"Brett" > wrote in message
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> "Richard Johnson" > wrote:
> > OK, I've seen Stalag 17, The Great Escape, and Hart's War. I thoroughly
> > enjoyed the first two, read up on the facts and researched the
background
> to
> > the movies. Hart's War I thought was well written for the suspense and
> > subplots, except for the ending and some historical liberties, it was
OK.
> >
> > What other movies of similiar genre are out there? That are worth
> watching?
>
> I'm surprised no one mentioned "Das Boot".

Probably because its not a POW movie.

"George Shirley" > wrote in message
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> Keith Willshaw wrote:
>

> Did you see the documentary where the old boys actually built and one
> flew a replica glider? Brought tears to my eyes, they actually could
> have done it.
>

As I recall it actually flew rather well.

Keith




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"Bob Tenney" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 15:26:31 -0400, "Richard Johnson"
> > wrote:
>
> >OK, I've seen Stalag 17, The Great Escape, and Hart's War. I thoroughly
> >enjoyed the first two, read up on the facts and researched the background
to
> >the movies. Hart's War I thought was well written for the suspense and
> >subplots, except for the ending and some historical liberties, it was OK.
> >
> >
> La Grande Illusion. Simply superb. Its about French POWs in the Great
> War but also about the end of the old Europe.

Was that the one with Eric Von Stroheim as the camp commander ?

Keith




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Another worth mentioning, also historical, but so gut-wrenching I can
watch it every 5-10 years, is "The Highest Honor", produced by a joint
Australian-Japanese team. It documents both the combat story of a
deep-raiding Australian unit, and then how both sides are unwillingly
caught up in the highest traditions of their own cultures. It's classic
tragedy worthy of any of the Greek masters.

Bob Tenney wrote:
>>
> La Grande Illusion. Simply superb. Its about French POWs in the Great
> War but also about the end of the old Europe.


Paradise Road... about a group of allied women imprisoned by the Japanese on
Sumatra. Based on a true story...



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN


http://www.mortimerschnerd.com

"Keith Willshaw" > wrote:
> "Brett" > wrote in message
> ws.com...
> > "ArtKramr" > wrote:
>
> > > >I'm surprised no one mentioned "Das Boot".
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > All quiet on the Western Front
> >
> > Wrong war, check the subject line.
> >
>
> Pot Kettle Black
>
> Last time I checked Das Boot wasnt a POW movie

You're right, I should have gone to bed instead of posting. So something
closer to the requirements might be "Paradise Road" with Glenn Close. A
story about women interned as enemy aliens by the Japanese.

"Howard Berkowitz" > wrote in message
...
> Another worth mentioning, also historical, but so gut-wrenching I can
> watch it every 5-10 years, is "The Highest Honor", produced by a joint
> Australian-Japanese team. It documents both the combat story of a
> deep-raiding Australian unit, and then how both sides are unwillingly
> caught up in the highest traditions of their own cultures. It's classic
> tragedy worthy of any of the Greek masters.

Is that the one about the unit using the limpet mines to attack Japanese
shipping, where the mass execution occurs at the end? ISTR it was supposed
to be based upon factual events?

Brooks

"Kevin Brooks" > wrote in message
...
|
| "Howard Berkowitz" > wrote in message
| ...
| > Another worth mentioning, also historical, but so gut-wrenching I can
| > watch it every 5-10 years, is "The Highest Honor", produced by a joint
| > Australian-Japanese team. It documents both the combat story of a
| > deep-raiding Australian unit, and then how both sides are unwillingly
| > caught up in the highest traditions of their own cultures. It's classic
| > tragedy worthy of any of the Greek masters.
|
| Is that the one about the unit using the limpet mines to attack Japanese
| shipping, where the mass execution occurs at the end? ISTR it was supposed
| to be based upon factual events?
|
| Brooks
|
|



Absolutely, Google for 'Operation Jaywick'



