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Bangyai · 30-10-2009, 10:04 PM

Top 10 Second World War films

10 The Bridge on the River Kwai
David Lean, 1957
The lavish production that launched David Lean into the big league is grand, grown-up and full of both eye-popping set-pieces and moral complexity. Alec Guinness is the POW who helps his Japanese captor build a bridge for the Burma-Siam railway. Neither knows that British commandos are planning to blow the fruits of their labours sky high, thereby lending the entire project an epic, Sisyphean futility. Endlessly rewatchable.

For the rest :

Top 10 Second World War films - Telegraph

Bangyai · 30-10-2009, 10:10 PM

I'd go along with most of these . Maybe ' A Bridge Too Far ' could have made it or Von Ryans Express. I'm sure I've seen some bloody good war films but they have slipped from my memory. Nothing here from the war in the Pacific either ?

Bangyai · 30-10-2009, 10:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Bangyai

Nothing here from the war in the Pacific either ?

Ooops .... Missed The Thin Red Line ....... I also had trouble getting the whole list.

withnallstoke · 30-10-2009, 10:13 PM

Bloody internet throws me off after number 4.What are the rest?

raycarey · 30-10-2009, 10:18 PM

^ for some reason the fourth image is a problem....just replace 3 with a five at the end of the url in your browser and you can continue with their list.

IMO the best on the list is 'the thin red line'. exceptional film making.

YouTube - The thin red line - Trailer - HQ

Thetyim · 30-10-2009, 10:38 PM

Thanks
Two of those movies I haven't seen so DLing them now

Surprised The Guns of Navarone and Dam Busters didn't get in there

Smug Farang Bore · 30-10-2009, 10:56 PM

Kellys heros...ace

Thetyim · 30-10-2009, 11:00 PM

^
Ahh, Kelly's Heroes that should be in the top ten

Jeremia · 31-10-2009, 12:27 AM

I would have put "Ice cold in Aex" and " Das boat" ( Original German version) ahead of Private Ryan any day...

Muadib · 31-10-2009, 01:21 AM

The top ten list has to include 'The Longest Day'... Excellent dramatic rendition of the D-Day invasion...

Another which focus' on the war in the Pacific is 'In Harm's Way'...

Both should be on the must see list...

astasinim · 31-10-2009, 01:52 AM

Wot no "Battle of Britain"

Muadib · 31-10-2009, 02:04 AM

More:

The Big Red One...

The Great Escape

Stalag 17

Saving Private Ryan

BKKBoet · 31-10-2009, 02:37 AM

Thin Red Line is my best; huge cast, beautiful cinematography and good dialogue.

larvidchr · 31-10-2009, 02:45 AM

For me it would be Band of Brothers (although that is a very very long movie) Saving Private Ryan, Thin red line, The longest Day, Battle of Midway, Letters from Iwo Jima and the sister movie Flags of our Fathers, Das Boot, Schindlers list, Casa Blanca.

But I would have to mention also- Enemy at the Gates, All quiet on the Western front, The diary of Anne Frank, The cruel sea.

There are more, but I think the ones mentioned here are all cracking good movies even though some are very disturbing and hard to watch.

Muadib · 31-10-2009, 02:57 AM

^ I thoroughly enjoyed the Band of Brothers series...

Schindler's List was particularly disturbing...

larvidchr · 31-10-2009, 03:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Muadib

^ I thoroughly enjoyed the Band of Brothers series...

Schindler's List was particularly disturbing...

I agree, I have had in my collection for years but have only seen it once, I cant make myself look at it again, everytime I have it in my hand I end up putting it back on the shelf.

In Band of Brothers it is not so much the movie, that is just real good and very well made, but what is disturbing is the comments by the real guys, at one time or other they almost all break and cry as they go back in time remembering what they went through, that is pretty tough to see to, those guys where real honest to God heroes and changed the life's for us all.

Fuzzy Bob · 31-10-2009, 02:59 AM

Das Boot

Humbert · 31-10-2009, 06:41 AM

Platoon by Oliver Stone is a great movie.

