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Its a shame more folks haven't seen Come and See.

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How does one see it? Can't seem to find it anywhere.

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gggmann said:

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Its a shame more folks haven't seen Come and See.

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How does one see it? Can't seem to find it anywhere.

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I saw it on YouTube, but looks like it's blocked now. Its available on dvd.

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Only 8 people have seen Conspiracy. That explains a lot.

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The rest of y'all need to watch it if you are a WWII movie and or history fan. Pronto.

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Final Results


#1 Band of Brothers 78.4 % - #2 Saving Private Ryan 21.6%

Consolation Match-up
#3 Schindler's List 44.4% - #5 Patton 55.6%

And the Survey Says . . .
Number of respondents to the survey: 46 (about half of the average response to each round)

Break down on how many films a respondent watched:
1-25 (3)
26-50 (14)
51-75 (14)
76-100 (8)
101-125 (3)
126-150 (2)
151+ (2)

(#) next to each film is the number of those who checked off that film as watched

Those films in BOLD are the films I have not seen, those with an asterisks beside them are films I watched for the first time in preparing the brackets or watched because I overlooked them in making the bracket.

The Battles
Dunkirk (2017) (44)
The Thin Red Line (34)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (38)
The Longest Day (39)
A Bridge Too Far (37)
Midway (1976) (33)
Midway (2019) (22)
Flags of Our Fathers (30)
Battle of Britain (19)

The Ground War
Saving Privat Ryan (45)
Fury (37)
Battleground (11)
Enemy at the Gates (40)
Cross of Iron (9)
A Midnight Clear (6)
Sahara (15)
The Big Red One (25)

The War on the High Seas
The Enemy Below (19)
Lifeboat (11)
The Caine Mutiny (22)
Destination Tokyo (13)
Run Silent Run Deep (21)
Sink the Bismarck! * (19)
U-571 (39)
Greyhound (15)

The Air War
Twelve O'Clock High (21)
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (18)
The Dam Busters (12)
Memphis Belle (30)
The Tuskegee Airmen (18)
Air Force (7)
A Guy Named Joe (7)
Command Decision (6)

Mini-Series
Band of Brothers (42)
The Pacific (35)
Generation War (Unsere Mtter, unsere Vterm Our Mothers, Our Fathers) (7)
Winds of War (15)
War of Remembrance (10)
Holocaust (8)
Catch-22 (9)
Ike: The War Years (6)

WWII Biopics
Patton (42)
The King's Speech (35)
Hacksaw Ridge (35)
The Imitation Game (25)
Unbroken (30)
To Hell and Back (19)
Darkest Hour (26)
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (12)

John Wayne Movies
They Were Expendable (22)
Sands of Iwo Jima (30)
In Harm's Way (19)
The Long Voyage Home (9)
Flying Tigers (17)
Back to Bataan (12)
Operation Pacific (13)
Flying Leathernecks (21)

Commando Movies
Where Eagles Dare (22)
The Dirty Dozen (37)
The Guns of Navarone (34)
Objective, Burma! (4)
The Great Raid (23)
The Devil's Brigade (13)
Too Late the Hero (3)
Force 10 from Navarone (26)

POW Movies
The Great Escape (35)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (38)
Stalag 17 (24)
Empire of the Sun (30)
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (7)
King Rat (7)
To End All Wars * (3)
Von Ryan's Express (15)

The Resistance
Casablanca (39)
A Hidden Life (3)
The Train (7)
Valkyrie (34)
Defiance (20)
Army of Shadows (L'arme des ombres) (1)
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (3)
To Have and Have Not (6)

Spy/Espionage Films
Notorious (12)
Foreign Correspondent (5)
36 Hours (3)
Eye of the Needle (12)
The Eagle Has Landed (18)
Allied (10)
Saboteur (11)
Ministry of Fear (1)

Holocaust Related Films
Schindler's List (39)
Life Is Beautiful (21)
The Pianist (26)
Judgment at Nuremberg (16)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (14)
Sophie's Choice (13)
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) (24)
The Reader (7)

The War from the German, Japanese and Italian Perspective
Das Boot (27)
Rome, Open City * (3)
Letters from Iwo Jima (30)
Downfall (15)
Stalingrad (1993) (14)
Grave of the Fireflies (5)
Two Women (4)
Children of Hiroshima * (1)

The Homefront
The Great Dictator (12)
Inglourious Basterds (40)
To Be or Not to Be (1942) (8)
Jojo Rabbit * (22)
Kelly's Heroes (28)
The Producers (25)
The Americanization of Emily (6)
Catch-22 (25)

Light Hearted Comedies
Mister Roberts (14)
The More the Merrier (4)
Hope and Glory (7)
Father Goose (15)
Operation Petticoat (24)
Top Secret! (28)
A Foreign Affair (4)
Buck Privates (7)

