WORLD WAR II WAR DRAMA
Genre - War
(War Drama Action)
(Great collection of War classics, War dramas, Action, Anti War, Documentary and tv movies on WWII.)
Battles fought in World War II Europe Asia and the Pacific were intense, gory, scary and bloody if you've seen movies like Dunkirk, Battle of Britain, 303 squadron, Reach for the Sky, Saving Private Ryan, Fury, Red Tails, Tuskegee Airmen, Band of Brothers, The Great Escape, Von Ryan's Express, To Hell and Back, Darkest Hour (Churchill), Tora Tora Tora, Midway (1976, 2019), Windtalkers, First to Fight (1967 Chad Everett) Thin Red Line, Between Heaven and Hell, The Naked and the Dead (Aldo Ray), The Pacific, A Bridge Too Far, Too Young The Hero, and Hacksaw Ridge etc. (Couldn't name others due to time limit) as it is in every god dam War past present and those that will be fought in future.
75 Million lives were lost during World War II (Second Great War.)
This List is a tribute to the brave men and women who served during WWII from all the Allied Nations.
A special Tribute to War correspondents and journalists like Ernie Pyle, GI's, Artillery, Tank crews, Fighter and bomber crews, Navy crews, Rangers Navy beach battalions, Airborne paratroopers of 82nd and 101st Airborne division in Europe and Navy and Marines in the Pacific.
1) Men and women of the US Armed Forces
2) Men and women of Royal Army, RAF, Royal Navy (esp RAF - Lancaster squadrons, Hurricane squadrons, Spitfire squadrons, Mosquito squadrons, Beau-fighter squadrons etc.)
3) Canadian Armed forces
4) Australian and New Zealand Armed forces
5) Soviet Armed forces
6) Free French and French Resistance
6) Royal Indian Army, Navy and Air-force who fought valiantly against the Axis forces (Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan.). A huge tribute to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and INA too who fought for our freedom.
This list is also a tribute to all those unsung young heroes (soldiers) of Allied Nations who fought valiantly for freedom and liberty against forces of tyranny, fascism and evil - (These Nations include - USA, UK, Canada, France, Russia, Holland, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Italy, Austria, Yugoslavia, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Philippines, China and India who bore the brunt of World War. My country India lost 90,000 to 1 Lakh brave men KIA and MIA. Combined Casualty statistics - (Army, Air force and Navy.)
Also a tribute to righteous men and women among Axis Powers (Field Marshal Erwin Rommel The Desert Fox - Was forced to commit suicide by Monster Hitler and opposed him in the end.
Oskar Schindler - The Nazi who saves Jews.
Klaus Von Schenk Stauffenberg and other conspirators - Brave German Officers and men who attempted Hitler's assassination.
Raoul Wallenberg n a German General (Name not known) - The Swedish diplomat and German General who saved 1000 Jews.
Rudolf Werner Best - The Wehrmacht soldier who saved approx. 180-190 Jews.
Irena Sendler - saved many Jews.
Tina Strobos, Ho Feng Shan. - All these people did their best to save lives of innocent Jewish people from their doom during the Nazi genocide of Jews from 1942-45 - The Holocaust.)
MOVING QUOTES ON WAR -
'IN TIME OF PEACE PREPARE FOR WAR' - PUBLIUS FLAVIUS VEGETIUS RENATUS (ROMAN GENERAL)
'Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind - JFK
'If we don't end war, it will end us' - HG Wells
'All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal'
JOHN STEINBECK
'War is an organised mass murder and nothing else'- Harry Patch (Brit Army Vet last surviving Soldier of WORLD WAR I.)
(War Drama Action)
(Great collection of War classics, War dramas, Action, Anti War, Documentary and tv movies on WWII.)
Battles fought in World War II Europe Asia and the Pacific were intense, gory, scary and bloody if you've seen movies like Dunkirk, Battle of Britain, 303 squadron, Reach for the Sky, Saving Private Ryan, Fury, Red Tails, Tuskegee Airmen, Band of Brothers, The Great Escape, Von Ryan's Express, To Hell and Back, Darkest Hour (Churchill), Tora Tora Tora, Midway (1976, 2019), Windtalkers, First to Fight (1967 Chad Everett) Thin Red Line, Between Heaven and Hell, The Naked and the Dead (Aldo Ray), The Pacific, A Bridge Too Far, Too Young The Hero, and Hacksaw Ridge etc. (Couldn't name others due to time limit) as it is in every god dam War past present and those that will be fought in future.
75 Million lives were lost during World War II (Second Great War.)
This List is a tribute to the brave men and women who served during WWII from all the Allied Nations.
A special Tribute to War correspondents and journalists like Ernie Pyle, GI's, Artillery, Tank crews, Fighter and bomber crews, Navy crews, Rangers Navy beach battalions, Airborne paratroopers of 82nd and 101st Airborne division in Europe and Navy and Marines in the Pacific.
1) Men and women of the US Armed Forces
2) Men and women of Royal Army, RAF, Royal Navy (esp RAF - Lancaster squadrons, Hurricane squadrons, Spitfire squadrons, Mosquito squadrons, Beau-fighter squadrons etc.)
3) Canadian Armed forces
4) Australian and New Zealand Armed forces
5) Soviet Armed forces
6) Free French and French Resistance
6) Royal Indian Army, Navy and Air-force who fought valiantly against the Axis forces (Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan.). A huge tribute to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and INA too who fought for our freedom.
