Andy Blackburn Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 Where Eagles Dare (because it's a rip-roaring yarn) Kelly's Heroes ("Mulligan!!"..."Did you lose my aerial photographs?"...) Saving Private Ryan (no explanation necessary) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Dilly 1 Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 12 O'Clock High. (Did you know there was a TV series based on the film that ran for three years in the 1960s in the United States? Available on YouTube; lots of B&W B-17 footage, some of which looks as if it was shot in Britain. Scripts sometimes a bit naff.) The Burmese Harp. Kon Ichikawa's film of a sole Japanese soldier at the end of the war who stays on, dressed as a monk, to bury forgotten soldiers. The Victors by Carl Foreman. It follows a US platoon across Europe and avoids the usual US blood-and-glory line. Culmination is the execution for desertion of a US soldier (based on the real-life one of Eddie Slovik), set in a vast snow-covered field in France, with Frank Sinatra 's Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas playing over. The film probably didn't go down too well with the US right. The original Memphis Belle by William Wyler, a documentary mostly shot at Bassingbourn in 1943. The much later fictionalised film was based on this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Miller Posted October 21, 2019 Author Share Posted October 21, 2019 Yes, the original "Memphis Belle" was good. The later one is totally wrong in so many ways. Some of the incidents featured in that travesty did happen but at different times to different aircraft. It is no wonnder that the original crew refused to allow their names to be used on that film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fun Flyer Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 Posted by Cuban8 on 20/10/2019 14:58:43: Tried to watch the recent Catch 22 series on TV, gave up after two episodes. Same thing with the book, very hard going. Not my cup of tea, I'm afraid. +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Marsh Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 There's a new war film coming out. "Midway". ...directed by Roland Emmerich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Williams 2 Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 Well - for drama its got to be 'Zulu', that final fight with them all in the revetment sends the hair up at the back of your neck! For flying - the 'Dambusters', and its worth noting that the two pilots who flew the Lancs for the filming were Polish Flight Sergeant pilots. Richard Todd was taught to handle a Lanc on take off almost up to unstick, to get authentic take off shots. Some film. Makes you wonder what Peter Blake will do with the story...... For drama - Das Boot For humour - 'Don't Look Now, One Of Our planes Is Missing' Little film with the late Terry Thomas paying a straight role as an RAF B17 captain of a crew shot down over Paris and the story is their escape from the Germans with the help of the French. Utterly brilliant, seems to have disappeared without trace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Flyer Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 I dont watch war movies as both world wars where started by the banking system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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David Davis Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 Stanley Kubrick's "Paths of Glory" a story of a French battalion's failure to take a German strongpoint in the First World War and it's consequences. Kirk Douglas stars as Colonel Dax. "Enemy at the Gates." Ignore that bit at the beginning where soldiers are sent into action without rifles and are shot by machine guns when they ran away, that's mostly Western propaganda. "Das Boot." "The Dambusters" is also a good film apart from the bit at the start where all of guy Gibson's crew voluteered to fly with him on a new secret mission. in reality only one member of his old crew went with him. At the initial showing of the film, Richard Todd who played the role of Guy Gibson, wore his decorations on his evening tails. He had been a parachutist in WW2 and had been with the force that reinforced the glider-bourne troops who had captured Pegasus Bridge. I saw an excellent film in the Nineties about the Battle of Midway but can find no reference to it now. Survivors of the battle were interviewed. Roland F. Maxwell's film "Gettysburgh" is also well worth watching. Finally I have recently seen a number of German-made short films on YouTube depicting small scale infantry actions. They appear to be pretty realistic to me, though I've no experience of military combat, sounds of bullets hitting flesh etc. I'm glad I'm too old to be a soldier that's for sure. Edited By David Davis on 24/10/2019 07:58:28 Edited By David Davis on 24/10/2019 08:23:39 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Miller Posted October 24, 2019 Author Share Posted October 24, 2019 Posted by Nitro Flyer on 23/10/2019 23:40:52: I dont watch war movies as both world wars where started by the banking system. I presume that as the banks afre so guilty you don't use banks!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightflyer Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 My favourite three: Battle of Britain The Cruel Sea The Dam Busters Three others close behind being: The Longest Day Angels 15 Midway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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