Wow, spent more time here than actually playing these days. Here is another movie post. As I am always on the lookout for new and particularly foreign films on various historical conflicts, I welcome any great other films to be listed.

I saw that Litehoof listed Stalingrad, a very rare and seldom seen film. He is correct in saying it is a very good and underrated film. Its from the same producer that made Das Boot.

Others that I have enjoyed over the years and from various periods, in no particular order or rank.

1)Charge of the Light Brigade (great uniforms)
2)Waterloo (great uniforms great epic scenes,Cuirassiers charging squares well portrayed
3)War & Peace - (Russian version - not Henry Fonda)
4)Platoon - great score - thought provoking
5)Hamburger Hill - great score and very gritty
6)Das Boot - I don't want to be in a submarine
7)Battle of Algiers - the word terrorist is coined
8)With Fire and Sword (30 years war - seldom covered
9)The Deluge (same as above)
10)Troy (yes - its pretty good and accurate)
11)Bridge on the River Kwai
12)Alexander Nevsky - Teutonic Knights on Ice - better than Sesame Street for sure
13)Band of Brothers - (best series ever made)
14)The Winter War - (Finns vs Russia - dont see many films on this subject)
15)Enemy at the Gates -(well done,gritty feel,wish they had changed it and shot Jude Law istead
16)Gallipoli (some don't but I like the techno sound - captures the futility Anzac must have been
17)The Lighthorseman (great charge sequence)
18)Breaker Morant (excellent, very well acted on another seldom covered topic - the Boer war)
19)Zulu (great score - well executed - sort of similar to the Indian and German depictions)
20)Braveheart - besides the history liberties Hero Mel makes in most of his films, its entertaining
21)Letters from Iwo Jima - great film told from the Japanese perspective
22)Glory - only thing with matt and Denzel I even like
23)Wings (great aerial scenes - first academy award winner for best picture)
24) Henry V - Olivier's 1941 is good and more play like, Branagh's 1989 is the better to me
25)Patton - get past the inaccurate tanks and its a fine film - tidbit - score by Jerry Goldsmith
26)Blue Max (greatest score ever to me - some sappy drama - great aerial scenes - brilliant Jerry Goldsmith score)

...and many many more for this is just a short list with many omissions.

Which brings me to my most silly moments in war movie history - though - there are many.

4)Gettysburg - all in all not a bad film but..Pickett's charge was done with 200 men instead of the reported 13,000 - hmm and also starring the greatest number of fake beards seen in a movie in history by far - Martin Sheen's being among the worst)

3) Saving Private Ryan - okay, we are proud well trained US Rangers dropped behind enemy lines, and we should all be vocally and quite loudly discussing the Brooklyn Dodgers in hedgerows, behind, as I said, enemy lines - yeah right.

2) Where Eagles Dare - The Germans that continue charging up a spiral staircase, apparently in an attempt to kiss Clint Eastwood, despite the record number of casualties falling down same said staircase. Clint sets a German killing record in this movie I think as well. Of course, like all Indians in most westerns, Germans are just stupid. Really dopey scene - there are good ones and the overriding theme song, carries through well.

and now to....NUMBER 1 BY FAR

1) Every single aerial maneuver in Flyboys - the single greatest departure a film has ever taken, from even reasonable historical accuracy. I'm not saying its the worst film of all time by a long measure - it just has the silliest scenes in a war film for me. Vertical climbing WW1 airplanes more akin to tie and X-wing fighters of Star Wars lore.

Hope the read was at least interesting. Look forward to seeing some additions.








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