Greatest Ww2 Film Or Documentary Of All Time

[moggy]

just a poll on world war 2 films.

some classics to choose from, so what's your favourite of all time? included are documentaries also

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

The world at War. No contest.

 

[lost in london]

Band of Brothers should really be on that list - absolute quality all the way through.

 

[Tooting Gull]

Where Eagles Dare.

Still don't really understand the double/treble/quadruple agent plot despite having seen it about 15 times - but all good knockabout stuff.

 

[moggy]

Band of Brothers should really be on that list - absolute quality all the way through.

shit, forgot that one, and watched the whole lot on dvd again over the weekend

 

[Eddie the Seagull]

I thought 'The Eagle has landed' was shit when you consider the cast & dodgy studio sets.

I like 'The Great Escape' - True story - perfect Boxing Day veg out movie.

 

[CAFC Matt]

Band of Brothers should really be on that list - absolute quality all the way through.

Thats mine

 

[Theatre of Trees]

World at War is a quality documentary. Band of Brothers is good too, though a bit mawkish in places.

 

[fatfingers]

should it not be " enemy at the gates"
war film with jude law?

 

[Icy Gull]

Das Boot - fantastic film. I ended up hating the Brits by the end

 

[Tooting Gull]

should it not be " enemy at the gates"
war film with jude law?

To be fair, 'Behind Enemy Gates' would be quite a good title for a war film.

A gripping tale of conflict, battle and betrayal, set in the village of Camembert-sur-Marne in northern France and starring James Mason as Colonel 'Hannibal' Smith, Antoine de Caunes as Renee of the Resistance and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Uberleutnant vin Richthofen.

 

[lost in london]

Where Eagles Dare.

Still don't really understand the double/treble/quadruple agent plot despite having seen it about 15 times - but all good knockabout stuff.

confuses the hell out of me every time i see it, but there's lots of big explosions to take my mind off how stupid i am.

 

[pasty]

Where Eagles Dare.

Still don't really understand the double/treble/quadruple agent plot despite having seen it about 15 times - but all good knockabout stuff.

Gets my vote too. Great film. As for the complexity.......

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[Franks Wild Years]

The Cruel Sea.
And a BBC documentary a couple of years ago about the merchant convoys that sailed to Russia.
Very moving and utterly sad.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Not a documentary or a film but the last episode of Blackadder goes Forth is bloody excellent. Somes up in about 5 seconds the humanity of the whole affair.

Big shout to Band of Brothers and Stalingrad too.

 

[n1 gull]

Cruel Sea - superb, or any black and white war film with John Mills.

 

[On the Left Wing]

Surely it should be Schindler's List

 

[Tooting Gull]

Close between Dad's Army, and 'Allo 'Allo.

 

[defrocked priest]

TimeLife.com has a footage reel of some of the greatest battles of both wars.A real collectors find.About 25 quid for delivery as it comes from the US.

 

[On the Left Wing]

My Uncle Mike (still alive aged 83) was in the 1968 (?) film Battle of Britain, flying one of the Spitfires ... still have some old Super 8 footage of him.

He actually flew Lysanders into Northern France during the real war!