My all time favorite WW2 Movies

[PsychoDiablo]

"Thirty seconds over Tokyo"  Real old movie, but still good. Also "12 o clock High", also really old but good.

You're reaching way back.  

Along those lines, who can forget the classic, stalag 17?  That movie hold up well, even to today's standards.

That was also a real good movie

[C]

Mmm, interesting...

I have a view personal favourites, and without repeating other people's choices, I can offer:

"Went the Day Well" - basically, the storyline of "The Eagle has Landed", only better, and made 30 years beforehand.

"One of our Aircraft is Missing" - another classic.

Of course, how could I not include "Dad's Army - The Movie"!

[ozzy72]

I was watching "One of Our Aircraft" the other night oddly enough Charlie!
Mind you if you start on Dads Army then we have to go into matters like Ain't Half Hot Mum and 'Allo 'Allo

[waspiflab]

That's mine

[dcunning30]

That's mine

Awesome!!!!  I totally forgot about that movie!  Hillarious!

I can see that agin!  

[RitterKreuz]

top secret was hilarious, but i always thought it was post ww2... (cold war 60's?) doesnt he visit soviet controlled "East Germany"? this would not have existed until after ww2

[Willit Run]

I have to many to list but, here are a few!!

1) Kelly's Heros
2) Midway
3) Tora, Tora, Tora

[expat]

Has anyone see the film, Operation Daybreak. Saw it many years ago. Good one as I seem to remember.

Matt

[dcunning30]

[quote]I have to many to list but, here are a few!!

1) Kelly's Heros
2) Midway
3) Tora, Tora, Tora

[RitterKreuz]

Hmmm does "Final countdown" count as a ww2 movie?  ;D

in a way i guess it does.... in an off beat way out in left field kinda way

[C]

Has anyone see the film, Operation Daybreak. Saw it many years ago. Good one as I seem to remember.

Matt

It is indeed. The original book "Seven Men at Daybreak" (IIRC) is very good too of course, as it is a completely true story depicting the assasination of Reinhard Heydrich. Even has (a young) Martin Shaw to keep the ladies happy...

[flyboy 28]

The Great Escape has my vote. I saw it for about the 4,000th time today.

[Mr.Mugel]

Enemy at the Gates

Das Boot

Memphis Belle

Battle of Britain

Tora Tora (As far as I can remember it (Long long time ago))

Der Untergang

U-571 wasn

[dcunning30]

U-571 was a fantasy movie.  I enjoyed it, but it took serious detours from history.  I saw an interview of one of the people involved in creating it.  He saw this cool sub and wanted to create a movie surrounding the sub, and there you have it.  

[C]

U-571 was a fantasy movie.  I enjoyed it, but it took serious detours from history.  I saw an interview of one of the people involved in creating it.  He saw this cool sub and wanted to create a movie surrounding the sub, and there you have it.  

Couldn't he have rented "Das Boot"? I admit, amongst those with an appreciation of history on this side of the pond (and that is preposterously few), "U-571" wasn't warmly welcomed. Sadly it was akin to remaking the "Dam Busters" with a Sqn of B-17s, Tom Cruise as Lt Col G P Gibson MoH, Silver Star* and Bette Midler as the proprieter of "Petwood's", the crew's regular evening haunt...


*Admittedly, Wg Cdr Guy Penrose Gibson VC etc, was one of few (if not one) who was permitted to wear USAAF wings along with his RAF ones. They were presented to him on a US lecture tour in the year after the Dams raid, before his death...

"Memphis Belle" however, is the perfect example of how to tell a true story using semi-ficticious events and characters.