War Movies You Would Like To See Made

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I'd like to see a movie made about the attack on the USS Liberty. This was the greatest unpunished war crime and coverup in modern history.
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The site which was linked (which I won't repeat) is the neo-Nazi site of the sniveling cowards of the National Alliance. That should be all you need to know to draw the appropriate conclusions.

To call the attack on the U.S.S. Liberty (which I believe was intentional) "the greatest unpunished war crime and coverup in modern history", is just one more in an endless series of object lessons in just how mind numbingly stupid neo-Nazis are. 34 Americans were killed in that attack. That means in order for the number killed to equal the victims of the Nazis at the massacre at Oradour sur Glaine, the Israelis would have had to have attacked a ship like the Liberty every day for 19 days. Of course since virtually all of the victims at Oradour sur Glaine were civilians (including 205 children), the Israelis would have had to have attacked nothing but cruise liners.

Of course to equal the number of civilians murdered by the Nazis at Babi Yar, the Israelis would have to bomb a passenger liner a day for 993 days.

No doubt, most people here have never heard of Oradour sur Glaine... obviously a "coverup"...
 
More than a movie, maybe a TV series centering on RE Lee from the time he assumed command of the Army of Virginia. The most interesting aspect in my view would be the interaction between Lee and the politicians and Lee and his Generals.

Fighting scenes would be kept to a minimum with emphasis placed on the impossible and insurmountable challenges confronting Lee. He has to be one of the most tragic figures in history. Unable to forsake Virginia, Christlike in character, and swimming in a corrupt and self destructive social order.
 
The Polar Bear Brigade.

The U.S. doughboys that went into Russia to prop up the White Russians against the Bolshiviks. About 5000 went in to assist the British and the French reopen the eastern front in 1918. They were not withdrawn until June of 1919, eight months after the armistice in France.
The were issued Remington and Westinghouse built Mosins instead of the regular issue Springfields and Enfields, to take advantage of the large stocks of ammunition already in place.
More than 200 died in Russia, almost half from disease and exposure.
 
I'd like two movies:

  1. The charge of the Rhorrim in the final Lord of the Rings movie showed that CGI is to the point where Hollywood can finally show why a cavalry charge was so feared, so I'd like another movie about the battle of Balaclava, complete with the charge of the Heavy Brigade, the Light Brigade and The Thin Red Line.
  2. I'd like to see someone do a Canadian verison of "Band Of Brothers", from Juno Beach (scene of some of the heaviest fighting on the beaches of Normandy) to the defense of Caen (can you say "meat-grinder"?) to the clearing of the Scheldt and on into Holland. There's a lot of history out there that most Canadians don't know about, much less the rest of the world.
 
The U.S. doughboys that went into Russia to prop up the White Russians against the Bolshiviks.
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In Korea in 1980-1981, I was in the 1/31 Infantry (Mechanized). It was part of the Russian Expeditionary Force. The U.S. was mostly there to keep an eye on the Japanese who sent a LOT of troops. The Japanese were hoping to peel off the Russian far east, including Siberia, but their Russian clients were too inept to pull it off.

You could do a movie just of the 1/31 Infantry.

  • Raised in the Philippines - 1916(?)
  • Sent to Russia - 1917(?)
  • Returned to the Philippines - 1919(?)
  • Went to Japan for earthquake relief - 1923
  • Returned to the Philippines - 1923
  • Wiped out by the Japanese - 1942
  • Reformed in Japan - 1945(?)
  • Went to Korea and almost wiped out by the North Koreans - 1950
  • In Korea as part of the 7th and the 2d Infantry Divisions until colors deactivated in the 1980s.
When I was there, they were a serious hard luck unit. We were featured in "Countermeasures", the Army safety magazine for drowning four guys by trying to swim the Han River in flood stage without drain plugs installed in their M113s.

It was called the "U.S. Foreign Legion" because it had NEVER been stationed in the continental United States. The unit greeting was "Pro Patria" after the French Foreign Legion.

After I PCSed, a guy from my company defected to North Korea.
 
A movie about the WWI German strategic bombing of the U.K. with Zeppelins and heavy bombers. There are several good books on the subject, including "The Sky on Fire" by Raymond Fredette.

There's an amazing anecdote of a German Goha bomber which struck a net hanging between two barrage balloons and stopped dead! The weight of the aircraft then slowly overcame the buoyancy of the balloons, gently lowering the bomber to the ground! CGI was invented for that kind of scene in a film.
 
I'll settle for a movie that shows Stalin's Russia for what it really was. Something like "Total Eclipse", only a real movie.
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Opposing movies based on "Stumbling Colossus" and "Ice Breaker".

