Voting for the First Round is closed.

NoahAg said:

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Haven't heard of most of these but participated just to vote against Thin Red Line.

And how do you not have Commando w/ the Commando category???

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The Schwarzenegger movie? Well if you can make a case for it a World War Two movie I'll consider it for the NIT Bracket..

jkag89 said:

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NoahAg said:

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Haven't heard of most of these but participated just to vote against Thin Red Line.

And how do you not have Commando w/ the Commando category???

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The Schwarzenegger movie? Well if you can make a case for it a World War Two movie I'll consider it for the NIT Bracket..

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He may be talking about Commandos, but the number of people that post on this board that have seen that movie could probably be counted on one hand.

Claude! said:

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Raiders and Last Crusade head to head in the first round - that one was tough.

Band of Brothers has to be the odds-on favorite to win the whole thing, doesn't it?

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Started B of B last night because of this thread, saw 2 episodes! Never seen it.

My guess is Band of Brothers or Saving Private Ryan. Band of Brothers will probably get more votes over those that have seen both, but my guess is that a lot more people have seen Saving Private Ryan than Band of Brothers.

The Debt said:

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Conspiracy, if youve seen it, easily makes Top 8 WWII films made.

People getting a look at the coordination and debate of the Wannsee Conference is a window into the atrocity that people just.dont.understand. Political pragmatism and insulation from the reality of the evil provides fertile ground for the inhumanity of it all.

The fact that those transcripts survived is astonishing.

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Obviously I think so too. It is an amazing story - and all true.

I believe only one complete copy of notes survived belonging to Martin Luther the Undersecretary (to Ribbentrop) of the Foreign Ministry and their liaison to the SS. They attempted to destroy all notes at the end of the conference. How his survived I do not know but they were discovered in the German Foreign Office by the US Army.

Bruce Almighty said:

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jkag89 said:

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NoahAg said:

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Haven't heard of most of these but participated just to vote against Thin Red Line.

And how do you not have Commando w/ the Commando category???

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The Schwarzenegger movie? Well if you can make a case for it a World War Two movie I'll consider it for the NIT Bracket..

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He may be talking about Commandos, but the number of people that post on this board that have seen that movie could probably be counted on one hand.

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Yeah more obscure 1967 movie Commandos starred the guy from the Maverick TV show and some other guy.

curious if i am missing something, but how does one track the votes?

cbr said:

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curious if i am missing something, but how does one track the votes?

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The op can see it on his end, but that's it.

First Round Results

The Battles
Dunkirk (2017) 75% - Battle of Britain 25%
The Thin Red Line 33% - Flags of Our Fathers 67%
Tora! Tora! Tora! 54% - Midway (1976/'2019) 46%
The Longest Day 63.2% - A Bridge Too Far 36.8%

The Ground War
Saving Private Ryan 92.1% - The Big Red One 7.9%
Fury 83.5% - Sahara 16.5%
Battleground 59.3% - A Midnight Clear 40.7%
Enemy at the Gates 92.9% - Cross of Iron 7.1%

The War on the High Seas
The Enemy Below 64.2 % - Greyhound 35.8%
Lifeboat 15% - U-571 85%
The Caine Mutiny 49.5% - Sink the Bismarck! 50.5%
Destination Tokyo 30.6% - Run Silent Run Deep 59.4%

The Air War
Twelve O'Clock High 93.9% - Command Decision 6.1%
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo 96.8% - A Guy Named Joe 3.2%
The Dam Busters 74.7% - Air Force 25.3%
Memphis Belle 77.1% - The Tuskegee Airmen 22.9%

Mini-Series
The Band of Brothers 100% - Ike: The War Years 0%
The Pacific 96.5% - Catch-22 3.5%
Generation War (Unsere Mtter, unsere Vterm Our Mothers, Our Fathers) 51.6% - Holocaust 48.4%
Winds of War 72.1% - War of Remembrance 27.9%

WWII Biopics
Patton 91.5% - The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel 8.5%
The King's Speech 35.6% - Darkest Hour 64.4%
Hacksaw Ridge 60.7% - To Hell and Back 39.3%
The Imitation Game 40.4% - Unbroken 59.6%

John Wayne Movies
They Were Expendable 66% - Flying Leathernecks 34%
Sands of Iwo Jima 95.2% - Operation Pacific 4.8%
In Harm's Way 67% - Back to Bataan 33%
The Long Voyage Home 18.2% - Flying Tigers 81.8%

