Grumpster
12:00 Tue May 8
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Kelly's Heroes and Escape to Victory for the not so serious element.
Thought Dunkirk was excellent and partial to a bit of Saving Private Ryan.
If I want reality and to think 'fuck that', the BoB boxset is the only thing I've seen that's worthy I think. Bastogne must have been serious brown trouser time.
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jfk
1:48 Tue May 8
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SDKFZ 222
Agree with that great viewing.
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SDKFZ 222
12:29 Tue May 8
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I realise that it is prewar during the Weimar period but the Babylon Berlin Netflix series has been very good.
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mike hunt
10:42 Mon May 7
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fury was ok
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OccupyGreenStreet
10:05 Mon May 7
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Bit of a different take on WW2 but remember seeing a few years ago the Italian trilogy of:
Rome, Open City
Paisa
Germany Year Zero
Stunning films, made on location in the aftermath of booting out Mussolini’s fascists and the Germans.
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Swiss.
6:19 Mon May 7
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Don't know if mentioned but The Hill. A terrific movie.
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tricky trev
4:44 Mon May 7
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Unbroken
Katyn
Fury
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Swiss.
2:36 Mon May 7
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Hacksaw Ridge
I would say the most realistic battle scene I've ever seen; Truly awesome.
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The Libertine
11:00 Mon May 7
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normannomates
True indeed. No film could possibly capture what its like to stand in one of those landing crafts at D-day and know that a lot would die.
I read that military analyst expected 13% to drown before getting on the beach and then 25% would be killed on the beach.
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The Libertine
10:55 Mon May 7
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Difficult to say which is best, but for me these are up there. Opening scene of Das Boot.
Das Boot
Enemy at the gates
Der Untergang
Life is beautiful
Stalingrad
Bridge over river Kwai
Schindlers list
Casablanca, although this movie is probably not really what the poster thought about-
Honourable mention to:
Escape to victory.
Must have been scary as hell in Stalingrad.
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normannomates
6:43 Mon May 7
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all in context this...
not one of said films even come close to reality...but is what it is
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normannomates
6:38 Mon May 7
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cross of iron is class also
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normannomates
6:33 Mon May 7
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Guns of Navarone another childgood favourite alongside wild Geese...but Wild Geese was more the stellar cast....
Burton...Harris and Moore ..top table right there....
good book to read on these ...plus O"Toole
great read
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normannomates
6:14 Mon May 7
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kellys heroes for me.....
Dirty Dozen close second
some very funny characters in Kellys....cowboy..and oddball obvious favourites
Telly Savales ripping it uo in both btw...and the bulge
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Alfs
12:35 Mon May 7
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Murphy's War
Hannibal
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Ridikzappa
12:25 Mon May 7
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Enemy at the Gates
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Alfie
12:23 Mon May 7
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' death & bird shit from above'. 1937. Oscar nominated.
The true tale of how a yorkshire pigeon loft was converted into an aerial death dealing dragoon of berserk and vicious pigeons used at d day and other violent days preceeded with a letter.
My favourite scene is the one in which the leading pigeon goes on a death defying swoop down on the german trenches and double drops a lozenge of piss and shit mixed bird dirt on a legion of wafty ss bell end helmeted hitler youth.
They are blown apart in a liquid spray explosion of massive grey white & seedy bird shit - the sort you find down you passenger window when parked underneath a willow tree or clan of owls.
Clint eastwood was in it and dirk bogarde had one of his first talking parts in it playing the ugly northern newspaper seller and loft keeper
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isca hammer
11:56 Sun May 6
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Patton
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Sarge
11:04 Sun May 6
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The navarrone films l. Can't remember which one it was with the exploding dog poo and the piano wire beheading a motor cyclist.
Watched Dunkirk last night. Really enjoyed that
Can't beat band of brothers though.
No one mentioned escape to victory yet?
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Alfie
11:00 Sun May 6
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Abridged mini series about the wars of the roses
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zebthecat
10:52 Sun May 6
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Das Boot - absolutely brilliant
ALARM!!
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