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Posted: Saturday, July 28, 2012 - 02:28 AM UTC
Like so many others on this forum, I too have a love for war films of all types, some I find very well done in terms of the accuracy and the depiction of events, others are just guilty pleasures.

I have a huge DVD collection and quite a few are war films;

Tora, Tora, Tora
Pearl Harbour
Midway
Battleground
Air Force
30 Seconds over Tokyo
Where Eagles Dare (Guilty Pleasure, absolutely awesome film)
Green Berets
Saving Private Ryan
Band Of Brothers
Pacific
Generation Kill
A bridge too far
The longest day
The battle of the bulge
Sink the Bismark
Above us the waves
Appointment in London
One of our aircraft is missing
First of the Few
Anzio
The enemy below
Waterloo
Gettysberg
Gods and Generals
The Patriot
Zulu
Zulu Dawn
Flight of the intruder
Full metal jacket
Platoon
We were Soldiers
Battle of Britain (All time favourite)
Mamphis Belle (A close second)
The Red Baron
Operation Crossbow
The bridge at Remagen
The battle of the river plate
Tears of the sun
Grenn Zone
Hurt Locker
Redacted
Hiroshima
The company
Firefox
The fourth Protocol
Who dares Wins
The desert Fox
The desert Rats
Flyboys
Dunkirk
They were expendable
Went the day well
Angels one five
The dambusters
Schindlers list
The bunker
Downfall
Valkryie
The one that got away
The great escape
The foreman went to france
Charlotte Gray
Enigma
Das Boot
The bridge over the river Kwai
Return from the river Kwai
Act of Valour

etc etc,

these what I can recall, but there are more.

I think it's fair to say that I'm an addict!
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Posted: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 04:32 AM UTC
talking of james bulishi [over the top] what about him in 1945 a steven spielburgh movie!
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Posted: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 04:34 AM UTC
hey man what about Platoon.
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Posted: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 06:28 AM UTC
Just saw "My Way".It was about a Japanese Soldier and a Korean Conscript who fought in the Japanese Army,The Red Army,and finally with the Werhmacht at Normandy.It was pretty good.
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Posted: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 08:00 AM UTC
Some war movies, war related movies, and documentaries I recently enjoyed:

The Human Condition (a student goes into the Japanese slave labor institution to avoid military service and attempts to apply humanitarian principles at the mines but gets chewed up by the corruption and ugly nature of people. He ends up in the IJA, gets captured, becomes a POW, and returns home to nothing he recognizes. This is a 6 part work totaling over 9 hours)

City of Life and Death (Japanese occupation in China)

The Red and the White (banned in former USSR after it was released in 1968. It's about the post WWI hatred between the White and Red Russians and the Hungarians who sided with them.)

Winter in Wartime (A Dutch family during early winter 1945 and the struggle to live under the Nazi occupation as the war has turned)

Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (Great documentary!)

Closely Watched Trains (A train station and it's employees in Nazi occupied territory)

Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Yugoslavian conflict)

Witnesses (Serbian/Croat conflict based film in which an attempt to blow up a Serb's home results in a murder. Film tells the story from the viewpoint of different parties who were involved.)

Verdict on Auschwitz (Documentary on 1963-65 Frankfurt trial of Nazi war criminals.)

Japan's War in Color (Great documentary!)

Firestorm (Documentary on the incendiary bombing of Europe in WWII)

Winter Soldier (Documentary on the testimony of returned vets about US atrocities in Vietnam)

Horror in the East (self explanatory with extra features on the Burma campaign and the Indians that fought with the British who returned to be considered traitors by the people and remain so to this day.)

Hotel Terminus (2 disc set on Klaus Barbie)

Philosophy of a Knife (Probably the must surreal and make you have to look away movie I ever saw! It makes the film Salo look like a Disney production! Created by Russian film makers it is about the infamous Japanese Unit 731. Part documentary, part horror film. and part just plain weird, this was quite a viewing but definitely NOT for the squeamish. This film is about 4 hours long.)
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Posted: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 08:37 AM UTC
Two of my favourites are Enigma and Zulu.

One of the best I have ever seen is "Beneath Hill 60" about an Aussie Army mining Company that helps blow up the Messines Ridge in WW1. A cracking movie!

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Posted: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 01:03 PM UTC
Beneath Hill 60: That was also a good movie. Waiting for Warhorse. The best WWI flick IMHO is still the original All Quiet of the Western Front.

Did you mean Shaka Zulu or another film just called Zulu?
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Posted: Monday, September 24, 2012 - 09:38 PM UTC

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talking of james bulishi [over the top] what about him in 1945 a steven spielburgh movie!


I think it was 1941
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