Favorite WWII movies
 

Ive been on a WWII movie kick lately ! What are your favorite movies about that time.

Mine are:

Bridge on the River Kwai
Patton
Conspiracy
Valkryie

There are many good ones. Off the top my head I will go with:

Das Boot
Flags of Our Faters & Letters From Iwo Jima
Saving Private Ryan
(Mini Series) The Pacific
(Mini Series) Band of Brothers)

I like these:

"The Man Who Never Was"
"Guns of Navarone"
"The Longest Day"
"Paths of Glory" (WW I)
"Sink the Bismarck"
"Run Silent Run Deep"

So many more to like... so little time to watch!

Saving Private Ryan is my favorite WWII film, Band of Brothers the favorite TV/series.

- Buck

'Eye of the Needle'

Good one I forgot about.

Excellent list Jim. :thumbsup:

I'd add 'Schindler's List'.
Maybe 'Dunkirk' also.

Battle of Britain

Indeed!
Saw this in the cinema, when I was an early teen with my dad.

Dunkirk

Did not expect it to have the impact it had...

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

Bart I saw “ The Trial of Adolf Hitler “. On Amazon last night that Berlin Lawer really got a piece of him! .


Hacksaw Ridge was great as well

Add “The Pacific” to BoB series. Both are superbly done.

Downfall

Bridge on the River Kwai
Casablanca
Is Paris Burning?
Night of The Generals
Saving Private Ryan
The Great Escape
From Here to Eternity
Empire of The Sun

The Railroad Man is also about the Bridge on the River Kwai, The Imitation Game about breaking the German Enigma code and Alan Turing, The Bridge at Remagen, the last bridge over the Rhine, my father fought there as part of Patton's 3rd. army, The Eagle has Landed about killing or capturing Churchill.

Sink the Bismark

Battle of the Bulge

Stalingrad
Dirty Dozen
Inglourious Bastards

I have this movie, it is very graphic, and portrays the horrors of war shockingly.

Dambusters

Fantastic film!:thumbsup:

Big Red One with James Coburn one of my favourites. Also like the Bridge to Far.

Ivan, I do like the movie, but... it's another war.

Kelly's Heroes.





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgeIINs1TrQ

"Twelve O'Clock High" was required viewing prior to the first meeting of our Business Organization class in business school many years ago. The ensuing discussion was about the effectiveness of contrasting leadership styles.

The Battle of the River Plate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ba...lm)#Ships_used

HMNZS Achilles played herself.

My 1st Supervisor at work, his brother-in-law was on the Achilles during the battle- I asked if he was scared (hey, I was only 18 at the time- and the Battle of the River Plate is a big thing in New Zealand with our ship the HMNZ Achilles being in the battle). He said during the battle -no, said he was deep in the engine room & all he heard during the hour-long battle was the rumble of guns!

Said he was sh*t scared after the battle when he came on deck & saw the damage & the real possibility that the Graf Spee would resume the battle against them, which he said that they would have had 'no chance' of surviving, with just them & HMS Ajax able to fight.

From my younger years "Guns of Navarone". My Dad loved to take us to the movies that Mom didn't want to see.

Some that are more obscure.

Where Eagles Dare

Torpedo Run

"Fury" would be another. Quite faithful in what a Sherman would have to do to defeat a Tiger.
"Monuments Men" was not particularly well done, but tells a good story.
And, for us Robert Mitchum fans, "The Longest Day", "Anzio" & "The Enemy Below", among others.

The Good the Bad and the Ugly.








https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkM71JPHfjk

That one misses WWII by about 70 years.

I know, but I put it in the mix just because the Danish Orchestra is so good!


:banana:

The Great Escape
Iwo Jima
Tora Tora Tora
In Harms Way
Midway
Aces High
To Hell and Back - Audie Murphy
Many more...

Mirror - Tarkovsky. You wan't art house, that's art house.

Sink the Bismark.

Can't say I 'like' the East European based one's like Burn't by the Sun or The Pianist, but their powerful. I guess it's mainly the blighty b+w one's made during or slightly after the war that are the staple.

The pianist is another great movie indeed.

To add to the list:

A Thin Red Line
Come and See

Come and See, that was the one. Not really for a relaxing Sunday afternoon.