Best post WWII Military Films

[Suhiir]

I really liked "We Were Soldiers" too.

"Hacksaw Ridge" isn't post WW II but is WELL worth seeing.

[RecruitMonty]

Guns at Batasi was quite a good film. The depiction of the RSM was memorable.

Proper salutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzKTOUkroU0

RSM Lauderdale dealing with a labour MP and the leaders of an African coup team:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9hkhKVq5rM

[scorpio_rocks]

Originally Posted by RecruitMonty

Guns at Batasi was quite a good film. The depiction of the RSM was memorable.

Dickie Attenborough at his best!

[IronDuke99]

Originally Posted by Suhiir

I really liked "We Were Soldiers" too.

"Hacksaw Ridge" isn't post WW II but is WELL worth seeing.

There is a thread on WW2...

[Grant1pa]

I'm going to offer one that isn't SPMBT oriented, but was a memorable movie from my youth. This is the British movie "The Yangtze Incident", shown in the United States titled "Battle Hell".

This is a Royal Navy movie, but details the escape of the HMS Amethyst from Communist Chinese forces on the Yangtze River in 1949. The battle sequences are fantastic and I always thought the drama of the event was riveting.

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find it in a USA format in the years intervening but if you can find it (I know it was on TCM some years ago), it's well worth the time to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc9tOWtmjf4

Tom

[DRG]

Originally Posted by Grant1pa

I'm going to offer one that isn't SPMBT oriented, but was a memorable movie from my youth. This is the British movie "The Yangtze Incident", shown in the United States titled "Battle Hell".

This is a Royal Navy movie, but details the escape of the HMS Amethyst from Communist Chinese forces on the Yangtze River in 1949. The battle sequences are fantastic and I always thought the drama of the event was riveting.

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find it in a USA format in the years intervening but if you can find it (I know it was on TCM some years ago), it's well worth the time to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc9tOWtmjf4

Tom

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[IronDuke99]

Originally Posted by Suhiir

I really liked "We Were Soldiers" too.

"Hacksaw Ridge" isn't post WW II but is WELL worth seeing.

I hate and really detest 'Braveheart' and 'The Patriot' two of the most hugely historically inaccurate films ever made anywhere. I liked 'We Were Soldiers' and 'Apocalypto'. I thought the truly vile 'Passion of the Christ' told a great truth about this film Director. I will have to Watch 'Hacksaw Ridge'

[Kessu]

A few suggestions.

1) Ničija zemlja - No Man's land (2001), set in the Bosnian war:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_zQZrdXA4g

Ragtag reservists doing a good job at not killing the other people, and somehow managing to stay alive in the process.

The weapons are accurately potrayed and so are the uniforms and the tactics, or the lack there of.

Bosniaks vs. Bosnian Serbs.

2) לבנון‎‎ - Lebanon (2009)

Israeli movie set during the Peace for Galilee operation. S. Maoz, the director is a (IDF) tanker (reservist) combat vet and the movie is based on his experiences during the war.

The Sho't looks a lot bigger from the inside

I think you can find the film on YouTube?

Israel (& Phalangists) vs. PLO/Syrians/Hezbollah and friends.

[scorpio_rocks]

Originally Posted by Kessu

2) לבנון‎‎ - Lebanon (2009)

Israeli movie set during the Peace for Galilee operation. S. Maoz, the director is a (IDF) tanker (reservist) combat vet and the movie is based on his experiences during the war.

The Sho't looks a lot bigger from the inside

I think you can find the film on YouTube?

Israel (& Phalangists) vs. PLO/Syrians/Hezbollah and friends.

Great claustrophobic film - think Das Boot in a tank! The only external shots throughout most of the film are through the vision blocks and gun sights of the tank. (and yes it is the "Tardis-version" of a Sho't but it doesn't detract).