Old Films about World War 2- What do you recommend?

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So I've gone down a bit of a rabbit hole regarding Black and White films made about WW2 and would like some suggestions on what films I can watch next.

So far I have watched:

Gift Horse
The Wooden Horse
The Hill
King Rat
Stalag 17
The Colditz Story
The Way Ahead
Ice Cold In Alex

So what do you recommend?
 
Carve Her Name With Pride
Odette (Trivia point, the character played by Trevor Howard in this (Peter Churchill) has an uncredited cameo in a scene with Peter Ustinov)
Went The Day Well?
The Longest Day
 
Colonel Blimp is a wonderful film, I love I was Monty’s Double. And San Demetro London too! There is also a good film starring Michael Rennie where the polish resistance recover a crashed doodlebug.
 
redbaron said:
Carve Her Name With Pride
Odette (Trivia point, the character played by Trevor Howard in this (Peter Churchill) has an uncredited cameo in a scene with Peter Ustinov)
Went The Day Well?
The Longest Day
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Haven't seen "Carve Her Name with Pride" so added to the list, after a quick google seems I have seen "Went The Day Well?" which I though was a great film I just couldn't remember the name!

something daft already!! said:
The Desert Rats is one of my all time favourites.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045679/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Watched this last night, thought it was pretty good!

Also discovered another one called "A Captive Heart" which has been added to the watch pile
 
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You've probably seen most of these but just in case:

Dunkirk (John Mills & Richard Attenborough - not the new one).
First of the Few (also known as Spitfire - David Niven)
The Dambusters
'Pimpernel' Smith
In Which We Serve
Sink the Bismark
Night Train to Munich
 
B/W films only as requested -

The Longest Day (would love to see the coloured version just out of interest - found a crappy VHS version ages ago but quality was poor)
Sing The Bismark
The Dambusters
Cockleshell Heroes
 
Putty said:
You've probably seen most of these but just in case:

Dunkirk (John Mills & Richard Attenborough - not the new one).
First of the Few (also known as Spitfire - David Niven)
In Which We Serve
Sink the Bismark
Night Train to Munich
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Ceryndrion said:
Ice Cold In Alex
Bridge too far
run silent, run deep
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varkanoid said:
B/W films only as requested -
Cockleshell Heroes
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Malevolence said:
Where Eagles Dare
The Battle of the River Plate
Heroes of Telemark
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Terminal_Boy said:
The Cruel Sea.
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All added to the pile (even the odd sneaky colour film)


robfosters said:
I never knew they did a musical version
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Neither did I and I have no inclination to watch it
 
redbaron said:
Carve Her Name With Pride
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To cut a long story very short, the old bloke who lived at the back of me was displaying a load of medals in his hallway and one was a Victoria Cross which belonged to his Dad who at that time was around 96.
AFAIK there was only one Victoria Cross winner in Stoke named Jack Baskeyfield who was my Dad's Uncle but this guy said there were two more who belonged to the SOE and his Dad used to be one.
On my way out he grabbed Carve Her Name With Pride and told me to watch it because that is what his Dad did.

About 2 years later I saw a Sotheby's auction where a Victoria Cross went up for sale and it reached a hefty price so I took the news article round to him to make him take it off the wall.
 
Tobruk.
The Eagle Has Landed.
Battleground.

While not really related to the grander scheme, Escape From Sobibor deserves to be seen.
 
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