Commando Movies
Where Eagles Dare 61.8% - Force 10 from Navarone 39.2%
The Dirty Dozen 97.2% - Too Late the Hero 2.8%
The Guns of Navarone 79.4% - The Devil's Brigade 20.6%
Objective, Burma! 24.2% - The Great Raid 75.8%

POW Movies
The Great Escape 95.5% - Von Ryan's Express 4.5%
The Bridge on the River Kwai 93.8% - To End All Wars 6.2%
Stalag 17 84% - King Rat 16%
Empire of the Sun 98.2% - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence 1.8%

The Resistance
Casablanca 93.9% - To Have and Have Not 6.1%
A Hidden Life 87.8% - Sophie Scholl: The Final Days 12.2%
The Train 59.3% - Army of Shadows (L'arme des ombres) 40.7%
Valkyrie 75% - Defiance 25%

Spy/Espionage Films
Notorious 72.5% - Ministry of Fear 27.5%
Foreign Correspondent 44.6% - Saboteur 55.4%
36 Hours 53% - Allied 47%
Eye of the Needle 34.8% - The Eagle Has Landed 65.2%

Holocaust Related Films
Schindler's List 98.2% - The Reader 1.8%
Life Is Beautiful 47.6% - The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) 52.4%
The Pianist 73.2% - Sophie's Choice 26.8%
Judgment at Nuremberg 49.5% - The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 50.5%

The War from the German, Japanese and Italian Perspective
Das Boot 93% - Children of Hiroshima 7%
Rome, Open City 59% - Two Women 41%
Letters from Iwo Jima 92.9% - Grave of the Fireflies 7.1%
Downfall 54.3% - Stalingrad (1993) 45.7%

The Homefront
The Best Years of Our Lives 76.9% - Hollywood Canteen 23.1%
Mrs. Miniver 21.3% - A Soldier's Story 78.8%
Since You Went Away 76.3% - The Clock 23.7%
A League of Their Own 80.7% - Summer of '42 19.3%

Dark Comedies
The Great Dictator 58.5% - Catch-22 (1970) 41.5%
Inglourious Basterds 93.2% - The Americanization of Emily 6.8%
To Be or Not to Be (1942) 26.6% - The Producers 73.4%
Jojo Rabbit 70.8% - Kelly's Heroes 29.2%

Light Hearted Comedies
Mister Roberts 70.8% - Buck Privates 29.2%
The More the Merrier 48.1% - A Foreign Affair 51.9%
Hope and Glory 28.6% - Top Secret! 71.4%
Father Goose 29.3% - Operation Petticoat 71.7%

Sci-Fi / Comic Book / Horror / Fantasy
Raiders of the Lost Ark 74.2% - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 25.8%
The Final Countdown 74.2% - The Boys from Brazil 25.8%
Captain America: The First Avenger 69.4% - The Rocketeer 30.6%
Hellboy (2004) 55.2% - Overlord 44.8%

Miscellaneous (Hodgepodge of films that don't fit neatly in any of the categories)
The Third Man 19,8% - We've Never Been Licked 80.2%
The Hill 66.2% - So Proudly We Hail! 33.8%
From Here to Eternity 88.1% - A Matter of Life and Death aka Stairway to Heaven 11.9%
Atonement 51.6% - The English Patient 48.4%

Round 2 (VOTE HERE!)

The Battles

• Dunkirk (2017) (Trailer) (Rolls-Royce Merlin engines. Sweetest sound you could hear out here)
• Flags of Our Fathers (Iwo Jima) (Trailer) (On the Beach) (Mount Suribachi Flag Raising)
• Tora! Tora! Tora! (Pearl Harbor) (Modern Trailer) (Pearl in chaos)
• The Longest Day (D-Day Landings) (Fan Made Trailer) (Ouistreham)

The Ground War

• Saving Private Ryan (Trailer) (D-Day)
• Fury (Trailer) (Assaulting Anti Tank Guns - NSFW Language)
• Battleground (Trailer) (Full Movie)
• Enemy at the Gates (Trailer) (Soviet Charge)

The War on the High Seas

• The Enemy Below (Trailer) (Full Movie)
• U-571 (Trailer) (Infiltrating the German Sub)
• Sink the Bismarck! (Trailer) (Full Movie)
• Run Silent Run Deep (Trailer) (Bungo Straits)

The Air War

• Twelve O'Clock High (Trailer) (Full Movie)
• Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (Trailer) (Launch from the Hornet)
• The Dam Busters (Restored Trailer for 75th Anniversary of the actual Raid) (Test of Concept) (Dam Busters / Star Wars scene comparisons)
• Memphis Belle (Trailer) (Full Movie)

