Old War Films

[kyser_soze]

Just for you...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3tF-iLP8Oo

Thanks!

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Thanks!

O joy!

 

[selamlar]

Bridge on the River Kwai.

Ice Cold in Alex.

Whatever that one is called that has a title like 'Angels 5-0', but seemingly not actually 'Angels 5-0'

 

[fubert]

The Eagle has Landed is pretty good.

Um. Tora Tora Tora as well.

Think this thread has most of it covered.

If you really want WW2 then download "The World At War"

 

[pennimania]

I love Battle of Britain films!

Twelve O'Clock High
The Way to the Stars - to mention just 2

and I love home front films - Millions Like Us and The Gentle Sex......

 

[pennimania]

'This is where we learn to take it.'

Think that's a quote from Angels 1-5

 

[Chester Copperpot]

Battle of the Bulge

 

[selamlar]

'This is where we learn to take it.'

Think that's a quote from Angels 1-5

Angels One Five! Thats what it was called!

Hello Pimpernel, Septic Calling

 

[pennimania]

Angels One Five! Thats what it was called!

Love that film

 

[d.a.s.h]

Went the Day Well? Ice Cold in Alex

Great films, plus Went the Day Well? has Patricia Hayes in it, later on a very fine and underrated comedy actor.

Battle of the Bulge

Another good film. Telly Savalas is great in it.

The Cruel Sea and Mrs Miniver are other good British war films.

Humphrey Jennings's 1943 documentary Fires were Started is brilliant.

 

[rekil]

Kanal.

 

[butchersapron]

Might as well finish off the trilogy (thogh kanal is the best single film, the last 45 minutes being absolutely stunning) as A Generation was mentioned earlier:

Ashes and Diamonds:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052080/

 

[rekil]

Might as well finish off the trilogy (thogh kanal is the best single film, the last 45 minutes being absolutely stunning) as A Generation was mentioned earlier:

Ashes and Diamonds:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052080/

I didn't realise that Kanal was part of a trilogy. I'm going to buy them tomorrow so. Know any other similarly themed films? When I was in the uprising museum in Warsaw there was one playing but I never found it what it was called.

 

[DotCommunist]

Anyone mentioned African queen yet?

 

[butchersapron]

I didn't realise that Kanal was part of a trilogy. I'm going to buy them tomorrow so. Know any other similarly themed films? When I was in the uprising museum in Warsaw there was one playing but I never found it what it was called.

Roberto Rossellini did a triliogy that touched on similiar themes -
Rome, Open City,
Paisan
Germany Year Zero

There's loads of Warsaw uprising and Ghetto revolt docs, the best i've seen being Warsaw, the city that survived its own death.

For straight up resistance films, there's hundreds, they were a staple of post-war east-european and balkan (esp yugoslavia) film making and a prime myth of national reconstruction. The best ever resistance film wasn't made until 1969 and in France though 'Army of Shadows' by Jean-Pierre Melville which is just a stone-cold all time classic. Others worth hunting out are Batlle of the Rails, Silent Barricade, Kozara. Night of The Wolves, Everybody Go Home.

 

[rekil]

Roberto Rossellini did a triliogy that touched on similiar themes -
Rome, Open City,
Paisan
Germany Year Zero

There's loads of Warsaw uprising and Ghetto revolt docs, the best i've seen being Warsaw, the city that survived its own death.

For straight up resistance films, there's hundreds, they were a staple of post-war east-european and balkan (esp yugoslavia) film making and a prime myth of national reconstruction. The best ever resistance film wasn't made until 1969 and in France though 'Army of Shadows' by Jean-Pierre Melville which is just a stone-cold all time classic. Others worth hunting out are Batlle of the Rails, Silent Barricade, Kozara. Night of The Wolves, Everybody Go Home.

Ta very much. The Rossellini stuff has been on my list for a while, but I didn't know anything about the others. Lacombe Lucien any good? I watched Mr.Klein and Dr.Petiot fairly recently. Can't believe I hadn't heard of them previously. It's a real treat to stumble upon films like them, even if the explosion count is a bit low.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Douglas Bader was generally loathed by the Brits too, especially those with disabilities.

I loved the late Ian Stanton's song about how Bader was used by "normals" as a role model for amputees and other crips. It pretty much said it all about how disabled people feel about Bader's "shining example".

 

[kyser_soze]

Anyone mentioned African queen yet?

GREAT film!

What about some of the US ones? Patton, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Battle of Midway...

 

[butchersapron]

Ta very much. The Rossellini stuff has been on my list for a while, but I didn't know anything about the others. Lacombe Lucien any good? I watched Mr.Klein and Dr.Petiot fairly recently. Can't believe I hadn't heard of them previously. It's a real treat to stumble upon films like them, even if the explosion count is a bit low.

LL is a very good film indeed. Very honest and aks some very hard questions.

 

[Griff]

Beach Red sticks in my mind as quite a brutal old war film. Haven't seen it for many years though, but it shocked me first time of seeing the brutality of the beach landings.

 

[dylanredefined]

More on a WWII tip -

Thin Red Line
Saving Private Ryan
The Eagle Has Landed
A Bridge Too far

the first two are not old war films

 

[Fedayn]

All quiet on the Western Front (30's original and 70's remake)
Cross of Iron
Au revoir les enfants
Gallipoli
Went the day well
Roma Citta aperta
Odd angry shot
How sleep the brave
Attack!
Night train to Milan
Paths of Glory
A Canterbury Tale

 

[Dhimmi]

Patton

A matter of Life and Death (one of my faves and not a shot fired in it)

The Hill

 

[Detroit71]

Zulu
Das Boot
Guns of Navarone
Where Eagles Dare

 

[8den]

Another vote for the Big Red One. Sam Fuller's semi autobiographical account of WW2.

And Cross of Iron.

 

[London_Calling]

Dadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadad, you're dead.


NahnahNahnahNahnahNahnahNahnahNahnah. No, you're dead.

 

[d.a.s.h]

La Grande Illusion