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I dont know of any ww11

Word war 11?

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Memphis Belle doesn't have any Brit content what so ever.

yesa it does ; the base is in britain and thats what misled me

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We just finished watching Battle for Britain in my American History class, I didn't like it all that much, in all truth I fell asleep during part of it and woke up while things were blowing up. Maybe it was because I was in school. . .or I couldn't understand some of the accents but yeah

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Try the excellent BRIDGE AT REMAGEN...some damn powerful tank action in that one...and the end of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN with tanks demolishing an entire town...

HEY DUMMY !!!!

THE MAN SAID 'BRITISH WWII MOVIES'

Good choices, though, but not BRITISH !!!!

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Actually, there quite a few good British WWII films I can think of, as well as having them in my collection.

"Pursuit of the Graf Spee" is a great film about an early WWII naval battle.

"The Colditz Story" is a great POW film, about Britsh prisoners escaping from a German POW camp.

"One of Our Planes is Missing" is about a British aircrew escaping from German-occupied Europe.

"The Dam Busters" chronicles the bombing of the Ruhr dams by British bombers equipped with a secret bomb that bounces on the water.

"Dunkirk" tells the story of the British evacuation of the French port in 1940, evading the Germans.

If you like these choices, I do have others I can include next time.

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Originally posted by angelsflame265
We just finished watching Battle for Britain in my American History class, I didn't like it all that much, in all truth I fell asleep during part of it and woke up while things were blowing up. Maybe it was because I was in school. . .or I couldn't understand some of the accents but yeah

Actually, "The Battle of Britain" would put anyone to sleep.

A great film, but there is too much melodrama and personal stories, though the combat footage is first rate.

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Thanks for the list

BTW do you know any WW2 films that have large tank battles

Try "The Desert Rats", which has a damn good tank battle right at the beginning.

Also "The Desert Fox", which is the story of German general Erwin Rommel, with plenty of British soldiers and tanks.

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Mar 6th, 2005 08:35 AM

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Another good film is "The 49th Parallel" about a German U-boat crew trying to escape from Canada, when their sub is sunk.

Probably not British, but it was made by a British film company, with British actors.

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MEMPHIS BELLE

It's May 17, 1943; the day before the Memphis Belle's, a B-17 bomber, 25th and final mission. After their final mission, they crew of ten men get to go home. Since they would be the first crew to finish all 25 missions in the 8th Airforce, there were already plans to make the 10-man crew big stars back home for the war effort. But the mission hadn't been flown yet. With the target being Bremen (not Dresden), which was a target heavy in surface-to-air artillery, the flak wouldn't be easy to get through. With weather, nerves, and dreams all playing a part in the finishing of the mission, the crew has to become the lead plane in the squadron and get the job done of bombing a Nazi supply factory, if they get it wrong, many innocent people could be killed.

NOT BRITISH !!!!

SORRY !!!!

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Two good British POW films are "King Rat" and "The Hill".

No big battle scenes, but "King Rat" tells how the British behaved as prisioners in a Japanese POW camp, though the lead character is an American corporal

In "The Hill", Sean Connery gives his best-ever performance as an inmate at a British military stockade in North Africa.

Both are good psychological dramas.

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