Mini-Series

• Band of Brothers (Fan Trailer) (Opening Credits)
• The Pacific (Fan Trailer) (Opening Credits)
• Generation War (Unsere Mtter, unsere Vterm Our Mothers, Our Fathers) (UK Trailer)
• Winds of War (Promo) (Full Episodes)

WWII Biopics

• Patton (George S Patton) (Fan Made Trailer) (Opening Speech) (All glory is fleeting)
• Darkest Hour (Winston Churchill) (Trailer) (We Shall Fight on the Beaches)
• Hacksaw Ridge (Desmond Doss) (Trailer) (Ending Interviews)
• Unbroken (Louis Zamperini) (Trailer) (B-24 Liberator Bombing Scene)

John Wayne Movies

• They Were Expendable (Trailer) (Those Boats Of Yours)
• Sands of Iwo Jima (Trailer) (Thanks Marine!)
• In Harm's Way (Trailer) (12 Bat Blind Ships)
• Flying Tigers (Trailer) (Opening Scene)

Commando Movies

• Where Eagles Dare (Trailer) (I Told Him I Was Himmler's Brother)
• The Dirty Dozen (Fan Made Trailer) (Full Movie)
• The Guns of Navarone (Trailer) (Lower Your Sails)
• The Great Raid (Trailer) (Or Dye Trying)

POW Movies

• The Great Escape (Trailer) (Full Movie)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (Trailer) (Full Movie)
• Stalag 17 (Trailer) (Full Movie)
• Empire of the Sun (Trailer) (Suo Gan /' Cadillac of the Sky)

The Resistance

• Casablanca (Trailer) (La Marseillaise)
• A Hidden Life (Trailer) (We Lived Above the Clouds)
• The Train (Trailer) (Get Off My Train!)
• Valkyrie (Trailer) (Film Opening)

Spy/Espionage Films

• Notorious (1946) (Trailer) (Full Movie)
• Saboteur (Trailer) (Opening Scene)
• 36 Hours (Trailer) (He doesn't remember)
• The Eagle Has Landed (Trailer) (Houston, Tranquility Base Here . . .) (Full Movie)

Holocaust Related Films

• Schindler's List (Trailer) (Final Scene)
• The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) (Trailer) (Anna's New Diary)
• The Pianist (Trailer) (Full Movie)
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Trailer) (They're Not Really People)

The War from the German, Japanese and Italian Perspective

• Das Boot (Trailer) (Gibraltar)
• Rome, Open City (Trailer) (Full Movie - English Subtitles)
• Letters from Iwo Jima (Trailer) (Wait until the Beach is full)
• Downfall (Trailer) (Hitler's Rant)

The Homefront

• The Best Years of Our Lives (Homer's Homecoming) (Full Movie)
• A Soldier's Story (Trailer) (The Army expects you to set an example) (A real good day, Sir)
• Since You Went Away (Trailer) (Full Movie)
• A League of Their Own (Trailer) (Telegram from the War Department) (It's the hard that makes it great)

Dark Comedies

• The Great Dictator (Trailer) (Storm Troopers) (Final Speech)
• Inglourious Basterds (Trailer) (Full Movie)
• The Producers (Trailer) (Springtime for Hitler)
• Jojo Rabbit (Trailer) (Komm gib mir deine Hand)

Light Hearted Comedies

• Mister Roberts (Trailer) (Beautiful Visitors)
• A Foreign Affair (Trailer) (Full Movie - Poor Quality)
• Top Secret! (Trailer) (They Make Great Cars)
• Operation Petticoat (Tease Trailer) (Full Movie)

Sci-Fi / Comic Book / Horror / Fantasy

• Hellboy (2005) (Trailer) (Portal Scene)
• The Final Countdown (Trailer) (Full Movie)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (Theatrical Trailer) (Modern Trailer) (Desert Chase)
• Captain America: The First Avenger (Trailer 1) (Trailer 2)

Miscellaneous (Hodgepodge of films that don't fit neatly in any of the categories)

• We've Never Been Licked (Same May Boast) (Final Review)
• The Hill (Trailer) (Let's Have Your Names)
• From Here to Eternity (Rerelease Trailer) (The Iconic Scene) (Fatso Judson)
• Atonement (Trailer) (Dunkirk)

VOTE HERE!

