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#3305791 - 05/28/11 04:29 PM
Anyone recommend good war movies, with a twist
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One of the things I really enjoy over Memorial Day is the blitz (no pun intended) of good military movies, AMC is running them back to back all weekend long.
But I have seen all the American films, and I got to thinking, there must be some excellant war movies made by Russian, German, Japanese, and British filmmakers too. They would be even more interesting, at least to me, because the Russian and German films would tell the story from a completely different perspective.
I'm not talking about propaganda films, just really good war movies made after World War II. They don't have to be dubbed in English or have English subtitles, I guess my best example of what I am looking for is "Das Boot".
If someone can recommend some good foreign war films: World War II, Vietnam or Arab-Israeli conflicts I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks, Tracy
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#3305799 - 05/28/11 04:41 PM
Re: Anyone recommend good war movies, with a twist
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a good one I have watched recently is this one: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098437/might be a good idea to check out some of the historical background first, but this is definitely a movie worth watching! another great one, probably the greatest German anti war movie is "Die Brcke" - "The Bridge" by Bernhard Wicki.
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#3305826 - 05/28/11 05:09 PM
Re: Anyone recommend good war movies, with a twist
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One of the things I really enjoy over Memorial Day is the blitz (no pun intended) of good military movies, AMC is running them back to back all weekend long.
But I have seen all the American films, and I got to thinking, there must be some excellant war movies made by Russian, German, Japanese, and British filmmakers too. They would be even more interesting, at least to me, because the Russian and German films would tell the story from a completely different perspective.
I'm not talking about propaganda films, just really good war movies made after World War II. They don't have to be dubbed in English or have English subtitles, I guess my best example of what I am looking for is "Das Boot".
If someone can recommend some good foreign war films: World War II, Vietnam or Arab-Israeli conflicts I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks, Tracy soviet union http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_and_SeeLebanon Israel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon_%282009_film%29
Last edited by Patrocles; 05/28/11 05:12 PM.
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#3305841 - 05/28/11 05:30 PM
Re: Anyone recommend good war movies, with a twist
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Ugh... Watching eastern front movies on memorial day weekend in the U.S.? Who cares about the honorless wehrmacht and red army thugs. Let the Germans and Russians honor them. That's the most they deserve. War is hell, but these guys plumbed to new and shocking depths of depravity.
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#3305859 - 05/28/11 05:51 PM
Re: Anyone recommend good war movies, with a twist
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Hey Vertigo,
Lighten up...I have TWO children in the United States Coast Guard...I know exactly what Memorial Day is all about !
Tracy sorry. gut reaction. Enjoy your weekend. 
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." - Groucho Marx
“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” -Milton Friedman
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#3305961 - 05/28/11 08:33 PM
Re: Anyone recommend good war movies, with a twist
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Ugh... Watching eastern front movies on memorial day weekend in the U.S.? Who cares about the honorless wehrmacht and red army thugs. Let the Germans and Russians honor them. That's the most they deserve. War is hell, but these guys plumbed to new and shocking depths of depravity. Not to ding on your gut reaction, but war is a human condition. How people generally tend to act in war is usually a reflection of the societies that take them to that war. Two authoritarian regimes battling it out is naturally brutal. But people bleed, hurt and die all the same.
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#3305965 - 05/28/11 08:37 PM
Re: Anyone recommend good war movies, with a twist
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Hey, how about The Red Baron? That's a SimHQ favorite historical flick.  (I actually did enjoy it though) Personally, I started rewatching Band of Brothers last night. Never gets old.
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#3305984 - 05/28/11 09:05 PM
Re: Anyone recommend good war movies, with a twist
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I rather like Ptain - not so much a war film as political thriller, but it does a decent job of explaining why France - a continental superpower - caved in to Blitzkreig.
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#3306041 - 05/28/11 10:34 PM
Re: Anyone recommend good war movies, with a twist
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How about the Cold War? "Thirteen Days" is an excellent, very well-made movie about the Cuban missile crisis.
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#3306070 - 05/28/11 11:54 PM
Re: Anyone recommend good war movies, with a twist
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Hey, how about The Red Baron? That's a SimHQ favorite historical flick. (I actually did enjoy it though) Red Baron is at least not as bad as Fly Boys!
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