73.6% from 22 members
Band Of Brothers
Not a film I know, but a mini-series. Truly superb television, great action sequences, well acted, high production values, it just doesn't get any better!
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Band Of Brothers
(6 discs)
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Damian Lewis, Donnie Wahlberg, Matthew Settle
Director: Phil Alden Robinson, Richard Loncraine, Mikael
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This 10-part HBO television miniseries focuses on Easy Company, a group of American soldiers in World War II, tracking their experiences from the beginning of boot camp to the end of the war. Anchored by actors Damian Lewis and Ron Livingston, the series gives detailed attention to their ..read more »
83%
from 21,268 members
Das Boot
Gritty, grim, incredibly tense and remorselessly realistic. you can almost smell the U-boat on the screen. Definitive when it comes to the U-boat crew's experience of the war. The book is also superb.
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Das Boot
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Jurgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
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In the midst of World War II, a German U-boat crew is sent out to patrol the Atlantic and fire at Allied ships bringing supplies to England. The submarine also carries a press correspondent, there to report from the front lines of nautical warfare. Meanwhile, the crew's captain (Jurgen Prochnow &#..read more »
73%
from 19,448 members
Saving Private Ryan
Let down by a weak ending, the first 20 minutes are the best WW2 combat sequence anywhere and re-wrote the book on how it should be done. Great performance by Tom Hanks.
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Saving Private Ryan
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Director Steven Spielberg's World War II tour de force chronicles the journey of a GI squad on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines. Led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks), the unit is under orders to track down a soldier, Private Ryan (Matt Damon), so he might return home to his mother in ..read more »
76%
from 56,245 members
Downfall
The human side of the Nazi party's elite is revealed in the insanity of the final days of the Third Reich. Looks fantastic and Bruno Ganz as Hitler is definitive. Still, its difficult to feel sorry for them
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Downfall
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
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Not since G.W. Pabst's 1956 effort, 'Letste Akt' (The Last Act) has a German film attempted to tackle the subject of their most famous leader, Adolf Hitler. Breaking a long-standing taboo, the director, Oliver Hirschbiegel, has made a film that has sparked much debate in Germany and the rest of the ..read more »
75%
from 30,688 members
Cross Of Iron
The best eastern front war film ever made. Its grim and bloody and ultimately hopeless. Let down by a weak ending as they ran out of money, but Steiner is still a legend.
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Cross Of Iron
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: James Coburn, James Mason, David Warner
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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A very strong anti-war message film, set during World War II and told entirely from the German perspective. A German Army Sergeant doggedly struggles to keep his platoon intact while surviving the horrors of the Russian front in 1943.
70%
from 2,935 members
A Bridge Too Far
They just don't make films on this scale anymore, with a cast of thousands and a story equally ambitious. The 1st airborne's drop onto Arnhem is the film's best scene. Great Sunday afternoon watching.
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A Bridge Too Far
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine
Director: Richard Attenborough, Sidney Hayers
Certificate:
A starkly realistic account of the ill-fated airborne assault on Arnhem during World War II. Some of the best special effects ever seen in a war film.
73%
from 6,702 members
Letters from Iwo Jima
Trapped and hopelessly out-gunned, conscripted Japanese soldiers are left to face the full force of the US's attack. This is a worthy effort at telling the story from the other side, and far better than the long-winded Flags of out Fathers.
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Letters from Iwo Jima
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara
Director: Clint Eastwood
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The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
69%
from 22,101 members
Kelly's Heroes
More a bank-heist caper movie than a war film, but its a great fun romp as Clint Eastwood and a US recon platoon go AWOL to steal Nazi gold. The Tiger tanks still look good.
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Kelly's Heroes
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Carroll O'Connor
Director: Brian G. Hutton
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KELLY's HEROES combines comedy with wartime adventure as the laid-back members of an eccentric American army platoon plan an unusual expedition--to rob a bank located behind enemy lines. The ensemble cast includes Clint Eastwood, Donald Sutherland, Don Rickles, Telly Savalas, Carroll O'Connor, and ..read more »
71%
from 6,073 members
Stalingrad
Top battle scenes in the ruins of Stalingrad, but again a weak and rather baffling ending.
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Stalingrad
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Dominique Horwitz, Sebastian Rudolph, Jochen Nickel
Director: Joseph Vilsmaier
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This German film is a gritty, devastating retelling of the battle for Stalingrad during World War II, in which more than a million and a half soldiers lost their lives. Told from the point of view of the German soldiers, who were under orders to neither retreat nor surrender, this film ..read more »
60%
from 3,907 members
Dunkirk
An actual British war film about our experience of WW2! Dealing with the retreat to Dunkirk and the civilians involved in the rescue mission - it tells the story from two directions. This film cries out to be re-made with modern special effects, it would knock Atonement into a cocked hat, somebody please do it!
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Dunkirk
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Robert Urquhart
Director: Leslie Norman
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1940 France. A British Corporal is forced to take responsibility for the lives of his men when their officer is killed in battle. The troops are boxed in and he has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are recruited into the British war effort with Operation Dynamo, the ..read more »
73%
from 837 members
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