Great underrated/unknown World War 2 movies.

Apr 7, 2016 11:23 AM

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Bitva za Sevastopol (2015)

A woman who changed the course of history.

April 9th (2015)

In the early morning of April 9th 1940 the Danish army is alerted. The Germans have crossed the border; Denmark is at war against Europe's strongest army. In Southern Jutland Danish bicycle- and motorcycle companies are ordered out, to against all odds, hold back the forces until the Danish reinforcements can be mobilized. In the fatal hours, we follow second lieutenant Sand (Pilou Asbæk) and his bicycle company - they will as the first Danish soldiers meet the enemy in combat on April 9th 1940.

1944 (2015)

The events of the war in 1944, from the Blue Hills to Sõrve Peninsula. Shown through the eyes of Estonian soldiers who had to pick sides and fight against fellow brothers. Choices have to be made, not only by the soldiers, but also by their loved ones.

Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at The Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in WWII.

The Book Thief (2013)

While subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. In the basement of her home, a Jewish refugee is being protected by her adoptive parents.

Son of Saul (2015)

In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival upon trying to salvage from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son.

Stalingrad (1993)

A depiction of the brutal battle of Stalingrad, the Third Reich's 'high water mark', as seen through the eyes of German officer Hans von Witzland and his battalion.
also awesome!

Land of Mine (2015)

A young group of German POWs are made the enemy of a nation, where they are now forced to dig up 2 million land-mines with their bare hands. (100 mins.)

Enemy at the Gates (2001)

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.

"If your eyes could speak, what would they say." THAT'S WHAT YOU GOT A MOUTH FOR YA DINGUS!

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MRW I see a bunch of movies I don't know so I plan to skip the post but then Enemy at the Gates is on there

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Also the Big Red One

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I loved 1944

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THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN (1969) is fantastic. Actual planes, fantastic multinational cast, and Michael Caine!

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Come And See is the apex of films about the War for me. They used live ammo in some scenes. By the end, the lead actor's hair was white.

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it took them that long to film that the actor turned into an old man?!

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Land of Mine, one of those stories not many Danes knew about, I look forward to it.

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Wouldnt at all say Son Of Saul is underrated. It won an Oscar for best foreign film!

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Most of that list is stuff you can ignore. However, Idi i Smotri is not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-Ro0SZf438

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Looks like the right movie for a cozy night on the couch :-/

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Russian historical films are actually very good. They mirror the horror of the war.

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Flame and Citron is pretty good http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0920458/

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IF JUDE LAW AND RACHEL WEISZ COULD FUCK ON SILENT IN ENEMY AT THE GATES, MY NEIGHBORS SHOULD BE ABLE TO KEEP IT DOWN

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'Twas a sweet scene, no?

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Very erotic without any nudity. It was a great scene.

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why did you put the shitty 2013 Stalingrad footage in the place of the 1993 Stalingrad movie?

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The older movie is one of my favorite war movies!!!!

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The first on is translated: Battle for Sevastopol.

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Great movie with a great soundtrack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuPX8mjeb-E

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Unknown/underrated? I mean Son of Saul kinda won an oscar and stuff...

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Great movies

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Katyn (2007) should be on the list. It is about the soviet massacre of some polish soldiers. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0879843/

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Er OP en dansk? :)

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Tror jeg

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Great movies!!!

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"I am a Librarian... and also a Sniper!" -Rachel Weisz

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Any of these on netflix??

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Check unogs.com - It's a search engine that tells you what is available where on Netflix.

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I don't think proxies even work with Netflix though, do they?

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My VPN worked until a few weeks ago. Also: https://torrentfreak.com/netflix-cracks-down-on-vpn-and-proxy-pirates-150103/

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just google watch "movie title" online free. Boom, you now have access to every movie ever. Just have adblocker and half decent antivirus

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Windtalkers was pretty amazing.

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You mean the movie where an 18" shell from a battleship and a bazooka have the same explosion affect?

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It suffered from too much sitting around talking about how much war sucks. I wanted to watch a war movie not a I have feelings movie.

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Wait... what... the one where Nic Cage kills almost an entire battalion of Japanese soldiers single handedly through the film?

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What?!? That was a shit movie, even the Code Talkers I know thought so.

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Land of Mine can be recommend, saw it in theatres and its a very thought provoking piece.

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It's not entirely historically correct though. For starters, it wasn't POW's who were clearing mines, and they weren't forced to do it.

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De var faneme heller ikke frivillige.

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That out-of-context gif confuses me...what did he expect to happen picking up that mine?

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Normally the mines didnt have the wire that was attached to, but he didnt hear the warning about it from the other kid.

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OK thanks....so he thought he had properly disarmed it but it had a redundant trigger?

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One mine on top, with a second anti-personnel mine underneath to trap the deminer. Real nasty trick to slow down demining.

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Beware Enemy at the Gates. Most awkward sex scene i've ever seen. So fucking uncomfortable when i was younger lol

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That movie is a hard watch all around.

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It is a very emotional one tho. It is one of the only 'nice' things they have in a city turned hell on earth

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One could say the entire movie was awkward to watch.

