Just wondering, but what are some of your guy’s favorite WW2 movies? There are so many out there. Mine would have to be Midway and then Patton.
Memphis Belle
Great Flick!!
Jerry
God Is my co-pilot
Kelly’s Heros
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Imitation General
There are a few more but I can’t think of them right now.
A Bridge too Far. Look at the cast. Everyone in Hollywood was in it.
They all suffer from cinematic license but I’d have to give my nod to “A Bridge Too Far” also. Close behind is “Patton”. I enjoy the flight sequences in “Memphis Belle” but frankly the story is a little too contrived for my taste so I tend to hit the fast forward through a lot of the first 1/3.
The beach landing sequences in both “Saving Private Ryan” and “Letters from Iwo Jima” of course top them all for special effects but they don’t rise to the level of the classic two movies I listed first.
Also don’t forget Picadilly Lily and the classic “12-O’Clock High”
Stalag 17
In Harms Way
Patton
They Were Expendable
12 O’clock High
The Great Escape
The Longest Day
Sink the Bismark
The Battle of the River Plate
Casablanca
The Battle of Britain
Tora, Tora, Tora
Run Silent, Run Deep
Memphis Belle and the Great Escape are both great movies. A bridge Over the River Kwai is a classic too. I did not lime In Harms Way at all. It was almost all fictional and kind of corny IMHO.
I had the chance to see the original uncut verson at Wright Patterson about 25 years ago. Alittle different than the one I saw the next time and much different than the Hollywood movie or the DVD. But I liked them all.
my favorites are:
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Tora Tora
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Das Boot
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Run Silent Run Deep
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The Battle Of Britian
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Saving Private Ryan (even with the errors)
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
gary
Cannot believe any of these have not been mentioned yet.
The Blues Brothers in… 
Robin Hood in…
…and Obi-Wan Kenobi in
Midway, The Longest Day and Patton.
On edit: A Bridge Too Far, Bridge on the River Kwai, Sink the Bismarck. The Band of Brothers miniseries is astoundingly good.
I seem to remember liking Corvette K225 a lot, too, but that was a while back.
In Harms Way may not have been historically accurate but it did tell the story of men, with all their weaknesses (Kirk Douglas) and their personal sacrifice (Kirk again). Not like todays war movies which consider todays military as stupid and close to magots.
Cheers
wg
Sink the Bismarck was excellent, and I’d love to see a remake with modern special effects, not that one would be badly needed! I would also love to see a remake of Midway with good CGI instead of old file and gun camera footage.
Good point, waste gate. If I remember right, isn’t A Bridge Too Far about Operation Market Garden and Arnhem? If it is, that’s a good one too.
My favorites:
Band of Brothers
Enemy at the Gates
Saving Private Ryan
Memphis Belle
I know there are others but I can’t think of them now.
I’m gonna have to go with a couple of German films, Das Boot and Der Untergang. Great flicks, even with the subtitles.
I visited the acutal Bridge on the River Kwai this past December. Seeing the river, the cemetery, the war museum, riding on the train on the acutal tracks that were the reason for the bridge in the first place and then floating down the river as it flowed toward the bridge and Bangkok…I gained a greater appreciation for the movie. Just saw Run Silent Run Deep about 30 minutes ago.
I don’t think that I have a favorite war movie because I do not like war.
Peewee
Ok…Enemy at the Gates.
peewee
Already mentioned: Run Silent…, Das Boot
Flawed but good “Cross of Iron”
Schindlers List
The Great Excape
Where Eagles Dare
1.) Tuskegee Armen
2.) Memphis Belle
3.) Die grünen Teufel ( The Gren Devils )
but i am more reading than looking a movie
greets Thomas