Best war film scene for you?

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Sa Calobra

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37,105 posts

211 months

Thursday 14th September 2017
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No right or wrong answer as I'm also looking for new films/tips.

For me it's where Steiner is dumped on by Stranski and left alone in Cross of Iron.

Fantastic

Yours?

Efbe

9,251 posts

166 months

Thursday 14th September 2017
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the red line. that epic long scene

Voldemort

6,129 posts

278 months

Thursday 14th September 2017
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The volleyball scene in Top Gun is right up there but I'll go with the end of Blackadder IV.

Mothersruin

8,573 posts

99 months

Thursday 14th September 2017
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Happy birthday, Kajaki.

dieselgrunt

688 posts

164 months

Thursday 14th September 2017
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Come And See.

The Wermachtt sack a small Russian village, killing and raping then rounding everyone else up and burning them alive in a church.




55palfers

5,901 posts

164 months

Thursday 14th September 2017
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So many great films, any particular war?

FourWheelDrift

88,475 posts

284 months

Thursday 14th September 2017
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The Battle of Waterloo from Sergey Bondarchuk's epic 1970 film Waterloo. No CGI, there are 15,000 soldiers (not extras, they were Soviet Army soldiers) on the field, plus a lot of horses too.

Just a very small part from the very long final battle. Marshal Ney's cavalry charge that failed so badly - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97dBfdNrf9A

think about how the managed to choreograph something like that.

HTP99

22,522 posts

140 months

Thursday 14th September 2017
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Saving private Ryan, beach landing.

Narcisus

8,070 posts

280 months

Thursday 14th September 2017
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Battle of Britain main battle scene

Always makes th hairs stand up on my arms. Fantastic music and visuals.

Edited by Narcisus on Thursday 14th September 21:36

anonymous-user

54 months

Thursday 14th September 2017
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Narcisus said:
Battle of Britain main battle scene
confused

Narcisus

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280 months

Pesty

42,655 posts

256 months

Friday 15th September 2017
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We were soldiers

I suppose from half way the whole thing is a battle scene.

GAjon

3,731 posts

213 months

Friday 15th September 2017
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Zulu.

"First rank fire

Advance

Second rank fire

Advance!"

Veeayt

3,139 posts

205 months

Friday 15th September 2017
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From recently, I love the Tiger scene from 'Fury' - so tense and pretty accurate. Overall, it has to be the D-Day landing from SPR.

Fast and Spurious

1,317 posts

88 months

Friday 15th September 2017
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Veeayt said:
From recently, I love the Tiger scene from 'Fury' - so tense and pretty accurate. Overall, it has to be the D-Day landing from SPR.
Accurate!! No no no no no.... It's Hollywood fantasy meets World Of Tanks nonsense.

ClaphamGT3

11,286 posts

243 months

Friday 15th September 2017
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A Bridge Too Far

When the character playing Digby Tatham-Warter talks to the German soldier sent to suggest a surrender

"Tell your general we are unable to accept his surrender. Don't have the facility to take you all prisoner. Sorry about that"

Fast and Spurious

1,317 posts

88 months

Friday 15th September 2017
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Gibraltar scene in Das Boot... Sinks to 280 metres onto a "shovel full of sand" and the long repairs that follow, eventually raising the submarine. Most realistic war film I've ever seen, complete opposite of Hollywood nonsense like "Fury".

jmorgan

36,010 posts

284 months

Friday 15th September 2017
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Ok, a different one. Three Lancaster’s attacking a dam at 60ft.

anonymous-user

54 months

Friday 15th September 2017
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HTP99 said:
Saving private Ryan, beach landing.
+1

anonymous-user

54 months

Friday 15th September 2017
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Empire of the Sun.
"P51! Cadillac of the skies!"