A movie we missed that should have been there:

Farewell to the King with Nick Nolte as a WWII soldier that AWOLs and eventually becomes the leader of a large tribe on Borneo. Two Australian commandos go into Borneo to recruit the tribes to fight the Japanese and eventually come across Nolte. Great movie.

You might want to double-check the Light Hearted Comedy category.
It says Father Goose beat Operation Petticoat, but Operation Petticoat was bolded & advanced ot the 2nd round.
Probably just a typo, but I figured you'd want to know.

Dirty Dozen vs Guns of Navaronne
Ugh. Love them both!!

Thanks it is a typo, Operation Petticoat was the clear winner which surprised me a little. While I enjoy Operation Petticoat, I have a fondness for Father Goose.

There's no possible way anyone who has seen Battle of Britain could vote for Dunkirk.
I demand that you peckerheads go watch the real movie and re-vote!

Really really tough to pit longest day vs bridge too far. Both great. But I am stunned bridge too far lost. Might be the best war movie ever.

Really liked enemy at the gates, but cross of iron is truly great. I think people are voting that never saw some of these. No way it's that one sided. Both are top 10-15 imo.

Pleasantly surprised where eagles dare beat force 10. Both great.

Stunned anyone voted for the pianist. It was vying for worst movie ever until I fell asleep.

All right anybody who voted against Kelley's heroes is a full on Commie *******. Shame on you. You're all sendin nothing but negative vibes, man.

Last comment - no way anyone who saw the rocketeer voted for captain America. Neither is very good, but really people.

cbr said:

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Last comment - no way anyone who saw the rocketeer voted for captain America. Neither is very good, but really people.

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I saw both. I like both. I actually rank CA-TFA pretty highly within the MCU.

Captain America is decent. Rocketeer, from what I'll remember from middle school, sucked.

nm....it made the list....

Damn that's a good list

Bruce Almighty said:

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Captain America is decent. Rocketeer, from what I'll remember from middle school, sucked.

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james bond plays an overacting undercover nazi....that alone makes it awesome

Good idea.

I will put together a "NIT" Bracket of 16 films later today mostly drawn from the omissions mentioned in this thread and from 2 Favorite WWII Movies Thread.. Conspiracy 1941 & Pearl Harbor are for sure to make the bracket. To make sure I consider your favorite that I missed the first go around , post it in this thread.

Round 2 voting will be open until at least this evening but I might extended to tomorrow morning but don't procrastinate if you want your voice to be heard.

Side poll - bigger *******, Hitler or Jadis the white witch?

cbr said:

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Really really tough to pit longest day vs bridge too far. Both great. But I am stunned bridge too far lost. Might be the best war movie ever.

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I know. ABTF is great.

cbr said:

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All right anybody who voted against Kelley's heroes is a full on Commie *******. Shame on you. You're all sendin nothing but negative vibes, man.

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From a list of 25 films or so that were either suggested in this thread and a few that I considered in the main tournament but did not make the cut. Put them into a randomizer, took the top 13 added them to Conspiracy, 1941 & Pearl Harbor., randomized again for seeding.

The "NIT" Bracket

• Conspiracy (Trailer) (Parsing Words)
• City of Life and Death (Trailer)
• Battle of the Bulge (1965) (Trailer) (Battle Scenes Compilation)
• Ike: Countdown to D-Day (Full Movie in Parts)
• The Scarlet and The Black (Trailer) (Full Movie)
• Victory (Trailer) (Ending)
• Come and See (Trailer)
• The Unknown Soldier (Tuntematon sotilas) (UK Trailer)
• When Trumpets Fade (Trailer) (Full Movie)
• The Sound of Music (After the Anschluss) (Tearing Down Nazi Flag)
  
• White Christmas (Opening Scene)
• The Book Thief (Trailer) (Featurette)
• 1941 (Trailer) (The Indomitable Capt. Kelso)
• Pearl Harbor (Fan Trailer) (Yank in the RAF)
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Blitz)
• South Pacific (Trailer)

Vote Here for the NIT Bracket

Still time to have your say in Round Two of the Main Event - VOTE HERE!

Awesome job man, I thought I had seen a ton of WWII movies but I was badly mistaken.

Thank you for your efforts.

I don't mean this to be negative or diminish any of your work, but there are a ton of movies that deal either with the resistance or Holocaust that were omitted.

Black Book
The Last Train (Der letzte Zug)
Lauf Junge lauf
Sarah's Key
Remember
Conspiracy

Unless I overlooked it, Escape from Sobibor hasn't been mentioned on this thread. It's a good Rutger Hauer Holocaust film.