WW2 movies

Mad Eyed Screamer said:
We would have cheap rail travel along with trains that ran on time and not on strike every Saturday.
And we would have won the World Cup 4 times, not just once ;)
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Providing that you were blond, blue eyed and fit you’d be happy out. Not sure they’d be too happy with my four-eyed foxy fat fool genes.
 
Too many to pick a favourite, probably Angels one five starring John Gregson & Jack Hawkins.

Honourable mentions for:-

Carve her name with pride.
San Demetrio London
The way to the Stars (Johnny in the clouds in America)
The cruel sea
Went the day well?
The Halfway house
The goose steps out (Will Hay)

The sands of Iwo Jima
Hangmen also die (Fritz Lang 1942)
The tower of terror
Operation Daybreak (The assassination in 1942 of Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich)
The Dambusters
Run silent run deep
The battle of the bulge
Downfall
Green for danger
 
One of the most remarkable things about the film Sink the Bismarck! was how Esmond Knight portrayed Captain Jack Leach, in command of HMS Prince of Wales. Lieutenant Knight had been the gunnery officer on the real Prince of Wales during that engagement with the Bismarck that resulted in Hood's sinking, and had been badly wounded in the battle. He was quite literally playing his own captain, and overseeing events that led to his own blinding.
 
Just thinking about Das Boot. That was a really scary film in many ways. The suspense and hopelessness of being helpless if you get depth charged. I could not stand that, i would freak out. At least on a battle field you can run, you have some sort of chance. Just thinking about it makes me shiver.
 
TCIB said:
Just thinking about Das Boot. That was a really scary film in many ways. The suspense and hopelessness of being helpless if you get depth charged. I could not stand that, i would freak out. At least on a battle field you can run, you have some sort of chance. Just thinking about it makes me shiver.
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Casualty rates for U Boat crews were 75% over the period of the war.
 
Henkeman said:
One of the most remarkable things about the film Sink the Bismarck! was how Esmond Knight portrayed Captain Jack Leach, in command of HMS Prince of Wales. Lieutenant Knight had been the gunnery officer on the real Prince of Wales during that engagement with the Bismarck that resulted in Hood's sinking, and had been badly wounded in the battle. He was quite literally playing his own captain, and overseeing events that led to his own blinding.
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Indeed. A very good film. Sadly the last of the three survivors from HMS Hood died recently.

1996 Documentary worth a watch:-

 
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