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Offline Yarbles

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Great ww2 Movies
« on: December 04, 2024, 11:08:17 AM »
I am thinking the ones you can watch many times.

Battle of Britain and Saving Private Ryan come straight to mind for me but of course there are others.

What are your favorites ?

That is assuming anyone other than me visits the officers club now  :uhoh
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Re: Great ww2 Movies
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2024, 11:10:34 AM »
A Bridge Too Far is one of my favs, all the big names of the era were in it.



I also watched Battlr of Britain about a million times at my grandparents as a kid, can still basically recite it from memory.
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« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2024, 03:06:38 PM »

Offline JimmyD3

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Re: Great ww2 Movies
« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2024, 03:24:41 PM »
I was very impressed with "Band of Brothers", very well done.
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« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2024, 03:37:04 PM »
Band of brothers had amazing sounds in 5.1

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Re: Great ww2 Movies
« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2024, 03:43:19 PM »
On Amazon Prime " Shamrock Spitfire" "The Attackers" yak squadron great in cockpit scenes.
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« Reply #6 on: December 04, 2024, 04:26:28 PM »
On Amazon Prime " Shamrock Spitfire" "The Attackers" yak squadron great in cockpit scenes.

I keep saying I am going to check that one out.... will some day soon.
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« Reply #7 on: December 04, 2024, 04:31:24 PM »


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« Reply #8 on: December 04, 2024, 05:50:28 PM »
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« Reply #9 on: December 04, 2024, 07:56:09 PM »


I'm glad that's now available.  Superior film, but not to be watched on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

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Re: Great ww2 Movies
« Reply #10 on: December 04, 2024, 09:26:34 PM »
Das Boot

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« Reply #11 on: December 04, 2024, 09:35:28 PM »
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« Reply #12 on: December 05, 2024, 10:03:56 AM »
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Re: Great ww2 Movies
« Reply #13 on: December 05, 2024, 10:09:07 AM »
I was a youngster and I think this was the first PG movie I watched. I rode my bike to the downtown Fox theater. IIRC at that time the Saturday matinee was either 25 cents or 35 cents for a single feature. I usually hid to stay and watch the next movie. Times and money were tough at that time in my family.

The Blue Max,  for the flying scenes. Yeah, I know, not WW2 but it had a lot of planes and flying.

Later, The Big Red One. I was at my OBC at Ft McClellen and saw Patton in the base theater.
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Re: Great ww2 Movies
« Reply #14 on: December 05, 2024, 04:05:05 PM »
I saw Buckethead at the fox theater in falls church,va.