Your WWII Movie

[Witt]

Model’s suicide in the Ruhr Pocket.

[ABWorsham4]

The Battle along the The Kokoda Track from both sides. Fighting in the Alps minus the snow and adding Rain Forest.

[Fishmoto37]

@Gargantua:

If it’s all about the facts, maybe this would be better served as:

“If you could take a camera crew in an invisible time machine, back to capture any WWII battle or event on film, which would it be?”

Just exactly what is an invisible time machine? Does that mean that you can waltz right up to the enemy and expose film but they cannot see you?

[Imperious Leader]

A movie about the Canadian Zombies and efforts to round them up before they took over warm climate areas.

It would be a two part movie franchise:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_Crisis_of_1917
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_Crisis_of_1944

In either cases, when the army could not find soldiers to fight, zombies would overrun towns keeping Canada from getting soldiers to go to Europe.

A Zombie version of Lorne Green would lead the Zombie faction

[tloger]

Germany’s Norwegian campaign.  The Norwegians resisted German invasion the longest outside of the Soviets.

[BJCard]

@RogertheShrubber:

Germany’s Norwegian campaign.  The Norwegians resisted German invasion the longest outside of the Soviets.

Funny you never hear about this in the states.  Only heard of the French resistance and the Polish uprisings.  Always thought if I were in the German army of WWII I’d want to be stationed in Norway.  Less chance of death.

[empireman]

Alternate History film about “Operation Downfall”

Or The fall of Berlin

[BJCard]

@empireman:

Alternate History film about “Operation Downfall”

Or The fall of Berlin

Yes, Operation Downfall would be good.  Although it may be made into a propaganda piece showing how horrible it would have been to both the Allies and Japanese (vice the atomic bombings).

[aequitas-et-veritas]

Whats Operation Downfall?

[CWO Marc]

@aequitas:

Whats Operation Downfall?

The plan to invade Japan if it hadn’t surrendered after the A-bomb attacks.

[Gargantua]

German invasion of the US would be way cooler.

Call it “Black Dawn”. ;)

[Imperious Leader]

Yea that would be really different. They did make a movie about German occupied England. Why not except it would glorify Hitler so probably a bad move.

[ABWorsham4]

@BJCard:

@RogertheShrubber:

Germany’s Norwegian campaign.  The Norwegians resisted German invasion the longest outside of the Soviets.Â

Funny you never hear about this in the states.  Only heard of the French resistance and the Polish uprisings.  Always thought if I were in the German army of WWII I’d want to be stationed in Norway.  Less chance of death.

A movie based on the Battle of Narvik that was made similar to A Bridge To Far, would be awesome. That battle see-sawed back and forth. All the different nationalities fighting, close-quaters naval battles, what’s not to like.

[CWO Marc]

@Imperious:

They did make a movie about German occupied England.

Another movie along those lines is “Went the Day Well?”, made in 1942. It depicts a German unit (disguised as British soldiers) taking over a small English town in preparation for a major German landing.  It’s an astonishingly tough and unflinching look at the brutal things that war can involve (on both sides).  The movie has some resemblance to the plot of The Eagle has Landed (1976), but I think the 1942 film is more genuinely frightening than the 1976 one.

[Witt]

Wow. Thank you for that Marc.
Again, I must have seen it and the title rings a bell, but I cannot bring it to mind.

Back to Worsham’s original question, I think I would remake a Bismarck story.

[BJCard]

Well, in order to sell well in the US you have to have Americans in it.  The movie ‘Enemy at the Gates’ (good movie) wasn’t nearly as popular here as ‘Saving Private Ryan.’

To make a quality movie on such a grand scale you have to spend money, and to spend money you have to be able to prove you will make a lot of money.

Then again, if you aren’t trying to make money, then all this is bunk.

[empireman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Inferno:_1945
This would be a awesome movie

[Tall Paul]

Guys,

––A movie that I’d enjoy seeing would be a biography of the complete life of “Chesty” Puller. With a large emphasis on his combat experience from the “Banana Wars” to the many brutal Pacific campaigns, including Peleilu and his heroic Korean experience. He is the only recipient ever of five Navy Crosses, one which should have been a Medal of Honor if not for “politics”. It could be called: “Chesty” Puller, a Marine’s Marine!

“Tall Paul”

[Last Jack]

Would like to watch a film adaptation of Guy Sajer’s book The Forgotten Soldier.  Although it is a really great book, and a film would have a difficult time doing it justice.

[Fishmoto37]

@Tall:

Guys,

––A movie that I’d enjoy seeing would be a biography of the complete life of “Chesty” Puller. With a large emphasis on his combat experience from the “Banana Wars” to the many brutal Pacific campaigns, including Peleilu and his heroic Korean experience. He is the only recipient ever of five Navy Crosses, one which should have been a Medal of Honor if not for “politics”. It could be called: “Chesty” Puller, a Marine’s Marine!

“Tall Paul”

Amen Tall Paul. Semper Fi