I finally got a chance to watch Bernhard Wicki's famous anti-war movie The Bridge - Die Brücke, in which a group of sixteen-year-old high school students fights to keep a bridge. Fighting for - or destroying - bridges is one of the great war movie tropes. Unsurprisingly so, because, like hills, they are strategic points of highest [...]
The Great Raid, starring James Franco, Benjamin Bratt, Joseph Fiennes and Connie Nielsen, tells the story of the raid at Cabanatuan, on the island of Luzon, Philippines, in January 1945. The story is based on a true story. The movie begins with original footage and a voice telling us what had happened before. In 1944 [...]
This post is meant to make you aware that while British TV Series The Bletchley Circle is well wort watching for its wonderful post WWII period feel, it's not a war movie, nor has it anything to do with Bletchley Park per se. If you're interested in a movie on the code breakers at Bletcheley, then [...]
I love this movie. I can't believe I didn't rewatch it earlier. When I started this blog I wrote a Top 10 favourite war movies list and Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot was one of them. I'm glad to say that after rewatching it, it's still among my Top 10, even among my Top 3. I don't think [...]
