War Films - Then and Now

[Red Baron]

. . . and I quite agree on Das Boot. One of the very best, providing such intense viewing.

[Thundershot]

The history channel showed a documentary on the real life 'Heroes Of Telemark' the other night, true boys own stuff, amazing how long they survived in that wilderness with no support & just living off the land.
One of the commandos,after many hours of being chased on skis by a lone German (the rest who's unit had tired & given up), realized that the Nazi was faster going down hill than he himself was, but that he was quicker @ climbing up the slopes, so simply just pulled out his pistol, turned around & shot the German soldier when he made it to the top of the next hill.

I did catch most of Jarhead when it was on telly last week..one of them films where not much happens, but it's still riveting viewing, & I suspect (not having any military service experience myself) it's very true to life of many soldiers day to day experiences...long periods of waiting around for some thing to happen.

[Sundance]

off the subject of films, i was looking at an interesting sounding book in Tesco today, about a JTAC in Afghanistan called 'Fire Strike 7/9' he was in Helmand for 180 days and was responsible for 203 enemy kills, directing Apache, A-10, F-15 and Harrier strikes.

[The Baron]

Does anyone know the name of the film I saw as a kid? It's about a crashed bomber in the Sahara desert. The crew have to build their own aircraft from the wreckage in the end. I can remember a scene where they argued over the water, as one of them used some for an experiment?

[Andy1672]

sounds like Flight of the Phoenix ? with James Stewart, Earnest Borgnine and Richard Attenborough ? it was made in the 60s but remade a few years ago with Dennis Quaid

[Double-Tap]

The history channel showed a documentary on the real life 'Heroes Of Telemark' the other night, true boys own stuff, amazing how long they survived in that wilderness with no support & just living off the land.
One of the commandos,after many hours of being chased on skis by a lone German (the rest who's unit had tired & given up), realized that the Nazi was faster going down hill than he himself was, but that he was quicker @ climbing up the slopes, so simply just pulled out his pistol, turned around & shot the German soldier when he made it to the top of the next hill.

I did catch most of Jarhead when it was on telly last week..one of them films where not much happens, but it's still riveting viewing, & I suspect (not having any military service experience myself) it's very true to life of many soldiers day to day experiences...long periods of waiting around for some thing to happen.

Ray Mears (1 of my personal heroes) did a brilliant show about the heroes of telemark.
well worth watching

[action-figure-supplies]

Agreed, the Ray Mears Telemark doc was very good.

Flight of the Phoenix remake with Dennis Quaid and Giovanni Ribisi in is very good. I expected it to be truely awful but was pleasantly surprised.

[Thundershot]

Has any one mentioned..

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[Sundance]

no. it was damn good as i recall.

[the enemy muton]

A film I saw a couple of times as a kid on TV was 'By Dawns Early Light'; I think it was made in the late 80s as a TV movie and depicts a nuclear strike on the US by the Soviet Union. More docu-drama than out and out war film but very good nonetheless.