favorite WW2 movie -

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i used to watch these with my old man when I was kid

audie murphy to hell and back (30 cal machine scene is legit. on top of the Sherman)
Kellys heros - cheesy at times, loved the fact they had real tiger 1 tanks
where eagles dare - just bad ass
longest day - John Wayne and action packed
Patton - slaps that dude like a bitch (Erwin Rommel scenes) hence my instagram handle 
Indiana Jones 3 - fuck you its semi WW2

and the Young Lions for my favorite - Brando and Dean Martin (just a kinda strange) but good

related to bodybuilding - German soldiers took test cyp

[Chadwick The Beta]

i used to watch these with my old man when I was kid

audie murphy to hell and back (30 cal machine scene is legit. on top of the Sherman)
Kellys heros - cheesy at times, loved the fact they had real tiger 1 tanks
where eagles dare - just bad ass
longest day - John Wayne and action packed
Patton - slaps that dude like a bitch (Erwin Rommel scenes) hence my instagram handle 
Indiana Jones 3 - fuck you its semi WW2

and the Young Lions for my favorite - Brando and Dean Martin (just a kinda strange) but good

related to bodybuilding - German soldiers took test cyp

Patton
The Longest Day (except that now on Netflix they dub English onto the German language scenes...I complained and called them phags but they haven't fixed it)
The Devil's Brigade
The Enemy Below

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Patton
The Longest Day (except that now on Netflix they dub English onto the German language scenes...I complained and called them phags but they haven't fixed it)
The Devil's Brigade
The Enemy Below

the longest day is fucking long!

also the Bridge of the river Kwai (just a legit movie)

they had a hotbox in that movie... same with cool hand luke. hot boxes must of been a "thing" then

[TuHolmes]

The Great Escape has to be my number 1.

Where Eagles dare was pretty good, but I really liked The guns of Navarone and shockingly, Stalingrad.

[Skeeter]

Good movies in this thread.
Have to mention Das Boot, Midway, Tora Tora Tora.

[sancho ed]

The greatest story never told....yea its a documentary but...

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Indiana Jones III did a great job at making the Axis Powers look uppity, the castle, the style, the hot blonde,

same with Eagles Dare too. that strange perfectionism German culture at the time.

Im a huge equipment buff (ww2 tanks and aircraft) and bonus points when legit items are used or tried to be used.

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The Battle of the Bulge.
The Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan
Enemy at the Gatss

[OLKE_TEXAS]

Generation Iron 2

[DroppingPlates]

Nothing beats the real Hitler

[BB]

Funny - Kelly's Heroes, Dirty Dozen.

Serious -

Patton.

The Big Red One - One of the Social Studies teachers used to show it to all the 7th and 8th grade students. Good memories.

Cross of Iron. Not sure how many have seen this, it's about one unit's time on the Eastern Front, as told from the German perspective -

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Bonus, since I don't think they'll be a thread on films about Korean War films, I'll also recommend "The Steel Helmet" as my favorite film about that conflict. I saw it as a boy on TCM, and never knew the title till years later. Beautiful film, can't find a trailer for it, but the full film is here -

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[BB]

Another two I'd recommend are "Never So Few", a general actioneer from John Sturges about the OSS's time in Burma. It's not a great, great film mostly because of the Sinatra love story subplot. But it is beautifully filmed, has good action sequences, and a good early McQueen role -

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McQueen also has a good movie about the Navy in 1920's China called "The Sand Pebbles". It was a big movie years ago, but I don't think many young kids know it -

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[Little Billy]

The Bridge On The River Kwai ranks as the best WWII film ever!

[Irongrip400]

Y'all have armed quite a few good ones, Patton being my favorite, but let's not forget Downfall. Great movie, shitty ending.

[wes]

The Dirty Dozen has to be included.

[Taffin]

Night of the Generals
The Bridge at Remagen
 

[sync pulse]

In no particular order...

• "Catch 22" by Mike Nichols
• "Private's Progress" by John Boulting
• "The Dam Busters" by Michael Enderson
• "I was a Male War Bride" by Howard Hawks
• "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" by Michael Powell
• "Casablanca" by Michael Curtiz
• "Hare Meets Herr" by Friz Freleng
• "Battle of Britain" by Guy Hamilton
• "The Ducktators" by Norman McCabe
• "The Beginning or the End?" by  Norman Taurog
• "Little Boy and Fatman" (even though it is a very flawed work) by Roland Joffé

[Nether Animal]

Paths of Glory... oh wait thats WWI

[LurkerNoMore]

Wow, a lot of these I haven't seen.

I would have chosen Saving Private Ryan, Enemy at the Gates,  another I can't think of the name of now...

[TuHolmes]

In no particular order...

• "I was a Male War Bride" by Howard Hawks

This was a great movie. Glad you mentioned it. Very funny and extremely well done.

[Tapeworm]

I'm not convinced the US should have entered WW2.

[Irongrip400]

I'm not convinced the US should have entered WW2.

Japs bombs us and then a few days later Uncle Adolf declared war on us (oddly enough I believe we were the only country he actually declared war on) so we had no choice. I would've been okay had we just stuck to the pacific theater.

[Obvious Gimmick]

Schindlers list for movie

Any of u beefcakes old enough to remember Rat Patrol on TV? It was great.

[Tapeworm]

Japs bombs us and then a few days later Uncle Adolf declared war on us (oddly enough I believe we were the only country he actually declared war on) so we had no choice. I would've been okay had we just stuck to the pacific theater.

Do you really think Japan bombed us completely out of the blue, and without provocation, knowing they'd have a hell of a fight on their hands?

We sanctioned and provided support, including munitions, to enemies of Japan and Germany.  Really couldn't have done anything more to stick out noses in.  Our declared neutrality was pure horseshit.  We were in the war long before we admitted we were.  If an enemy of the US behaved as we did, we'd bomb them too and consider it justified.

If we'd left it alone, they would have left us alone.  They had enough trouble on other fronts.  Maybe that's what we should have done.

[Taffin]

In no particular order...

"Catch 22" by Mike Nichols

Also a GREAT book - if modern politics ever make u confuse - read it

"The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" by Michael Powell

Thank you Sir for reminding me of this masterpiece - you are clearly a fellow of great taste....