Best or Favourite ww2 Movies or Series - List them here.

You may like to place them in categories or services or your best five or ten.

Air:
Battle of Britain

Land:
The Longest Day

Sea:
In Which We Serve - Noel Coward

Royal Marine:
San Demetrio London

 

Air Series:
12 O'Clock High

Land Series: (please bring them back!)
The Rat Patrol
Combat

Land Movie:
Battle of the Bulge
A Bridge to Far
The Bridge at Remagen
Iwo Jima
Pork Chop Hill

Sea Movie:
Midway
Das Boot (German Version, no sub-titles)

POW Series:
Hogan's Heroes

POW Movies:
The Great Escape
Von Ryan's Express

 

Air
Dambusters (of course)
Appointment in London
A Matter of Life and Death

Land
Longest day

Sea
Not really my thing, but if its got John Mills in then I'm gonna watch it.

Other
Cottage for Rent (Most hilarious death scene thanks to John Mills.)

 

Would someone please tell me what a "Sticky Thread" is ???

John

 

a Sticky thread is when a thread has literally been stuck tot he top of the menu and doesn't move from there, that way a thread people will want regularly is always at the top and not lost further down the list.

 

Thank you very much for your answer Kitty.

John :becky:

 

Air
Battle of Britain
Angels One Five (maybe not the greatest film in the world but Gregson does play the modest pilot very well)
and so many others...:becky:

Land
Too Late the Hero (I know..... but I like it)
A Bridge Too Far
Cross of Iron

Sea
Midway
Sink The Bismarck

Social/Other
Schindlers List
A Canterbury Tale
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (I love this film)

Knockabout Fun
Dirty Dozen
Kelly's Heroes
Guns of Naverone

POW
The Great Escape (the greatest film ever made.....probably )
The Wooden Horse
Very Important Person (absolutely hilarious film with some of my favourite actors.....James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter, etc etc etc)

 

AIR

Battle of Britain
Memphis Belle
Dambusters


LAND

Ice Cold In Alex
The Gentle Sex
Longest Day
Bridge Too Far



SEA

In Which We Serve
We Dive At Dawn
Sink The Bizmark

 

This is great ..... a number of them here I had forgotten about and that I do not have in DVD, so you are preparing me a nice shopping list. Lets give it a few days and then make a master list.

Also, some I have never heard of before?

For years I thought "Guns of Naverone" was a true story.

Where are the Australian ones - or are those the ones I don't recognize?

 

To be honest the only i haven't heard of is A Canterbury Tale, though I've probably watched it in the past.

And the greatest war film ever made is Kelly's Heroes dammit

 

Air: Dambusters

Sea: The Battle of the River Plate - real ships!

Land: Saving Private Ryan but it's been so long since watching one that I can't really do better than that.

 

John Ford's "They Were Expendable" it's a rather rambling narrative with little episodes and detours --- much like the war itself I suppose. And what about "Patton"?

MK
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE AND YOU! Trailer

 

White Cliffs of Dover

I had a day off today and did a bit of paperwork. I thought I had seen most of the "war" movies however I missed this one.

What a movie, what a cast.


Irene Dunne ... Susan DunnAlan Marshal ... Sir John Ashwood
Roddy McDowall ... John Ashwood II as a BoyFrank Morgan ... Hiram Porter Dunn
Van Johnson ... Sam BennettC. Aubrey Smith ... Colonel Walter ForsytheDame May Whitty ... NannyGladys Cooper ... Lady Jean AshwoodPeter Lawford ... John Ashwood II as a Young ManJohn Warburton ... Reggie AshwoodJill Esmond ... RosamundBrenda Forbes ... Gwennie

 

I remember being enthralled with Das Boot ......

especially when one of the guys had a breakdown ! that movie affected me for a long time afterwards ! I remember being told " it's just a movie " !!

 

A few more for the list although they are all fiction.

Land:

Where Eagles Dare
The Eagle has Landed
Kelly's Heroes (I like it too Kitty)
Random Harvest (Ronald Colman - Greer Garson) - WW1
YouTube - Random Harvest (Part One)
YouTube - Random Harvest

Land Series: Combat

Air:

12 O'Clock High
Memphis Belle

Sea:

In Which We Serve (John Mills - Noel Coward)
Under Ten Flags (Van Heflin - Charles Laughton)

Sea Series: Silent Service (Showing my age here)

POW:

The Great Escape
Stalag 17

Spy - Espionage:

The Eye of the Needle (Donald Sutherland)

 

What about non-WW2 war films - I'm sure they could be slipped in too

Having said that I can't think of any that stand out for me. The only thing I love is the MASH series, which i put on when I bored.

And how sad is this? Havibf looked at the Xmas Day tv listings and finding absolutely nothing I want to watch, I have Decided to watch the Battle of Briatin - Special Edition, with the original musical score. I bought it a few months ago but never got around to watching it. I

 

Didn't you notice me slip in the WW1 film Random Harvest?:becky:

One of my favourite WW1 true stories is Sergeant York!

 

The Dawn Patrol with Niven and Flynn

And no I wasn't drunk when wrote the aove message - just bad a typing

 

I like hogan"s heroes but they are very weird, comedy show, the things they do to Commandant Klink is unreal, and yet they go unpunished,not real at all. In Das Boot, now there is a movie, I personally like , Yohan I don"t think I spelled it right,. I"ve watched Battle of the Bulge, a few times not to much. And I"ve watched a Bridge to Far.

 

My two sense on movies.

Air: The War Lover, Cold Blue Sky, Battle of Britain, 633 Squadron
Surf: Cockleshell Heroes, Das Boot, Midway, PT-109
Turf: Winter War, (the new) Stalingrad (in German), Cross of Iron, Saving Private Ryan

Regards, Fix