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I said I liked, not it's my favorite.
1941 will always have special place for when I worked for the city and the polo shirts were figuring which way was up sure as shootin' me and at least one other would in unison say in the breathless tone of the Japanese lookout "Hollywooooood".
Hollis E. Wood swallowing the compass then challenging enemy command staff by saying "You ain't gonna get s**t outta me!" is as funny as can be.
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Lots of good films listed here. Maybe I missed it but I don't think anyone has mentioned one of the best -- SAHARA -- with Humphrey Bogart. Lots of action and pithy dialog. Filmed in the Mojave Desert in 1943. The Allies win, the Germans lose.
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Lots of good films listed here. Maybe I missed it but I don't think anyone has mentioned one of the best -- SAHARA -- with Humphrey Bogart. Lots of action and pithy dialog. Filmed in the Mojave Desert in 1943. The Allies win, the Germans lose.
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This is on Prime now. If you type in "Sahara" you get some remake with James Belushi. I hadda click on a vintage WW2 flik then scroll down to "People also watched" options before I could see the original.
Anyway, great flik. One of the best.
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A lot of fine movies have been listed.
Not really movies, more of a mini series, but my addition the list would be Herman Wouk's Winds of War and War and Remembrance.
The books were fantastic.
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"Tankers" A Russian movie thats pretty good and includes a KV1 tank commander who runs into his wife at the front and she's an officer in charge of tank maintenance and repairs.
"The Dawn's Here are Quiet" A Russian movie about a Sargent in charge of an anti aircraft installation "manned" by women in the middle of nowhere.
"T34" A Russian movie who's tittle pretty much explains the plot.
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Stories as seen from civilian point of view . Truly horrifying .
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An interesting side note on Kelly's Heroes.
I saw it originally at a packed student-union building theater on a college campus.
It's the only movie I've ever attended that the audience gave a standing ovation at the conclusion. They even cheered each character as they are reviewed at the end. I can still remember it.
Considering the times (protests and hippies and such) I was taken away.
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I was really surprised that it took until comment 65 for someone to mention "Battleground". That old film with Van Johnson holds up even today. I saw it as a kid, and recall how it was the first time that war did not seem so exciting and glamorous to me. I remember feeling cold as the soldiers on the screen were suffering in the frigid European winter without proper clothing. If you haven't seen this classic you certainly should do so.
But the opening scene in "Saving Private Ryan" is possibly the ultimate portrayal of the D-Day landings. And while not strictly a "movie", "Band of Brothers" is one of if not the best WWII film.
FWIW, I tried recently to watch "Patton" and was so bored I had to turn it off. Not what I had remembered. Maybe just the pace of those older films was not up to what is currently being done in movies.
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But the opening scene in "Saving Private Ryan" is possibly the ultimate portrayal of the D-Day landings.
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My uncle...29th Division...116th Infantry regiment...2nd Battalion...went shore on Omaha Beach in the first wave. He never talked about it. The only way I knew was when I saw his 29th Division Association certificate with the information.
I asked him if he saw Saving Private Ryan...he looked at me and said "That's just Hollywood" and would say no more. It was obvious the subject was not open to discussion.
My mom saw Saving Private Ryan at the theater when it was released. She broke down in tears seeing what her older brother went through and survived. She never really knew since he never talked about it.
My uncle did have a bumper sticker on his car that his son put on it..."I Did D-Day".
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Yes; Das Boot. A very good movie that demonstrated life in U-Boats in the Atlantic in WWII. The corollary would be "The Cruel Sea", life in Corvettes in the RN during the same conflict. Have to remember that old adage that "Corvettes" would roll on wet blotting paper!! Dave_n
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Here is a dramatic change-of-pace - a droll comedy that few have seen. "The Last Time I Saw Archie" stars Robert Mitchum as "Archie" and Jack Webb portrays "Bowers". Both characters were real. Plot was an exaggerated and distortion of their wartime service. Archie sued Bowers for defamation of character. And Archie became a successful movie producer while Bowers became a successful motion picture screenwriter.
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I was really surprised that it took until comment 65 for someone to mention "Battleground".
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It's mentioned in post #1: "..my favorite is a movie called "Battleground" with Van Johnson and James Whitmore. It was made in 1948 and is about the 101st Airborne at the Battle of the Bulge."
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Another one that is set in the Pacific at the end of WWII but as much a drama as a war film, 'Farewell to the King' with Nick Nolte.
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Following this thread of the best WWII war movies, I recently watched many over again and some I probably never saw before. 12 O'Clock High,The Memphis Belle, The War Lover, among others, were about the B17 Flying Fortresses and the staggering losses of planes and crews. Apparently we lost 8,000 heavy bombers, B-17's & B-24's, during the war. This means that we probably lost most of the 80,000 crew members as well. This was deemed acceptable in order to destroy the industrial complexes of the Axis Powers but many were rebuilt back in a short time period. The USAAF brass probably knew they were using personnel as cannon fodder but such losses were tolerated in order to obtain the final victory. I once met a distant family member who had completed eleven missions as a Navigator. In Harms Way was a great naval epic as well.
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