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Cheers


Dave Kearton

"Dave Kearton" > wrote in
message ...
> "Kevin Brooks" > wrote in message
> ...
> |
> | "Howard Berkowitz" > wrote in message
> | ...
> | > Another worth mentioning, also historical, but so gut-wrenching I can
> | > watch it every 5-10 years, is "The Highest Honor", produced by a joint
> | > Australian-Japanese team. It documents both the combat story of a
> | > deep-raiding Australian unit, and then how both sides are unwillingly
> | > caught up in the highest traditions of their own cultures. It's
classic
> | > tragedy worthy of any of the Greek masters.
> |
> | Is that the one about the unit using the limpet mines to attack Japanese
> | shipping, where the mass execution occurs at the end? ISTR it was
supposed
> | to be based upon factual events?
> |
> | Brooks
> |
> |
>
>
>
> Absolutely, Google for 'Operation Jaywick'

Thanks.

Brooks
>
>
>
> --
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Dave Kearton
>
>

"Richard Johnson" > wrote in message
.. .
> OK, I've seen Stalag 17, The Great Escape, and Hart's War. I thoroughly
> enjoyed the first two, read up on the facts and researched the background
to
> the movies. Hart's War I thought was well written for the suspense and
> subplots, except for the ending and some historical liberties, it was OK.
>
> What other movies of similiar genre are out there? That are worth
watching?
>
> Thanks.

Von Ryan's Express

>From: Marc Reeve
>Date: 8/9/2004 6:47 PM Central Daylight Time
>Message-id: >
>
>B2431 wrote:
>
>>>From: "Richard Johnson"
>>>Date: 8/8/2004 4:32 PM Central Daylight Time
>>>Message-id: >
>>>
>>>To be honest, I prefer reading biographies and autobiographies as well as a
>>>good factual histories on WW2 (and other topics).
>>>
>>>But once and a while you just want to kick back and watch a good war movie,
>>>despite non-historical motivations and distortion of the truth. With the
>>>Great Escape, I got out Brickhill's book, an autobiography by Jerry Sage,
>>>and a few other histories of the real Great Escape and watched the movie
>>>with an informed background, and tried to tie in all the amalgamated
>>>characters. The fact that Wally Floody was the technical advisor for the
>>>film helped push its authenticity. But, even still, personalities like
>Steve
>>>McQueen forced some distortion of the facts. But, at least the famed
>>>motorcycle chase made the film a little more attractive to the younger
>>>crowds, and if it takes a little stretching of the truth to interest people
>>>in such historical events, perhaps even getting them to read more, then I
>>>think it is worth the price.
>>
>>
>> In fact while the Yanks helped dig the tunnels they were no longer in the
>camp
>> at the time of the break out. The mass shootings near the end were a
>> simplification. The 50 were murdered in 2s and 3s.
>>
>They (Yanks) were still in the camp but they had been moved to a
>separate compound.
>--
>Marc Reeve

I stand corrected. I read Brickhill's book years ago and I forgot that point.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

"A Man Escaped", (English title) 1957
"French Resistance activist Andre Devigny is imprisoned by the Nazis, and
devotes his waking hours to planning an elaborate escape. Then, on the same
day, he is condemned to death, and given a new cellmate. Should he kill him, or
risk revealing his plans to someone who may be a Gestapo informer?"

It's basically one long escape sequence--the suspence is incredible; the title
does not give it away, because there's a choice involved.

On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 02:35:34 GMT, Andrew Chaplin
> wrote:

[stuff snipped]

>
>A different take on being a "prisoner" in wartime is Sidney Lumet's
>"The Hill", with Sean Connery, Michael Redgrave, Harry Andrews and
>Ossie Davis in a British desert "glass house".

That's a great film.

Another POW film is "The McKenzie Break", with a murderous U-boat crew
plotting to break out of a POW camp in Scotland, and their commander
(Helmut Griem) matching wills with the investigating Irish officer
played by Brian Keith.

