Prelude76

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Re: Top War Films
By Prelude76 in Top 5
"There's a lot of good choices already on here, so let me make a Top 5 with films not mentioned yet. 1. Letters from Iwo Jima : Uses the same production team that gave us 'Saving Private Ryan', but the incredible direction from Clint Eastwood makes this a true WW2 film that Saving Private Ryan always wished it was. It will completely drain you emotionally. I haven't seen its counterpart, 'Flags of our Fathers' yet, but I suspect that Iwo Jima version is the better part, from reviews I've read. 2. Stalingrad : This German film is a masterpiece. Most people know the Battle of Stalingrad from the point of view of the Russians, as depicted in all its Hollywood glory in 'Enemy at the Gates'. I'm not bashing that film, i thought the special fx were incredible, the sniper warfare was great, and the 'one man gets rifle, one man gets only bullets' scene really showed how desperate the Russian side was, just throwing everything at the Ge ... " [More]