Damien435 said:
Let me name some off the top of my head.
A Bridge to Far. Kelly's Heroes, Dirty Dozen, Bridge Over the River Kwai (opposite front but same formula.) Saving Private Ryan, Thin Red Line (never seen it but I assume it is the same).
And yes, they are pretty much as Mohmar said, except in most movies I believe it is a Ranger or other specialized force going deep behind enemy lines with the advantage of surprise.
lol, Token.
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Of those movies you listed, I think I've seen only Saving Private Ryan. Other movies are Force 10 From Navarone (which I think is about Special Forces), 2 of the Indiana Jones movies (though they're technically not war movies. I've listed them anyway because they are mainly a single guy killing a whole battallion or something, but I think it's meant to be a self-satire to some extent), Where Eagles Dare (I've only seen part of this film). Then there's a movie whose name I can't remember. It's set partly in Yugoslavia, partly in Greece and it's about American special forces who, with the help of some local partisans kill a shitload of German troops. I forgot the main plot however. Although all the dialog was English, I think it may have been a Yugoslav movie because the names of the cast seemed mainly slavic.
So, you're right. The Allies are special forces who have the element of surprise. However, the conflict in these movies seems to last for a couple of days and the element of surprise should only last for several minutes up to perhaps a couple of hours.
LeEnfield 2 said:
The problem with most of this film list is, some of it is pure fiction, while other films have been made for the box office with scant attention to the historical facts of the battles. Most of these should be treated just as entertainment.
You're perfeclty right. Of course I'm not advocating that these movies should be banned or anything. But people should somehow be made aware that they are made mainly for entertainment purpose and not for historical accuracy.
Apparently, from what I hear in the German media, until today British people obtain the most "knowledge" about Germany from WW2 movies and from their GCSE history course about Nazi Germany.
This cannot however be applied to the British people I met at a British University I went to for 3 years. I'm not sure how much they really knew about contemporaryGermany but they assumed that it's a lot like Britain or other western European countries.
Sorry folks, I've gone a bit off-topic here :lol: