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Top 5 World War Two Films
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'The Highest Honour' (1982) is a memorable war film set in the Pacific Theatre of War.1
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In no particular order:Ice Cold in Alex
Dambusters
Battle of Britain
Tora, Tora, Tora
12 O’Clock High
Band of Brothers: the outstanding TV series depicting ground combat.
Special mentions: Das Boot and Stalingrad for German productions…Letters from Iwo Jima giving a Japanese perspective.
And one from left field: Attack, a 1950’s movie starring Jack Palance and Lee Marvin with Eddie Albert (a real war hero) playing an ambitious but cowardly company commander.1 -
Not a film but war books by Hans Hellman Kirst try to portray the psyche of the of the ordinary German quite well..Off_it said: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.0 -
Gallipoli0
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Wrong war...MrWalker said:Gallipoli1 -
The Cruel Sea
Ice Cold in Alex
Casablanca
The Longest Day
The Great Escape
You could argue The Third Man is a WW2 film, just set in the aftermath rather than during the fighting.1 -
The destroyer copping it during the harrying of the crippled Bismark, something that didn’t happen, ruins Sink the Bismark for me. A shame, as otherwise it’s good.usetobunkin said:Sink the Bismark
In which we serve
Went the day well
Battle of Britain
A bridge too far
Special mention. The Imitation game0 -
Did not know that, thanks for sharing.AddicksAddict said:
The destroyer copping it during the harrying of the crippled Bismark, something that didn’t happen, ruins Sink the Bismark for me. A shame, as otherwise it’s good.usetobunkin said:Sink the Bismark
In which we serve
Went the day well
Battle of Britain
A bridge too far
Special mention. The Imitation game0 -
Also worth a mention is 'The Reader.'0
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The only ships lost were Hood and Bismarck. Prince of Wales was damaged but that’s it. Bismarck didn’t hit KG5 or Rodney once whilst they pounded her into a floating wreck.usetobunkin said:
Did not know that, thanks for sharing.AddicksAddict said:
The destroyer copping it during the harrying of the crippled Bismark, something that didn’t happen, ruins Sink the Bismark for me. A shame, as otherwise it’s good.usetobunkin said:Sink the Bismark
In which we serve
Went the day well
Battle of Britain
A bridge too far
Special mention. The Imitation game0 - Sponsored links:
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Did HMS Norfolk shadow Bismark, through the Iceland gap? (Or Suffolk?).AddicksAddict said:
The only ships lost were Hood and Bismarck. Prince of Wales was damaged but that’s it. Bismarck didn’t hit KG5 or Rodney once whilst they pounded her into a floating wreck.usetobunkin said:
Did not know that, thanks for sharing.AddicksAddict said:
The destroyer copping it during the harrying of the crippled Bismark, something that didn’t happen, ruins Sink the Bismark for me. A shame, as otherwise it’s good.usetobunkin said:Sink the Bismark
In which we serve
Went the day well
Battle of Britain
A bridge too far
Special mention. The Imitation game0 -
Think it was HMS East London Overspillusetobunkin said:
Did HMS Norfolk shadow Bismark, through the Iceland gap? (Or Suffolk?).AddicksAddict said:
The only ships lost were Hood and Bismarck. Prince of Wales was damaged but that’s it. Bismarck didn’t hit KG5 or Rodney once whilst they pounded her into a floating wreck.usetobunkin said:
Did not know that, thanks for sharing.AddicksAddict said:
The destroyer copping it during the harrying of the crippled Bismark, something that didn’t happen, ruins Sink the Bismark for me. A shame, as otherwise it’s good.usetobunkin said:Sink the Bismark
In which we serve
Went the day well
Battle of Britain
A bridge too far
Special mention. The Imitation game3 -
Difficult as the Western films were so my five could have changed.
Battle of Britain.
The Great Escape
Saving Private Ryan
Letters from Iwo Jima
The Pianist0
