The Great thread of Movies/Documentaries regarding WW1/WW2/Other conflicts

[Korsakov829]

上甘岭
Shang Gan Ling
1956 Chinese war movie about the 1952 battle of triangle hill, where the 15th and 12th corps held out against the American aggressors, shortly after recent talks at Panmunjon ceased.

[hOMEr_jAy]

This is what winning looks like.
A great documentary by Vice: "a disturbing new documentary about the ineptitude, drug abuse, sexual misconduct, and corruption of the Afghan security forces as well as the reduced role of US Marines due to the troop withdrawal."
Gives a pretty uncanny insight into the structures and people that are supposed to take over the security role after NATO forces will largely be gone from Afghanistan in 2014.

[Tuco]

Sadly as soon as NATO forces withdraw the Taliban will just pick up where they left off.
The Afghan security force is about as inept as the ARVN.

[Jimi Hendrix]

 Here are 2 new, unique & very interesting documentaries from The Battle Of The Somme WWI:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc9s3ZMYIec




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2pGoz4ZDgE


 

[Captain Pyjama Shark]

Sadly as soon as NATO forces withdraw the Taliban will just pick up where they left off.
The Afghan security force is about as inept as the ARVN.

ARVN actually got its shit together by 1973, but president Thieu managed to get it kicked in the ass with his bad calls. 

[LuckyOne]

Don't know if any of you guys saw this one:

"Saints and Soldiers"

Considering the budget, it's pretty solid, despite the few inaccuracies and the downed "British" airman...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhrXnt7flGQ

[Captain Pyjama Shark]

and the Morman moral ending

[Mud Buddha]

Found a bunch of older Discovery/History Channel shows (I gave up my DVR, so now I have to actively look for stuff instead of just click 'record' on whatever seemed interesting):

Clash Of Wings
13 part show about the aviation aspect of WWII. It basically runs through the war but tells about it from the point of view of aerial operations. Haven't watched all of 'm but the first couple of episodes had great footage of early-/prewar planes (Henschel 123's in action over Poland, Junkers Ju86, Whitley's over Berlin)
It's from the late 90's so none of the current day over-anxious editing or crappy CGI, just a guy telling stuff and a shitload of archive footage.

Vietnam: The Unseen War
One-off doc about North Vietnamese combat photographers. Vietnam was of course the first televised war, but 'we' only got to see the US perspective. The North had a few dedicated photographers and filmers and in this doc a former American reporter goes out looking for his Norhtern colleagues. Incredible photos, and completely original in the sense that they weren't used outside of NV territory.

[Born2Kill 007]

Don't know if any of you guys saw this one:

"Saints and Soldiers"

Considering the budget, it's pretty solid, despite the few inaccuracies and the downed "British" airman...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhrXnt7flGQ

Yeah, i loved it, there is also a second movie of it, called Saints and Soldiers Airborne Creed.
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Watched a prety interesting documentary on the "Battle" of Con Thien yesterday. It's not great quality or so, but the good thing about it, is that it is an American televisionmagazine of the situation over there. SO the Battle isn't placed in the contaxt of the aftermath it had. You also get better idea of the reporting. Also gives the ideas they had of how the soldiers saw the battle, how the military saw it, what they thought would be good bad etc. Really enjoyed watching it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb1R7rZbFRQ

[LuckyOne]

Here's a nice training movie on assembling the P-47 Thunderbolt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2D3k0sJ8HM

Just like dealing with (complicated ) Ikea furniture!

[Wasntmenl]

Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers

Now this is a documentary made in the textbook style of American documentaries. Heavy dramatization and biased name calling (the first 10min where awfull in my opinion). However the movie's strong point is the subject matter. Especially for europeans this movie might provide some new insights and idea's about private military contracting firms. Americans might already be up to scratch on the subject since their news got bombarded with this but for a European who is less known with how private military contractors operate this documentary is a good first step into understanding the bussness and its impact.

[LuckyOne]

Assembly (2007)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0881200/

Full movie with subtitles on YT: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0881200/

What starts off as a typical Asian action-packed war drama about the Chinese Civil War, ends up being much more. A personal struggle of one emotionally scarred captain, whose comrades' deeds were lost in the chaotic nature of war, to get them the recognition they deserve.

[Redbadd]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY3qiYxSRZI

Battle of Palembang 1942

Really nice footage, al be it staged, of Japanese paratroopers in action, in flight and on the ground with escort in the air.
Some pretty good camerawork in the planes.

[Hjaldrgud]

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Bumping with the trailer of the movie Fury.

http://youtu.be/q94n3eWOWXM

April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and out-gunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.

[Matthew_Baker]

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Bumping with the trailer of the movie Fury.

Not gonna lie I'm kinda looking forward to this. The production value looks good, Brad Pitt is one of my favorite actors, and of course WW2 ftw

I'm not gonna go into it expecting it to be a documentary tho. It's an American film made to appeal to a wider audience. So of course every German soldier is going to be SS, and Brad Pitt and his crew will have to face off against the worst of the German army while being outnumbered, and I'm sure they'll sacrifice a few historical inaccuracies for the sake of the plot but you expect that in a movie. The trailer did a good job of getting me hyped, it's also interesting to see something like this from a tanker perspective.

Not to mention they're using an actual Tiger tank for the film http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-24987676