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Top 8 War Movies/War time movies

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Susi

Susi

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Wasnt able to find out any Off Topic area from forum so posted here.
Time to list some war movies and give some short arguments.

1.Valkyrie
YouTube - "Valkyrie" Official Trailer [HQ]
It was so thrilling, that i allmost hopet part of the time on movie
that the guy could make it, even that it was unpossible.

2. Der Untergang (Downfall)
YouTube - Der Untergang "Downfall" Official Trailer
Really good sight inside the last days of Third Reich. Also actors make up
their role really good.

3. Hurt Locker
YouTube - The Hurt Locker (Trailer)
Well it goes really well inside to head of those soldiers and
represent their stress in chaotic situations

4. Inglorius Basterds
YouTube - Inglourious Basterds - Official Trailer [HD]
Well shows the brutality of war very well and is maybe the first world war 2
movie which actually got writen charachters, not just cannon fodder.

5. Cross Of Iron
YouTube - Cross of Iron Trailer (1977)
Even that its quite typical war movie compared to other ones in this
list. It does everything really well, and thats why erans it place in the
list.

6. Talvisota (Winter War)
YouTube - The Winter War - Talvisota
If you will think about watching film from Finlands Front, watch this one.

7. Waltz With Bashir
YouTube - Waltz With Bashir Trailer
Well made story about now days war, madness of war and young mens
inside it.

8. The Fallen
YouTube - The Fallen (Trailer)
Well, its obviously made with really small budjet and it looks more like
re-enactors showreel than a movie, but its well written. It shows soldiers
who are scared real way. Not the way that you see in typical films
where the soldier is first scared and then jumps up and hip shoot
enemies to same pile with "WRAAA" scream.
 
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Updating netflix que now ;) The only ones I haven't seen are Cross Of Iron and The Fallen. Stalingrad is in my que but hasn't come up and Inglorius Basterds has be stuck at long wait since it came out...

I would add Beaufort to the list.

"In the final days of the Israeli occupation of Lebanon, a band of soldiers prepares for the evacuation of a mountain stronghold called Beaufort. Their leader is 22-year-old Liberti (Oshri Cohen), whose strict adherence to the rules puts the men in harm's way. As the evacuation draws near, Hezbollah steps up its attack, testing Liberti's mettle and the men's allegiance to him. Eli Altonio co-stars in director Joseph Cedar's Oscar-nominated film."

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  1. PATTON (all-time favorite, despite GLARING technical inaccuracies- and trust me, for a military vehicle collector, they are painful!)
  2. A Bridge Too Far - Good cast, good movie, good accuracy
  3. The Dirty Dozen and the Great Escape - Good cast, and fun to watch, too...
  4. The Longest Day - Again, fun to watch, and a classic, as well
  5. The Eagle Has Landed - Good cast (Robert Duvall, Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Donald Pleasance, you get the point...)
 
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  • Where Eagles Dare
  • The Guns of Navarone
  • Force 10 from Navarone
  • Kelly's Heroes
  • The Bridge at Remagen
  • The Bridge over the River Kwai
  • Battle of Britain
  • The Dirty Dozen
  • A Bridge Too Far
  • Aces High
  • Zulu
  • Jarhead
  • Downfall
  • Das Boot
  • The Great Escape
  • Defiance
  • Valkyrie
  • Black Hawk Down
  • The Trench
  • Tora! Tora! Tora!
  • Empire of the Sun
  • Letters from Iwo Jima
  • The Longest Day
 
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Der Untergang, Cross of Iron, Talvisota, Waltz with Bashir, Stalingrad - all great war movies!
Personally I'm not a fan of the 60s/70s "epics" on ww2, they get too pompous for me.

Here are some of my favorites not mentioned yet (and probably won't be), in no particular order:

Kusturica's Underground - Bila jednom jedna zemlja... and the best soundtrack for any movie, ever!
YouTube - Cocek (from Underground)

Lepa Sela, Lepa Gore (Pretty Village, Pretty Flame) - like Underground, a dark comedy about the Jugoslav war.
YouTube - Lepa Sela Lepo Gore Song

Warriors - Frighteningly real movie about British UN tropps and their experience in Bosnia.
YouTube - Warriors - Pacgardistoj - Esperanto

Come and See (Idi i smotri) - In my opinion the most terrifying movie about the eastern front.
YouTube - Come and See part 5

Land and Freedom - Ken Loach's movie about the International brigades in the Spanish civil war.
YouTube - TIERRA Y LIBERTAD (trailer)

Mediterraneo - A movie on the more quiet sides of war:
YouTube - Mediterraneo [trailer]

Grbavica - I often find movies about the consequences of war more interesting than the war itself, this is an excellent example, a very moving film.
YouTube - Grbavica - Sarajevo ljubavi moja

And finally, possibly the best movie about war ever made:
YouTube - The Fog of War (trailer)
 
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Jamer said:
If you haven't seen it yet, you owe it to yourself too.

YouTube - The Counterfeiters Movie Trailer
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Ah! I have it but haven't watched it yet.

Also, The Pianist and Schindler's List.

LOL at The Longest Day. Entertaining movie but so corny at times. My favorite line after an American soldier mistakes the bolting of a kar98 for a clicker signal and gets shot: whilst dying..."two..clicks!..."
 
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Band of Brothers (Series)
The Pacific (Series)
Dark Blue World (Aviation combat)
Stalingrad
Brotherhood of War Taguki (Korea)
Over There (Series)

Whilst movies are more or less realistic , more or less hollywood from time to time, i do prefer just watching loads of documentaries from ww2, vietnam , korea , modern day etc etc ..movies tend to portray one side as heroes and the other one as satan.

I'd love a series like Bob tho about German or Russian soldiers , but i bet my balls that won't happen, also seriously there should be way more combat aviation movies produced in my opinion.
 
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Psycho_Sam said:
  • Where Eagles Dare
  • The Guns of Navarone
  • Force 10 from Navarone
  • Kelly's Heroes
  • The Bridge at Remagen
  • The Bridge over the River Kwai
  • Battle of Britain
  • The Dirty Dozen
  • A Bridge Too Far
  • Aces High
  • Zulu
  • Jarhead
  • Downfall
  • Das Boot
  • The Great Escape
  • Defiance
  • Valkyrie
  • Black Hawk Down
  • The Trench
  • Tora! Tora! Tora!
  • Empire of the Sun
  • Letters from Iwo Jima
  • The Longest Day
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I'm with Sam on those...


I grew up watching early color American WWII movies sitting out of doors in the Mediterranean night air in a canvas backed chair on the rooftop theatre of a small Greek village just above Thessaloniki in the '60s. As kids we had great fun watching the movies and then going out the next day and playing in the actual foxholes.....but I digress.

I also cuncur with Shadrachs "Fog of War". Great work!

And just tonight I watched a documentary on our local Public Broadcasting Station. It was part of the "American Experience" series. This particular two hour documentary was about the Pacific Theatre of WWII. I don't know why (but surmize it is partly because of the barbaric brutality of the parties involved), but here in the States the Pacific Theatre is not as "glorified" as the European Theatre. Growing up, I knew far more more about the American involvement in Europe than I did the Pacific. This documentary was the most informative peice I've seen to date. If you're in the US, check your PBS listing and see if it will be on.


Floyd
 
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