Author Topic: The Great thread of Movies/Documentaries regarding WW1/WW2/Other conflicts  (Read 36593 times)

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Bankier van het Verzet (Banker of the Resistance)

www.imdb.com/title/tt4610378/

The latest Dutch warmovie, and like most Dutch warmovies it's about the occupation and the resistance, rather than about any military actions. Therefore, there is not much action going on although some of the raids on resistance groups are very violent. The story is about Walraven van Hall, a banker who headed an organisation specialised in bankfraud in order to fiance the resistance: members of the resistance, people who didn't want to be deoprted to Germany to work, Jews, railwaymen, all these were sought after by the SD (German Secret Police/intelligence) and while they were in hiding they still needed to eat of course. To finance all this (the amounts went into millions of guilders - nowadays it would be something like half a billion Euros) Van Hall and his brother set up a scheme with loans that have to be repaid by the Dutch government after the liberation. This is based on a real story, the guy actually existed and saved a whole lot of lives by making surviving in hiding possible. There was not much praise for this type of resistance worker in the years right after the war, so it's good he is getting the attention he deserves now. Better late than never. Most characetrs in the film are a bit one dimensional, but I disagree with a historian who wrote that the old black and white differntitation of 60s and 70s warmovies was back. Some characters portrayed the dilemmas regular people had to deal with during occupation, and others portray the weakness of most guys who got caught by the SD. I knew most of this story beforehand, so there weren't many surprises, but although this might not be a masterpiece, it's stil worth watching to see a not very well kown side of the resistance during the 40-45 occupation.

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Bankier van het Verzet (Banker of the Resistance) Thx for tip :-)


Hitler's Circle of Evil 1/10: Heroes and Misfits (eng subs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WXqRdTRYyM

Hitler's Circle of Evil 2/10: Regrouping (eng subs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMhV7xr_lQQ

Hitler's Circle of Evil 3/10: The Fall of Rohm (eng subs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqNVi44gvvo

Hitler's Circle of Evil 4/10: The Rise of Antisemitism (eng subs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk0Dcq3-xU0

Hitler's Circle of Evil 5/10: The Berghof Set (eng subs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xq9VKN33G4&bpctr=1527605220

Hitler's Circle of Evil 6/10: The Madness of Rudolf Hess (eng subs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D-UWFvYC28

Hitler's Circle of Evil 7/10: Rise and Fall of Reinhard Heydrich (eng subs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlvq9y5hDY4

Hitler's Circle of Evil 8/10: The Rise of the Sycophants (eng subs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82cgM3v7jyg

Hitler's Circle of Evil 9/10: Beginning of the End (eng subs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6kcahUdN2Q

Hitler's Circle of Evil 10/10: Meltdown (eng subs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adAsNdyHTLo


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Great documentary!

It really fits my own thoughts about Hitler: a guy who was just a seed of evil, but his seed was sown and fertilised by the German situation of the time and a bunch arse-kissing evil likeminded folks.

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I was an extra recently in a series about Norwegian front fighters. The scenes we did were supposed to take place in Russia (on the Finnish border I think). Lots of running and explosions. Sadly we didn't get to shoot blanks, but all in all a fun experience. Funnily enough playing a corpse was the hardest part. Releasing in Norway next year and I believe it's sold to other countries.
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Part of the docu End of Empire, Mad Mitch and his Tribal Law.
Gives a nice insight into British army regimental culture aswell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6OOsoqSKaw


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPlXlshA0Zc

Peter Jackson, best known for directing The Lord of the Rings trilogy, has created a new film using original footage from Imperial War Museums’ extensive archive, much of it previously unseen, alongside BBC and IWM interviews with servicemen who fought in the conflict.

Footage has been colourised, converted to 3D and transformed with modern production techniques to present never before seen detail.

"Generous and brave men live the best" -Hávamál