Any list that does not include All Quiet on the Western Front is incomplete.

Davis Knowlton · 01-11-2009, 10:20 AM

Platoon is Vietnam, not WWII. All Quiet is WWI.

withnallstoke · 31-10-2009, 07:32 AM

All Quiet On The Western Front is a very disturbing film, but is set in WWI. The OP is Second WW.

30-10-2009, 10:04 PM	#1 (permalink)
Bangyai Yala Last Online: Today 10:01 AM Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 697	Top 10 Second World War films Top 10 Second World War films 10 The Bridge on the River Kwai David Lean, 1957 The lavish production that launched David Lean into the big league is grand, grown-up and full of both eye-popping set-pieces and moral complexity. Alec Guinness is the POW who helps his Japanese captor build a bridge for the Burma-Siam railway. Neither knows that British commandos are planning to blow the fruits of their labours sky high, thereby lending the entire project an epic, Sisyphean futility. Endlessly rewatchable. For the rest : Top 10 Second World War films - Telegraph

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30-10-2009, 10:10 PM	#2 (permalink)
Bangyai Yala Last Online: Today 10:01 AM Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 697	I'd go along with most of these . Maybe ' A Bridge Too Far ' could have made it or Von Ryans Express. I'm sure I've seen some bloody good war films but they have slipped from my memory. Nothing here from the war in the Pacific either ?

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withnallstoke Dazed and confused. Last Online: Today 02:21 PM Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: The Fletcher Memorial Home. Posts: 1,943	Bloody internet throws me off after number 4.What are the rest?

30-10-2009, 10:38 PM	#6 (permalink)
Thetyim ssshhhhh Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Mousehole Posts: 14,634	Thanks Two of those movies I haven't seen so DLing them now Surprised The Guns of Navarone and Dam Busters didn't get in there

30-10-2009, 10:56 PM	#7 (permalink)
Smug Farang Bore Sukhothai Last Online: Today 12:11 PM Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 326	Kellys heros...ace

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Jeremia Koh Chang Last Online: Yesterday 11:25 PM Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Klong Klung Posts: 70	I would have put "Ice cold in Aex" and " Das boat" ( Original German version) ahead of Private Ryan any day...

31-10-2009, 01:21 AM	#10 (permalink)
Muadib We have worm sign... Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: HELL Posts: 3,047	The top ten list has to include 'The Longest Day'... Excellent dramatic rendition of the D-Day invasion... Another which focus' on the war in the Pacific is 'In Harm's Way'... Both should be on the must see list...

31-10-2009, 01:52 AM	#11 (permalink)
astasinim Small Member Last Online: Today 03:24 PM Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 2,057	Wot no "Battle of Britain"

31-10-2009, 02:04 AM	#12 (permalink)
Muadib We have worm sign... Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: HELL Posts: 3,047	More: The Big Red One... The Great Escape Stalag 17 Saving Private Ryan

31-10-2009, 02:37 AM	#13 (permalink)
BKKBoet Songkhla Last Online: Today 02:01 PM Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Baan Nork Posts: 672	Thin Red Line is my best; huge cast, beautiful cinematography and good dialogue.

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Fuzzy Bob Moist Last Online: Today 01:59 PM Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Wirral Posts: 1,132	Das Boot

31-10-2009, 06:41 AM	#18 (permalink)
Humbert Koh Phangan Last Online: Today 12:01 PM Join Date: May 2009 Location: Bangkok Posts: 635	Platoon by Oliver Stone is a great movie. Any list that does not include All Quiet on the Western Front is incomplete.

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Davis Knowlton Pong Nam Ron Last Online: 21-11-2009 07:32 PM Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 282	Platoon is Vietnam, not WWII. All Quiet is WWI.

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withnallstoke Dazed and confused. Last Online: Today 02:21 PM Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: The Fletcher Memorial Home. Posts: 1,943	All Quiet On The Western Front is a very disturbing film, but is set in WWI. The OP is Second WW.

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