Watching it this afternoon.
Surprised to read the Dickie Atenbrough epic is very historically accurate in many ways. Exception being Montys role in the disaster which is overlooked in the film. Tiger tanks were mock ups. Very few non Sherman tanks not sure how accurate that is.
Fascinating period in history the war in Europe after d day.
Huge cast too.
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The Longest Day
Dunkirk (both old and new versions)
Saving Private Ryan
Battle of the Bulge
Enemy at the Gates
Pearl Harbor
Am sure there are others that exist that I rate just as highly yet am terrible when it comes to remembering things off the top of my head.
In regards to A Bridge too Far though, isnt the film based on the book by Cornelius Ryan which was more of a Non-Fiction account of the battle rather than a Fictional version?
633 Squadron’s not bad either.
Bridge too Far an excellent film. Agree with most of the others but I like WWII era films too
I’ll throw ‘Went the Day Well?’ Into the mix
...and of course ‘Bridge on the River Kwai’.
Was a decent film!
Scary shit being in a uboat during WW2
Patton
The Great Escape (Cant believe I forgot it)
Thin Red Line
The Big Red One
Schindlers List
Are others I enjoy watching... the Boy in Striped Pjamas was really good yet refuse to watch it agaib as it had me in pieces by the end (Only film in that category).
What I partly loved about Dunkirk last year was the fact it was just a simple war film, none of this romantic back story about the girl left behind, just the plain fighting that went on. Would love to see more of the old style WW2 films made as the technology available should make them awesome now!!
Reach for the Sky. Marvellous, marvellous film (and not just because I used to go to what was the tea room in the film and ended up as a nightclub)
All Quite On the Western Front, (the original) although WWI. Probably the only book I read when I was at school.
I prefer films that don’t have the obligatory love interest and don’t over glamorise war. Most of the British war films seem to have include a chirpy cockney from the ranks and toffs as leaders.
Also I would have in my all time list, Ice Cold in Alex.
Best WW1 movies would be a good list
As for any war film Zulu
And of course, RAF is 100 years old on April 1st. Proud to have served for 28 years of that.
Two years ago I did the 30 corps route from Belgium into Holland with @Live by the sword and @Imissthepeanutman and spent a couple of nights in Arnhem finishing off watching Vitesse playing.
Fascinating journey, including visiting the largest military German war cemetary in the World. With just the three of us there it was really moving.
Anyway, here's @Live by the sword on Arnhem bridge with umbrella of course.
The Battle of the Bulge is annoying in that it completely ignores everyone but the Yanks on the allied side.
To say the opening of Saving Private Ryan is visceral is an understatement but then it goes quite mainstream.
Enemy at the Gates and A Bridge Too Far are both a bid stodgy. The latter and The Longest Day are largely historically accurate but TLD is a far better film.
The two Dunkirks are interesting in the way they deal with the same original subject in quite different ways yet neither could be called the near-documentary style that TLD and ABTF are.
https://www.timeout.com/london/film/50-best-world-war-ii-movies
With Escape to Victory at number 49, you have to wonder how bad the film at 50 is.