During the Falklands War in 1983, aircraft launched from Royal Navy vessels badly damaged the Argentinian submarine ARA Santa Fe. The submarine was hit by missiles and depth charges but barely made it back to port, where it was abandoned and eventually sank. The asterisk to this incident is ...
As long as there are humans, there will always be war, and as long as there’s war there will be war movies. Previously, I tackled a list of the bestIraq War moviesand this week I’ve decided to take on the best World War 2 movies of all time. While war might be more complicat...
Perhaps, however, we should imagine those years of conflict, 1914-1945, as a European civil war (with an Asian wing thrown in the second time around), a new Thirty Years’ War played out on a world stage that led to the demise of Europe’s imperial powers and their Asian equivalent an...
Inthefaceofthecruelwar,"living"istheabsolute principle. 7."thunderofwar"(WhenTrumpetsFade,theUnitedStates, 1998) Tellyouakindofantiheroismbattlefieldsurvivalway. 8."SavingPrivateRyan"(SavingPrivateRyan(SavingPrivate Ryan),theUnitedStates,1998) ...
Also ranks #166 on The Best War Movies Of All Time 1,042 votes Is this worth a watch? 12 U-571 Photo: Universal Pictures No one would expect a WWII movie featuring Jon Bon Jovi, but it exists, it's set in a submarine, and it's called U-571. A fictionalized version of th...
A lavish romantic drama that charts the lives of three different women from different backgrounds, forever changed when they emigrate to New Zealand as war brides. Lili Marleen One of Fassbinder's greatest commercial successes, Lili Marleen was also one of his last films. Lili Marleen is the ...
A film about the Battle of Crete: The British cinema produced many propagandist, flag-waving war films glorifying their “finest hour” of battle against Germany and Japan, including the inspiring “In Which We Serve” (1942) about a valiant crew of a British destroyer (HMS Torrin) during ...
Das Boot is a German World War film directed by Wolfgang Petersen based on the novel with the same title authored by Lothar-Gunther Buchheim. The film is a fictional story that revolves around U-96 German submarine and its crew during the events of World War 2. ...
1 Oct 1933 SS official Theodor Eicke expanded the punishment directives at Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany; these directives were later applied to all camps until the end of the European War. 4 Oct 1933 In Germany, the "Law for Literary Leaders" dictated the content of what could now ...
Of course I went through the watching-war-films phase, and the button-counting and badge-checking and predictable-self-righteous-indignation-when-something-was-wrong phase. But over time I think – and hope – that my motivation for ‘doing’ history has grown up somewhat. Accuracy is great,...