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Some of my favorite WWII movies...

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March 10, 2022, 07:56 PM
Jimbo Jones
Some of my favorite WWII movies...
Great story, but so sad what happened to the repatriated pilots back in communist controlled Czechoslovakia...

Sim to the more recent "Hurricane" which I saw but it wasnt nearly as good as Dark Blue World. Want to see 303 Squadron

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Originally posted by pulicords:
Glad to see your favorites included Dark Blue World! It's really a hidden gem!



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March 10, 2022, 08:34 PM
mr kablammo
The Way Forward.
The Human Condition.

If you use YouTube there a lot of german films. I cannot recommend a particular one as my wife is too impatient for watching.


"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and author, lost on mission, July 1944, Med Theatre.
March 10, 2022, 09:40 PM
Jimbo Jones
IIRC The Sand Pebbles takes place before WWII...

Love the movie though...any McQueen movie for that matter

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
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??? Big Grin



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March 10, 2022, 09:48 PM
Pyker
Here's a sleeper WWII film:

Mrs Miniver (1942)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Miniver

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Upon its release, Mrs. Miniver was both a critical and a commercial success, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1942 and winning six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Garson), and Best Supporting Actress (Teresa Wright). It was the first film with a plot line centered on World War II to win an Oscar for Best Picture, and also the first film to receive five acting nominations at the Academy Awards

March 10, 2022, 09:51 PM
RogueJSK
quote:
Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
WHY NO Sand Pebbles??? Big Grin


Because it's not a WW2 film... It takes place in 1926-1927.

(It's a good war movie, just not a WW2 movie specifically.)
March 10, 2022, 10:57 PM
YooperSigs
The Sand Pebbles takes place during the Chinese Boxer Rebellion.
And Mrs. Miniver is a great film!


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March 11, 2022, 07:59 AM
Sr_Bull
“Is Paris Burning?” tells the story of resistance fighters trying to convince allied forces of the need not to bypass Paris as they pushed inland towards Germany.
March 11, 2022, 08:14 AM
Keystoner
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Originally posted by Jimbo Jones:
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.

Makes perfect sense. I myself have become averse to super sad movies.



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March 11, 2022, 09:38 AM
Orthogonal
A Walk in the Sun (1945)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0...5/?ref_=ttawd_awd_tt

Little known, favorably remembered from my childhood.

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March 11, 2022, 10:38 AM
George43
"The Man Who Never Was"


A gun in the hand is worth more than ten policemen on the phone.
The American Revolution was carried out by a group of gun toting religious zealots.
March 11, 2022, 11:36 AM
NavyAgShooter
From Here to Eternity

I started to put in All Quiet on The Western Front (the Original) but then I remembered this is a WWII list. Great movie though.
March 11, 2022, 11:48 AM
Sigfest
Hell is for Heroes
Just watched it the other night. McQueen was excellent. A good cast with a couple actors who you wouldn’t think would be in it. Parker, Darin, Newhart. But I guess you would get all kinds during the wars draft system.
March 11, 2022, 12:44 PM
Jimbo Jones
What do people think about Miracle at St. Anna ?

Spike Lee was looking for a movie that depicted the "quintessential black soldier in WWII experience" but Im not sure he was even close. The acting was decent but I thought there were many aspects were farcical. (Walton Goggins as the stereotypical racist white officer depiction was ridiculous....but then he immediately gets killed...problem solved!!!)


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March 11, 2022, 03:22 PM
flashguy
WWII movies I especially enjoyed:

Battle of the Eagles, aka Operation Lightning. Partison fighting in Yugoslavia in WWII. (796 muzzle flashes)

Castle Keep (strange movie) (400 flashes)

Flat Top (only 152, but all big naval guns)

Flying Leathernecks (549)

God Is My Copilot (591)

Guns of War (action in Serbia) (537 flashes)

Hell River aka Tactical Guerrilla, action in Yugoslavia (567 flashes)

The Heroes of Telemark (1965), action in Norway (only 31, but AA fire)

Marine Raiders (1944), action in Guadalcanal (278 flashes)

Operation Daybreak, action in Prague (435 flashes)

Stalingrad (1992), subtitled. (231 flashes)

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March 11, 2022, 04:15 PM
Tejas421
The Long Day's Dying. Cut off British paratroopers in Europe.
March 12, 2022, 05:34 PM
Expert308
No particular order:

Twelve O'Clock High
Run Silent Run Deep
Das Boot
Sahara (the original)
The Enemy Below
The Guns of Navarone
Tora! Tora! Tora!
The Big Red One
Merrill's Marauders
A Bridge Too Far
Where Eagles Dare

[Does "The Final Countdown" count? Wink]
March 12, 2022, 07:41 PM
redstone
I would also like to add Where Eagles Dare.

And while not a movie. BAND OF Brothers.



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March 13, 2022, 09:05 AM
copaup
The first time I ever watched Schindler's List it was at a seminar hosted by a Holocaust Survivor while I was in college. I've never been able to watch it again.
March 13, 2022, 10:20 AM
goose5
For me its Patton and In Harms Way.


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March 13, 2022, 10:21 AM
ZSMICHAEL
The fighting Seabees! Required viewing for Naval personnel in the construction battalion. Actually more of a comedy really. One of the few movies in which John Wayne bites the dust.

I did not see Bridge on the River Kwai listed