If I had to name two it would be Band of Brothers (not a film technically but still) and a Bridge Too Far.
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Our Favourite War Films
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Aniallator
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I'm really, really looking forward to Masters of the Air... going to be amazing!
drummer93
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Perl Harbour and Enemy at the Gates
Naah, it's a joke hahahaha. If I have to choose only one, I think that is Saving Private Ryan. Yes, I know that it has some technical and historical mistakes (when Millers shoots through the Tigers aperture, for example), but when I saw it the first time, blew my mind. I saw it again again and again for years hahaha, maybe 20 times
Naah, it's a joke hahahaha. If I have to choose only one, I think that is Saving Private Ryan. Yes, I know that it has some technical and historical mistakes (when Millers shoots through the Tigers aperture, for example), but when I saw it the first time, blew my mind. I saw it again again and again for years hahaha, maybe 20 times
Sydd
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masters of the air?
drummer93
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Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks are producing a new mini-serie about the Eighth Air Force
DerJoachim
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Well, Das Boot win the cake easily. (for me)
Sydd
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Ahh, God that should be exciting then, Although I wish they made something on the armored divisions in perhaps el alamein. Friggin Rommel <3
Aniallator
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Yeah, an armored one would be nice... US bomber crews over Europe will be amazing, though 
Timberwolf
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Over the years, the inaccuracies of war movies has started to bother me more and more.
(T-34s dressed as Tigers, post-war shermans, lookalike small arms, post-war aircraft, and the list goes on and on....)
(T-34s dressed as Tigers, post-war shermans, lookalike small arms, post-war aircraft, and the list goes on and on....)
Aniallator
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In Company of Heroes (deserves a Worst Film of the Year award), all the US troops were using Lee-Enfields. I mean, come on...
Timberwolf
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Saw both Tiger 131 and the Fury sherman today. So I got that going for me which is nice.
Bovington FTW.
Bovington FTW.
Simon
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While some troops could use Lee-Enfield, its probably stupid whole army uses it, watched the trailer and doesn't look so bad.
I will watch the whole movie when I have time, do you know where I can get it (without buying it)
Alex
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Kelly's Heroes at least tried to get some things right, unlike a lot of movies made at the time.
FlyingR
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More and more the films are rarely accurate, they just focus on pleasing the people with big explosions and blood, whereas historical accuracy is left on the side (watch Red Tails or Pearl Harbor).
If you want to watch the most historical accurate films, go back in time, and watch movies like the Longest Day (for me the most historical WWII film ever made), A Bridge Too Far, Battle of Britain, Midway, and so on.
In the Longest Day, it's 4 hours of what happened in D-Day, the planning, the para-drops, the landings, both from the Allied (British, Canadian and US) as well as German. You will learn more in those 4 hrs than in your entire history classes since primary school until last year of high school.
If you want to watch the most historical accurate films, go back in time, and watch movies like the Longest Day (for me the most historical WWII film ever made), A Bridge Too Far, Battle of Britain, Midway, and so on.
In the Longest Day, it's 4 hours of what happened in D-Day, the planning, the para-drops, the landings, both from the Allied (British, Canadian and US) as well as German. You will learn more in those 4 hrs than in your entire history classes since primary school until last year of high school.
Aniallator
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I'm sure you can torrent Company of Heroes off Pirate Bay or somewhere... though I wouldn't recommend that film in a million years. It's just bad. It's a group of Allied Rambos that magic their way into Germany and prevent the Germans from deploying an atomic bomb. The antagonist is a cartoon bad guy, a Nazi officer with a limp leg; the whole shebang. It's a garbage film. Sadly, it has the actors who play Lt. Compton from Band of Brothers and Sgt. Horvath from Saving Private Ryan!
Timberwolf
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Kelly's Heroes is indeed the most recent war movie I've seen. (A damn good one, too)
I could see through those fake Tigers the second they appeared on screen.
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