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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Hawklore on May 23, 2004, 09:57:29 PM
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This is your time to shine!
I am looking for WWII movies, set in Russia, France, and just Europe in general.
I'd love it if it involved, partisans, French Resistance, Maqui, etc.
I'll list some of the movies I have seen already.
Band of Brothers
Saving Private Ryan
Pearl Harbor
A Bridge too Far
(I can't remember the name exactly but it was about a boy in Russia who steals, and his mom colaborates with a German Officer)
Enemy at the Gates
Thats all I can think of off the top of my head, and I'd love to see more, let me know ones you think are historical, and ones that are fiction..
Thanks,
Hawklore
PS: If you got DVD's, VHS's of WWII stuff you want to get rid of give me an e-mail at Hawklore88@yahoo.com
PPS: Oh and I've seen Patton...
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PATTON!!
nuff said
The one in russia was with jude law...crap I cant remember the name gonna bug me all night! have to go search for it
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Originally posted by Hawklore
(Another one I can't remember but it's about two Russian snipers, there is a final shoot out between one german sniper and the russian sniper)
Sounds like "Enemy at the Gates"
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Originally posted by jigsaw
Sounds like "Enemy at the Gates"
Thats the one
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add When Trumpets Fade to your list of must haves.
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Oh yeah,
Thin Red Line
saw that one, didn't care for it..
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Hawklore, you must watch Decision Before Dawn. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0043459/) Great story about a young German POW sent back to Germany to spy for the Allies. It's the best WW2 movie you never saw.
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memphis belle
hanover street
just off the top of my head
Tuskegee airman
empire of the sun
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A couple other great classics:
13 Rue Madeline (http://imdb.com/title/tt0038279/)
Comrade X (http://imdb.com/title/tt0032349/)
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Cross of Iron.......... Eastern Front
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/1912/cross.html
Sam Peckinpah, James Coburn.....Great book BTW
13 Rue Madeline...great flim
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The Great Escape (about the famous stalag prison break)
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1941
"I'm a bug"
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Originally posted by rpm371
Hawklore, you must watch Decision Before Dawn. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0043459/) Great story about a young German POW sent back to Germany to spy for the Allies. It's the best WW2 movie you never saw.
An excellent film...
I'd add:
Where Eagles Dare
The Eagle has Landed
Bridge at Remagen
Tronsky
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Dark Blue World (http://www.sonyclassics.com/darkblueworld/index-withflash.html)
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Dark Blue World as mipokiel posted, orel & MbirdCz sent me this DVD last year, it's amazing (if you can get past the love stories).
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OH HOW CAN I FORGET ONE OF MY FAVORITES
I found it in a DVD bargin bin
The Big Red ONE!
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Originally posted by Gunslinger
OH HOW CAN I FORGET ONE OF MY FAVORITES
I found it in a DVD bargin bin
The Big Red ONE!
ditto....
and how the hell did I forget Where Eagles Dare... I watched it last week! ...Doh!
:D
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Originally posted by Hawklore
I'd love it if it involved, partisans, French Resistance, Maqui, etc.
no question :
http://imdb.com/title/tt0038334/
and
http://imdb.com/title/tt0060814/
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Spitfire
30 seconds over tokyo
Das Boot (bolth versions)
The Longest Day
A Bridge Too Far
tora tora tora
Patton
MacArther
Von Ryans express
Midway
Sands of Iwo Jima
The Dirty Dozen
Where Eagles Dare
Stalag 17
The Longest Day
Run Silent, Run Deep
Flying Leathernecks
One of our airplanes is missing
Battle of the Bulge
They Were Expendable
Wake island
Bataan
Kelly's Heroes
The Fighting Seabees
Destination Tokyo
Battle of Britain
U-571
hell is for heroes
12 oclock high
Fat Man and Little Boy
The Caine Mutiny
The Bridge at Remagen
From here to eternity
Operation Pacific
pt 109
Raid on Rommel
Tuskegee airman
Empire of the sun
Memphis belle
Casablanca <-- just cause i like it and it sort of belongs
Dr,Strangelove <-- I know its not ww2 but ... what can i say but
"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAW"
Ok thats all i can think of at the moment ... (ill probly think of more later on )
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Glad you came up with that one straffo. Forgot about The Train
http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=17687663&mqso=60152768
Burt Lancaster, great French Resistance flim
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oh yea the mossie's bombing the german nuke factory one ....
633 squadron (i think thats it )
there was anouther movie about the mossie also ... it may have been called "Mosquito".
Sink the Bismark
The Desert Rats
ok im gonna stop now ....
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ty Gyro/T69 :)
I'll add some more :
http://imdb.com/title/tt0092593/
those are pretty hard to see :
http://imdb.com/title/tt0064040/
http://imdb.com/title/tt0066904/
http://imdb.com/title/tt0154509/
http://imdb.com/title/tt0073864/
I've not seen this one but Costa Gavras is one of my favorite :
http://imdb.com/title/tt0062416/
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Originally posted by Roscoroo
oh yea the mossie's bombing the german nuke factory one ....
633 squadron (i think thats it )
there was anouther movie about the mossie also ... it may have been called "Mosquito".
Sink the Bismark
The Desert Rats
ok im gonna stop now ....
"Mosquito squadron" I think it was
Tronsky
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"Stalingrad" is quite good.
http://www.warfarehq.com/reviews/movie_stalingard.shtml
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crap, now I gotta go to the video store tomorrow.
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Force 10 from Navarone
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Windtalkers
Attack force Z
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Straffo is 100% right, "Le vieux fusil" ...
(Old Gun, The (1975) (USA)
Vengeance One by One (1975) (USA) (video title)
is awesome, really good movie,well written and amazing acting.
the final flamethrower scene is harrowing...
