World War II movies

The opening scene in "Enemy at the Gates" was one of the most unsettling I've ever seen in a movie. From the boats getting strafed as they head acrosss the Volga, to the officer parceling out a gun to one man and an ammo clip to another because they were short of guns, to the German machine gunners slaughtering the Russians to the Russian NKVD slaughtering the unarmed conscripts trying to retreat with the chilling cry "Death to Cowards..."

Heavy, heavy stuff.

 

Arrr... I be beggin ye pardon for brining up North by Northwest. The devilish Eva Marie Saint makes me forget the very decade I be breathin in.

Arrr... How about I mention Stalag 17 as recompense? Has that film been mentioned by any scallywag as of yet?

 

Dead to me.

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Bridge to the Sun -- came across it late one night on AMC. Southern girl marries a Japanese diplomat and moves with him to Japan, just in time for WWII. Nothing spectacular, but a solid movie from a more Japanese perspective.

 

that was an outstanding movie

 

We like him better

 

For all you Enemy At the Gates lovers, I saw it at Best Buy this week for $5.99.

 

I saw that movie in the theater. The only thing I'd call outstanding in it was Rachel Weisz's behind.

 

Concur mightily with "The Longest Day," "Tora, Tora, Tora," "Saving Private Ryan" among others, but need to add two relatively obscure -- but wonderful -- films: "Dieppe" and "Five Graves to Cairo."

The first heartbreakingly recounts an actual failed Canadian amphibious assault long before D-Day (failed only because the Brits refused to supply air support); the second is tangential to Rommel's Northern Africa campaign.

 

enroute to looking up something else, stumbled across this one...needs to be added to the list:

Too Late the Hero (1970) Michael Caine, Cliff Robertson

 

Loved Guns of Navarone; David Niven, etc. How about Battle of the Bulge? Do not remember the stars but tanks, especially German Tigers and Panzers, how can you lose?

 

In Harm's Way

 

Last of the Mohicans