It's streaming on AppleTV right now. It's the new "band of brothers" that follows the members of the "Bloody 100th" in ww2
Favorite war movies. What's yours?
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fx77
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Talking about war movies, i have a story that was told me when i was 22 years old (50 years ago) by the dad of a real good friend of mine.
Here goes.
My friend and me where watching "Action in the North Atlantic" with Humphrey Bogart, when his dad got home from bowling. The three of us finished watching the movie. Afterwords his dad began to tell us about The Battle of Cape Esperance aka: The Second Battle of Savo Island in the Solomon Islands during WWII. His dad was the gun captain in the #1 turret on the light cruiser Boise.
Ill let ya go to Wikipedia and read about this naval battle as it will take up too much space in this post.
To make this short, his dad survived to tell us about it but 100 of his shipmates didn't.
To end this, his dad mustered out of the navy in 1947 with 20 years service. The whole time he served as a gunners mate on cruisers and battleships in both theaters.
These people are the real heros.
Here goes.
My friend and me where watching "Action in the North Atlantic" with Humphrey Bogart, when his dad got home from bowling. The three of us finished watching the movie. Afterwords his dad began to tell us about The Battle of Cape Esperance aka: The Second Battle of Savo Island in the Solomon Islands during WWII. His dad was the gun captain in the #1 turret on the light cruiser Boise.
Ill let ya go to Wikipedia and read about this naval battle as it will take up too much space in this post.
To make this short, his dad survived to tell us about it but 100 of his shipmates didn't.
To end this, his dad mustered out of the navy in 1947 with 20 years service. The whole time he served as a gunners mate on cruisers and battleships in both theaters.
These people are the real heros.
A bridge too far
Great movie
Great movie
jackieschmidt
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While Being a great movie about an actual event in WW-2, I found everything to be too darned clean.
War is a dirty, bloody business. The movie seemingly failed to convey this.
But still an entertaining movie.
TTE
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I've seen it a few times.
Always makes me angry at the people that planned it and those that failed to execute it.
brokeasajoke
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Not repeating all the good ones mentioned above.
Couple of odd ones
Memphis Belle (well not really that odd)
The Hiding Place Corrie Ten Boom (2023)
Kinda liked Dunkirk
To think about WWI and WWII and the guys and gals who fought and understood the evils of this world.
Couple of odd ones
Memphis Belle (well not really that odd)
The Hiding Place Corrie Ten Boom (2023)
Kinda liked Dunkirk
To think about WWI and WWII and the guys and gals who fought and understood the evils of this world.
I thought Kingdom of Heaven was excellent. Like most historically based movies, was pretty accurate in places ( there was a Siege of Kerac that was relieved by King Baldwin IV, Saladin did indeed allow the Christians to leave Jerusalem after its capture by the Muslims, there`s historical evidence that Saladin and Baldwin IV had mutual respect. Saladin sent a letter of condolences to Baldwin upon the death of Baldwin`s father ), and took liberties in others ( Baldwin was unable to sit a horse when he arrived at Kerac, and there`s no evidence that Baldwin and Saladin ever met in person as they did in the movie. )
Johnny Got His Gun
We Were Soldiers
Das Boot
Breaker Moriant
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
The Bridge Over The River Kwai
Hacksaw Ridge
Not in any order
If you like airplanes and the misunderstood Korean War, Devotion. A 2022 film about Navy aircraft.
The battle for Chosin Reservoir.
We were Soldiers
Politics ran that war just like Vietnam.
The battle for Chosin Reservoir.
We were Soldiers
Politics ran that war just like Vietnam.
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If you waht the real thing saving private ryan when yhey were at hitting the beach at normandy. I had a buddy that was in the second wave in the 1st infantry on Omaha . He said it was pretty close to what happened. Doug
Das Boot was a movie title? There is a bar in my town called the Horseshoe. Drunken idiots being drunken idiots, we just seemed to change names of places. I remember writing checks to "Das Boot" for my bar tab. It's a mostly German town.
Das Boot was a film about a German Submarine (the boat) beer boot would be bierstiefel.
It is a Wolfgang Peterson film from the perspective of the crew of a German Submarine, U-96. I don't want to spoil the film as it is even from an American perspective a great war film.
I should add another war film, The Enemy Below, Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens, a U.S Destroyer Escort vs a German U-Boat.
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