Saw "The Bridge" some time back. Good movie, but heavy. Like "Gallipoli", good movie but one of those flicks that bothered you after it was over.
Ad: This forum contains affiliate links to products on Amazon and eBay. More information in Terms and rules
A good one that is being overlooked is called The Bridge its a german film circa the 50's 60's about a bunch of Hitler Youth kids called out from school to defend a bridge in their home town in the closing stages of the war in German its called Die Brucke
I think, "Das Boot" is perhaps one of the most accurate war films of all time. Of course with two exceptions. The inside colour of the german submarines was not dark-grey, it was white. And of course, as I know, the germans stopped the use of rivets for the construction of there submarines even before WWI.
Both facts were well known. It was good for the dramaturgy.
I prefer the director's cut version with 208 minutes. The TV version is with 5 hours too long. And I will never forget the cool sound at the beginning, when the bow of U96 appears through the unclear water.
What do you think about "Tora! Tora! Tora!"? I think, this film is as accurate as possible.
Hey, this was my first post!!!
Just saw a war movie on TV that was well done. "The Great Raid" was about US Army Rangers going in to rescue POWs in a Japanese prison camp in the Philipines. I read the book sometime ago and the movie stayed pretty close to the real story. As I remember the critics panned the movie which I guess tells you more about the critics than it does about the movie. It was a very patriotic movie and some of the brutality of the Japanese raised my hackles.
That was a great movie!
I agree with youall. That movie,"The Great Raid" was outstanding. I was amazed at he quality of the action scenes and the acting was good also. I watched all of the stuff after the end with the B and W film actually shot of some survivors and it really got to me. Just goes to show that Hollywood can produce good films but I guess there is not much demand for that type of film today. I was only disappointed by the Lockheed Hudson flying over the camp. Looks like they could have found a B25. I doubt if a Hudson would have been in that theater of the war at that time.
Were they Hudsons or Venturas at that stage of the war? At any rate it is a minor point.
I thought Flags Of Our Fathers was okay but they didnt put the battle into enough detail