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    Good second world war films

    Anybody able to recommend any good foreign WWII films?

    #2
    Good second world war films

    Come And See

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091251/

    Army Of Shadows

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064040/?ref_=tt_rec_tt

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      #3
      Good second world war films

      Das Boot

      A Bridge Too Far and The Longest Day are ensemble-star films but worth a look

      Catch-22 will warp your brain a bit

      For a lighter relief try Kelly's Heroes.

      EDIT: didn't read "foreign" WWII films... Another good one was Stalingrad http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108211/

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        #4
        Good second world war films

        I second Army of Shadows, outstanding film.

        And on France, if you have four and a half hours to spare, the documentary The Sorrow And The Pity is essential. Written and directed by Marcel Ophuls, its 1969 release was banned in France for a number of years due to the uncomfortable truths it raised about the actual nature and number of the resistance and collaboration.

        Oorlogswinter (Winter In Wartime) is a pretty good enactment of the 1944 hongerwinter in the Netherlands.

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          #5
          Good second world war films

          Luke R wrote: Come And See

          http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091251/
          Luke got there ahead of me.

          This is one you only want to watch when you're feeling particularly psychologically robust, though. Some years ago it was the film I started the 'Horrors of war' films thread about. Seriously - approach with caution.

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            #6
            Good second world war films

            Yes, I thought about giving a warning. There's one scene in particular which comes across very - real.

            It feels like a film made within a system without any consideration for health & safety.

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              #7
              Good second world war films

              Geoffrey de Ste. Croix wrote: I second Army of Shadows, outstanding film.

              And on France, if you have four and a half hours to spare, the documentary The Sorrow And The Pity is essential. Written and directed by Marcel Ophuls, its 1969 release was banned in France for a number of years due to the uncomfortable truths it raised about the actual nature and number of the resistance and collaboration.

              Oooh, set in Clermont-Ferrand, a city I know well having in lived in the Cantal for a year. I think I'll have to have a gander.

              Oorlogswinter (Winter In Wartime) is a pretty good enactment of the 1944 hongerwinter in the Netherlands.

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                #8
                Good second world war films

                Again from France, Army of Crime focusses on the Manouchian gang, responsible for the most dramatic acts of resistance in Paris.

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                  #9
                  Good second world war films

                  I rather liked:

                  Closely Observed Trains

                  (I don't know why they've changed the "original" translated title)

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                    #10
                    Good second world war films

                    I thought Soldier of Orange was fairly decent.

                    A Man Escaped is a classic.

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                      #11
                      Good second world war films

                      I haven't seen it myself, but it was recommended to me by a guy I used to work with, who was a bit of a WW2 nut. He did warn me that it wasn't for the queasy or easily shocked.

                      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_Behind_the_Sun

                      From wiki:

                      'The film is a graphic depiction of the war atrocities committed by the Japanese at Unit 731, the secret biological weapons experimentation unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The film details the various cruel medical experiments Unit 731 inflicted upon the Chinese and Soviet prisoners towards the end of the war.'

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