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Not series like Band of Brothers or The Pacific Just my faves, not ones I think are great movies, although some are...in no particular order... The Dirty Dozen Kelly’s Heroes Run Silent, Run Deep Destination Tokyo They Were Expendable The Caine Mutiny Das Boot Too Late the Hero The Guns of Navarone Enemy at the Gates A Bridge Too Far The Longest Day Midway (1976) The Bridge on the River Kwai The Great Escape The Thin Red Line Letters from Iwo Jima Dunkirk Empire of the Sun Patton Inglorious Bastards Casablanca The Pianist Anthropoid Battle of Britain Dark Blue World (story of Czech pilots flight for UK) The Flying Tigers Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo Tora! Tora! Tora! Twelve O’Clock High Mister Roberts Fury Play Dirty Catch-22 The Big Red One The Tin Drum Stalag 17 Sahara Honorable Mention Sands of Iwo Jima The Best Years of Our Lives Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence Back to Bataan Flying Leathernecks U-571 Tobruk King Rat The McKenzie Break Von Ryan’s Express Where Eagle’s Dare Murphy’s War The Eagle Has Landed Cross of Iron Attack Force Z Memphis Belle Black Book Everything Is Illuminated The Good German Hacksaw Ridge Darkest Hour Overlord Have not seen…but want to Flags of Our Fathers Come and See 303 Squadron Sink the Bismarck Downfall Burnt by the Sun 2 Stalingrad Greyhound Intentionally not on the list Schnidler’s List Saving Private Ryan The English Patient --------------------------------------- It's like my brain's a tree and you're those little cookie elves. | ||
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Come and See. Powerful, but a tough movie to watch for a couple reasons. If you're finding foreign films, Europa Europa. (not a "combat" war movie) | |||
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Don't forget Lifeboat, recently discussed here. When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. - George Bernard Shaw | |||
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How about "To Hell and Back", the movie depicting Audie Murphy's experience in WWII? | |||
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I rented it on DVD recently. So powerful and nasty it was censured by the Soviets for a while. ********* "Some people are alive today because it's against the law to kill them". | |||
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Air Force 1943 with Gig Young and John Garfield Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. | |||
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The Dambusters Reach For The Sky The Great Raid Objective - Burma The Desert Rats Tobruk! Play Dirty Too Late The Hero Windtalkers | |||
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My favorite Errol Flynn movie. ********* "Some people are alive today because it's against the law to kill them". | |||
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Battleground and Go for broke! I used to jokingly refer to Van Johnson as our greatest war hero  (in so many war and war setting movies) | |||
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Just watched The Great Escape again last week. I’m quite sure there’s not another WWII movie that I’ve seen more times than that. Really want to see Merrill’s Marauders. it’s been a long, long time and my former office manager’s dad was a soldier in the unit. Last I heard he was still alive, maybe gone now. _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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Nice list. For American WW2 films, I'll add in "Decision Before Dawn" (1951). Tells the story of an American-trained German defector/spy infiltrating behind German lines in the closing days of WW2 to negotiate the surrender of an entire German corps to the Americans. Filmed in immediate postwar Germany, featuring actual war-damaged German towns as locations, and tons of authentic WW2 German equipment, uniforms, and vehicles. But since you seem to enjoy WW2 movies, you really should check out more of the non-American WW2 films out there. Good choices are: Hunde, Wollt Ihr ewig Leben? (German, Battle of Stalingrad) Die Brucke (German, teenage German conscripts at end of the war) Stalingrad [1993] (German, uh... Battle of Stalingrad) Downfall (German, fall of Berlin) Talvisota (Finnish, Winter War) The Unknown Soldier (Finnish, Continuation War) Rukjarven Tie (Finnish, Continuation War) Days of Glory (French, Free French Algerian soldiers) The King's Choice (Norwegian, invasion of Norway) April 9th (Danish, invasion of Denmark) Westerplatte (Polish, invasion of Poland) Fortress of War (Russian, invasion of Russia) Come and See (Russian, invasion of Russia) Black Book (Dutch, Dutch resistance) The Line of Fire (Italian, Battle of El Alamein) | |||
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The Devils Brigade. With William Holden. Sahara. The one with Bogart, not the remake. The Sea Wolves. End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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Run Silent Run Deep Heaven Knows Mr. Allison PT 109 "Fixed fortifications are monuments to mans stupidity" - George S. Patton | |||
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Das Boot (1973 version). Haven't seen it in decades but I recall it being good. ___________________________ Avoid buying ChiCom/CCP products whenever possible. | |||
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i like your list. i agree SPR is over-rated. good one about resistance activities in Denmark. loosely based on true story. Flame and Citron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAMIFdnnE20 and not a movie but a mini series -- this one based on efforts by the allies to thwart Nazis in Norway obtaining nuclear capability The Heavy Water War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K3Ry2K4yNE -------------------------- Proverbs 27:17 - As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. | |||
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Glad to see your favorites included Dark Blue World! It's really a hidden gem! "I'm not fluent in the language of violence, but I know enough to get around in places where it's spoken." | |||
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its there be he wrote Thirty as opposed to 30 ----------------------------- Proverbs 27:17 - As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. | |||
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I'm with you on The English Patient, but why not the other two? Year V | |||
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Those are all great suggestions! Thanks! Im glad this thread got such good responses!! Schindler's List, while a very powerful and important movie, is not one I can ever watch again. Too much casual and disturbing violence. Great move, just extremely hard to watch. Like when the female engineer barks at the Germans during construction and an officer casually pulls out his pistol and shoots her in the head. Or the boy that doesnt even bother to duck or run when the Commandant is shooting at him from the window. Just disturbing. Glad I saw it once, dont need to see it again. I love the Pianist which has similar scenes, but also as it represents the triumph of the human spirit in one of the darkest times of the modern era. Love the scene where Spielmann is wearing the Wehrmacht greatcoat and the Russians almost shoot him and ask why hes wearing it - "Because Im fucking cold." And Saving Private Ryan, good movie just not one of my favorites. I do like the scene at the end where the sniper is up in the tower reciting he 144th Psalm...and when Marshall reads to his staff the letter from Lincoln written to a mother who lost five sons during the Civil War. I do have fond memories of watching it with my dad when it first came out though. --------------------------------------- It's like my brain's a tree and you're those little cookie elves. | |||
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Schindler's List is a hard one to watch to the point where, I try to watch it at least once a year at Passover. Not sure which is worse, Saving Private Ryan on the dishonorable mention list or: WHY NO Sand Pebbles???  Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own... | |||
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