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Let's nominate the top 10 greatest WW2 films.

Discussion in 'WWII Films & TV' started by downfall1983, Nov 6, 2006.

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Of these nominated films, which is your favorite?

  1. Band of Brothers

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  2. The Battle of Britain

    7 vote(s)
    35.0%

  3. Cross of Iron

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    10.0%

  4. Dambusters

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    10.0%

  5. Das Boot

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    5.0%

  6. Downfall (Der Untergang)

    4 vote(s)
    20.0%

  7. The Great Escape

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  8. Kelly's Heroes

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  9. The Longest Day

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    10.0%

  10. The Pianist

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    10.0%

  11. Saving Private Ryan

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  1. uksubs

    uksubs Member

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    My list (In no particular order)

    1 The Train
    2 Attack
    3 The Eagle as landed
    4 Joy Divison
    5 Cross of iron
    6 Where eagle dare
    7 Hell is for heroes
    8 Kelly's Heroes
    9 Downfall
    10 The Great Escape
     
    uksubs, Nov 26, 2007
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  2. C.Evans

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    The trouble with only a "Top Ten" list as the list is always subject for change. i.e.

    Decision Before Dawn (will always be my Nr 1 choice)

    Sands of Iwo Jima.

    The Longest Day.

    The Dirty Dozen.

    Kelly's Heroes.

    The Colditz Story.

    Where Eagles Dare.

    The Password is Courage.

    A Time To Love and a Time To Die.

    Battleground.

    See what I mean? ;-))
     
    C.Evans, Nov 26, 2007
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  3. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Good Ol' Boy Staff Member WW2|ORG Editor

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    Doggonnit, I can't believe that I forgot all about Battleground!

    Cinema Extroidinaire!



    Originally Posted by Slipdigit [​IMG]

    Anyone else care, besides Andrew P.?
     
    Slipdigit, Nov 26, 2007
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  4. scarface

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    That works for me!

    -whatever

    -Lou
     
    scarface, Nov 26, 2007
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  5. bigfun

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    bring it on Slip! I like the idea!
     
    bigfun, Nov 27, 2007
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  6. C.Evans

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    [[[Go for it! It would be interesting to see what is chosen?]]]
     
    C.Evans, Nov 27, 2007
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  7. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Good Ol' Boy Staff Member WW2|ORG Editor

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    Okay, Friday night I'll set up a poll from the top ten nominees and let the voting run for a week. People nominating more than ten, I will choose the first 10 you mention, unless to say otherwise.

    Y'all better be nominating your favs and campaigning for them.:cool:
     
    Slipdigit, Nov 27, 2007
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  8. C.Evans

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    No need when we all know that: Decision Before Dawn is the best F*****g war movie ever made ;-))
     
    C.Evans, Nov 27, 2007
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  9. Slipdigit

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    can't say that I have ever seen that movie, Carl.
     
    Slipdigit, Nov 27, 2007
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  10. C.Evans

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    Jeff, watching "Decision Before Dawn" is a must. It stars: Richard Basehart as Lt. Rennick, Gary Merrill as the Colonel, Oskar Werner as "Happy" aka (Karl Maurer-former Luftwaffe Medic) Hans-Christian Blech as "Tiger." Other good actors in this movie include: Hildegard Knef, Wilfrid Seyfarth (the SS Special Courier)-look for a quick glimpse for: Klaus Kinski-as the whining soldier, and lastly; Til Kiwi.

    This movie was filmed five years after the end of the war and what you see is the real thing. Meaning: All the uniforms, insignia, weapons, vehicles and bombed-out cities; are the real thing and not hollywood props.
     
    C.Evans, Nov 28, 2007
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  11. TA152

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    Is that the movie where they take some German POW's and put them back into Germany to gather information ? I think the end of the story the gestapo agent gets shot by German soldiers and the good guy gets captured ? Filmed in B&W. Or am I thinking of anouther movie ?
     
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  12. C.Evans

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    Hi Ta, your partly correct. The guy executed was one of the German soldiers who spied for the allies. Nobody else was captured. Yep is in glorious B&W.
     
    C.Evans, Nov 29, 2007
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  13. Slipdigit

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    Nominations are CLOSED.

    I will open a thread with a poll with these Eleven (11) films. There was a tie for number 10.
     
    Slipdigit, Nov 30, 2007
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    I have gathered your nominations and have selected the 11 most nominated films.
    Poll closes in 7 days, Dec 7, 2007

    The nominated films in alphabetical order are:

    Band of Brothers
    The Battle of Britain
    Cross of Iron
    Dambusters
    Das Boot
    Downfall (Der Untergang)
    The Great Escape
    Kelly's Heroes
    The Longest Day
    The Pianist
    Saving Private Ryan

    They are NOT my choices, they are yours.

    The reason 11 were chosen, there was a tie in the nomination voting for number 10.
     
    Slipdigit, Nov 30, 2007
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  15. Skipper

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    Das boot is my absolute number one.
     
    Skipper, Dec 1, 2007
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  16. Martin Bull

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    With my avatar, what else was I going to vote for ? ;)
     
    Martin Bull, Dec 1, 2007
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  17. C.Evans

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    Jeff, this isn't a perfect poll, without having the movies: Decision Before Dawn and Dunkirk. ;-))

    Anyway, of the choices listed, I had to cast my vote for the movie that John Wayne was in. :-D

    I noticed you listed: The Pianist. C'mon man, that movie sucked Prune Pits. :-D
     
    C.Evans, Dec 1, 2007
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  18. C.Evans

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    Hi Jeff, I did not see this posting before I posted a comment in the Poll thread - sorry.

    Anyway, I knew Martin voted for Dambusters and you probably know I voted for: The Longest Day partly because it had Duke in it. :-D
     
    C.Evans, Dec 1, 2007
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  19. Kai-Petri

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    Private Ryan for me for the Omaha beach part.

    Close second der Untergang.
     
    Kai-Petri, Dec 1, 2007
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  20. Sturmkreuz

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    Of this list, I have to choose

    Band of Brothers
    Das Boot
    Der Untergang
    The Longest Day
    Saving Private Ryan

    But I'd choose Band of Brothers. These 5 are all good, I won't make a chose, but I'd had for the poll so I choosed BoB.

    But since when is BoB a movie? Band of Brothers is a serie. Don't know how you call it in English, but it does excist out 10-parts (11 if you count in the bonus).
     
    Sturmkreuz, Dec 1, 2007
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