In no particular order:
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pconley22 — 9 years ago(July 14, 2016 09:54 AM)
Stalag 17
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Thin Red Line (1998)
The Longest Day
Ken Burns' The War
Does The Best Years of Our Lives count as a WWII movie? Also, nice to see I'm not the only one who dug Malick's Thin Red Line. I seem to remember that movie being decidedly unpopular when it came out. I always thought it was fantastic with some amazing cinematography. -
ghostinthepoop — 9 years ago(September 05, 2016 11:42 AM)
Probably something like this
saving private ryan
letters from iwo jima
come and see
patton
das boot
hm
grave of the fireflies
bridge on the river kwai
big red one
downfall
thin red line
inglorious basterds
49th parallel -
joefreitag — 9 years ago(December 06, 2016 11:37 AM)
Come and See is an excellent movie - terrific choice. Have you tried The Cranes are Flying?
My top 5:
Saving Private Ryan
Das Boot
Band of Brothers (yeah, I'm cheating)
Conspiracy
Schindler's List
Honorable mention:
Sophie Scholl
A Bridge Too Far
The Longest Day
Empire of the Sun
The Best Years of our Lives -
ghostinthepoop — 9 years ago(December 06, 2016 07:52 PM)
I have not seen The Cranes are Flying, its been on my watch list for a while. I have Ivans Childhood from the library and plan on watching that, then watching The Cranes are Flying. Come and See is so Haunting, I love it! Its nice to see someone else who also loves it
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TheHestinator — 9 years ago(January 01, 2017 09:21 PM)
My personal favorite World War II movies at the moment are:
- The Guns of Navarone
- The Great Escape
- Kelly's Heroes
- Saints and Soldiers (even though I'm an atheist)
- Farewell to the King
Honorable Mentions: - The Big Red One (as of right now, I prefer the original, theatrical cut)
- Saving Private Ryan
- FDR: American Badass!
- Schindler's List
- Hacksaw Ridge
- The Longest Day
- Castle Keep
- A Midnight Clear
- Hell Is for Heroes
- Casablanca (been thinking of giving this one a big boost higher up in my personal rankings, though)
- The Eagle Has Landed
- Slaughterhouse-Five
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myjubjub — 9 years ago(March 12, 2017 06:13 AM)
In particular order:
lemme think
1.
Shoah
(the most historically important film ever made, second is The Act of Killing, inspired by Shoah)
2.
Come and See
(incredibly bleak Belarusian partisan film)
3.
Downfall
(Bruno Ganz as Hitler, can you ask for more?)
4.
The Big Red One
(Mark Hamill, Lee Marvin, Robert Carradine, directed by WWII, Big Red One veteran superdirector Sam Fuller - can you ask for more?)
5.
The Bridge on the River Kwai
(David Lean, Alec Guinness, William Holden, can you ask for more?)
Inglorious Bastards - wrong. Unless you are talking about the original, but still wrong, just not as much. I am not sure if you are unintentionally correcting the illiterate Tarantino's misspelling or intentionally giving the name of the original, superior film.