movies/tv Your favorite WWII movies/TV-series?

[Guest]

Hi,

 

With the 9th of April coming soon, i'd like to ask you all: what's your favorite WWII movie/tv-series? 

 

I can start of by saying that Letters from Iwo Jima is my favorite WWII movie and The Pacific as my favorite WWII tv-series.

 

What about you?

[Blackshirt Brony 415]

The Great Escape is one of my top five favorite movies in general.

[Guest]

The Great Escape is one of my top five favorite movies in general.

 

Loved that film aswell.

 

I think there was a video game based on it too, lol.

[Wicked Funky 2,955]

I havent seen many, But it would either be "Saving private ryan" or "Schindlers list"

[Guest]

I havent seen many, But it would either be "Saving private ryan" or "Schindlers list"

 

That one would easily fit into my top 10 movies of all time.

[Mand'alor Dash 2,224]

I highly recommend the show Manhattan. It's a drama about the Manhattan project in '43, and it deals with all the backstabbing, paranoia, lies, and moral ambiguity that come with building the most fearsome weapon in world history.

[Guest]

I highly recommend the show Manhattan. It's a drama about the Manhattan project in '43, and it deals with all the backstabbing, paranoia, lies, and moral ambiguity that come with building the most fearsome weapon in world history.

 

Yeah, I've only heard positive things about this show. I should give it a watch sometime.

[CloudKicker 391]

I like watching hogan heroes.I like it and its really funny,and it's parody of WW2 which I also like.Overall great tv show.

[N.W. 3,619]

Movie? That's a hard one, I've seen a lot, I mean a lot.

If I had to choose, I'd say Zvezda. There are still a lot of Russian movies I want to see too, I've seen a lot of American ones already.

The Brest Fortress is one I really need to see, I'd post the trailer here, but it's a bit graphic.

 

TV series? Hogans Heroes! 

I see nothing!-Sergeant Schultz 

[Steve Piranha 29,374]

Saving Private Ryan, is the one I remember the most. I found out recently that the soldier killed by the Nazy sniper IS FREAKING VIN DIESEL 

[1Bit 1,531]

Well I havent seen a ton of WW2 stuff actually  I should definitely watch more 

 

I will say that 'Saving Private Ryan' still brings a tear to my eye even now 

[Alex Z 848]

I absolutely love Grave of The Fireflies, I think it is an amazing WWII movie everyone should check out. It's also a very sad movie.

[sweetolebob18 724]

As a Baby Boomer I remember there were a lot of them in the 50s & early 60s but the Viet Nam War was so unpopular it killed them off.  They have been making a small comeback in the last decade or so.

 

I'd go w Casa Blanca if that counts (set in 1940. WWII was on, but USA not in it yet).   One of 2 best Bogart movies & one of 2 or 3 best film noir movies.  If you watch that, see also the "sequel" Play It Again, Sam, one of my 2 favorite Woody Allen movies.

[IcyHaze 593]

Saving Private Ryan is my favourite movie, and Band Of Brothers is my favourite TV series.

 

Though Schindler's List is a close second to SPR...

[Hovershy 3,813]

Saving Private Ryan is a classic movie.

 

Can't say that I've seen a lot of WW2 movies though, I can't really think of any others. 

[Doc Monochrome 173]

I like watching hogan heroes.I like it and its really funny,and it's parody of WW2 which I also like.Overall great tv show.

this! i loved that show (or at least what little ive seen of it. XD)

[Scootaloodle 1,621]

Can't think of any WW2 movies

 

But as for TV shows, I'd say Goodnight Sweetheart.

 

It's well worth watching, for those who ain't seen it's a 90s British sitcom and in it this guy from 90s London finds a time portal back in time to the same city but in WW2 and can go back and forth between the two time zones, where he leads a double life and has an adulterous relationship and plays renditions of the Beatles to the people in the 1940s and tells them he wrote them and stuff like that.

 

Think the episodes are online somewhere, it's great for binge watching. 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodnight_Sweetheart_%28TV_series%29

[Overdrive 5,366]

Saving Private Ryan, hands down.

[Denim&Venöm 17,077]

Haven't seen many, but out of what I've seen, I'd go with Bataan. Story about a band of U.S. & And Filipino soldiers fighting valiantly against invading Japanese forces as well as sweltering heat and tropical diseases. Fair amount of drama with a good battle scene and an awesome score. 

 

And while not a movie or show, but a band, I'd recommend Sabaton. They're a Swedish power metal group that sings exclusively about military history. For the most part they focus on WW2 and bring a lot of insight from a European perspective, arguably the most important perspective. While America did get heavily involved, it was they who had to live and fight through it day to day.  So quite a few battles and wars within wars that aren't taught in history class are sung about. Like Talvisota, a song about the Winter War between Finland and the invading Soviet Union in 1939-40, or Coat of Arms, a tale about the Greco-Italian war as Axis Italy attempted to conquer Greece, but the Greeks bravely retaliated, just like their ancestors, the Spartans. Or even the song Uprising, about the Warsaw uprising of the Polish against their Nazi occupiers in '44.  Heck Sabaton's last album was a concept piece telling stories of individual heroes of the war. 

 

Like this track, about when a damaged american bomber was actually escorted by a nazi fighter out of german air space and back to the english channel. Quite the moving story to look into. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGf5-5N95aI

 

Or the song Smoking Snakes, about Brazil's involvement during the war, and the story of 3 brazilian soldiers who got separated from their unit, and fought to their deaths against a large contingent of Wehrmacht. Even the soldiers were impressed w/ their bravery and buried them w/ crosses saying  "Drei brasilianische Helden" (Three Brazilian Heroes).

Edited April 6, 2015 by Denim&Venom

[Eternal Night 61]

Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers and definitely Schlinder's list are my favorites. I could honestly watch any of them at anytime and still enjoy them.

[Yellow Diamond 7,564]

I've got a few on my list:

• Europa Europa (or Hitler Youth Salomon)
• Cross of Iron
• Battle of Britain
• Saving Private Ryan
• Stalingrad
• Enemy at the Gates
• Black Sheep Squadron
• Band of Brothers
• Fury
• Flags of Our Fathers
• Casablanca (thanks to Dinos4Ever for the reminder!)
• The Final Countdown (technically a time travel movie made in the 80s, but dealt with World War II)

I only caught pieces of The Pacific, but I was impressed by what I watched. I could never marathon The Longest Day or A Bridge Too Far, though.

[Revy ~ Two Hands 862]

• Band of Brothers

Enemy at the Gates

Saving Private Ryan

[The Pink One 595]

Saving Private Ryan, best war movie, without a doubt. TV series: Band of Brothers. I do have the box set of The Pacific but I have yet been able to sit down and watch it so I don't know about that one.

[nolongerabout 403]

 I'm quite a big fan of classic war films, and there are a few I can recommend.

Guns of Navarone

The Great Escape

Where Eagles Dare- all the people who claim Saving Private Ryan is the best war film probably haven't seen this.

Bataan

Sahara

Beneath Hill 60- Not a WW II film, and not much of a classic either, but I thought it was very good as generic 'world war' film.

The Dirty Dozen

The Desert Rats

Edited April 6, 2015 by ForthEorl

[Ashen Pathfinder 16,154]

You, I haven't seem many films based on WWII, and I have yet to see any series based on WWII.

 

In any case, considering that I haven't seen Saving Private Ryan and only saw Schindler's List once, my favorite WWII movie is actually "TORA! TORA! TORA!."