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Posted: 8/21/2019 8:16:23 PM EDT

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Destination Tokyo.

Posted: 8/21/2019 8:20:00 PM EDT

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No list can be complete without Mister Roberts.

Posted: 8/21/2019 8:21:43 PM EDT

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Thank you this is the kind of lesser known/older movie I’m most interested in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUDAD3GB3g

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We had a different experience of childhood Saturday afternoon TV fodder, back when there were three channels to "choose from"..!

I then studied the subject properly as part of my War Studies BA(Hons)

Look at the Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger films = very atmospheric, and one of the named pair was a German refugee who'd fled persecution - and he made British wartime movies when there was a good chance the war may not go the way we wanted it to & he'd have to pay for what he did when Adolf & his pals showed up

Posted: 8/21/2019 8:31:30 PM EDT

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Rules:

WWII War movies Only (i.e. not Schlinders’ List).
Feature Length movies only.
No miniseries (i.e. Band of Brothers).
No TV Shows.
Foreign Language OK as long as it’s available with English subtitles.
Older, less well known films are preferable to say Saving Private Ryan or Fury.

In no particular order here are mine:

Battleground
Where Eagles Dare
12 O’Clock High
Cross of Iron
The Devils Brigade
The Longest Day
A Bridge Too Far
Sands of Iwo Jima
The Big Red One
The Great Escape

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Great Escape
Das Boat
The Longest Day
The Big Red One
Saving Private Ryan
Where Eagles Dare
When Trumpets Fade
A Bridge too Far
Midway
Tora Tora Tora

Posted: 8/21/2019 8:35:40 PM EDT

[#5]

The Beast
Winter War

Posted: 8/21/2019 9:22:48 PM EDT

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Battleground
Stalag 17
The Train
The Great Escape
Saving Private Ryan
The Longest Day
Midway
Tora Tora Tora
Hell in the Pacific
Sahara

How could I forget Das Boot and The Caine Mutiny???

Posted: 8/21/2019 9:33:00 PM EDT

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Battle of the Bulge.
The Longest Day
A Bridge too Far
Bridge at Remagen

For Navy movies,

Midway
Tora, Tora, Tora.
Das Boot
Run Silent, Run Deep.

And my all time favorite, The Enemy Below.

The Enemy Below 1957

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny6oZED1Hm8

Posted: 8/21/2019 9:55:06 PM EDT

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Never So Few. Loosely based on the history of an OSS team in Burma/China Theatre.

Posted: 8/21/2019 9:58:09 PM EDT

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Hell, I'll give you my top ten favorite Desert War films, in no real order...

Play Dirty
The Hill
Sahara
Tobruk
Raid On Rommel
The Immortal Battalion
Desert Patrol
The Desert Fox
Tje Desert Rats
The Battle of El Alamein

I loved everything about the North African campaign as a kid.

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Did you just do a ww2 desert movie list and not include ice cold in Alex?
Go sit in a corner

Posted: 8/21/2019 9:59:09 PM EDT

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Midway
Kelly's Heros
Bridge over the River Kwai
The Pianist
Conspiracy
The Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan
Where Eagles Dare
Patton
Tora Tora Tora

Sahara is really good and possibly lesser known... I remember seeing it when I was 10-11 and thinking that tank was incredible with all the different guns and turrets and cupolas.. first rate propaganda of the highest order, and I'm not kidding.

Posted: 8/21/2019 10:01:14 PM EDT

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The Beast
Winter War

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Winter war (Finnish) is great, came to post it.

Posted: 8/21/2019 10:11:16 PM EDT

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Did you just do a ww2 desert movie list and not include ice cold in Alex?
Go sit in a corner - without an ice cold Carlsberg

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Hell, I'll give you my top ten favorite Desert War films, in no real order...

Play Dirty
The Hill
Sahara
Tobruk
Raid On Rommel
The Immortal Battalion
Desert Patrol
The Desert Fox
Tje Desert Rats
The Battle of El Alamein

I loved everything about the North African campaign as a kid.

