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Posted by **Peter** on 20 Mar 2009, 22:01

I recently I bought a DVD with the old version of "300", called "The 300 Spartans". It's a movie from 1961 (on the DVD-box) not so impressive as the new version, but certainly not bad. I found the trailer and here it is:

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If someone else has interesting historical movies that he can recomment, let us know. And put the trailer in this topic. Thanks in advance!

Greetings Peter

Posted by **Martin** on 20 Mar 2009, 22:12

Hi Peter,
Mine is in my signature below:
Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian
Not officially historical but it matched reality of that era.

Posted by **ColeF** on 20 Mar 2009, 22:37

Martin wrote:Hi Peter,
Mine is in my signature below:
Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian
Not officially historical but it matched reality of that era.

Master and Commander is a great movie. My favorite next to the Lord of the Rings.

Posted by **Maurice** on 21 Mar 2009, 10:07

Hi Peter,

I also have that movie on dvd, The 300 Spartans :-D

and I think it's great. A little dated but it tells the story and it is a great resource for painting figures, as far as uniforms are concerned and such.

Gettysburg (1993) about the battle at, is one of my all time favorites:

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Another one is All Quiet On The Western Front (WWI, based on the diary of a German soldier), but be sure to see the original one from 1930, much better than the remake from 1979:

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Posted by **Paul** on 21 Mar 2009, 10:28

I also have the 300 Spartans, historically much better than the 300, but lets face it dated, the new 300 kicks ass.
Heroes and Villians is good, not a film but 6 docu dramas,
Attila
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUT10dZY ... re=related
Shogun
Couldn´t find
Napoleon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la-bbFdKsEA
Richard the Lionheart
couldn´t find
Cortes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opqP8o_u ... re=related.
Alatriste ( with Viggo Mortensen)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnGFjORlcAY
Hannibal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahBq7qrx ... re=related
Gladiator (I like the bit at the beginning when the germans are using the same chant as the zulus in the film Zulu. Oh yeh,
Zulu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWuaSww3JnA
Letters from Iwojima
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d5UX_ZO ... re=related
Does the Series ´Rome´ count?

Posted by **Konrad** on 21 Mar 2009, 16:27

I love samurai movies!
I did a lot of medieval knights,but my true love are the samurais.
Unfortunately, there are not so many figures on this subject in 1:72.

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Posted by **T. Dürrschmidt** on 22 Mar 2009, 19:24

My favourite historical films are:

"Die Brücke" (the bridge). A German film of the 50s about a group of boys defending a bridge in the last days of WW2.

"Saving Private Ryan" It shows the horrors of WW2 in a very realistic way.

"Kingdom of Heaven" for it´s very authentic knights and equipment.

"Gladiator", "Last Samurai" and "The Patriot".....and many more... :thumbup:

I know many of these films have historical mistakes and so on but it is OK, if the film is good in entertaining me.

Posted by **Paul** on 22 Mar 2009, 19:26

I´ll second those Thomas

Posted by **Fenton** on 23 Mar 2009, 00:30

Hmmm to many to tink of but here goes

Quo Vardis

All quiet on the Western Front

Downfall

300 Spartans

Attack

Waterloo

Zulu

I Claudius the Series

A Bridge to Far

Seven Samurai

Longest Day

Cruel Sea

1917

Alexander Nevsky

Kindon of Heaven

Gettysburg

Thats it off the Top of my head

A few Non Fiction titles

The Great War BBC series

The Ken Burns ACW series

No doubt I will think of more

Posted by **The Grumbler** on 23 Mar 2009, 09:29

An old favourite of mine that nobody has mentioned so far would be

"Das Boot" or "The Boat" in English. About the trials and tribulations of a UBoat Crew in the early 1940's.

Plus the classics Battle of Britain and Battle of Midway

There is also a movie I have seen that is a German production. Not sure what it was called but was about Stalingrad from the Germans perspective. Brilliant.

Not to mention Enemy at the Gates, especially the opening scenes

The Grumbler

Posted by **Maurice** on 23 Mar 2009, 09:47

There is also a movie I have seen that is a German production. Not sure what it was called but was about Stalingrad from the Germans perspective. Brilliant.

It was called exactly that "Stalingrad", great movie indeed, much better then "Cross of Iron" which is about the same theme (though also a great movie).

But then "Lost Battalion" should also be in the list, about a WWI US inf bat that gets cut off after a failed offensive.

Posted by **Don_Suhr** on 23 Mar 2009, 17:25

Gladiator
Kingdom of Heaven
Last Samurai
Master and Commander
SHOGUN
Braveheart
The Last Mohican

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I love these soundtrack!

Its sooo wonderful!

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Enjoy guys!

Posted by **je_touche** on 23 Mar 2009, 19:05

War and Peace, directed by Sergey Bondarchuk (though French uniforms are incorrect for 1805 and even for 1812, but I don't care too much in this case :lol:

).

Otherwise not really a fan of historical movies.

Posted by **Peter** on 23 Mar 2009, 22:32

Okay here are some others

55 days at peking

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The Alamo John Wayne

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The Alamo 2004

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Keep on searching for good historical movies and put them up here, thanks guys! :thumbup:

Greetings Peter

Posted by **west1871** on 08 Jul 2009, 07:46

Hi all

not to sure how to post links but will let you know my fav films,

Ice cold in alex (1950s b/w)

Dambusters(just because its great)

An ungentlemanly act (1990s british falklands war film,very good :thumbup:

)

starlingrad (1990s german WW2)

9th company (2000s russian afgan war)

a bridge too far(1970s WW2)

dunkirk (1950s b/w)

waterloo(1970s nap)

zulu / zulu dawn (1960s/70s)

saving private ryan (1997 WW2)

there are some very good tv series aswell,

generation kill (iraq 2000s)

band of brothers (2000s WW2)

peter the great (1980s GRN)

And the great ANZACS which I have just finished watching.
even got a WW1 tank crawling around well worth getting. :thumbup:

Posted by **Paul** on 08 Jul 2009, 16:17

Here´s one for the historically incorrect box, the remake of the Bridge, where a group of german youth defend a bridge somewhere in germany at the end of the IIWW. The best bit(among others ) is of them fighting off a (I think, not to up on tanks really) T72 and a sergeant with a digital watch.!!!!!

Posted by **T. Dürrschmidt** on 08 Jul 2009, 18:04

You are right. For the original 50s film they used tanks made of wood and pulled them with ropes or they had a lorry inside. But this looked quite cool and realistic. The original bridge they produced the movie is in Cham. A town nearby in my area.

That modern tank they used in the new film was really rubbish......as well as the appearance of the US-Army. Can´t help, but something is wrong with their uniforms.

Posted by **Old Wolf** on 08 Jul 2009, 18:28

@Thomas
the whole new movie is rubbish
i prefer the old version. i saw that one first time at school in the 70s as a so called Anti war movie.

Old Wolf

Posted by **Paul** on 08 Jul 2009, 19:53

The original is excellent. Should be obligatory watching in schools. I think the problem with the US troops is that they all look like the same guy, are all to clean and all carry thompsons (and a digital watch)
compare;
End fight scene, The bridge 1 black and white 1959, battle during the day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSiV4JEe ... re=related
end fight scene The bridge 2, Colour, battle at night. How long does that boy fire his MG without burning out the barrel??????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs0ZGJb6A50

Posted by **west1871** on 08 Jul 2009, 20:45

Saw this just before I join up.

if you can watch the whole lot on you tube,do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUTn5jV4 ... e=related#

cheers paul for the help,think you would watch this,emotive.

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