My own list might include - in no particular order:
Small Back Room
The Wooden Horse
Went the Day Well
Das Boot (tv series better)
The Cruel Sea
Come and See
49th Parallel
The One that Got Away
Paths of Glory
This Happy Breed
1917
Small Back Room
The Wooden Horse
Went the Day Well
Das Boot (tv series better)
The Cruel Sea
Come and See
49th Parallel
The One that Got Away
Paths of Glory
This Happy Breed
1917
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'The man with the heart of stone' was very good, too, it's more of a character study of Heydrich himself, (spoiler: not a nice bloke ! ) and it was interesting how it deals differently with SOE's attack on him.
The book is even better.
The eagle has landed.
carve her name with pride.
Casablanca.
Sink the Bismarck.
The Malta story.
Inglorious Bastards.
Force 10 from Navaronne.
Hope & Glory
The Forgotten Battle (Ntflx) is a recent #Dutch film built around an event in WW2.
The perspectives of these two films are long overdue.
Clumsy fatal mistakes contrast the occasional joy.
Black Book.
The Piano.
Casablanca.
Downfall.
Empire of the Sun.
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
A Matter of Life and Death.
Oh and the 2017 Dunkirk didn't deserve any place on the list, let alone at the top.
Sink the bismark
Battle of the River plate
Hacksaw ridge
There are several others as well
Das Boot (yes - the original TV series)
Battle Of The River Plate
Schindlers List
Would definitely be on mine.
A war veteran was crying as he left the cinema, his wife telling him everything would be alright. I'll never forget that.
I would also say the German film Stalingrad, from their perpective.
Blitz
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A few of my favourites:
Cross Of Iron
The Big Red One
A Midnight Clear
And, for sheer OTT & quotes....
Where Eagles Dare
But my all time favourite is Wajda's Canal. Remains a harrowing depiction of complete hopelessness in the face of evil.
The Dambusters, by Paul Brickhill
The Boat, Lother Gunther Bucheim
The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monserrat
A Piece Of Cake, Derek Robinson
Berlin, Antony Beevor
Spike Milligan's war memoirs
A Higher Call, Adam Makos
The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah
Sven Hassel's early works
"Downfall."
"Atonement," I prefer over Dunkirk (2017). Atonement has one long unbroken cut, and the beach looks like actual war-torn chaos.
"April 9th" is good. Danish film on the invasion.
"Stalingrad" - 1993 film.
"The Great War of Archimedes" - Japanese film about the Yamato battleship.
Missing from the Times are, of course, any non-English language films: Downfall; Lacombe, Lucien; Armee des Ombres; Liten Ida; Days of Glory; or non blockbuster US films
Richard Fleischer. Can highly recommend his autobiography Just Tell Me When To Cry... for the Rex Harrison wig stories alone
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Lee (2023)
Napoleon (1927)
PS Schindlers list, boy in the striped pyjamas, openheimer, dr stranglove
We aren't American. It's best for everyone if we keep it that way.
I think the German film, "Stalingrad" deserves a place on any list.
Downfall
Battle of Britain
Stalingrad
The Cruel Sea
Paths of Glory
Journeys End
Bridge on the River Kwai
Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
Angels One Five
Battle of Britain
I would put Patton as my top film