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Top 5 World War Two Films
UEAAddick
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Another top 5. Probably been done before. My favourite period of history and probably films too.
1. Casablanca
2. Went The Day Well
3. In Which We Serve
4. Dunkirk- 50s version with John Mills
5. Come and See
Could do a different 5 easily.
1. Casablanca
2. Went The Day Well
3. In Which We Serve
4. Dunkirk- 50s version with John Mills
5. Come and See
Could do a different 5 easily.
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Not sure about top 5 but my outright favourite is The Battle of Britain3
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Battle of Britain
Great Escape
Hacksaw Ridge
The Pianist
Schindler's List2 -
Casablanca
Went the Day Well
It Happened Here
Hope and Glory
Colonel Blimp1 -
Looking forward to someone coming out with how most WW2 war films don't portray the Germans in the correct light, or the impact of troops from the colonies/commonwealth - so basically we're all racist.3
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Tricky one. Depends if you mean "real life" or a semblance of truth/fiction ones.
Real life
Dambusters
A Bridge too Far
The Longest Day
The Man who Never Was
Dunkirk ( original)
Others
Guns of Navarone
Schindler's List
Great Escape
Went the Day Well
In which we Serve
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Forgot about A Bridge too Far, going to think this a few times on this thread, as its a genre of movies I really "enjoy"golfaddick said:Tricky one. Depends if you mean "real life" or a semblance of truth/fiction ones.
Real life
Dambusters
A Bridge too Far
The Longest Day
The Man who Never Was
Dunkirk ( original)
Others
Guns of Navarone
Schindler's List
Great Escape
Went the Day Well
In which we Serve0 -
1. Saving Private Ryan
2. The Great Escape
3. Son of Saul
4. Memphis Belle
5. Letters From Iwo Jima Ice Cold In Alex
I wouldn't argue these are the best ever made. I can think of loads of absolute classics that should be on the list - Bridge on the River Kwai, Dambusters, Das Boot, Downfall and Hope & Glory all spring to mind and are probably better films than Memphis Belle and Iwo Jima (it pains me to put an Eastwood film in there lol).
But I like all of these movies and I think they tell different perspectives. I almost wouldn't advise anyone watch Son Of Saul. One of the hardest watches I've ever had and I will never sit through it again. But what a fucking film.
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Schindler's list and the Pianist easily my top 2.3
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Bridge over the River Kwai
The Real Heroes of Telemark (Ray Mears)
Inglorious Basterds
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The Great Escape
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Oppenheimer is one of the greatest films ever made.2
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They Shall Not Grow Old
The Longest Day
Inglorious Basterds
Letters From Iwo Jima
The Great Escape1 -
For me, there's 2 categories - "classic" and more "modern".
Classic - Dambusters; Longest Day; Kelly's Heroes; Cruel Sea; Battle of Britain
More modern - Saving Private Ryan; Fury; Sisu; Thin Red Line; Inglorious Baterds6 -
Another 5.
The Way Ahead
A Way to The Stars
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
A Canterbury Tale
Ice Cold in Alex0 -
Saving Private Ryan
The Pianist
Enemy at the Gates
Schindler’s List
Saints and Soldiers
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Dunkirk- modern version
Ice Cold in Alex
Enemy at the GatesImitation Game
Bridge on the River Kwai
As I’ve got older I have developed a real loathing of the old British war films which usually include a working class cheeky chappy cockney and a whole load of plum accented toffs.1 -
Cross of Iron
Ice cold in Alex
Von Ryan's Express
The Train
Das Boot3 -
Yesterdays Enemy
King Rat
Bridge over the river Kwai
Went the day well
Hacksaw Ridge0 -
Cross of Iron
Das Boot
Letters from Iwo Jima
The Longest Day
Iron Fury (not for the script but for the tank battle scenes)
So many good ones 5 isn’t enough0 -
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A Matter of Life and Death
Das Boot (Seen here as a TV series but originally a movie.)
The Enemy Below (yes, I like submarine films).
Letters From Iwo Jima
The Final Countdown (Don't know why the weird concept just kind of appealed.)
Cross Of Iron (If you can find the uncut version) just failing to make the top five.0 -
Lots of great films there. I’d add Reach for the Sky, the Douglas Bader movie.0
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- Dunkirk (modern, but the original is great too)
- Downfall
- Saving Private Ryan
- The Great Escape
- A Bridge Too Far
Honourable mentions for Inglorious Basterds, Battle Of Britain, Valkyrie, Schindler's List, The Pianist, Enemy at The Gates, The Longest Day, Bridge Over the River Kwai and The Forgotten Battle.2 -
Most of my favourites have been mentioned except for The Tin Drum.1
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No votes for “Fury”2
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Ahem ....RaplhMilne said:No votes for “Fury”
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Tora, Tora, Tora
The Battle of Britain
The Dam Busters
Saving Private Ryan
Bridge on the River Kwai1 -
Dirty Dozen
Where Eagles Dare
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
Inglorious Basterds
The Pianist
The Dam Busters
Grave of the Fireflies0 -
Sink the Bismark
In which we serve
Went the day well
Battle of Britain
A bridge too far
Special mention. The Imitation game2
