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October 14th, 2011, 03:35 AM
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#21 | | nonpareil
Joined: Aug 2010 From: Wessex Posts: 7,841 |
The Battle of Borodino in Sergei Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace' (1965); a resolutely ungamorized portrayal of an old pitched battle as a kind of surreal hell. The quality is poor here, but it gives a rough idea: | | | 
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October 14th, 2011, 06:54 AM
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#22 | | Suspended indefinitely
Joined: Aug 2010 From: Central Macedonia Posts: 17,763 | | | | |
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October 14th, 2011, 07:05 AM
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#23 | | Historian ¤ Member of the Year ¤
Joined: Sep 2011 From: UK Posts: 14,612 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Thessalonian  | Good choice!
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October 14th, 2011, 07:08 AM
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#24 | | Historian
Joined: Mar 2011 From: Bedfordshire,England. Posts: 5,553 |
The final fight at Rorke's Drift between the British and the Zulu's,in 'Zulu'.
Classic,stirring stuff...makes me proud.
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October 14th, 2011, 07:18 AM
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#25 | | Making Dennis Leary Proud
Joined: Jul 2010 From: Georgia, USA Posts: 5,217 |
How about some real war film... John Ford's filming of the real Japanese air attack on Midway. Wilder's Memphis Belle documentary... one of the B-17's shown falling from the sky had one of his cameramen on board.
One scene I have always remembered is a bit obscure to most. It a scene from The Glenn Miller Story starring Jimmy Stewart. His band is giving a public concert in a park in London and had just started "In the Mood" when air raid warnings started blaring. It was a V-1 buzz bomb. Miller kept the band playing as the bomb droned overhead. When the motor cut out, he kept the band softly vamping in the silence until the bomb exploded, then let it rip the iconic swing song full bore. The crowd went nuts. Can't say it really happened, but it was a nice scene.
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October 23rd, 2011, 05:32 AM
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#26 | | Historian
Joined: Apr 2010 From: USA Posts: 1,125 |
Gonna stray away from a 'battle' scene and pick two from the same movie: Pirates of Silicone Valley. I cannot find one of the scene with Bill Gates talking with IBM, but its one of those moments that the movie stops and frames the moment, stating that this moment should have been recorded as the moment Microsoft became a giant. | | | |
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October 23rd, 2011, 05:38 AM
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#27 | | Historian
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October 23rd, 2011, 09:28 AM
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#28 | | Priest of Baʿal Hammon
Joined: Apr 2010 From: Oxford Posts: 3,315 |
The awesome last fight of 13 Assassins.
Can't find any clip to it, but here's the trailer for the film. | | | |
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October 23rd, 2011, 02:31 PM
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#29 | | Archivist
Joined: Feb 2011 From: Cairo Posts: 198 |
The Thin Red Line , in my opinion one of the greatest war movies in history. Specifically the Final scene the one at the riverbed,wont say any more i'd spoil it. The Thin Red Line - Trailer - (1998) - HQ - YouTube | |
Last edited by Bebars; October 23rd, 2011 at 02:39 PM.
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October 23rd, 2011, 03:22 PM
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#30 | | Scholar
Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 934 |
Troy- Brad Pitt  | |
Last edited by docyabut; October 23rd, 2011 at 03:32 PM.
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