Watching WW2 classics….

[Indiana]

Can’t decide on my fav vintage flick between The Great Escape and Bridge On The River Kwai. So many to choose from but these two keep me coming back.

Some more in consideration like Patton (could be a winner, JCS absolutely nailed it), Tora Tora Tora, The Dirty Dozen, and A Bridge Too Far (stat studded). Amongst others

 

[drstrangelove]

Another good one is The Train from 1964, starring Burt Lancaster.

 

[AndrewX]

Can’t decide on my fav vintage flick between The Great Escape and Bridge On The River Kwai. So many to choose from but these two keep me coming back.

Some more in consideration like Patton (could be a winner, JCS absolutely nailed it), Tora Tora Tora, The Dirty Dozen, and A Bridge Too Far (stat studded). Amongst others

I saw the recent Midway 2019 the other day. Not a star studded classic but I thought it was a decent war movie. Patton is a classic, George c Scott did a great job. The movie won 7 oscars.

 

[Robert Mugabe]

If you want to off the beaten path from Hollywood. I thought this was pretty good.

 

[AndrewX]

Guns of Navarone

Where the eagles dare

 

[y2kmark]

Victory at Sea was better than anything Hollywood ever produced. You can't make that stuff up...

 

[y2kmark]

Guns of Navarone

Where the eagles dare

Allistair McLean fan?

 

[Darts]

I've been watching some actual footage of the war on the Eastern Front in WW II. Brutal, absolutely brutal. The defense of Stalingrad and Moscow and the taking of Berlin. The American determined it would cost 100,000 casualties to take Berlin and so stood down and allowed the Russians (150,000 casualties) to take it.

The Americans also determined that it would cost 500,000 casualties to take Japan in a land battle so decided better to drop the A-bombs.

My favourite battle is still Midway in 1942. Also know a bit about the Fall of Singapore 80 years ago this week and its eventual liberation.

 

[AndrewX]

Allistair McLean fan?

I didn't know him at the time. My Dad liked these movies and I watched them as a kid. Victory at sea is very good.

 

[jcpro]

Letters from Iwo Jima, The Tin Drum, Das Boot, The Thin Red Line(nowhere close to the book, though) same with the Young Lions.

 

[Cheeta]

Battle of Buldge (original)

 

[Ponderling]

Das Boot.

The Dam Busters

Not WW2, but WW1 -Breaker Morant.

Dangerous Moonlight- great new Warsaw Concerto is part of the sound track, as well.

 

[KDK13]

Breaker Morant was the Boer War...one of my ATF films
They shall not grow old ( Peter Jackson) best doco on WWI.
Like Patton as WWII movie.
Band of Brothers best WWII series.

 

[spankingman]

The Dambusters and Cockleshell Hero's are classics as well. Not as well known as the ''big ones'' but actually true events. Both had excellent theme songs as well.

 

[roadhog]

Tora! Tora! Tora!

 

[shack]

I've always liked Thin Red Line from 1998. Great cast.

The Thin Red Line (1998) - IMDb

 

[oil&gas]

Battle of Neretva is an overlooked gem. To me the human drama in the
film is as moving as the battle scenes are ferocious. Driven to verge
of tears by the scene of the death of Sylva Koscina's Danica near the
end. A must-see for war film classic bluffs.

 

[unassuming]

Stalag 17

 

[downbound123]

Can’t decide on my fav vintage flick between The Great Escape and Bridge On The River Kwai. So many to choose from but these two keep me coming back.

Some more in consideration like Patton (could be a winner, JCS absolutely nailed it), Tora Tora Tora, The Dirty Dozen, and A Bridge Too Far (stat studded). Amongst others

Great list... I couldn't agree more about Scott's performance.. I remember when the Capitol theatre in Ottawa used to have double bills and they had Patton and Mash showing. What a great way to spend an afternoon. Great movies and 2-3 buckets of popcorn.
Someone mentioned the Dam Busters also. My father was in the Military and we were stationed in Germany in 1956-57 in a small town called Soest. It was not too far from the Mohnesee where we used to go for picnics and swimming. I was only 8 at the time but remember the first time we went there my father telling me about the Dam Busters as one of the Dams they attacked was on the Mohnesee.

 

[SeaGirth]

This might be a bit off topic but check out Peter Jackson’s documentary on WWI called They Shall Not Grow Old. He did a fantastic job of colourizing and embedding vocals into b/w news footage. Simply amazing.


“Using state-of-the-art technology and materials from the BBC and Imperial War Museum, filmmaker Peter Jackson allows the story of World War I to be told by the men who were there. Life on the front is explored through the voices of the soldiers, who discuss their feelings about the conflict, the food they ate, the friends they made and their dreams of the future.”
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