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Dat ass doe!

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...why does Vazili's trigger finger not have dirt caked into the fingernail anymore, mom?

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Man...

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MY MAN!

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10/10 would not want to watch with parents.

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I've watched it with my father...so yeah...that explains why I'm like this.

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Attracted to your father?

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No. A liberal.

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0/10 did watch it with parents.

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I watched it with my dad, probably like 10-12 at the time. Too scared to get up and leave and acknowldege that i knew it was weird.

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That is just the absolute worst! It's like if you leave it somehow makes it MORE awkward.

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I love WWII movies, this is a great list but underrated and unknown? Far from it man

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Europa Europa, Underground (starts during WWII), Black Book/ Zwartboek, The Great Dictator. Post-war: Third Man, Judgement at Nuremberg.

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Username checks out, this guy is a professional

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Try Coocoo, 2002, Russian movie about a Finnish sniper, a Karelic tribeswoman, a soviet soldier and a language barrier.

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Yeah. I mean, the Book Thief?! How in the fuck is that unknown!?

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Oh dear, that username though :D

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The two danish movies: 9. April and Under Sandet (Land of mine) can easily be classified as unknown. They are new and by american 1/2

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standards indie movies made on tiny budget. Bonus: the guy in April 9th (Pilou Asbæk) is playing Euron Greyjoy in GoT s6.

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Fucking Stalag 17. A comedic take on American POW's. Like Hogans Heroes but much better.

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What the grey zone? That movie will destroy you and I think people forget about it

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you'll probably like grave of the fireflies or ivan's childhood if you liked the grey zone

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Thanks for the suggestions! I'll check 'em out. Grave of the fireflies looks especially cool

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Estonian movies are probably not well known. In addition to 1944, Names Engraved in Marble is a good WW I movie and 1/2

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December heat is about a Communist coup attempt in Estonian capital Tallinn in 1924

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Names Engraves in Marble is not about WW I but about Estonian War of Independence

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How? How do you watch? I can't do it. Real people. All of the horror and the terror and the gruesomeness happened to real people. I crash.

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Classics kids don't know these days: a bridge too far, das boot, longest day, cross of iron, river kwai, big red one...

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Bridge over the River Kwai... and now that whistle tune is stuck in my head.

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Comet, tastes like Lis-ter-een. Comet, makes your hair turn green. Comet, it makes you vomit, so get your Comet and vomit to-day!

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The book thief is one of my all time favourites! This was a good list.

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It's got a powerful narrative. A very powerful narrative.

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But "underrated/unknown"? Reeeeeeally?

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Oh god. If you havent already read the book. Mine is stained with tears i swear

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Does the movie live up to the book, though? Cause I love the book but I haven't dared to watch it yet in case it sucks :/

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It actually does a really good job. Though of course there are small things you miss out on, they are hardly enough to detract from it.

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I have never cried so much while reading in my life, snot and everything

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For those who don't know, the novel is narrated in part by death. It is very well constructed.

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I was completely destroyed by the book :(

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Off topic, but I have to ask: Are you from Rand of Midnight Sun?

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Wat

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KoreanViking. He from Rand of Midnight Sun. Why you no risten?

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No idea what ur talking about. Sounds racist so "squinty eyes +1"

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Both of the midnight sun, and of the morning quiet :)

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Kudos, good sir. I shall buy you a stein of mead with a soju chaser.

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Will suddenly take you up on that :)

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#1 WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY ABOUT ME, YOU LITTLE SHIT? I'll HAVE YOU KNOW I HAVE OVER 300 CONFIRMED KILLS...

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Shut your fucking copy-pasta piehole, assmunch.

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Chill your pie hole it's a joke.

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SO IT IS. I just knee-jerked because I assumed he was going to copypaste the ENTIRE DAMN THING IN HERE.

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Oh yeah, because the complete thing totally fits in 140 characters. That's like trying to fuck a mouse with a horse dick.

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Try splitting it all up into separate 140 character messages...imagine the madness that would inflict.

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Confirmed by the terribly inaccurate and propaganda ridden records of Stalin's era...

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Just like USA propaganda

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http://imgur.com/61aN0bx

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I forgot what this meme is from originally. Guess that shows its age.

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Not sure if I just know it well already, but I was pleasantly surprised to be able to read that.

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Years of shit posting prepared me for this moment

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Not a kill... fascists.

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I mean, they're dead fascists.

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Still more human than communists ;)

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Seriously. After the war was over Patton said "We fought the wrong enemy", and he was right.

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Yeah, going to oblivion anyway, but my point is that we need to stop glorifying the Soviet army as heroes, when per capita had 1/2

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More war criminals than the Nazis did. Not saying they weren't horrible, just infuriating that they look up to the red devil.

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You, sir, are a moron.

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Genocide is apparently more humane than publically shared means of production. What do you know?

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You're confusing fascism with Nazis. Fascism was started in Italy and had the fasces as a symbol. Nazis were fascist, fascism isn't Nazism.

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It's a holiday in cambodia

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#7 that gif isn't from the 1993 German version. It's from the russian made 2013 version

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*Stealth is optional for this mission!

