Best post WWII Military Films

[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).

[Aeraaa]

Blessed_by_Fire is an interesting Argentinian film about the Falklands War, depicting events from the Argie side. The harsh discipline, the poor living conditions and the uncertainty and tension of the warfare in the Falklands are depicted in this film. I think you can find it in youtube (with subtitles), I've watched it there 5-6 years ago.

[wulfir]

Three movies I watched in my youth that might fit in the good, but less well known, category:

Tumbledown (1988) - Falklands
The Bridges at Toko-ri.(1954) - Korea
La 317e Section (1965) - Indochina

[IronDuke99]

My idea of 'Good' tends to be reasonably accurate in a military sense, since anything else just annoys the hell out of me.

The problem with 'The Hurt Locker' is that (leaving aside some stuff that seemed a bit unlikely, to say the least, from a 'bomb disposal' bloke) these, very brave men, are high value assets and they get protection and cover in everything they do from infantry and other soldiers. Engaging the enemy with small arms is not their job and they would not do it except in extreme exceptional emergency.

The best, and most realistic, scene in the film, in my view, is the bit in the supermarket back in the US.

A okay film/mini series is 'Bravo Two Zero' (1999) based on the fouled up first Gulf War SAS Op.

[zastava128]

Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996) - about the War in Bosnia. Follows a squad of Serb soldiers who torch a Muslim village but are then trapped in a tunnel with little hope of rescue. This gives us the opportunity to learn their life stories as they slowly go crazy from thirst and isolation.

Dark and full of characteristic Balkan black humour, I consider it one of the best movies from ex-Yugoslavia in general. The English subtitles on the version I watched are pretty good, too.

[Aeraaa]

I know I'm off-topic with this movie but I just had to post it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw0kg2GWVHo

I wonder if I set infantry toughness to the lowest possible value, would the grenades be as lethal?

[Wdll]

Originally Posted by Aeraaa

I know I'm off-topic with this movie but I just had to post it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw0kg2GWVHo

I wonder if I set infantry toughness to the lowest possible value, would the grenades be as lethal?

The prequel to Dynasty Warriors series.

[RightDeve]

Originally Posted by Aeraaa

I know I'm off-topic with this movie but I just had to post it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw0kg2GWVHo

I wonder if I set infantry toughness to the lowest possible value, would the grenades be as lethal?

Un frikkin believable!
hahahahahahahaha

I believe those actors are great for Opera/Theater performances though, but NOT movies.

[FASTBOAT TOUGH]

I think to somewhat capture the "tenure" of the topic, the biggest event to follow WWII would be the Cold War which would last for almost 50 yrs. (02 September 1945 - 26 December 1991) after it's end. Recently in the news there was this big deal about a Russian Auxiliary General Intelligence (AGI) running up the East coast of the U.S.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/russian-...-s-east-coast/
http://www.navyhistory.org/2017/02/r...-war-memories/
During the Cold War this was routine and I've personally experienced several encounters with them and we each played our well "scripted" roles when we did encounter each other. Most of of the more overt actions did involve Naval units in international waters which up to about the end of the Cold War was defined as 3 Nautical Miles off our shores and many other countries at the time.

So it's only natural my first choice is...
"The Bedford Incident" a very taut tale of a U.S. Destroyer tracking a Russian submarine. As was fairly routine at the time both vessels would carry nuclear weapons. I don't know when it changed, except to say, when I joined the USN in 10/1982 the term "Fire" was more something you put out and "Shoot" was what you did with torpedo's etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA-rgKBq7Ss

Next was one of the first movies that dealt with what happens when technology goes wrong and it's consequences. It's place as a considered "classic movie" of the time came decades later to this film. The movie is "Fail Safe". It's place in history was in it's release two years after the "Cuban Missile Crisis" which history has proven was a more serious situation as was reported to the public at the time and well after. Also Fail Sail suffered from it's timing to the above event and the mood of the country causing the studio to release the better known "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" which of course was a comedy though still with some serious undertones, but, again a comedy nonetheless. Fail Safe would be shelved and released several months later. The only real issue was a film compromise to show cockpit in a standard configuration. In truth all three crew man were in separate capsules in line along the fuselage starting with the Pilot, Navigation and Defensive System Operator Stations more on that below.
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/4...at-Order-.html

A note about the B-58 HUSTLER for a time the Russians had no way to shoot down this plane. It was also "rumored" that nether did we. At MACH 2+ it would set 19 World records for speed and altitude. It would be the last plane to win the famous Bendix Trophy Award with a record that was held for 28 yrs. And Brig. General James Stewart USAF Res. would fly it to earn his "MACH 2" pin which was at the time a very exclusive club. And yes that's the "It's A Wonderful Life" or if you prefer "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" Mr. Stewart.

I have a beautiful mahogany desktop model of the B-58 "Pulaski Hustler" my favorite plane of my youth (As were most CONVAIR jets.) in my imagination I can see myself inside one of those capsules flying from N.Y. to LA round trip in less then 4.75 hrs. or better Dublin last Oct. in just over 2hrs. instead of just over 6hrs with a tailwind. It sure would've taken the "lag" out of jet-lag.
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Vis...a-hustler.aspx
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Vis...e-capsule.aspx
http://www.nmusafvirtualtour.com/med...20Station.html
http://www.nmusafvirtualtour.com/med...20Station.html
http://www.nmusafvirtualtour.com/med...20Station.html

Empty spaces where classified components were.

Also as a last "Ice Station Zebra" though it could be argued it's more an espionage orientated film but the case can be made for it to be here as well as the final result could've been costly. The nuclear-powered "Tigerfish (SSN-509)" was portrayed in the movie by the diesel-electric Guppy IIA submarine USS Ronquil (SS-396) when seen on the surface. For submerging and surfacing scenes, the diesel-electric Guppy IA USS Blackfin (SS-322) was used, near Pearl Harbor.
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/7...-Trailer-.html

Anyway I retreat back to my "antibiotic world" again, have a great weekend!!

Regards,
Pat