Does anybody know any good modern war films that actually involve the british. Every single person in the universe seems to think the americans or Russians won the war and nobody ever mentions the british not even the british themselves do. So is their any good movies because I think our part dung world war 2 has been downgraded and now to people around the world we are just seen as an extra who played a small part.
I watched these ones before on youtube so they aren't exactly proper A list movies called The Greatest Story Never Told, it's orientated towards the German side of things so wont be everybody's cup of tea but gives a completely different viewpoint to anything i have saw before regarding world war 2, actually more like documentaries.
Films man, films. Not Movies. You got it right first sentanence. You become more Americanised as the paragraph goes on. The irony
The Dambusters Cockleshell Heroes The Longest Day, are a few examples. Truth be told, our part from D-Day onward was a lesser role compared to the Yanks and Russians in terms of numbers and firepower. Our claim to history was that for 2 to 3 years we stood alone, with some American assistance (lease-lend, etc), and took the fight back to the Axis powers on the peripheries (in Africa, etc), until the Americans eventually threw their weight in behind us on the western front. While that was going on, the Russians took the full force of the German forces on the Eastern front, mostly on their own, with minimal supplies from us in support. Our victory was a moral, pyrrhic victory. We were poorer after the war than before; we lost the empire, but won something greater. We stood up to a great, militaristic fascist power and won. It was a moral victory, no more than that. We are facing one now again in Iraq / Syria. We have to show the same resilience now, as then.
Ah the art of winning wars. After Pearl Harbour Hitler declared war on America and they were ready to mobilise with a grand plan. They would come over to Europe in troop ships and attack Germany. No one had told them about the u-boat threat or the difficulties of terrain against an enemy well trained, battle hardened and right on top of their game. Churchill convinced Roosevelt that the key to softening Germany was up through Italy but control of the Med would be need first which is why the first American involvement was in Tripoli for Operation Torch. Read about how the Americans fared in their first battle with the Germans at Kasserine Pass. They listened to the Brits after that. As regards the OP, the Yanks have massive budgets and make films depicting their heroism. We tell it how it was. Examples: Saving Private Ryan versus A Bridge Too Far.
Not a movie but a fact.. On this day Nov 6th in 1943, which was during the war years (the only relevance to this thread) 16000 people turned out to watch SAFC beat NUFC...4-2.
One of the all time classics.. The Colonel Bogey march. Movies don't come much better than this one. [video=youtube;83bmsluWHZc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83bmsluWHZc[/video]
A kind of a war film but the imitation game is out soon with Cumberbatch in. It's about Alan Turing and how he effectively won the war by cracking enigma. Looking forward to this one immensely. The reckon he will win an Oscar.
I found a good film on you tube made by the germans called Dresden Tiel it's all in german but it's got subtitles and it's about the germans in Dresden during the bombing.
It pisses me off how we've been erased from the war by the Americans im so enraged im going to smash that stupid American window in St Pauls cathedral. Can u believe they have an American tribute in our cathedral.
You are just looking for another excuse to have a trip down to London again aren't you? Remember your London thread,
I am going down for new years, im not kidding here but if world war 3 happened and it was the Nazis who started it again i would fight for the Nazis because this country is upside down.
You're a strange ****er you like.. So because there are no new movies about WW2, showing the British fantastic exploits, you have decided that you would fight for the enemy of this war.. I reckon it's just because you like to dress up in a german uniform, when you go to London parks to visit your queens. Am i reading this whole story wrong?
So, you used to be a mag, then became a massive lads fan but now support man u, you are english but prefer the germans, when do you burn your first poppy and get sized up for your first pair of shoe bombs?