Sci-Fi / Comic Book / Horror / Fantasy
Raiders of the Lost Ark (44)
The Final Countdown (21)
Captain America: The First Avenger (30)
Hellboy (2004) (29)
Overlord (13)
The Rocketeer (33)
The Boys from Brazil (18)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (43)

Miscellaneous
The Third Man (9)
The Hill (6)
From Here to Eternity (18)
Atonement (12)
The English Patient (28)
A Matter of Life and Death aka Stairway to Heaven (3)
So Proudly We Hail! (3)
We've Never Been Licked (29)

The NIT
Conspiracy * (8)
City of Life and Death (1)
Battle of the Bulge (1965) (25)
Ike: Countdown to D-Day (6)
The Scarlet and The Black (2)
Victory (12)
Come and See (3)
The Unknown Soldier (Tuntematon sotilas) (3)
When Trumpets Fade * (8)
The Sound of Music (36)
White Christmas (30)
The Book Thief (9)
1941 (30)
Pearl Harbor (36)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (36)
South Pacific (26)

Edit: Like to thank everyone that participated, especially those that took the time to complete the survery.

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Thanks for doing this one. It was pretty cool to find new WWII movies that I need to watch.

I just discovered this thread and the poll. I know Ags are the best-educated but it was great to see so many movies that aren't mainstream ('Conspiracy') and some true classics ('Stalag 17') make these lists. So many on these lists are among my absolute favorite movies. Thanks to the OP for doing this and giving me some enjoyment on this winter day!

I'll be watching for the next poll (it will be hard to beat WWII movies) and will watch the few on these lists I haven't seen. "Band of Brothers" was on the History channel yesterday. In between winterizing-the-house work, I watched parts. It was difficult not to watch the whole series again from start-to-finish.

PS - 'Raiders...',really?

Don't think I saw this one nominated... Kirk Douglas & Richard Harris stared in this movie based on a true event.

"Heroes of Telemark"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heroes_of_Telemark

'Since You Went Away'

Amazing movie - right up there with "The Best Years of Our Lives"

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For the bracket in which it was included, why not? When faced with its first "real" WWII movie it lost.

Since I was stuck at home the past few days and had power (fingers crossed but it might pay to live within close proximity to a couple of hospitals) I watch for the first time Stalingrad (1993). Good movie, not Das Boot good but worth a watch. Also watched Heroes of Telemark mentioned by Trajan88 above. It did not skimp on production but I found the story rather meh. Also rewatched The Pacific. I think if it came out before Band of Brothers people would appreciate it more for what it was attempting to accomplish rather than hoping for a Band of Brothers II.

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Since I was stuck at home the past few days and had power (fingers crossed but it might pay to live within close proximity to a couple of hospitals) I watch for the first time Stalingrad (1993). Good movie, not Das Boot good but worth a watch. Also watched Heroes of Telemark mentioned by Trajan88 above. It did not skimp on production but I found the story rather meh. Also rewatched The Pacific. I think if it came out before Band of Brothers people would appreciate it more for what it was attempting to accomplish rather than hoping for a Band of Brothers II.

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Maybe.

I do think one of the significant points from a watchability point of view is the continuity of Band of Brothers. And that is due to the fact that it was one company and they were involved in so many landmark events really. So you were able to follow the war from training through the end with one perspective.

101st Airborne 2nd Battalion and Easy Company in particular were at:

D-Day of course - utter confusion of the paratroopers
Battle of Carentan/Normandy - the first real assault once on mainland Europe
Eindhoven and Operation Market Garden - seeing that liberation
Bastogne and the Battle of the Bulge
some "minor" by comparisons battles in Foy and Hagenau
liberation of a concentration camp at Kaufering
taking Berchtesgarden and Hitler's compound The Eagles Nest

So in one group you have the beginning, major battles, the horror of the concentration camps, and the symbolic end - Berlin might have been bigger for an end but the way that played out was interesting as well.

By comparison The Pacific could not follow one unit - it was too widespread. They covered the big events of course but we did not have near as much relatable character continuity. So instead we followed 3 marines in different regiments of the marines. And it did not have a beginning even with Pearl Harbor it starts after that with Guadalcanal. I'm not faulting it, it is what it is, it just was not possible to do the same thing as BoB.

I did not mean to suggest folks would prefer The Pacific, BoB is an easier story to tell in its compactness. I still like what they tried to do with The Pacific. I really liked that they gave an episode over to the readjustment after the War.

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They would be perfect for an HBO mini series run, vs being movies.
That or the 2 book series he wrote about Israel's founding and wars, they were good too

Timely bump of a great bracket thread. Decided to put The Best Years Of Our Lives on our watchlist for tonight's in-home date night with Mrs. G Martin.