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Well mine is...

In Harm's Way
Yamato
Kelly's Heroes
Midway
Pearl Harbor
Das Boot
Letters of Iwo Jima
Flags of our Fathers
Tora Tora Tora (isn't bad, but didn't show any actions)
U-571 (good movie, but wasn't the American that took the uboat, it was Brits.)
The Admiral
and Saving Private Ryan.
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The Gallant hours
The Blue Max
All quiet on western front
The Desert rats
The desert Fox
Dunkirk
Das boot
Stalingrad
The Bedford incident(not ww2)
Letters from Iwo Jima
Band of brothers
Pacific
Breaker Morant (not ww2 , but my all time favorite war movie)
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For something different, the Finnish "Unknown Soldier" from 2017 was just published on Amazon.

Based on a book written by a veteran, it covers a lot of ground, so I'd wait for the 5-part TV series version to become available. It was all filmed on a manner that they produced the two from the material done.

A deleted scene: https://youtu.be/uMSqtVxRECs

Edit: Or not deleted as such, but something that is included on the TV-series, but not on the movie version.
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Great book. Finished it around Xmas time.

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For something different, the Finnish "Unknown Soldier" from 2017 was just published on Amazon.

Based on a book written by a veteran, it covers a lot of ground, so I'd wait for the 5-part TV series version to become available. It was all filmed on a manner that they produced the two from the material done.

A deleted scene: https://youtu.be/uMSqtVxRECs

Edit: Or not deleted as such, but something that is included on the TV-series, but not on the movie version.
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Another PTO and on US soil. Retreat from Kiska (Japanese 1965) In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an overwhelming force of Americans, the Japanese Navy attempted one of the most daring and unlikely evacuations in military history. When the US invaded, they found a couple of military dogs left behind.
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Ok, perhaps a bit over 40 years ago but I think that was offered as an approximate,

A bridge to far and historic or not Midway was a good movie

Take WWII our of it and just make it war best movie

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Sahara a 1943 Humphrey Bogart movie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036323/ A real gritty black and white North Africa desert saga. All I could get was a brief YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AepKyGLsZoI (there is a number of them). Sure wish there was a full length movie about this that could be posted for free.. Here's some more movie clips: http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/2225 ... treat.html


TCM (Turner Classic Movies) (cable TV) is airing Sahara on Thursday, June 27, 2019 for those interested.
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Bravo on a great treasure chest of movies. I’ll add The Bridge. A classic. Auf Deutsch .
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A shout for the Saints and Soldiers series as well. Low budget, not perhaps with the most memorable plots either, but great detail to gear and equipment of the era for one.
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Only saw the first one. Pretty good movie and worth a watch
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1. Platoon
2. Apocalypse now
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1. Platoon
2. Apocalypse now

Those aren't in WWII era.

But I like those movies as well.
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thanks guys.. great memories. i guess most of these are older movies but worth mentioning!


1. judgment at nuremberg (1961)
w/burt lancaster, spencer tracy, marlena dietrich and oscar winner maximillian schell.. noteworthy performances by werner klemperer, william shatner and judy garland

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055031/?ref_=nv_sr_1


2. sahara (1943)
humphrey bogart in a grant tank! (i first learned about the grant from the AH boardgame called 'tobruk')

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036323/?ref_=nv_sr_3


3. stalag 17 (1953)
w/william holden - - (hogan's heroes (stalag 13) was loosely based on this film))

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046359/?ref_=ttls_li_tt


4. von ryan's express (1965)
w/ frank "you'll get the iron cross for this von ryan!" sinatra :)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059885/?ref_=ttls_li_tt


5. bridge on the river kwai (1957)
w/william holden

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050212/?ref_=ttls_li_tt


6. Europa Europa (1990)

amazing true story... i found this years ago at a local library (on vhs) and decided to watch.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099776/?ref_=nv_sr_3


7. Operation Daybreak (1975)

another amazing true story.. music by david hentschel who worked with pink floyd and genesis.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075019/?ref_=nv_sr_1


8. the young lions (1958)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052415/?ref_=nv_sr_1



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My Dad was an Engineer in the 8th Army during the war.
Palestine / Egypt / Libya / up to Italy, that sort of adventure.


He told me that the this movie:Play Dirty for him was the most accurate movie that he ever saw about the desert war.
It gave him flashbacks the few times he watched it.

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Some movies I have missed on this thread. Appreciate the tips. My contribution.

1. Marvin's and Mifune's tour de force Hell in the Pacific

And this one I suspect many of you missed too:

2. Robert Aldrich's (Jack Palance and Lee Marvin in it) Attack (1956)

EDITED:

How could I forget

3. Sidney Lumet's The Hill (1965), with Sean Connery
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Of course who could forget this classic in movie badness, known as the worse war movie ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw0kg2GWVHo
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Some others worth a mention:

To late the Hero
Play Dirty
Ice Cold in Alex
In which we Serve
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Some movies I have missed on this thread. Appreciate the tips. My contribution.

1. Marvin's and Mifune's tour de force Hell in the Pacific

And this one I suspect many of you missed too:

2. Robert Aldrich's (Jack Palance and Lee Marvin in it) Attack (1956)

EDITED:

How could I forget

3. Sidney Lumet's The Hill (1965), with Sean Connery

Love that movie too, Marvin was funny in that movie.
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El Alamein: the Line of Fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfSv87ZuJf4

[turn on the English subtitles]

The Desert War as seen by Italian soldiers. They built the movie using the memories of dozen of soldiers who actually fought in Africa.
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