PREPARE TO BE SHOCKED! In what may be the most foolhardy act the podcast has ever committed, we commissioned @joetwyman.bsky.social at Deltapoll to ask the nation for its favourite WW2 films. The results... 🧵
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Good lord. I can only conclude that 'The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp' (which, though it is broader than just WW2, that war is its focus) was not a film respondents had seen, because if they had there would be no other film on the list. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGb4T3ADibI
Interesting list and cool that you got coverage in The Times. I would have put A Bridge Too Far higher personally but there's only one there really worth disagreeing with.
There needs to be more foreign language films too.
Das Boot
Downfall
9 April
Kongens Nei
Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
The Forgotten Battle - De Slag Om De Scheide
Narvik Hitler's First Defeat
Max Manus - Man of War
The Great War of Archimedes.
Criminal omissions: The Cruel Sea, Sink the Bismark, Lawrence of Arabia, Where Eagles Dare, Kellys Heroes, Colditz, 633 Squadron, Das Boot, Dunkirk - the superior 1958 version, Tora, Tora, Tora - all of them better than Pearl Harbour, and didnt have 1980s destroyers parked in shot!
good call - although american bravado is a little off putting to a gentle brit. GC Scott is exceptional in it though and good support from Karl Malden as Bradley
You would think from the advertising that this is just another screwball comedy with Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers but hidden within it is a dramatic surprise.
It is no Went The Day Well but you have seen that.
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No The Sound Of Music
I’m shocked.
'Inglorious Bastards' and 'From here to eternity' also not making the list seems pretty brutal!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGb4T3ADibI
Das Boot
Downfall
9 April
Kongens Nei
Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
The Forgotten Battle - De Slag Om De Scheide
Narvik Hitler's First Defeat
Max Manus - Man of War
The Great War of Archimedes.
You would think from the advertising that this is just another screwball comedy with Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers but hidden within it is a dramatic surprise.
It is no Went The Day Well but you have seen that.
Sink the Bismark