ww2 movies?

Question

any good action World WAR 2 or world WAr 1 or vietnam? movies like ex: Saving private Ryan etc with tons of action?

Answer 1

Das Boot

Letters from Iwo Jima

Go For Broke

Enemy at the Gates

Saving Private Ryan

Battleground

We Were Soldiers

Alls Quiet on the Western Front

Schindler's List

The Great Escape

Answer 2

Twelve O'Clock High, Sands of Iwo Jima, Das Boot, The Lost Battalion, M*A*S*H, We Were Soldiers Once, Love is a Many Splendored Thing (yep, it's true! Korea), A Bridge Too Far (a movie too long), The Longest Day, Patton, Enemy at the Gates, The Thin Red Line, Tora! Tora! Tora, Midway , Codetalkers (I can't remember the real name) Bridge on the River Kwai...

Private Ryan may have taken some literary license but IS based on the Niland family of Tonawanda, New York. I still cry. But then, most of you who know of me would figure I would,

Twelve O'Clock High was the one my Dad said most accurately reflected the air war in Europe - 8th Air Force - We Were Soldiers Once (and Young) gets me every time.

I could go on and on and on...



I was going to suggest Zulu! - but you said WWII - do watch it - incredible.

Answer 3

WW2 -" The Longest Day ", the story of D-Day

or " When Trumpets Fade " the story of fighting in the Huertgen Forest of Germany.

Vietnam -" We were Soldiers Once... and Young ", the true story of the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley.

WW1 - " The Lost Battalion " the true story of an American battalion trapped behind German lines.

All exciting movies, if you want to know what is meant when soldiers say they are not thinking about fighting for their country, they are fighting for their buddies lives, watch the last two.

There are many more, but those ones are up there with Saving Private Ryan.

Answer 4

I agree with most of the other movies already mentioned, but my favourite war movies are Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now (both about Vietnam).

Answer 5

Depends what you mean by "Good". Saving Private Ryan was historical fiction(and nonsense)



If you like that sort of thing there is plenty.



However if you prefer something nearer the truth, The Battle of Britain is good,so is A Bridge too Far.

Answer 6

The Steel Helmet ( Korean war ) , Apocalypse Now ( Vietnam ), Flags of Our Father ( WW2 ), Paths of Glory ( WW1) , et.al.

Answer 7

for older movies, The longest day (d-day), The great escape (based on true accounts), Sands of Iwo Jima, Battle cry, Gung-ho, Alls quiet on the western front, Green Beret, Platoon, Apocolpse now, Flying leathernecks, Midway, run silent run deep, the enemy below.

Answer 8

The Dirty Dozen is great, you actually get to see a lot of action along with decent old film stars. I would also try the great escape, which shows how prisoners of war escaped. These are older movies, but are more historically acurate than modern films just focused on boobs and blood.

Answer 9

Band of brothers is a great Mini-siereis from HBO and a true story.



Based on an equally good book

Answer 10

there grew to become right into a action picture referred to as "return To Auschwitz" that grew to become into made in 1979. solid action picture. it quite is a pair of woman who returns to Auschwitz along with her son recounting her journey. Anne Frank :-) - this won't be on your flavor yet provides an relatively solid photograph as to what grew to become into happening and what life grew to become into like in the process the conflict. The Piano guy ( an relatively solid action picture, it quite is approximately this guy who hides under rubble to stay away from getting caught my Nazi soilders. . it quite is dazzling ! and completely real looking approximately what occurred in those days. Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'very final answer': The historic past of the suited answer area of the Nazi Holocaust, quite with the main common of the dying camps. Schindlers checklist: between the main suitable international conflict 2 videos I relatively have ever seen. it quite is approximately those jews who get despatched to artwork in Schindlers production facility and Schindler doesnt comprehend what the Jews are dealing with so he will pay the concentration camp for as many Jews as obtainable ............. Boy interior the striped pyjamas: Reaallly unhappy a pair of Jewish boy in Auschwitz and a German boy who's the son of a German commander, and who's staying in a house close to there. They grow to be maximum suitable friends and communicate thorugh the wall.

Answer 11

You know that Hollywood film the something Belle, about a crew of a B17.....



It's Memphis Belle!





The original of that film - the real recruiting film is very true to life.

Answer 12

WW1

"All quiet on the western front" (the original 1920's version) is an excellent ww1 film- far superior to the 1970's version.

"Gallipoli" is good about the ANZAC (australian / newzeland) troops in the dardanelles in ww1

"Lawrence of Arabia" David Leans film of the story of T.E. Lawrence's campaign in the middle east.

"The Blue Max" about german pilots, features George Peppard

"Hedd wyn" Partially in welsh, good movie though.



WW2

"Das boot" A german film available dubbed or subtitled, about a U-Boat and it's crew.

"Stalingrad" is good, it's made by the guys that made "Das boot" and is subtitled or dubbed from the German.

"The big red one" about the US army's 1st division following it from the torch landing in algeria through europe.

"Dambusters" a solid stonker of a movie about the RAF's lowlevel attack on the dams in the Rhine valley with the "bouncing bomb" designed by Barnes Wallis. (about to be remade by Peter Jackson)

"The cockleshell heroes" about the commando attack by the British SBS on german vessels in Dieppe.

"Too late the Hero" set in the pacific campaign, Michael Caine and a team of British soldiers try and knock out a Japanese base.

"Dunkirk" John Mills tries to escape the beaches of Belgium in 1940 as the Germans tighten the noose.

"The Eagle has landed" Micheal Caine leads a group of German paratroopers on a mission to assasinate Churchill in England. (Better than it sounds)

"A bridge to far" mentioned by another poster (above), about the disasterous "market garden" operation.

"The great escape" Classic boys night in movie!



The Korean War

"Brotherhood" a Korean movie, subtitled



Vietnam

"Apocalypse now" 'Nuff said. get the redux version it explains the disintergration of the crews morale.

"Vietnam" australian movie, one of Nicole Kidmans early roles.



The falklands

"Tumbledown" about the battle for mount tumbledown on the falkland isles, 1982.





Here's one you'd love, not quite the time frame your interested in-

"Zulu" set in the 1860's and an absolute stormer of a film, Michael Caine, Stanley Baker. Based on action at Rourkes drift. The single highest number of Victoria crosses ever won in a single battle. Not historically accurate, but a bloody great film. Trust me watch it!

Answer 13

The Great Raid! Its an awesome movie. You'll love it.

Answer 14

the best movies for me that involves WW2:

- Pearl Harbor

- Schindler's List (for me, the best of all)

- the great raid

Answer 15

Plenty of them. Here are some of my favs: Band of brothers, das boot, patton, enemy at the gates.

Answer 16

letters from iwo jima

schindlers list

behind enemy lines