Best 10 WWII movies

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Kurben

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A very common genre but it also very dissimilar from each other. I'm counting movies so tv-series like Band of Brothers and others are not in. A very personal selection and i have, i am sure, forgotten some in my haste. So, in no specific order:

1. Where Eagles Dare (1968, Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood)
2. The Great Escape (1963, R. Attenborough, S. McQueen, C. Bronson)
3. The Dirty Dozen (1967, Lee Marvin, C. Bronson, T. Savalas, J. Brown)
4. Inglorious besterds (2009,Tarantino, B.Pitt, Diane Kruger, C. Waltz)
5. Stalag 17 (1953, W. Holden, O. Preminger, R. Strauss, D. Taylor)
6. Schindlers List (1993, L. Neeson, B. Kingsley, R. Fiennes)
7. The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957, A. Guinness, W. Holden)
8. The Big Red One (1980, Wardrama Samuel Fuller, Lee Marvin)
9. Sophie Scholl - The Final Days ( 2005, great german war drama, Julia Jentsch)
10. The Longest Day (1962, H. Fonda, R. Ryan, J. Wayne, P. Lawford)

There have been o so many more but i tried to go for some different kinds of movies too. 6,8 and 9 are essentially wardramas, 2,5 and 7 are POW-movies. 1,3 and 4 are movies about daring missions during the war and 10 is an epic D-Day movie.
 
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DiO'Bolic

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So many good WWII movies, it’s hard to pick just ten... ah, heck, I need to go a minimum of 15.

The Great Escape
Patton
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Dirty Dozen (I've met a few of the actual real life "Filthy Thirteen," which the movie was based on)
Saving Private Ryan
Band of Brothers (I've met a few of the actual real life Band of Brothers depicted in the movie)
The Longest Day
A Bridge Too Far
Tora! Tora! Tora!
The Guns of Navarone
Midway
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of Britain
U-571
Father Goose

I heard they were making a movie about WWII strangest battle... The Battle for Castle Itter. I haven’t heard much since – if it’s in production, already made, or cancelled. I would really like to see it.
 
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DiO'Bolic

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Out of Order said:
Love it, but I still haven't a clue what adlevice(sp?) is....
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For something very different from the usual WW2 movie, try Terence Malick's "The Thin Red Line", about Guadalcanal. It was a big but quiet production that ended up getting overlooked by many viewers because of the success of Saving Private Ryan. The Thin Red Line tells a very different type of story than we're used to seeing about this subject, and it's an absolutely gorgeous looking film.

Vets who have seen it say that it's one of the few movies that "gets" that most of war is actually protracted periods of silence, quiet and even calm. (Think of the jungle tiger scene in Apocalypse Now). This approach makes the intense combat scenes stand out that much more. Oh, and did I mention it's absolutely loaded with movie stars (Sean Penn, George Clooney, John C. Reilly, Nick Nolte, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, etc.) but the main character was a complete unknown at the time, Jim Caviezel, who later played Jesus in The Passion of the Christ. Check it out!

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