guns and clean it? I do it all of the time! Everyone have a great weekend!

 

 

 

 

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Thats two I forgot!

Devils brigade and Von Ryan's express

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I agree with each of you. Great choices. Each movie has its own memorable scenes. But you left out three really great war movies made in Germany, in German, with English subtitles (or you can select english and their mouths don't match their words). How about Stalingrad (the original in Black and White), Stalingrad (the second version in color)and the Bridge (in black and white). Lets not forget Stalag 17.
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Hawksnest, wow! I can't believe you cited "The Bridge!" If we're talking about the same movie -- some German schoolboys "defend" a bridge at the close of WWII-- it's a real rarity. I saw it once, on TV, when I was a kid, and it seems to have never really played in the U.S. It came out in the 50's, when the U.S. probably wasn't ready for a film from the German point of view. Also, it was very anti-war, sort of an updated version of "All Quiet on the Western Front," the WWI classic. Interesting choice.
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well i really enjoy'd....................

 

 

and that one was good,and the one with the naked lady and the 21ac................

 

and the one that ended with the 1921ac in his mouth............{don't pull the trigger don!!!}

 

 

 

but this one was the best.......................ron

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Hey,.. how about `The Big Red One`... there`s an oldie but goodie, Lee Marvin as the wily old sarge... and a band of recruits who listen and learn how to survive...not bad for hollywood,out. http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/wink.gif
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Arthur, you reminded me of one I've wanted to see again, for years: Where Eagles Dare. http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/smile.gif I haven't seen it in quite a while. If I remember correctly, it has a very complicated plot involving impersonation of German officers, espionage, etc. Also, I think it had a very lush, detailed, very well done feel to it, if I'm thinking of the right movie. I didn't recognize any of the others that you mentioned, but that doesn't mean I haven't seen them, or that they are not good. Could you detail some of them? http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/unsure.gif http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/rolleyes.gif Regards, Walter
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Treborsnikwad, that was a very chilling depiction of Heydrich, in Conspiracy. If any of you haven't seen it, I would recommend it. It is a reenactment of the Wansee Conference, at which the 'Final Solution' was discussed and the fates of many Jews were decided....scarry (sickening) stuff. [The men at this meeting were almost all Doctors, Lawyers, and military officers!] http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/ohmy.gif All the more so, since it is taken, line for line, from the one surviving copy of the transcript of the meeting. They (the transcripts) were all supposed to be destroyed, and Hitler didn't want to know of the details of the meeting, 'officially'. http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/blink.gif http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/sad.gif http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/ph34r.gif Regards, Walter
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Ok every movie mentioned so far...especially the list by MG08MAXIM...

 

Here's a few that were left out that I thought were good :

 

"Hell is for Heroes" / Steve McQueen with that M3

 

"None But the Brave" / Steve McQueen with the stockless 28A1

 

"Darby's Rangers" / James Garner

 

"Merrills' Marauders" / Jeff Chandler

 

"Tora Tora Tora" / The more I watch this the more I dislike "Pearl Harbour"

 

Has to laugh at the "Battle of the Bulge" being listed.. damn thing started ok in the snowy woods then it freakin' ended in the desert.. *LOL*

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