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Just finished watching the '93 version because of this post. This isn't a hero war film, much closer to the shit your pants reality. Savage.

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Exactly! And the Russian remake is a horse pile of CGI shit. Watch the original from Germany. Telling you as a Russian.

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I liked Fortress of War a lot

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It's weird they translated it this way. The original title is Brest Fortress, which is located in Brest city at the very border. Good one.

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Username checks out.

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I thought that gif didn't look familiar at all.

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The 1993 version is such a great movie. Brutal and honest. Like Das Boot.

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Das Boot was really good

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Thomas Kretchman 4tw

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Watch the original. Forget the remake ever happened.

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it's not exactly a remake, it's just a movie about the same battle with the same name... and it's also awful

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The Russian version is just awful.

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Just watched the 2013 version. I won't say it's a shitty movie but sadly it's close enough

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no, it actually is shit

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It's Russia's version of "300". Lots of CGI blood, not a lot if historical accuracy, the good guys are made to look like saints

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If you talk about Flag of our Fathers, talk about the Japanese side movie. Letters from Iwo Jima.

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.

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Why?

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Thought Letters was the better film.

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Iwo Jima was just on a list on the front page yesterday and many commented on Flags missing. That may or may not be why it didn't appear

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Iwo Jima was the better of the 2 and this is an underrated list

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I think this guy did another one of these lists and it was mentioned on that one.

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I'd also hardly call iwo Jima a turning point

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Not a turning point but it was the first island in which the Americans suffered serious losses compared to their other island hopping stuff.

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Flags of our Fathers was better honestly, but that's just me

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Have you guys seen "My Way?" It goes into Japanese occupation of Korea

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No, but I will look into it. thank you.

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Best thing Eastwood ever did was show both sides of this battle. Fantastic and underappreciated film.

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Most folks know about Letters from Iwo Jima. Not anywhere near as many know Flags of our Fathers. Fewer still read the book.

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i rarely encounter americans who even about letters from iwo jima let alone having seen it

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My uncle was a driver for both movies! (Meaning he drove the director and other actors around)

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The soundtrack to letters is epic

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I would also agree that Das Boot is another good one. It depicts the life of an average crew on a u-boat during WWII.

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directed by wolfgang petersen. i watched it at least a 300 times. That and master and commander the far side of the world. 2 of my favs

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It's not underrated/unknown though.

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Both were made by the same person and had a lot of the same actual fighting footage

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It was listed in the other post like this from like 2 days ago (that had half of these in it)

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I thought letters from Iwo Jima was the better off the two. Both good movies but flag of our fathers had some rough pacing

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Letters... Was the one nominated for best pic.. But i also agree. We rarely see things from the other peoples perspective, if ever.

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Actually just watch both yesterday, Flags is a great war flick, Letters is just a great flick, its kind cool to see where the two films meet

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1/2:Look at the pacing as a direct relation to how war veterans suffer from their PTSD. Most of them do not have linear recollections of the

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2/2: harrowing incidents that occurred. Instead they have flashbacks that resurface from different parts in time. Interesting to think about

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Both Eastwood's right?

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Yes

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East and Westwood.

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Eastwood meets Westwood?

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Excellent comment. Bravo.

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It's an extremely rare Japanese PoV WW2 film or at least one done by a Western director.

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I know that one and "Japan's Longest Day" a 1967 Movie I can't find anywhere.

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Clint is awesome

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Letters wasn't very popular in Japan, if I remember correctly they found it to be condescending.

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There'll always be (old) right wingers who reject parts of history.

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Actually it more successful in Japan than in the US. They liked how respectful Clintwood was of their side of the story.

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Well they don't educate about the war, it's kinda swept under the rug. Some youth believe they were invaded by US aggressors.

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Does anyone here know the atrocities done in Unit 731? If you don't then better google it and be ready for it.

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we're discussing great WW2 movies, this isn't a debate of who knows more about japanese attrocities.

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I mentioned this topic on the pretext of Japanese side movies in the comments. I haven't gone off topic.

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If we don't study history then the civilization is bond to repeat it.

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On the side note, i also want to apologize to people that were offended by this ( @Patilistan too ). I get sensitive with war topics.

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I apologise for trying to spread knowledge. Keeping watching movies in which our ancestors are killing each other.

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Majority war movies are documentaries to learn from. I have never found the topic of wars to be entertaining.

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Years ago I saw a movie about unit 731. Don't remember if the movie was good itself, but the things they did were horrible.

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Philosophy of a Knife. Utterly brutal film, but it really shows just how dark man can be.

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If you're talking about the old chinese film, it was pretty poorly made with a LOT of exaggeration. Makes the true torture lessbelievable.

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Ah okey, I think it was Men Behind the Sun.

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Now that's a good one.

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Japan did horrible things: http://foxtalk.tistory.com/98

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This one is in relation to the Rape of Nanking/Nanjing. There are many evidences to it.

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The inhumanity is apalling.

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They sure fucking did

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I can't even finish it. cringing too much.

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My god. Thats horrifying..

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