whs brilliant line up of films American Sniper Full Metal Jacket private pile this is my rifle this my gun this for killing this is for fun lol
Band of Brothers Enemy at the gate Schindlers List Platoon Das Boot Dambusters Saving Private Ryan Downfall Good morning Vietnam
I watched Kajaki: The True Story on Netflix the other day Very good, but difficult to watch in some parts.
I love all the 50s John Mills Trevor Howard era war films. Ones not mentioned yet: The Way To The Stars, based on Terence Rattigan's stage play Flare Path. Set on a bomber base. Very moving in a keep that upper lip from wobbling kind of way. Went The Day Well - Nazi invasion of small English village. Quite shocking in its pull-no-punches brutality and made during the early part of the war when it seemed a very real possibility that an invasion would happen. The Man Who Never Was - the true story of Operation Mincemeat: the deception of German intelligence by finding a freshly dead corpse and 'washing' him up on the Spanish coast as an officer carrying apparently top secret documents. Angels One Five - because of its laughably awful class prejudice. Brave posh pilots and their gals with clipped accents; horrifically caricatured chirpy cockney ground crew and RAF regiment privates standing outside saying things like, 'Cor blimey this perishin' wind.' But the best of the lot has to be Dambusters. That film is part of the British DNA. My grandad worked on Lancasters at Scampton in the latter part of the war so I suppose it's a bit personal too. And from a totally different mould I love the Sharpe series with Sean Bean, set during the peninsular wars in the early 1800's. James Bond meets The Dirty Dozen with a bit of costume and some useless aristocratic officers haw-hawing around until the blunt northerner sorts it all out and in the process calls several people a 'Illegitimate child.' And then shags the pretty lady, and/or is a real gentleman to her. Classic stuff.
They always make me cringe. There does exist a recoding of a Lancaster crew on a mission - no idea how they recorded it: wire recorder, maybe? - and what's surprising is the variety of regional UK accents. They came from all over, and rarely a posh voice among them. Most dreadful war film ever must be 633 Squadron. The Mossies were good, but the acting was dire...
Its got to be The Dambusters for me . At The building research center in Garston near watford there is scale model of the dams and surrouding lakes ,with a plaque to mark the event
Dambusters for me too but as a kid also liked Reach for the Sky , The Great Escape etc but tend not to watch war films now
