I guess this topic has been posted before. But anyway, my local hobby club is having weekly movie sessions, and I’d appreciate suggestions. What do you think are movies with good armor depictions?
Some of my favourites are:
The Beast
Saving Private Ryan (nice, fake, tigers)
Stalingrad (great T-34/85 scene)
Bravo Two Zero (BTR, BMD)
Band of brothers
I like your list and I would add “Behind Enemy Lines” to the list. It has great T-72/BMP/SA-13 footage. The first five minutes of “Proof of Life” also had some good armor footage.
Some of the old movies that have modern (at the time) armor filling in for WW2 are Patton, Battle of the Bulge and the Big Red One. Good shots of some tanks even though they aren’t the right tanks.
A fun movie to watch that has some decent 1950s armor like M4A1 Shermans is War of the Worlds.
Battle of the Bulge - has alot of M48’s (or M60’s) that think they are King Tigers in it. Good Movie though.
McArthur - Has a real Sherman in it.
Wouldn’t it be awesome with todays movie CGI and special effects if they go back and remake a movie like Battle of the Bulge. I guess sorta like the Pearl Harbour movie except emphasis on armor rather than planes. [:D]
That would be cool.
Add:
Kelly’s Heros
Bridge at Remagen (Chaffees and Shermans)
Bridge to Far
Sahara (gotta love that Lee tank)
I was just watching 1941, and Dan Ackroyd’s M3 medium was quite good. It had later model bogies, which of course is not correct, and I think the track type would have also been wrong for the period. Other than that, it seemed pretty good.
Thanks for your suggestions.
band of brothers had great armor. episode in carentan i believe had a jagdpanther, some shermans and towed guns. also courage under fire had some abrams and iraqi tanks.
Here’s one I’d recommend to all WW II buffs. It’s called “Mein Krieg”, and is a collection of home movies taken by German soldiers, mostly in color on the Russian front. Unlike the US and the Brits, the German military placed no restrictions on photography by its soldiers, and at the outbreak of the war 8MM home movies were just reaching the public market. The Germans were avid hobby photographers and quickly embraced this new technology.
This movie features some amazing scenes, including a Russian tank being knocked out and a Russian plane attacking German lines and subsequently being shot down by anti aircraft fire. There is an immediacy and a gritty realism here that you normally don’t see in the more polished and edited films made by professional war photographers.
At the time “Mein Krieg” was released (in the early 90s), most of the soldiers who did the filming were still alive and were interviewed about their experiences and thoughts from the vantage point of fifty years later. One of these veterans even still had the movie camera he carried throughout the war.
The only catch is I have no idea how to locate a copy of this movie, or if it’s even available in DVD. If any one has any information, please post it in this forum. I’d love to have a copy for my personal collection–as I suspect would many followers of this site.
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Also add “enemy at the gate”. there’s a scene near the begining with some Pz III fakes that look pretty good. And “Red Dawn” has some great looking T72’s that where made from M48’s, i think?
Amazon.com has VHS of “Mein Krieg” but it is pricy. The DVD is listed as out of stock.
One of my favorite movies, The Longest Day. Also The Halls Of Montezuma has a scene of a bunch of Shermans. Also, I don’t know if this counts, but In Pursuit of Honor has some seens of tanksbetween WW1 and WW2. Hope this helps some.
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Never heard of Bravo Two Zero before. Gotta look that one up
M-47s, actually. Not unlike this one:
Italeri’s 1/35 M-47 Patton as “Hessler’s King Tiger”
I always drag out this old build whenever that flick is mentioned! [:D]
A wildly inaccurate film (and not just the tanks), but who cares?
It’s chock full of tanks! M-47s as Tiger IIs, M-24s as Shermans…and a real Priest or two to boot. I love that movie!
Great Armored Entertainment. [;)]
Wow. That Mein Krieg does sounds interesting. And that’s a nice looking M-47 J-Hulk.
Does anybody know which tanks appear in Patton?
And I agree with I-beam, there should be a kick-butt CGI powered armor movie.
By the way: has anyone watched Desert Rats or The Desert Fox ?
Spanish M48 Patton tanks.
watch the movie then buy the book and you’ll thank me for it…
Does anyone remember the old Sam Peckenpaw(?) movie Cross of Iron? It was great for the time.