The first would show how the Soviet military was massacred BEFORE the war by Stalin, and the disastrous consequences in the first days of the war. The second would present author Viktor Suvorov's claim that Hitler and Stalin were in a race to see who could attack the other first, with Hitler just beating out his rival.
 
A movie based on the "Luft '46" computer art collection, showing WWII as it might have been fought if the war had gone into 1946 and the Germans had been able to field more of their advanced weapons. There would be lots of footage of Me262s and He162s attacking U.S. B32s and B36s, as well as German attacks on New York and the Panama Canal with Horten flying wing bombers. It would be a race to see whether Berlin or New York was nuked first.
 
When Japan invaded the islands off Alaska you never hear about this, I saw it on History Channel.
 
There was a good documentary about the Aleutians campaign a few years ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-GA1dWta38

The Japanese were permitted to install a pretty hideous titanium "memorial" right on the spot where they massacred a bunch of our wounded. The vets featured in the film are not happy about it, but nobody remembers the battle or cares about the memory of the fallen. The invasion was pushed to the back pages to keep people from worrying, and the success at Midway overshadowed it. But it is pretty disgusting that so few Americans even know we were actually invaded by the Japanese during WWII--or that we had a devil of a time getting them out.
 
But it is pretty disgusting that so few Americans even know we were actually invaded by the Japanese during WWII--or that we had a devil of a time getting them out.
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Or that it was one of those vanishingly rare occasions (along with Guadalcanal) where the Japanese didn't throw good after bad, sensibly evacuating Kiska when it became glaringly obvious that it was neither defensible, nor worth defending. The Japanese made a movie about it called "The Retreat from Kiska" (I remember the title as "Escape from Kiska"), starring Toshiro Mifune.
 
I spent a year on Attu Island in the 90's, along with 22 men and a dog. It was our regular practice to stop and take a leak on the Japanese memorial any time we 4-wheeled up the pass. There's also a smaller Japanese memorial in another spot for the Japanese Colonel who commanded. This one has his picture under glass which made a good target for taking a leak. This is the guy who executed the school teacher and shipped the villagers off to slave labor camps.

I think the greatest American battle of WWII was Mortain. About 2000 infantry troops stopped three SS Panzer Divisions and one Wehrmacht Panzer Division cold. The GI's suffered about 65% casualty rates. 12 hours after the battle started, one company that had started with 155 men, had 13 men left (almost all wounded) and they were still holding their ground and fighting. These few infantry troops crushed 4 German armored Divisions with little more than Garands, Mortars and a few light AT weapons. It's impossible, but it happened.

It would make a terrific film because it all took place in one tiny area.

http://www.amazon.com/Battle-Mortain-Infantry-Division-Breakout/dp/0891416625
 
Urinating on a war dead memorial?
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What did those "war dead" do, before they GOT dead?

The Japanese still lionize convicted war criminals.

I suppose you'd be outraged if there were an SS "war dead memorial" at Babi Yar and somebody urinated on THAT...
 
What did those "war dead" do, before they GOT dead?
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Invaded the US, murdered a schoolteacher and shipped an entire American village off as slave labor in the coal mines of northern Japan - less than half survived the war, dying of starvation and tuberculosis. Then (in the battle), they attacked a hospital, murdered the doctors and nurses and slaughtered the patients in their beds.

I only regret that I never needed to make a bowel movement.
 
Murdered a schoolteacher and shipped an entire American village off as slave labor in the coal mines of northern Japan. Less than half survived the war, dying of starvation and tuberculosis.
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I'm sure that ultra-rightwing Japanese would say that the schoolteacher and the islanders VOLUNTEERED to be beheaded and worked to death as slave labor, respectively, you know, the way that thousands of Korean and Chinese girls (as young as twelve) VOLUNTEERED to be gang raped, infected with venereal diseases, and killed in various combat zones... kind of in the way in which 300,000 Chinese in Nanking VOLUNTEERED to be raped, mutilated and murdered.
 
Ironically lots of Japanese and German grunts didn't volunteer to be fed through the massive WWII meat grinder either.
 
Guys - this whole thread is dangerously close to off-topic; let's not make that fact so stunningly obvious that we're forced to lock it down.
 
I'd like to see a comprehensive movie about The Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union.
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There's a well known one called Talvisota, "The Winter War," and has recently (finally) been put out in mostly unedited form on DVD. It's from the late 80's, but presages much of what HBO did with "Band of Brothers, following a unit of men through the whole conflict in great detail:

http://www.amazon.com/Winter-War-TA...ef=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1276977752&sr=8-2

Red Army Christmas Present:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUbV7VTiJ8s
 
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