Next month is the 70th anniversary of V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day) and this August is the 70th anniversary of V-J Day (Victory in Japan Day.) The best way for those of us who didn't experience World War 2 is to read books and watch movies about it. I have watched many war movies - especially those about World War 2 - since I was little. Here is a list of the ones that I have seen and think show the war (the military battles, the bombings, the homefront, the Holocaust, the POW camps, the Resistance, the toll on regular people, etc.) I separated them into those made during World War 2, those made during the Cold War and those made Post-Cold War because there's a difference in what is shown and said. The movies made during World War 2 may not have all the facts or be pure propaganda as the war was still going on. The movies made during the Cold War could have a slant (pro or anti-Communist.) The movies made since the end of the Cold War, while they could have a propagandish feel, tend to show more of what happened during the war and its effects on the people involved in it.
Movies Made During War World 2:
- The Lion Has Wings (UK - 1939)
- Caught in the Draft (US - 1941)
- A Yank in the RAF (US - 1941)
- Mrs. Miniver (US - 1942)
- To Be or Not to Be (US - 1942)
- Went the Day Well (UK - 1942)
- Bataan (US - 1943)
- So Proudly We Hail (US - 1943)
- The Fighting Sullivans (US - 1944)
- Hail the Conquering Hail (US - 1944)
- They Were Expendable (US - 1945)
Movies Made During the Cold War:
- The Last Shop (Poland - 1947)
- Border Street (Poland - 1948)
- The Search (US - 1948)
- The Hasty Heart (US/UK - 1949)
- The Desert Rats (US - 1953)
- Malta Story (UK - 1953)
- Stalag 17 (US - 1953)
- Battle Cry (US - 1955)
- The Colditz Story (UK - 1955)
- A Town Like Alice (UK - 1956)
- The Bridge On the River Kwai (UK - 1957)
- Ballad of a Soldier (USSR - 1959)
- The Diary of Anne Frank (US - 1959)
- Kapo (Yugoslavia/Italy/US - 1959)
- Exodus (US - 1960)
- Judgment at Nuremberg (US - 1961)
- The Longest Day (US - 1962)
- The Great Escape (US - 1963)
- Atentat (Czechoslovakia - 1964)
-Battle of the Bulge (US - 1965)
- Is Paris Burning (US/France - 1966)
- Battle of Britain (UK - 1969)
- The Bridge at Remagen (US - 1969)
- Tora, Tora, Tora (US/Japan - 1970)
- Jacob the Liar (East Germany - 1975)
- The Hiding Place (US - 1975)
- Only Old Men Are Going to Battle (USSR - 1975)
- Midway (US - 1976)
- A Bridge Too Far (UK/US - 1977)
- Holocaust (US - 1978)
- Danger UXB (UK - 1978)
- Sophie's Choice (US - 1982)
- The Scarlet and the Black (US/UK/Italy - 1983)
-The Battle For Moscow (USSR/East Germany - 1985)
- Escape From Sobibor (UK/Yugoslavia - 1987)
- Au Revoir Les Enfants (France - 1987)
- War and Remembrance (US - 1988)
- Stalingrad (USSR/East Germany - 1989)
- Europa, Europa (West Germany/France/Poland - 1990)
- Good Evening Mr. Wallenberg (Sweden/Hungary/Norway - 1990)
- Korczak (Poland/West Germany/UK - 1990)
- For the Boys (US - 1991)
Movies Made Post Cold War:
- Shining Through (US - 1992)
- Schindler's List (US - 1993)
- Swing Kids (US - 1993)
- Bent (US/Japan - 1997)
- Paradise Road (Australia/US - 1997)
- Miracle at Midnight (US - 1998)
- Saving Private Ryan (US - 1998)
-Ambush (Finland - 1999)
- Band of Brothers (UK/US - 2001)
- Enemy At The Gates (US/UK/Germany - 2001)
- Enigma (US/UK/Germany/Netherlands - 2001)
- The Grey Zone (US - 2001)
- Pearl Harbor (US - 2001)
- Uprising (US - 2001)
- The Pianist (France/Poland/Germany/UK - 2002)
- Twin Sisters (Netherlands - 2002)
- Bon Voyage (France - 2003)
- Babiy Yar (Germany - 2003)
- Downfall (Germany/Italy/Austria - 2004)
- Island At War (UK - 2004)
- The Great Raid (US/Australia - 2005)
- A Love to Hide (France - 2005)
- Sophie Scholl (Germany - 2005)
- Black Book (Netherlands/Germany/UK - 2006)
- Dresden (Germany - 2006)
- Katyn (Poland - 2007)
- The Counterfeiters (Germany/Austria - 2007)
- Australia (Australia/US/UK - 2008)
- Defiance (US - 2008)
- Valkyrie (US - 2008)
- Winter In Wartime (Netherlands - 2008)
- The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (US/Poland/Canada - 2009)
- The Round-Up (France/Germany - 2010)
- Auschwitz (Germany - 2011)
- The Flowers of War (China/Hong Kong - 2012)
- Emperor (US - 2013)
- The Monuments Men (US - 2014)
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.