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This thread is meant for people who are looking for a good WWII movie to watch or discuss. I am going to list some recommendations below!
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Cross of Iron ( Direct quote from Wikipedia) : Cross of Iron is a 1977 war film directed by Sam Peckinpah, featuring James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason and David Warner. The film is set on the Eastern Front in World War II during the Soviet's Caucasus operations that forced the Wehrmacht to retreat from the Taman Peninsula on the Black Sea in late 1943.
The film focuses on the class conflict between a newly-arrived, aristocratic Prussian officer who covets winning the Iron Cross and a cynical, battle-hardened infantry NCO. The screenplay was based on the 1956 novel The Willing Flesh by Willi Heinrich, a fictional work that may be loosely based on the true story of Johann Schwerdfeger. [1]
Exteriors were shot on location in SFR Yugoslavia. They are notable for using a significant number of authentic tanks and equipment.
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Tora Tora Tora!
(Again another quote from Wikipedia ) Tora! Tora! Tora! (Japanese: トラ・トラ・トラ) is a 1970 American-Japanese war film that dramatises the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The film was directed by Richard Fleischer and stars an ensemble cast, including Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, Sō Yamamura, E.G. Marshall, James Whitmore and Jason Robards. The film uses Isoroku Yamamoto's famous quote, saying the attacks would only serve to "... awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve", although it may have been apocryphal. The title is the Japanese code-word used to indicate that complete surprise was achieved. It literally means "Tiger, Tiger, Tiger".
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Saving Private Ryan ( My personal favourite)
(Direct quote from Wikipedia ) Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American epic war film set during and following the invasion of Normandy in World War II. It was directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat. Noted for its graphic and realistic portrayal of war, the film is especially notable for the intensity of its opening 27 minutes, which depicts the Omaha Beach assault of June 6, 1944. Afterwards, it follows United States Army Rangers Captain John H. Miller (played by Tom Hanks) and seven other soldiers (Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, Giovanni Ribisi, Adam Goldberg and Jeremy Davies) as they search for a paratrooper, Private First Class James Francis Ryan (Matt Damon), who is the last-surviving brother of four servicemen.
Rodat conceived the film's story in 1994 when he saw a monument dedicated to eight siblings killed in the American Civil War. Rodat imagined a similar sibling narrative set in World War II. The script was submitted to producer Mark Gordon, who handed it to Hanks. It was finally given to Spielberg, who decided to direct.
Saving Private Ryan was well received by audiences and garnered considerable critical acclaim, winning several awards for film, cast, and crew as well as earning significant returns at the box office. The film grossed US$481.8 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing domestic film of the year. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated the film for eleven Academy Awards; Spielberg's direction won him a second Academy Award for Best Director. Saving Private Ryan was released on home video in May 1999, earning $44 million from sales.
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Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier)
Quote from Wikipedia: The Unknown Soldier (Finnish: Tuntematon sotilas) is a Finnish film directed by Edvin Laine and premiered in December 1955. It is based on The Unknown Soldier, a novel by Väinö Linna. The story is about the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union as told from the viewpoint of ordinary Finnish soldiers. The film was and remains the most successful movie ever in Finland; about 2.8 million people, or more than half the Finnish population, saw it in theaters. Its portrayal of Linna's characters is widely accepted as canonical. In 1985 Rauni Mollberg directed a new version of the film.
Since 2000 YLE TV2 has broadcast the film every year on the Independence Day of Finland.
This is just a small fragment of WWII movies, I will be adding more as the thread goes, now my children, DISCUSS.
Add [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unknown_Soldier_%281955_film%29"]Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier)[/URL], I dare you.
This was my first ww2 film I had ever seen somewhere in 1990's-2000, watched with my dad while I was a little kid :v:
Second movie was Cross of Iron, that too thanks to dad.
[QUOTE=Careld;38748888]Add [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unknown_Soldier_%281955_film%29"]Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier)[/URL], I dare you.
This was my first ww2 film I had ever seen somewhere in 1990's-2000, watched with my dad while I was a little kid :v:
Second movie was Cross of Iron, that too thanks to dad.[/QUOTE]
Added, my first movie was Saving Private Ryan, I was only 5. Second was Cross of Iron. :D
[QUOTE=Joazzz;38754494]how about Stalingrad and A Bridge Too Far[/QUOTE]
Ahh! I can't believe I forgot Stalingrad, one of my favourites, I shall add those movies.
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This movie is awesome. It's basically a ww2 spy mission movie, with twists and shit. Watch it now.
Some Soviet films are up on Youtube in their entirety, and have English subtitles:
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Holy shit dude thank you! I've been looking for WW2 Soviet movies for two reasons: 1) I am learning Russian 2) I love Russian made movies :DDD
Would [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downfall_(film)"]Der Untergang (Downfall)[/URL] fit in on this list? Or is this just for "war" movies. Since after all, it is about Hitler, who kinda played a significant role in the war.
Other good additions would be [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_of_Brothers_(TV_miniseries)"]Band of Brothers[/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pacific_(TV_miniseries)"]The Pacific[/URL] (Both are TV miniseries, both had Tom Hanks and Steven Speilberg as Executive Producers.)
Well movies that were during the time period, and also Der Untergang is quite a good movie :D Loved it.
Just look at that fuckin' cast list!
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[sp] Clooney is in like one scene at the end though. [/sp]
I made this thread not long ago, it has a good list of ww2 movies.
[url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1093106&highlight=[/url]
The Dirty Dozen should be added.
[QUOTE=Careld;38748888]Add [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unknown_Soldier_%281955_film%29"]Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier)[/URL], I dare you.
This was my first ww2 film I had ever seen somewhere in 1990's-2000, watched with my dad while I was a little kid :v:[/QUOTE]
I knew someone would say that :v:
Here's the full movie in youtube with english subtitles if someone really wants to watch it.
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Does anyone got any good foreign WW2 movies about their country in the war?
The Talvisota movie, named after the book made by Antti Tuuri, which the movie is based on. It also had a TV series.
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Max Manus: Man of War
Great movie, available on Netflix, Norwegian throughout.
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[quote]It recounts the events surrounding the June 1941 Defense of Brest Fortress against invading Wehrmacht forces in the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. The movie is accompanied by in medias res narration from the perspective of (then) 15-year old Sasha Akimov, and mainly centers on three resistance zones holding out against the protracted German siege, headed by regiment commander Pyotr Gavrilov, the political commissar Yefim Fomin, and the head of the 9th frontier outpost, Andrey Mitrofanovich Kizhevatov.[/quote]
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[quote]Come and See (Russian: Иди и смотри, Idi i smotri; Belarusian: Ідзі і глядзі, Idzi i hlyadzi) directed by Elem Klimov, is a 1985 Soviet war drama and psychological thriller film about and occurring during the Nazi German occupation of the Byelorussian SSR. Aleksei Kravchenko and Olga Mironova star as the protagonists Flyora and Glasha.[1] The screenplay is by Ales Adamovich and Elem Klimov. The script had to wait eight years for approval; the film was finally produced to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Soviet victory in World War II, and was a large box-office hit, with 28,900,000 admissions in the Soviet Union alone.[/quote]
Both are Russian/Soviet, and they're both great.
Come and See is fucking brilliant though. It's horrifyingly good.
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Letters from Iwo Jima is excellent
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[I]Stalag 17[/I] is a 1953 war film which tells the story of a group of American airmen held in a German World War II prisoner of war camp, who come to suspect that one of their number is a traitor.
I fuckin loved every minute of this film
A Bridge Too Far is one of my favourites.
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