My Final Legacy to this Forum

[BRIGGBOY]

yeah i agree with you dk U751 was absolutely bollox also enemy at the gates could of been a good film if they hadnt picked a tosser like jude law to star in it

[Davedog74]

ok dk il check it out,have you seen battle royale ?a classic japanese film

[dkwookie]

Originally Posted by Davedog74

ok dk il check it out,have you seen battle royale ?a classic japanese film

Yeah dave, classic film. I think my fav japanese film is Ran. Epic samurai warfare

[scottyvt4]

Stalingrad - German version with english subtitles (its in english aswell) epic



enemy at the gates is good film imo


3rd Reich at war is an epic book its all about the 2nd ww again from the germans also bit of pre war history chancellor bismark ect ect

[bobbysocks]

there was a german flick about little kids being pressed into service in the last days of the war. actually saw it in german class in college. probably truer ( not the actual story of little klaus...but the event ) than we know and also very sad.

[Soviet Ace]

I saw Windtalkers at the dollar theaters, when it was there, and I'm SO glad I didn't spend more than a buck to see it. What a waste of film. I saw it more as a focus around Nicolace Cage, than the actual Navajo Windtalkers. Out of more modern Pacific War movies, I think that Thin Red Line was probably the best.

And for anyone who hasn't seen it, The Winter War, is a great movie as well. It focuses on the Finn side, but it's really good since it's probably one of the most limited movie out that focus on the Winter War.

Enemy At The Gates was good, but I thought to dramatized for such a place like Stalingrad where there was nothing but fear and death happening 24/7.

Downfall, a German made movie, is really good. I like it a lot.

[Zatoichi_Sanjuro]

One of the best films about the Eastern Front if not just war in general:Idi i smotri


Of course Das Boot is a classic and the full TV mini-series is even better.

Two somewhat obscure films about the Soviets in Afghanistan:
9 Rota


The Beast of War

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uygUt7RWPvc

[bobbysocks]

actually...still am a friend of my college german teacher....he works with my wife now. the name of that flick is bothering me....hate that. going to have her ask him what it was...

[Soviet Ace]

The thing I find funny about most movies, like The Beast and Rota 9, that take place on the Soviet side of the war, is how often they always have one or two deserter or dissident in their ranks. When actually, reading up on the Soviet-Afghan war, you'll see that it wasn't a very common thing for Soviet soldiers to do, and that those who did try to leave were usually taken in by a patrol and executed for desertion.

[Zatoichi_Sanjuro]

Originally Posted by Soviet Ace

The thing I find funny about most movies, like The Beast and Rota 9, that take place on the Soviet side of the war, is how often they always have one or two deserter or dissident in their ranks. When actually, reading up on the Soviet-Afghan war, you'll see that it wasn't a very common thing for Soviet soldiers to do, and that those who did try to leave were usually taken in by a patrol and executed for desertion.

Considering what was likely to happen to you if you were captured in Afghanistan, I don't blame them.