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Well, I did have a few to mention.
But Roscoroo about covered it ;)
culero (well, except he didn't mention "Dambusters" ;) )
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Another good one based on actual events is the movie "Is Paris Burning?". I've seen the movie and read the book. The movie doesn't stray far from the book.
Is Paris Burning? (http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?trkid=73&movieid=60010501)
Les
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What's the one that has the American and Canadians trainging together for a secret mission? That was a pretty good one
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Lotta great WWII movies out there for sure.
But there is one that Sticks out in my mind as being not only a good movie but one of the best and most accurate pre Prvt Ryan movies out there. Called "Battleground"
An old old movie for sure and you wont see all the Gore of a BOB or Prvt Ryan.
But it does capture the flavor
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G.I. Blues ! (Elvis movie!) :D :rolleyes:
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Originally posted by Gunslinger
What's the one that has the American and Canadians trainging together for a secret mission? That was a pretty good one
"The Devil's Brigade"
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Originally posted by Leslie
"The Devil's Brigade"
"To the devil!"
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Das Boot (the boat)
The russians are comeing , is that 1941?
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Originally posted by Bodhi
The Great Escape (about the famous stalag prison break)
Just came out on DVD too! :aok
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Das Boot (perhaps the best war film ever, and you have to watch it in German!)
Angels 1 5
Battle Of Britain
Dark Blue World
Bridge on the River Kwai
633 Squadron
The Dambusters (fantastic film)
Memphis Belle
Kelly's Heroes
Enigma
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I just bought The Battle Of Brittain on DVD. Whatta great aerial flick. Beautiful planes and superb dogfighting sequences.
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two more:
Slaughterhouse 5
Catch 22
both very good films!
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Just watched Das Boot on the Big Screen the other day.
Although it's a little too long IMO, I think it's the most accurate and realistic portrayal in a WW2 Movie.
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anyone ever see when trumpets fade? newer war movie about ww2,,my brother letting me borrow it,,he told me it was pretty good
i got band of brothers which i liked alot,,private ryan,,bridge too far,,all good movies:)
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Thanks All!
Now I need someone to pile all those up into one long list.. :D
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Don't forget "To Hell and Back" with Audie Murphy.
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Originally posted by Mighty1
Don't forget "To Hell and Back" with Audie Murphy.
That's good movie and I think it the best movie I probably watch.
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The dambusters
Isnt that the documentary about the lancasters using those skip/roll bombs ???
Oh yea I forgot the Flying Tigers (John Wayne)
and the Frances the mule movies .
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Originally posted by Roscoroo(work)
The dambusters
Isnt that the documentary about the lancasters using those skip/roll bombs ???
Oh yea I forgot the Flying Tigers (John Wayne)
and the Frances the mule movies .
The Dambusters isn't a documentary. It's basically a WW2 drama/action about the development of the bouncing bomb by Barnes Wallis. 617 Sqn is formed flying Lancasters and learn to fly at low level but they don't know why and what for. They're then sent on a low-level mission to three (or four?) dam targets in Germany.
I love it because it's nice to see the development, the problems they were facing and then finally the end target. Amazing how they did it, not only dropping the bomb but navigating their way there.
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*Zvezda: the best war movie made here in last 15 years:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0326450/
*"Come and see": the best and most... horrible... I don't know the right word... Can't watch it without a bottle or two of strong alcohol...
http://imdb.com/title/tt0091251/
*"Torpedo-bombers": another great film that is tooo strong to watch it sober. The last scene ("And now we will punish them... Punish!) is incredible.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0262052/
"Test on the road": a great film about partizans. I don't know - but it is one of the films that pretend to show things in a way very different from "official" partizan image.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0067625/
*"Only old boys go to battle" ("V boy idut odni stariki"): probably the best film about Soviet WWII airmen. There is a monument to "Maestro" (regiment commander played by Leonid Bykov) in Kiev, on a high bank of Dniepr...
http://imdb.com/title/tt0070861/
"A la guerre com a la guerre" ("Na voyne kak na voyne"): a film about Soviet tankers (in fact - self-propelled artillery, "tank killers"). The combat scene when the Su-85 jumps upon a Panther and the crew counts seconds until they will be burned is really strong one...
http://imdb.com/title/tt0063333/
*"Hronika pikiruyuschego bombardirovschika" ("Dive-bomber chronicle"): a great film about Pe-2 crew. Features real Pe-2.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0175809/
War-time classics: "Nebo Moskvy" ("Moscow skies"), great footage of real planes. IMDB is wrong, the film was made in 1942.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0037122/
"Stalingradskaya bitva" ("The battle of Stalingrad"), 1949-50: a good movie showing official Soviet point of view at that time. Stalin is a wise a tired man, and he makes good advises to Vasilevsky and other marshalls. The only film I can remember where you can see real German tanks in staged scenes.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0041916/
"Dva boytsa" ("Two warriors"), 1943 : a story about two friends who fight in sieged Leningrad. Great actors, great music.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0036782/
And the all-time classics of war movies:
"Osvobozhdenie" ("Liberation"): Yuri Ozerov's masterpiece. First episode is the battle of Kursk ("Curve of fire"), and the last is Berlin operation. You should also see other war movies made by Yuri Ozerov.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0151852/
"Blokada" ("Siege"): a stroy of sieged Leningrad, and the things behind it.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0144111/
Just several titles that came into my mind...
I marked films I have in DivX with "*". Unfortunately the only one with English soundtrack is "Come and see" :(
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"The Young Lions"
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Boroda wow, thanks for that list!
I'll be sure and pass that list along to the 197th Rifle Guards, the unit I'm gonna be portraying a partisan with.
Boroda, If it has subtitles thats ok with me, my favorite movie is, "The Seven Samuri" and it's B&W and subtitled..