Favorite Warmovie

[sellers34]

I suppose my top three would be: DownFall, Band of Brothers, Das boot. With honorable mention to Twelve o'Clock High

[Federico Perez]

Das Boot, Der-Untergang,The Eagle has Landed,Cross of Iron.

One of my all time favorites, The Eagle has Landed, not only have a great plot but the details and props where(for the time) GREAT. In this movie you can see a REAL STURMGESCHUTZ in winter camo, a FG-42 automatic rifle been use by a Fallschirmjager, NADER torpedo craft, Stork airplane they even use uniforms to tell a story, look for the inteligence officer(Robert Duvall) reading some files at the office after hours, he's using an Afrika Korps tunic(as a smoking jacket ) when the Gestapo agents arrive to take Duvall to Himmler they show the Gestapo-Police ID disck,they even use the correct letterhead of Adolf Hitler in the autorization letter given by Himmler!!!!! The BEST part is that this movie don't show the Germans Fallschirmjagers as political fanatics or stupid soldiers, but soldiers with a mission and code of honor, for the time this movie was made this must have been hard taking in consideration the war movies coming out in that era.

[Mark C. Yerger]

"The Lost Battalion," not my period as its WWI but thought it was excellent.

Mark

[Fallschirmjaeger]

Fj All The Way

Yes Federico Perez i liked how the FJ where portrayed as tuff fighters etc.. in the movie(i think this movie made me like the FJ actualy too the most),to bad more did not get away at the end,what happend to steiner's 2nd in comand and the navy guys,they show the boat caught in the low tide,so they became p.o.w's then.

[Felix]

Iron Cross is a classic one!

James Coburn is a real character! And film showing atleast a bit from the german side. Not too many of those.

/Felix

[racheleh]

Apart from the ones in the poll, (I voted for A bridge too far)
I like Soldaat van Oranje, Het meisje met het rode haar (about Hanny Schaft), The pianist, Escape from sobibor, Blut und Ehre (german tvseries), Europa Europa.


I hope Zwartboek (Blackbook) which will be released soon will be as good as expected.

[VonLuck]

I have to throw out one of my new favorites: Napola.
Its one of the best done period films I've seen to come out of Germany (right up there with Downfall). Thankfully the younger generation of directors in Germany are much less shy about making movies about this period of history than their more politically correct predecessors. In Napola you actually get to follow the main character's emotions through the initial fascination with the H.J. school and its inevitable fall from grace as he discovers the darker side of Nazism.

[fischer]

I'd have to say Downfall, Das Boot and Cross of Iron are my favs.

I also like Kelly's Heroes...When Don Rickles gets covered with the outhouse and cowboy says he smells like a dung heap. He replies "kinda makes you home sick don't it"

[John_B]

without any doubt Stalingrad or "Dogs do you want to live forever". German film 1958. Original equipment, great story line, and a much under rated film noire

[jotuntroll]

Saving private Ryan had a raw opening scene and was a good action/ warmovie, but the plot was far to american heroism for me.
All the whermacht and waffen ss could do was to speack a few commando words and die.

Ok, Spielberg is a jew and he sneaks in some angelo jew revenge by one of the brotherhood. Understendable considered what was recovered later during the war, but I do not believe that was the fact among GI Joe at that early stage in the war.

The germans were portrated as skinheads and the capture wh soldier as a real rat. Of corse he was capture and shot later among waffen ss troops just because of speaking to the now "earlyer" US coward.

Funny how Spielberg makes gunning down unarmed wh soldiers during the first and last scene as an entertaining self rightness act...
It was a Hollywood blockbuster and should not considered as anything else. Good entertaining though...

In my opinion shawing Ryans privates is a nice war movie without much realism ( look away from the first 20 minutes wich was realistic) and cannot compare against realistic movies as Platoon and Das boot.

Just my opinion and experiance..

[VonLuck]

Agree with you 100% jotuntroll. I would add that the Panzer commander in the final battle for the bridge falling for such a trap would have been shot for ineptitude. Also, the first thing they would have done is put a shell in the church steeple and anything else sticking up that might have been a sniper nest. Like you said, the germans in that movie were just there to look mean and die. OK, I don't expect a Hollywood movie to be straight out of a small unit tactics manual but a little more realism (not necessarily in violence) would have been nice.
Spielberg used veterans as advisors for this but I think he only listened to them for the initial battle sequence. Very entertaining though and they did an excellent job with that Tiger Tank (I wonder where it is now)...

[jotuntroll]

The tiger,20mmflak++ Weathcroft collection I guess.
I`ll ask him when he arrives next month...
Cheers

[racheleh]

I have to throw out one of my new favorites: Napola.
Its one of the best done period films I've seen to come out of Germany (right up there with Downfall). Thankfully the younger generation of directors in Germany are much less shy about making movies about this period of history than their more politically correct predecessors. In Napola you actually get to follow the main character's emotions through the initial fascination with the H.J. school and its inevitable fall from grace as he discovers the darker side of Nazism.

I agree with this, this film is really worth watching!

[Baronvlad]

Great thread folks, after reading just about all of it, I listed all the war titles listed in my internet rental dvd client (screenselect.co.uk) same as netflix etc - so I have a lot of watching just ahead of me, months, my wife will be furious and then some. Saying that I did put on the longest day at the weekend, very tongue n cheek in bits of it with dry dark humour. Love the german getting blasted off his bicycle with the coffee cans and the remaining 2 luft pilots having the last flight, the eccentric british with sean connery as a boy etc. very watchable my ole mother said anything mechanical, give it a good kick - woof from the salvating bulldog etc

[Bobwirtz]

enemy at the gates is my favorite

That was more of a LOVE story than war... one thing I did really like about it though was them showing what a bunch of savages the Soviets really were... how they butchered their own troops, only gave half of them weapons and refused to evacuate the civilians out of the city.

Funny, only saw little to no snow in the movie... thought that it was a winter battle...

Bob