Best War Film

[Martin Scott]

Das Boot. Good film the greatest laxitive is being in a U Boat and being depth charged.
Platoon. The frist casualty of war is youth,.
Full Metal Jacket. The beasting the recruits got to turn them into Marines.
(From now on your names Private Pile do you like that name. your so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece.)
Band of Brothers. Shows how relationships develop between soldiers.
Whisperers about the indians in the Pacific being used as Radio operators to
confuse the Japanese.

 

[peio2]

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

 

[Peter Lyderik]

The Seven Samurai, Aleksander Nevsky and Acopolypse Now are great war movies.

Dien Bien Phu by Schoendoerffer is a very boring film. Don't know what he was thinking about. What a waste.

 

[33Lilacs]

I am not interested in the books (I have read most of them), but I am interested din that Canadian TV serie about the Siege of Quebec. Never heard for it. There was a good forum about the French-Indian Wars, but unfortunately it passed away some years ago as the moderator passed away.

Hannibal... <sigh>... re-read my post. I clearly said films, not books (slow down when you read!)... and the forum I mentioned is alive and kicking...

 

[hannibal]

Dien Bien Phu by Schoendoerffer is a very boring film. Don't know what he was thinking about. What a waste.

How come? What's wrong???

Hannibal... <sigh>... re-read my post. I clearly said films, not books (slow down when you read!)... and the forum I mentioned is alive and kicking...

No need to be impatient. I know very well what you wrote, but I didn't find any Tv films or series about the Siege of Quebec nor about any other battles from the French-Indian Wars in North America during the Seven Years War. I have also checked the IMDB Database [http://www.imdb.com/find?q=Quebec;s=tt] and the only film about Quebec 1759 is a silent movie taken in 1914! To the best of my knowledge the following TV films are touching the subject of the French-Indian Wars in North America: "The Last of the Mohicans", "Patriot", "The Broken Chain" (with Pierce Brosnan) and the "Pathfinder" (-> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117309/). I have seen them all. If you are by any chance referring to this this (http://www.ensigngroup.ca/Cover-Quebec.jpg) is not a film but a book by Mr. C.P. and Mr. Stacey. It is the best book I have read about the Siege of Quebec.

To summarize to be honest I couldn't find any evidence on the net about any TV serie about the Siege of Quebec, so I was hoping you could help me to find it by giving me some more details (even the names of actors can be helpful). All what I could find is a TV documentary and some reenactement groups that deal with French-Indian Wars. But that's not a TV serie.

Some useful links fior those who are not well aquinted with the French-Indian Wars::
URL: http://www.ensigngroup.ca/Quebec-1759.htm

URL: http://www.proteacher.com/cgi-bin/o...cher.com/090019.shtml&title=French Indian War

URL: http://www.proteacher.com/cgi-bin/o...cher.com/090019.shtml&title=French Indian War

URL: http://web.syr.edu/~laroux/

URL: http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h608.html

URL: http://www.ospreypublishing.com/content1.php/cid=265 (Excellent article by Mr. Rene Chartrand about the Fall of Fort Frontenac)

 

[33Lilacs]

Hannibal... I only get annoyed with you because I know you have a brain. And that's a compliment, so don't you dare misunderstand me.

Have you heard of "When The Forest Ran Red"? It's more of a documentary than just a 'film', but since you're so interested, perhaps this will please you all the same?
http://www.postgazette.com/regionstate/20001103braddock7.asp

http://www.postgazette.com/regionstate/20010920moviereg5p5.asp

http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A331FC6L4MAF5F/103-0339243-7115056

I'm afraid the TV series was a long time ago... my memory isn't what it used to be... can't help you more there... a tip would be to search in French instead of English though.

 

[dietrying]

Call me sappy, but I loved Mel Gibson in Braveheart. Mostly I just like to see the brits get a whallop

 

[joette ✞]

Call me sappy, but I loved Mel Gibson in Braveheart. Mostly I just like to see the brits get a whallop

I loved that movie also..

 

[Wolfgang]

Objective Burma (Errol Flynn) old WWII film but very good. Good jungle warfare film.
Deer Hunter w/Robert DeNiro/Christopher Walken/Meryl Streep.
I can't remember the name but there was a good (almost current, last couple of years) movie about German & American snipers stalking each other in a bombed out city. My old himers is kicking in and I don't remember the name.
I'm sure someone on this board knows the name.

 

[joette ✞]

Here is alink on some of the best earlier..war and anti war films..

http://www.filmsite.org/warfilms.html

 

[Aolain]

Best war films?

Talvisota (The Winter War) Finnish, the best war film of all time (IMO).

Breaker Morant (Australian)

Stalingrad (German)

Downfall (German)

As an American, I can say that American war films are, generally speaking, *&^%%.

 

[Forgotten]

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[kriegohnehass]

Of course we're all familiar w/ Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, a true war classic--one of my faves. I'd also like to nominate Kubrick's earlier classic, Paths of Glory, a great film starring Kirk Douglas about the carnage of WWI and the venality and insousciance of the French Generals determined to fight the Great War, regardless of human cost. Also, Kubrick's masterful satire of military commanders and politcians during the Cold War, Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, should be included on any "great war movie" list. Although this film is satirical & hypothetical, the film's premise was truly relevant for its time; moreover, the acting is truly brilliant--Peter Sellers gives a tour de force performance as an indecisive US President, an inneffectual British executive officer, and the hilarious, slightly mad Dr. Strangelove, who has some odd plans for a post-nuclear apocalypse. 'Nuff said.

 

[Terry]

Here is a war flick during the French Indochina War that shows the beauty of Vietnam during that era.

INDOCHINE

 

[Beau-Sheep]

Zulu!

"did you know, a zulu warrior and run all day on a bowl of rice and stand and fight a battle"

(in a heavy welsh accent)

"well theres daft for u boyo... fancy running to a battle"

 

[Martin Scott]

Michael Caine (in a posh mock sandhurst accent). I say come on that cannot be it can it. Also enjoyed when the guys Started singing Men of Harlec sorry if i GOT THE SPELLING WRONG. You think the Legion can sing,wait till youve heard the Welsh.
No wonder the Sheep are bloody frightened.,
P.s. I forgot a film In Which we Serve and the Battle of Britain notfor the acting but the music.

 

[hannibal]

I also liked "The Lost Battalion", about US battalion that got almost annihilated in the Argonne Forest shortly before the end of the war 1918. There are not many good films about the Great War these days.

 

[Martin Scott]

Although its from the German viewpoint I still think one of the greatest films about warfare is All Quite On the Western Front.
On the BBC there was a programme about the Great War called The Trench
about a pals Battalion in Halifax West yorkshire,it was more a reality programme but was very interesting none the less.

 

[Peter Lyderik]

Hannibal

Don't know if you have seen Dien Bien Phu, but half of the film takes place in Hanoi, and those scenes are about betting when DBP will fall and the preparations for a violin concert.

The battle itself is boring as hell. An example. Legion paratroopers have to fight their way back to their own lines, getting ready to do or die, in books about DBP it is exiting stuff. In the film you see them getting ready, when they are moving out you see their boots in the mud, on the sound track a lot of bang bang. Next scene, you see those who made it coming through the smoke/fog, and thats it. It is like that through the whole film, when it comes to the battle, no action what so ever.

And there is nothing about the noth african troops or anything about the french officers who ran the show. It is not a film about the battle of DBP, but some impressions of the battle, in my opinion.

 

[Martin Scott]

Peter I agree with you the films crap.