June 6, 1944 - D-Day! I've downloaded a few film classics for the occasion: The Great Escape, The Longest Day and Stalag 17. The first two are almost 3 hours long each. Phew!

Also back when they didn't give the characters any special accents - just French and German subtitles.

If you have one, what's your favorite WWII film?

Rather like a Bridge Too Far, back in the day, and Saving Private Ryan is pretty good.

All good picks so far. I'd add "Das Boot", "Tora, Tora, Tora", "Stalingrad" , "Patton". There are literally dozens more great movies about that war.

From Here to Eternity (but the book is much better).

Rather like a Bridge Too Far, back in the day, and Saving Private Ryan is pretty good.

Have you read the book by Cornelius Ryan?

My brother in law asked my sister to marry him, she said yes "you pick the date'. he picked d-day as he figured it would always be in the newspapers and then he'd never forget it.

Not a movie but I thought 'Band of Brothers' was excellent - also 'Letters from Iwo Jima'.

What was that one where the Germans won, cleaned up the world and got the whole thing organised so that there were no further wars?

What was that one where the Germans won, cleaned up the world and got the whole thing organised so that there were no further wars?

The only movie I know where the Germans won is a 1994 TV movie, "Fatherland" with Rutgar Hauer:

"Fatherland" shows a world where Nazi Germany won the Second World War after repulsing the Allied invasion at Normandy. Now, in the 1960's, Germany continues to fight a bitter guerilla war with the Soviet Union and desperately needs an alliance with the United States in order to finally beat Stalin's war machine. Written by Anthony Hughes <[email protected]>

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109779/plotsummary

"Saving Private Ryan" is my personal favorite.

I also thought the two HBO series, "Band of Brothers" and " The Pacific" were particularly well done. I probably enjoyed "Band of Brothers" more since one of the Brothers turned out to be one of my 7th grade teachers, although at the time we didn't know anything about it.

All three of these were Steven Spielberg productions with Tom Hanks involved in a couple of them.

It should be noted that Hollywood was vastly different during WWII and immediately thereafter than it is today. Many of the stars of that day served in the military of either the US or UK. Some that come to mind are, Jimmy Stewart who was a B-17 pilot over Germany, Lee Marvin a US Marine wounded on Saipan, David Niven was an officer in the British Commandos landing in Normandy, and, lest we forget, that B-movie actor Audie Murphy who was the most highly decorated US soldier during the war, having won the Congressional Medal of Honor.

In today's Hollywood, we seldom see the 'stars' doing anything outside of staging protests of Bush/Cheney and a fund raiser for Obama.

Here is an interesting link to browse through and see who served during WWII from the entertainment field.

http://www.commonsensejunction.com/xtras/wwii-movie-stars/wwii-movie-stars.html

"Saving Private Ryan" is my personal favorite.

I also thought the two HBO series, "Band of Brothers" and " The Pacific" were particularly well done. I probably enjoyed "Band of Brothers" more since one of the Brothers turned out to be one of my 7th grade teachers, although at the time we didn't know anything about it.

All three of these were Steven Spielberg productions with Tom Hanks involved in a couple of them.

It should be noted that Hollywood was vastly different during WWII and immediately thereafter than it is today. Many of the stars of that day served in the military of either the US or UK. Some that come to mind are, Jimmy Stewart who was a B-17 pilot over Germany, Lee Marvin a US Marine wounded on Saipan, David Niven was an officer in the British Commandos landing in Normandy, and, lest we forget, that B-movie actor Audie Murphy who was the most highly decorated US soldier during the war, having won the Congressional Medal of Honor.

In today's Hollywood, we seldom see the 'stars' doing anything outside of staging protests of Bush/Cheney and a fund raiser for Obama.

Here is an interesting link to browse through and see who served during WWII from the entertainment field.

http://www.commonsen...ovie-stars.html

In all fairness, a larger percentage of the male population had to fight in WWII than in modern wars. Here come a controversial statement...WWII was the last war fought between equals that's why so many had to serve.

Those old movies also had more international casts than you see nowadays. Except the role of the Aussie in The Great Escape was played by James Coburn.

"Saving Private Ryan" is my personal favorite.

I also thought the two HBO series, "Band of Brothers" and " The Pacific" were particularly well done. I probably enjoyed "Band of Brothers" more since one of the Brothers turned out to be one of my 7th grade teachers, although at the time we didn't know anything about it.

All three of these were Steven Spielberg productions with Tom Hanks involved in a couple of them.

It should be noted that Hollywood was vastly different during WWII and immediately thereafter than it is today. Many of the stars of that day served in the military of either the US or UK. Some that come to mind are, Jimmy Stewart who was a B-17 pilot over Germany, Lee Marvin a US Marine wounded on Saipan, David Niven was an officer in the British Commandos landing in Normandy, and, lest we forget, that B-movie actor Audie Murphy who was the most highly decorated US soldier during the war, having won the Congressional Medal of Honor.

In today's Hollywood, we seldom see the 'stars' doing anything outside of staging protests of Bush/Cheney and a fund raiser for Obama.

Here is an interesting link to browse through and see who served during WWII from the entertainment field.

http://www.commonsen...ovie-stars.html

In all fairness, a larger percentage of the male population had to fight in WWII than in modern wars. Here come a controversial statement...WWII was the last war fought between equals that's why so many had to serve.

Those old movies also had more international casts than you see nowadays. Except the role of the Aussie in The Great Escape was played by James Coburn.

I've heard the reason for that is they couldn't find an Aussie that could read a sentence without saying "well and truly". They had to cast a Yank in the role.

'The Hill'.............If you don't know it check out...http://pickii.com/p/hill/ for review. WW2 film and not a shot fired!

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Thanks.

I'll second 'Das Boot', also any of the relevant Alistair Macleans - particularly 'Where Eagles Dare'.

Mr. Roberts.....