ok....I am going out on a limb here but "The Best Years of Our Lives", granted it is technically a POST WWII movie but not by much. A classic story of what happens to heroes when the war is over and life begins again. The struggles they face in readjusting really makes you think about what our brave men and women do for us day in and day out and how they have to deal with people when they come back.
WW2 movies...name the better ones
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U-571 is a pretty good submarine movie.
Sorry for me being so simple, but for a split second I actually did read "S*h*aving Private Ryan"
I once heard the director John Waters announce that he was going to make a version of the film that had a title much like that. Except with the words in a different order.
Ian:
+ 1 for "Patton"...and 1971 Oscars for;
Best Picture -
Best Actor - George C. Scott -
Although he world famously refused to accept it, citing a dislike of the voting and even the actual concept of a acting competition. He was the first actor, though not the last, to do so (Marlon Brando would, two years later, decline his Oscar for The Godfather in 1973).
The film also won 5 additional Academy Awards Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Sound, and Best Art Direction.
Christopher
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Attached Images - GEN George S. Patton & Actor Geoge C. Scott in his aewsome role of Patton.
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It was mentioned earlier, but I want to show support for:
Letters from Iwo Jima
I finally got around to watching this movie just last week and was very much happy with the decision.
Letters from Iwo Jima
I finally got around to watching this movie just last week and was very much happy with the decision.
Battle of the Bulge
Patton
Pork Chop Hill
Battleground
Patton
Pork Chop Hill
Battleground
I'm surprised that Stalag 17 hasn't made into this thread yet.
I rather have liked it when it appears on AMC
I rather have liked it when it appears on AMC
Topgumby mentioned it. It's one of my favorites. My list was very short (but Frank Sinatra is very cool) because all my favorites (at least the ones that I consider great movies) were already mentioned.
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If somebody was to make it a point to watch all the flicks mentioned in this thread that they haven't seen, it would be an entertaining run of films.
I think I'll do just that.
I think I'll do just that.
A Bridge Too Far . . . even if just for the parachute jump scene.
I'm surprised no one mentioned Catch-22, about the less than heroic aspects of the war.
Comedies also, such as Operation Petticoat.
I'm surprised no one mentioned Catch-22, about the less than heroic aspects of the war.
Comedies also, such as Operation Petticoat.
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That's a lot of movies. Here's a list of what's been mentioned so far. Not sure what was meant by some of them, especially titles that were used for more than one movie. I added The Damned (1969).
WWII
- Air Force (1943)
- Anzio (1968) aka. Lo sbarco di Anzio
- Army of Shadows (1969) aka. L'armée des ombres
- Attack (1956)
- Attack Force Z (1982)
- Back to Bataan (1945)
- Bataan (1943)
- Battle of Britain (1969)
- The Battle of El Alamein (1969) aka. La battaglia di El Alamein
- Battle of the Bulge (1965)
- Battleground (1949)
- Below (2002)
- The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
- The Big Red One (1980)
- Black Book (2006)
- The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
- The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- A Bridge Too Far (1977)
- Buck Privates (1941)
- The Caine Mutiny (1954)
- Casablanca (1942)
- Castle Keep (1969)
- Catch-22 (1970)
- Command Decision (1948)
- The Cockleshell Heroes (1955)
- Come and See (1985) aka. Idi i smotri
- Cross of Iron (1977)
- The Dam Busters (1955)
- Das Boot (1981)
- Days of Glory (1944) (Dir. Jacques Tourneur)
- Days of Glory (1945) aka. Giorni di gloria
- Days of Glory (2006) aka. Indigènes
- Destination Tokyo (1943)
- Devils on the Doorstep (2000) aka. Guizi lai le
- The Dirty Dozen (1967)
- Downfall (2004)
- The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
- Edge of Darkness (1943)
- Empire of the Sun (1987)
- Enemy at the Gates (2001)
- The Enemy Below (1957)
- Flame and Citron (2008) aka. Flammen & Citronen
- The Fighting Seabees (1944)
- Fires on the Plain (1959) aka. Nobi
- Guadalcanal Diary (1943)
- The Great Dictator (1940)
- Gung Ho!: The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders (1943)
- The Guns of Navarone (1961)
- Hell in the Pacific (1968)
- In Harm's Way (1965)
- In Which We Serve (1942)
- Inglourious Basterds (2009)
- Father Goose (1964)
- From Here To Eternity (1953)
- Halls of Montezuma (1950)
- Hart's War (2002)
- Hell is for Heroes (1962)
- In the Navy (1941)