This list is also a tribute to all those unsung young heroes (soldiers) of Allied Nations who fought valiantly for freedom and liberty against forces of tyranny, fascism and evil - (These Nations include - USA, UK, Canada, France, Russia, Holland, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Italy, Austria, Yugoslavia, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Philippines, China and India who bore the brunt of World War. My country India lost 90,000 to 1 Lakh brave men KIA and MIA. Combined Casualty statistics - (Army, Air force and Navy.)
Also a tribute to righteous men and women among Axis Powers (Field Marshal Erwin Rommel The Desert Fox - Was forced to commit suicide by Monster Hitler and opposed him in the end.
Oskar Schindler - The Nazi who saves Jews.
Klaus Von Schenk Stauffenberg and other conspirators - Brave German Officers and men who attempted Hitler's assassination.
Raoul Wallenberg n a German General (Name not known) - The Swedish diplomat and German General who saved 1000 Jews.
Rudolf Werner Best - The Wehrmacht soldier who saved approx. 180-190 Jews.
Irena Sendler - saved many Jews.
Tina Strobos, Ho Feng Shan. - All these people did their best to save lives of innocent Jewish people from their doom during the Nazi genocide of Jews from 1942-45 - The Holocaust.)
MOVING QUOTES ON WAR -
'IN TIME OF PEACE PREPARE FOR WAR' - PUBLIUS FLAVIUS VEGETIUS RENATUS (ROMAN GENERAL)
'Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind - JFK
'If we don't end war, it will end us' - HG Wells
'All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal'
JOHN STEINBECK
'War is an organised mass murder and nothing else'- Harry Patch (Brit Army Vet last surviving Soldier of WORLD WAR I.)
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- DirectorDavid AyerStarsBrad PittShia LaBeoufLogan LermanA grizzled tank commander makes tough decisions as he and his crew fight their way across Germany in April, 1945.Combat mission of a Tank crew at the end of WWII in Germany.
- StarsScott GrimesDamian LewisRon LivingstonThe story of Easy Company of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division and their mission in World War II Europe, from Operation Overlord to V-J Day.True War story of the men of Easy Company 101st Airborne Division from Normandy France to Germany during WWII.
- DirectorJohn IrvinStarsRon EldardZak OrthFrank WhaleyA private in the latter days of WWII on the German front struggles between his will to survive and what his superiors perceive as a battlefield instinct.
- DirectorKen AnnakinAndrew MartonGerd OswaldStarsJohn WayneRobert RyanRichard BurtonThe events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.June 6th 1944 D-Day Invasion of France Operation Overlord.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsVan JohnsonJohn HodiakRicardo MontalbanTrue tale about a squad of the 101st Airborne Division coping with being trapped by the Germans in the besieged city of Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in December of 1944.Dramatized story based on true events of the men of 101st Airborne Div in the Battle of the Bulge Dec 1944
- DirectorKen AnnakinStarsHenry FondaRobert ShawRobert RyanA dramatization of Nazi Germany's final Western Front counterattack of World War II.Battle of the Bulge Arden counter offensive by the Nazis Dec 1944
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- DirectorBrian Desmond HurstStarsRichard LonsdaleStanley MaxtedThomas ScullionA re-enactment of the Battle of Arnhem during the Second World War which was later lavishly remade as A Bridge Too Far (1977).Valiant story of British paratroops at Arnhem Bridge during the disastrous Op Market Garden
- DirectorGottfried ReinhardtStarsClark GableLana TurnerVictor MatureA Dutch intelligence officer recruits an Allied woman to act as liaison with dashing Resistance leader "The Scarf" for a British attack on Arnhem.
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- DirectorLewis SeilerStarsDavid BrianJohn AgarFrank LovejoyAn American infantry unit, from its pre-invasion training to combat in Europe.
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- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsFionn WhiteheadBarry KeoghanMark RylanceAllied soldiers from Belgium, the British Commonwealth and Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
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- DirectorLeslie NormanStarsJohn MillsRichard AttenboroughBernard LeeA dramatization of the British Expeditionary Force's 1940 retreat to the beaches of France and the extraordinary seaborne evacuation that saved it from utter destruction by Nazi Germany.
- DirectorGuy HamiltonStarsMichael CaineTrevor HowardHarry AndrewsIn 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K.
- StarsDermot O'LearyJames HollandMary EllisAs 40 Spitfires and Hurricanes assemble for a unique flypast marking the 75th anniversary of Battle of Britain Day, two special programmes commemorate the heroes Churchill famously called 'The Few'.
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- DirectorMatthew WhitemanStarsSam HeughanGary LewisBen AldridgeIn May 1940 eighteen-year old Geoffrey Wellum joins the 92 squadron of the Royal Air Force and is taken to the pub,where pilots who have seen action sign their names on a blackboard. Next day,with no flying experience,he is expected to pilot a Spitfire;he is nervous but exhilarated. Soon he is seeing action against the Luftwaffe,his sense of duty dispelling fear,and,having taken part in the Battle of Britain,is awarded a medal,though he never signs the blackboard. By 1941 he has flown fifty missions and feels invincible,though he sees friends die and in 1942 the stress causes him to have a breakdown. However he survives the war and,in the present,talks direct to camera,voicing his feelings about his service experiences.
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