What is the best WW2 Movie ?

All of those are good

 

There are some good movies about WWII like

The Longest Day
The Great Escape
Patton
Saving Pt. Ryan
Stalingrad
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Schindler's List
Band of Brothers (even though that really wasen't a movie)

 

Stalingrad was eceptionaly good

 

yeah... who on here said stalag 17??

what a corker of a film i forgot all about that 1, in fact gonna put that back in my all time top 10 films!!

 

It is a really good film, I have it in my collection.

 

I think that most of the american movies about war totaly SUCKS!!!
Americans always make fucking heroic movies...RAMBO type...always staying alive...there's no need to search for him,he will find you :lol: ...you know...all that bullshit!.....Most of the movies...and all about the war in Vietnam...

The best movie about World War II for me is the Russian movie "Zvezda"...its just no comment...

I also like the movie "Hitler: The rise of evil"...its about Hitler before the war,before he came on the top of the country.

Americans can make interesting and realistic war movies only if they are for stories of foreign countries...when they make movie about war thats american,they show Rambo...anywayz...of the american war movies i like "Full Metal Jacket" and "Apocalypse Now"...although they are not about World War 2...from your comments i think i shoud watch that "When trumpets fade"

 

Try it! It might radically change your opinion about American war movies.

 

Did anyone ever see "Ballad of a Russian Soldier"? It was a Russian propaganda film that came out either during or immediately after WW II. Even with the propaganda, it was a good flick and showed a Russki soldat using an AT rifle against a couple of Mark III's (I think; I saw the movie in the early 1960's). Cross of Iron was a good movie (book was better). Band of Brothers was also very good, and, of course, Saving Private Ryan. The special effects guys in the latter movie almost got right the sound of a bullet passing by.

 

In no particular order:

Sahara
Guadalcanal Diary
Band of Brothers
Kelly's Heros
12 o'clock high
Patton
To Hell and Back
The Longest Day
The Dirty Dozen
PT 109
Operation Petticoat
Father Goose
The Best Years of our Lives (about coming home from the war)
The Enemy Below
Memphis Belle (the original and not that recent hollywood production)
Tora Tora Tora
A Bridge Too Far


There are others I'm not thinking of right now, but I suppose if I did it would take up a further five or six pages. It would be a much shorter list if I was naming off the movies I hate............or maybe not.

 

Thank you Phip - in another thread under this section, I described a Russian movie about a young soldier on leave that I had seen years ago but couldn't remember its name ... and you mentioned "Ballad of a Soldier" - that's it. I'll have to get a copy- thanks again. You wouldn't happen to remember another Russian movie, this one from the 70s, which was a full-length, color, dramatized combat epic about the Battle of Kursk? I saw it around 1977, but can't remember its title either. Multiple searches on Google turn up nothing.

 

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No, I didn't see the flick about Kursk, but would like to. If you think of the title, please post it here. Ain't fading memory a bitch! I'd also like to know if you find a source for "Ballad . . .." I wonder if our Bulgarian friend would approve of that one. Obviously, he hasn't seen some of our better works. He really should see Band of Brothers.

 

"Ballad of a Soldier" is available on DVD from Amazon for about $26. I'm still trying to remember that Kursk movie - tried various searches on Google but nothing turns up. The movie was produced on a scale like "Longest Day" or "Battle of the Bulge" in its sweeping portrayal of the battle. I don't remember thinking "that was a great movie" when I left the theater (can't even remember if it was dubbed or subtitled), but it was worth watching if only for the rare subject matter. Agree with you about "Band of Brothers," easily my favorite WWII combat 'movie' - be neat to see it in a widescreen theather with good sound - but what an investment of time. I've been lucky to meet several of the "Brothers" - I met Forrest Guth a couple times (he's in the book and provided several of the photos, but wasn't in the movie - in fact, he has his own book), as well as Buck Compton and Don Malarkey - all three fine gentlemen, with stories to tell. I've heard that Spielberg/Hanks are working on a Pacific War tale similar to the BoB format, but haven't heard anything specific - have you heard anything about that?

 

Not more than what IMDB tells me.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374463/

 

I assume you dont mean the recent film of the Clive Cussler book...

 

Well, as I recall the new film based on the Clive Cussler novel (good book by the way) does not take place during WWII, so no, I'm not refering to that one. I'm refering to the 1943 classic starring Humphry Bogart as an american tank commander in the North Africa. A must see film for anyone who is interested in tanks.

 

Bogart may have been billed as the star of Sahara, but as far as I'm concerned, the star was "Lulubelle" the M3. Can't think of another movie about a Grant - worth seeing just for that alone. BTW, a good book about war movies is Videohound's "War Movies," by Mike Mayo (Visible Ink Press, 1999; ISBN 1-57859-089-2). A softcover book of about 635 pages, it covers over 200 war movies, with photos from the flick. Topics include: American Wars; British Wars; French Wars; Japanese Wars; Russian Wars; World War I; Between the World Wars; World War II - Europe and North Africa; World War II - Pacific; World War II - Documentaries; World War II - the Holocaust; World War II - Homefront; World War II - POWs; World War II - the Resistance; Korean War; Vietnam War; Coming Home. The World War II movies go from pp 189 to 455! If you've seen it, it's probably in the book. I bought it at Books a Million for about $20. For what it's worth, here's Mayo's list of his favorite 21 (in order of appearance):
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Gunga Din (1939)
The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Battleground (1949)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Fires on the Plain (1959)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Zulu (1964)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Cross of Iron (1976)
Go Tell the Spartans (1978)
The Big Red One (1980)
Das Boot (1981)
Platoon (1986)
Hope and Glory (1987)
Glory (1989)
The Siege of Firebase Gloria (1989)
When Trumpets Fade (1998)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Nothing like snuggling up with your honey to a good war movie.

 

Wow, didn't know there is a movie made about that book. Gotta get it and watch it someday...

 

agreed, though I soon found that every Clive Cussler book is essentially the same, although often worth reading for the interesting historical 'what if' bits.

 

Man i realy forgot about Das Boot. It was realy great movie but TV series was much better. The move was almost unrecognisebly cut ( they left uot the best parts). Series was almost as good as the book.

 

How I Won The War, with Michael Crawford and John Lennon.
Oli