Did you just do a ww2 desert movie list and not include ice cold in Alex?
Go sit in a corner - without an ice cold Carlsberg

FIFY

...a good movie...
Always like to see Anthony Quayle on screen - he was wartime SOE & prior to that he'd been an area commander with the Auxiliary Units, sorting out the British resistance network ahead of the then forecast German invasion

Posted: 8/21/2019 10:12:23 PM EDT

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Saving Private Ryan

Kelly’s Heroes

Posted: 8/21/2019 10:20:16 PM EDT

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Hell Is for Heroes

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Underrated...top 5 easily

Patton
Midway
The Longest Day
Hell is for Heroes
Enemy at the Gates

Posted: 8/21/2019 10:20:18 PM EDT

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All of the above.

Plus South Pacific.

Posted: 8/21/2019 10:21:29 PM EDT

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Hell is for Heros... forgot that one... kicks ass

Posted: 8/22/2019 12:27:30 AM EDT

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Some great movies in this thread! Mine in no particular order:

Saving Private Ryan
Downfall
Stalingrad
The Longest Day
A Bridge too Far
Patton
Midway
Letters from Iwo Jima
When Trumpets Fade
Memphis Belle

Posted: 8/22/2019 12:41:46 AM EDT

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Patton
the longest day
father goose
operation petticoat
the dirty dozen
tora tora tora

Posted: 8/22/2019 12:49:58 AM EDT

[#19]

Darby's Rangers(1958)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMMG2G50sKA

Look at that Ranger patch!

Posted: 8/22/2019 1:12:44 AM EDT

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Tora, Tora, Tora should be at the top of any list.

Then "A Bridge Too Far" and then deciding if you like John Wayne fiction or historically accurate films.

Posted: 8/22/2019 1:38:54 AM EDT

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Add The Guns of Navarone to your list. It has Han Solo in it.

Posted: 8/22/2019 11:18:28 PM EDT

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In the "not so common" category, I see Stalag 17 and Attack Force Z were already mentioned, but it looks like everybody missed

https://www.ar15.com/forums/general/Defiance-is-possibly-the-best-WWII-movie-ever-made-/5-2229540/

Posted: 8/23/2019 7:53:43 AM EDT

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FIFY

...a good movie...
Always like to see Anthony Quayle on screen - he was wartime SOE & prior to that he'd been an area commander with the Auxiliary Units, sorting out the British resistance network ahead of the then forecast German invasion

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Hell, I'll give you my top ten favorite Desert War films, in no real order...

Play Dirty
The Hill
Sahara
Tobruk
Raid On Rommel
The Immortal Battalion
Desert Patrol
The Desert Fox
Tje Desert Rats
The Battle of El Alamein

I loved everything about the North African campaign as a kid.

Did you just do a ww2 desert movie list and not include ice cold in Alex?
Go sit in a corner - without an ice cold Carlsberg

FIFY

...a good movie...
Always like to see Anthony Quayle on screen - he was wartime SOE & prior to that he'd been an area commander with the Auxiliary Units, sorting out the British resistance network ahead of the then forecast German invasion

Only saw it once but the final scene stuck with me.

And yes, It seems like Anthony Quayle pops up in so many Great War movies.

Posted: 8/23/2019 7:56:05 AM EDT

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BTW has anyone mentioned The Great Escape yet?

Posted: 8/23/2019 8:28:05 AM EDT

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Add The Guns of Navarone to your list. It has Han Solo in it.

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You are thinking of Force 10 from Navarone, a very inferior movie to Guns of Navarone

Posted: 8/23/2019 8:31:37 AM EDT

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Lots of really good ones by the Brits.

The Desert Fox

Desert Rats

Sink the Bismark

Battle of Britain

Dam Busters

Sahara...the Bogart film

Battleground

Cross of Iron

A Bridge too Far

Saving Private Ryan.

Objective Burma