Thread: Best WW2 movies..

Nobody got 633 Squadron, good film but great music......

Memphis Belle, a great movie for flying buffs.

"Cross of Iron. 1977. Directed by Sam Peckinpah. Starring James Coburn. A great Eastern Front movie - underrated, and rarely screened. A classic.

King Rat. Great POW movie.

WWI, but a great flying movie is The Blue Max - 1966.

Guns of Navarone.
The Great Escape
Bridge Over the River Kwai
The Longest Day
The Dam Busters, just because of the design of the bombs.
The original Dirty Dozen, what a cast.
King Rat.

These are some of mine. When I was a kid war movies ruled.

the iron cross

^Do you mean "cross of Iron", or the holocaust movie the iron cross?

Did we get the Big Red One?

Some great movies here, but its interesting to contrast the filmography (is there such a word?) of what we consider the classics "the longest day", "a bridge to far" etc with the latter day "saving private ryan"/band of brothers.

This episode of Star Trek:


Best WWII docu evah!: "The World At War" Brilliant documentary chronicalling the start of of Hitler's rise to power, then the war itself and the Pacific campaign against the Japanese. Finally showing the big carve-up of the pie after hostilities ended. All authentic war footage and narrated by the great Laurence Olivier. Unmatched.

Originally Posted by kmart

This episode of Star Trek:


Best WWII docu evah!: "The World At War" Brilliant documentary chronicalling the start of of Hitler's rise to power, then the war itself and the Pacific campaign against the Japanese. Finally showing the big carve-up of the pie after hostilities ended. All authentic war footage and narrated by the great Laurence Olivier. Unmatched.

Undisputedly the best.

One of my favorites:

^Just watched that again last night.

While "A Bridge Too Far" was indeed a great movie, that girly-boy Ryan O'Neal cast as the 82nd Airborne's General Gavin just about ruined it. He should have kept his squeaky voice with Love Story"; more his speed.

The Great Escape

Hell in the Pacific.

Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune.

Here are two old ones not yet mentioned:

1942 - "Casablanca". Not a shoot-em-up, but a classic of WW2 with Bogart in occupied Africa.

1953 - "From Here to Eternity" - another classic.

Sands of Iwo Jima

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

Here are two old ones not yet mentioned:

1942 - "Casablanca". Not a shoot-em-up, but a classic of WW2 with Bogart in occupied Africa.

Good one to watch with your Thai (or other nationality) sigoth. Works in any culture, even without much historical background (explaining a little bit first helps).

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

1953 - "From Here to Eternity" - another classic.

Also not really a war movie per se but a good flick, especially the subplot with Burt Lancaster and the ossifer's wife (current American equivalent of Lancaster? No have.) Monty Clift as a boxer is more than a bit of a stretch- he must have been a really good boxer to stay so pretty. The "falls in love with the bar girl" part might resonate in some quarters around here.

I know the best one!

Starred pele bobby more and sly as a yank goalie!!! crap film but a laugh

Originally Posted by Sentinel

Hell in the Pacific.

Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune.

Lee Marvin was a real life WW2 decorated hero.

^Don't know if I would call him a "decorated hero". He was wounded in the ass on Saipan (not Iwo Jima as often reported), and got a Purple Heart for being wounded in action. He was not awarded a Navy Cross, or any other medal for valor, as often falsely reported. Just another Private doing his job.

Dirty Dozen

Its not ww2 but Gallipoli is also a fine war movie.

^A great one!

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

Originally Posted by Sentinel

Hell in the Pacific.

Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune.

Lee Marvin was a real life WW2 decorated hero.

You've reminded me of "To Hell and Back" with Audie Murphy.

Now he WAS a hero, even Davis Knowlton can't refute that. I bet DK never got a Medal of Honor. (Maybe the game).