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  • 1. Post WW2 film The Deer Hunter

    2. WW2 film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

    3. Film not involving Brits or Yanks. The Sino-Japanese War at Sea 1894

    4. Pre-WW1 film Henry V (Olivier)

    5. WW1 film Oh What a Lovely War
  • 1. Forrest Gump
  • edited February 2015
    seth plum said:

    1. Post WW2 film The Deer Hunter

    2. WW2 film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

    3. Film not involving Brits or Yanks. The Sino-Japanese War at Sea 1894

    4. Pre-WW1 film Henry V (Olivier)

    5. WW1 film Oh What a Lovely War

    Not sure how I've managed to miss that one.
  • edited February 2015

    Does anyone know if there's ever been a film based around the Falklands? (Conflict, rather than daily life).

    Resurrected
    The Falklands Play. banned by the BBC for years and only shown a year or two ago. Not really about the war (no fighting shown) but more about the build up. Great performance by Patricia Hodge as Maggie Thatcher.
  • Does anyone know if there's ever been a film based around the Falklands? (Conflict, rather than daily life).

    Resurrected
    The Falklands Play. banned by the BBC for years and only shown a year or two ago. Not really about the war (no fighting shown) but more about the build up. Great performance by Patricia Hodge as Maggie Thatcher.
    What F'in planet do you live on?


    Resurrected (1989)
    96 min - Drama | War - 13 March 1989 (UK)
    5.9 Your rating: -/10 Ratings: 5.9/10 from 224 users
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    True story of a British soldier (David Thewlis), who is left behind in the Falklands after the war with Argentina. He travels on a journey from the Falkland Islands, to his army barracks in England where he is severely beaten and ostracized by his fellow soldiers.

    Director: Paul Greengrass
    Writer: Martin Allen
    Stars: Tom Bell, Rita Tushingham, David Thewlis
  • Post WW2 film Brotherhood (taegukgi)

    2. WW2 film It happened here

    3. Film not involving Brits or Yanks. Days of Glory (Indigenes)

    4. Pre-WW1 film 1066

    5. WW1 film Paths of glory
  • Smileys People
    Ice cold in Alex
    Stalingrad
  • Sorry - bloody cheap old smartphone
    4 Polanskis Macbeth
    5 All quiet on the WF
  • edited February 2015
    1. The Steel Helmet
    2. The Guns Of Navarone
    3. Akira
    4. Lancelot Du Lac
    5. Paths Of Glory
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  • Absolutely gobsmacked it took until page 2 for anyone to say Paths Of Glory tbh
  • 2. Dam busters for gods sake. Not even mentioned - unbelievable.
  • Leuth said:

    Absolutely gobsmacked it took until page 2 for anyone to say Paths Of Glory tbh

    Boom said:

    2. Dam busters for gods sake. Not even mentioned - unbelievable.

    You do realise that not everyone has to agree with you, right?
    :wink:

  • Apocalypse Now

    Patton (George C Scott absolutely brilliant)

    Schindler's List

    Zulu

    All Quiet ....

  • edited February 2015
    Another great ww2 film The Tin Drum.
    Another, The Hill.
  • Does anyone know if there's ever been a film based around the Falklands? (Conflict, rather than daily life).

    Resurrected
    The Falklands Play. banned by the BBC for years and only shown a year or two ago. Not really about the war (no fighting shown) but more about the build up. Great performance by Patricia Hodge as Maggie Thatcher.
    There was a TV film called Ungentlemanly Act released around the same time.
  • edited February 2015

    Does anyone know if there's ever been a film based around the Falklands? (Conflict, rather than daily life).

    The Battles of Coronel and Falklands (1927), about the 1914/15 battles, but I suspect that's not the Falkland Is conflict you're referring to.
  • edited February 2015
    Was this a thread to list one's favourite war films, or to list he most obscure war films of all time?
  • 1. The Deer Hunter

    2. Ice Cold in Alex

    3. Gallipoli

    4. Zulu

    5. All Quiet on the Western Front
  • 1 Platoon

    2 Kelly's Heroes

    3 Cross of Iron

    4 Gettysburg

    5 All Quiet...
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  • Can't add to any of these with the exception of:

    3. Operation Daybreak

    This is really wonderful and heartbreaking btw
  • Talking about The Falklands, does anyone remember the Linda Leplant drama Civvies? Classic
  • Some really good choices. I don't believe these have been picked yet.

    The Third Man (although would be Apocalypse Now every time)

    A Matter of Life and Death

    The Battle for Algiers/ Land and Freedom

    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (often my favourite film of all time)

    La Grande Illusion
  • Some really good choices. I don't believe these have been picked yet.

    The Third Man (although would be Apocalypse Now every time)

    A Matter of Life and Death

    The Battle for Algiers/ Land and Freedom

    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (often my favourite film of all time)

    La Grande Illusion

    Great list. I'd forgotten about Land and Freedom

    Colonel Blimp is a classic.

    Going to through in The Way Ahead and Canterbury Tale
  • Some really good choices. I don't believe these have been picked yet.

    The Third Man (although would be Apocalypse Now every time)

    A Matter of Life and Death

    The Battle for Algiers/ Land and Freedom

    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (often my favourite film of all time)

    La Grande Illusion

    Didn't even think about The Third Man in this category - another favourite classic of mine, personally I think Welles is better in this than in Citizen Kane
  • Saw Inglorious Bastards yesterday. Shame it wasn't factual.
  • 1. Stripes

    2. Inglourious Basterds

    3. Troy

    4. Star Wars

    5. Shoulder Arms

    Honourable mention: I Was A Male War Bride
  • Fiiish said:



    4. Star Wars

    #RedCard
  • Not a film but I've been watching the World At War series (saw episode 24 this morning...only 2 to go)....10am on the Yesterday channel....excellent viewing....and superbly narrated by Laurence Olivier.
  • brogib said:

    Bridge Too Far (can't believe that ain't in me top 3)

    &

    The one where Richard Curtis keeps saying "pork sword calling Danny boy, come in Danny boy"

    I'll correct my all-time favourite war film for you: Richard Burton keeps saying Broadsword calling Danny Boy! The film is Where Eagles Dare.
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