John Hairell )

"John Kunkel" > wrote:

>"Richard Johnson" > wrote in message
.. .
>> OK, I've seen Stalag 17, The Great Escape, and Hart's War. I thoroughly
>> enjoyed the first two, read up on the facts and researched the background
>to
>> the movies. Hart's War I thought was well written for the suspense and
>> subplots, except for the ending and some historical liberties, it was OK.
>>
>> What other movies of similiar genre are out there? That are worth
>watching?
>
>Probably not considered a POW movie but of the same genre, try Paradise
>Road; women in a Japanese internment camp.

What about Von Ryan's Express? Typical melodrama I know, but still very well
done. Of course there's Bridge Over the River Kwai--and in that same vein, the
more modern Empire of the Sun and Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence.

Stephen "FPilot" Bierce/IPMS #35922
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"John Kunkel" > wrote in message
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>
> "Richard Johnson" > wrote in message
> .. .
> > OK, I've seen Stalag 17, The Great Escape, and Hart's War. I thoroughly
> > enjoyed the first two, read up on the facts and researched the
background
> to
> > the movies. Hart's War I thought was well written for the suspense and
> > subplots, except for the ending and some historical liberties, it was
OK.
> >
> > What other movies of similiar genre are out there? That are worth
> watching?


Not quite a movie (a television mini-series) but "A Town Like Alice" from
the novel by Neville Shute (Neville Shute Norway).

Tex

"Tex Houston" > wrote in message
...
>

>
>
> Not quite a movie (a television mini-series) but "A Town Like Alice" from
> the novel by Neville Shute (Neville Shute Norway).
>

There was a movie version made in 1956 starring Virginia
McKenna and Peter Finch, I believe the title was changed
to The Rape of Malaya for the US release.

Keith

U¿ytkownik "Keith Willshaw" > napisa³
w wiadomo¶ci ...
>
> "Richard Johnson" > wrote in message
> .. .
> > OK, I've seen Stalag 17, The Great Escape, and Hart's War. I
thoroughly
> > enjoyed the first two, read up on the facts and researched the
background to
> > the movies. Hart's War I thought was well written for the suspense
and
> > subplots, except for the ending and some historical liberties, it
was OK.

> > What other movies of similiar genre are out there? That are worth
watching?

> The Colditz Story has always been a favourite of mine.

I'm surprised that nobody mentioned 'The King of Rats' based on
Clavell's novell.

JasiekS
Warsaw, Poland

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 18:47:41 +0200, "JasiekS"
> wrote:


>I'm surprised that nobody mentioned 'The King of Rats' based on
>Clavell's novell.
>
>JasiekS

That would be "King Rat" and probably more than a little bit
biographical, since Clavell spent a little bit of time in Changi.

And, while we're in that region, how about "Bridge on the River Kwai"?



Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
"Phantom Flights, Bangkok Nights"
Both from Smithsonian Books
***www.thunderchief.org

In article >, Ed Rasimus
> wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 18:47:41 +0200, "JasiekS"
> > wrote:
>
>
> >I'm surprised that nobody mentioned 'The King of Rats' based on
> >Clavell's novell.
> >
> >JasiekS
>
> That would be "King Rat" and probably more than a little bit
> biographical, since Clavell spent a little bit of time in Changi.
>
> And, while we're in that region, how about "Bridge on the River Kwai"?
>

"Bridge on the River Kwai" is one of the very, very few movies that I
considered better done than the book -- and it wasn't a bad book.

The most gut-wrenching movie of which I'm aware, which I can only watch
every several years, is "The Highest Honor". Let me simply say it was
based on historical incidents, and produced by a joint
Australian-Japanese company. Never was higher classic tragedy written
by any of the ancient Greek masters.

"13 Rue Madeleine"

Not all that historically accurate, but a good movie nevertheless was
"The Great Escape." I preferred the book of "Von Ryan's Express", but
it was a decent movie.