Lesser known war films

[Pesty]

Wacky Racer said:

Wow what a cast. Finally a lesser known film I’ve never heard of.

[Halb]

Japveesix said:

Grave of the fireflies 1988

Animated studio Ghibli film set in world war 2 and based around the relationship between a brother and his younger sister. It's really grim and incredibly moving.

Also beautifully animated and a genuinely good depiction of the horrors of war.

fantastic call.
Thinking about it...it may be the best war film of the past 30 years.

[Japveesix]

Halb said:

Japveesix said:

Grave of the fireflies 1988

Animated studio Ghibli film set in world war 2 and based around the relationship between a brother and his younger sister. It's really grim and incredibly moving.

Also beautifully animated and a genuinely good depiction of the horrors of war.

fantastic call.
Thinking about it...it may be the best war film of the past 30 years.

I genuinely love it, cry at it every time (watch it before you mock me folks!) and have made many other people watch it over the years. It's a great and very sad film and one of my favourite Ghibli, and indeed overall, films.

[Halb]

I've watched it once. I will again, at least once more, but not soon.

[Wacky Racer]

Pesty said:

Wacky Racer said:

Wow what a cast. Finally a lesser known film I’ve never heard of.

I watched it on the TV many years ago, highly recommended.

[Wills2]

TTmonkey said:

Siege of jadotville. Netflix, worth a look.

Very much so, a really good film an excellent watch.

[Wills2]

XCP said:

Paths of Glory.
Excellent WW1 staring the late Kirk Douglas.

Lesser known? That'll be the Stanley Kubrick classic that is the Paths of Glory...

[XCP]

Wills2 said:

XCP said:

Paths of Glory.
Excellent WW1 staring the late Kirk Douglas.

Lesser known? That'll be the Stanley Kubrick classic that is the Paths of Glory...

Lesser known than some of the films being mentioned so far.

[lemmingjames]

Wacky Racer said:

With that description, it sounds like some dodgy porn movie

[Big-Bo-Beep]

I was monty's double

on bbc2 now

[Frank7]

Big-Bo-Beep said:

I was monty's double

on bbc2 now

I watched 10-15 minutes of that today while channel surfing, and was a bit taken aback to see a decent British actor, Patrick Allen, playing an American colonel, in charge of a group of US soldiers forming a kind of honour guard for the arrival of Field Marshal Montgomery in Algiers.
Nothing wrong in that, but his only concession toward being American was to keep adding the word period to the end of sentences, and from what I could hear, not attempting an American accent at all.
Not very convincing if he was supposed to be playing an American I thought.

[Ayahuasca]

Wacky Racer said:

This is an excellent film.

[Ayahuasca]

Tunes of Glory - not to be mistaken with ‘paths’.

Similar to Bofors, an Army movie rather than a War movie.

[Ayahuasca]

Tumbledown

The only film set in the Falklands war iirc.

[nicanary]

"The foreman went to France" - can't remember when I last watched it.

[Halb]

I see, Come and See is getting a re-release. Unsure if it's UK>
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl1303675393...

[Halmyre]

Ayahuasca said:

Tunes of Glory - not to be mistaken with ‘paths’.

Similar to Bofors, an Army movie rather than a War movie.

That's a very odd tag line on the poster, it's more or less describing the climax of the film. I get the impression that the studio didn't know how to market it. Great performances from Alec Guinness and John Mills.

[Eric Mc]

XCP said:

Wills2 said:

XCP said:

Paths of Glory.
Excellent WW1 staring the late Kirk Douglas.

Lesser known? That'll be the Stanley Kubrick classic that is the Paths of Glory...

Lesser known than some of the films being mentioned so far.

It is a highly regarded film and I would certainly not class it as being "Lesser Known" - especially if you know anything about the history of film making and the work of Stanley Kubrick. It's a bit like saying that "2001: A Space Odyssey" is a bit of a lesser known sci-fi film..

[DamienB]

Ayahuasca said:

Tumbledown

The only film set in the Falklands war iirc.

There is also An Ungentlemanly Act which is excellent (Ian Richardson & Bob Peck! "Surrender? fk off... sir!"), Resurrected (haven't seen it) and a few assorted Argie efforts.

[Supercilious Sid]

Have we had The Odd Angry Shot yet?