- The Great Escape (1963)
- Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
- Kelly's Heroes (1970)
- King Rat (1965)
- Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
- The Longest Day (1962)
- Manila Calling (1942)
- Men of the Fighting Lady (1954)
- A Midnight Clear (1992)
- Midway (1976)
- None But the Brave (1965)
- Objective, Burma! (1945)
- Operation Daybreak (1975)
- Operation Petticoat (1959)
- Patton (1970)
- Piece of Cake (1988) mini-series
- Play Dirty (1969)
- Pride of the Marines (1945)
- Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)
- The Sand Pebbles (1966)
- Sahara (1943)
- Saints and Soldiers (2003)
- Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
- Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- Schindler's List (1993)
- Sink the Bizmark (1960)
- Sink the Bismarck (1996)
- Soldier of Orange (1977) aka. Soldaat van Oranje
- Stalag 17 (1953)
- Stalingrad (1989)
- Stalingrad (1993)
- The Thin Red Line (1964)
- The Thin Red Line (1998)
- They Were Expendable (1945)
- Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
- Three Came Home (1950)
- To Hell and Back (1955)
- Tobruk (1967)
- Tobruk (2008)
- Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
- The Train (1964)
- Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
- U-571 (2000)
- Von Ryan's Express (1965)
- Wake Island (1942)
- A Walk in the Sun (1945)
- Went the Day Well? (1942)
- When Trumpets Fade (1998)
- Where Eagles Dare (1968)
- Wing and a Prayer (1944)
- The Winter War (1989) aka. Talvisota
- You Nazty Spy! (1940)
Documentaries & Series
- Victory at Sea (1952) series
- War and Remembrance (1988) mini-series
- Why We Fight -- series done by Frank Capra during WW2 for public/troop education/propaganda
- The Winds of War (1983) mini-series
- The World at War (1973) series
Not WWII
- The Battle of Algiers (1966) aka. La battaglia di Algeri
- Dark Blue World (2001) aka. Tmavomodrý svet
- The Lost Battalion (2001)
- March or Die (1977)
- Michael Collins (1996)
- Paths of Glory (1957)
- Pork Chop Hill (1959)
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
Don't know what was meant by these
- The Beast ????
- 1942 => Might have meant: Summer of '42 (1971)
- Purple Heart
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The Eagle has landed
Saving Private Ryan
Battle of the Bulge ( Although the Tiger Tanks were Pershings ) I believe.
Cross of Iron
Stalingrad
Das Boot
The Longest Day
Battle of Britain
Saving Private Ryan
Battle of the Bulge ( Although the Tiger Tanks were Pershings ) I believe.
Cross of Iron
Stalingrad
Das Boot
The Longest Day
Battle of Britain
The Memphis Bell
Catch 22
Valkyrie
To hell and back
The pacific(hbo)
Atonement(dunkirk scenes were really good)
Stalag 17
Defiance(kinda a ww2 film)
Catch 22
Valkyrie
To hell and back
The pacific(hbo)
Atonement(dunkirk scenes were really good)
Stalag 17
Defiance(kinda a ww2 film)
wasn't Pork Chop Hill the Korean War??
Dark Blue World Czechoslovak pilots who fought for the British Royal Air Force during World War II.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/08/Dark_blue_world_dvd.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/08/Dark_blue_world_dvd.jpg
..thanks!!Bitka na Neretvi (1969)
aka: The Battle of Neretva
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175 min - Drama | War - 7 October 1969 (Yugoslavia)
8/10
In January 1943 German army, afraid of Allied invasion of Balkans, launched great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia...
Director: Veljko Bulajic
Writers: Stevan Bulajic, Veljko Bulajic, and 2 more credits »
Stars:Yul Brynner, Hardy Krüger and Franco Nero
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Cast overview, first billed only:
Yul Brynner ... Ivan Vlado
Hardy Krüger ... Col. Kranzer
Franco Nero ... Capt. Michele Riva
Sylva Koscina ... Danica (as Silva Koscina)
Orson Welles ... Chetnik senator
Curd Jürgens ... Gen. Lohring (as Curt Jurgens)
Anthony Dawson ... Gen. Morelli (as Anthony M. Dawson)
Great movie but hard to find.
aka: The Battle of Neretva
More at IMDbPro » Bitka na Neretvi (1969)
175 min - Drama | War - 7 October 1969 (Yugoslavia)
8/10
In January 1943 German army, afraid of Allied invasion of Balkans, launched great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia...
Director: Veljko Bulajic
Writers: Stevan Bulajic, Veljko Bulajic, and 2 more credits »
Stars:Yul Brynner, Hardy Krüger and Franco Nero
Own the rights? Add a poster »
Nominated for Oscar. See more awards »
Edit
Cast
Cast overview, first billed only:
Yul Brynner ... Ivan Vlado
Hardy Krüger ... Col. Kranzer
Franco Nero ... Capt. Michele Riva
Sylva Koscina ... Danica (as Silva Koscina)
Orson Welles ... Chetnik senator
Curd Jürgens ... Gen. Lohring (as Curt Jurgens)
Anthony Dawson ... Gen. Morelli (as Anthony M. Dawson)
Great movie but hard to find.
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