Top Movies to Watch Over Memorial Day
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Not a movie but I just finished watching a National Geographic show on Berga, Hitler's G.I. Death Camp, which I had never heard of before.
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/explorer/articles/facts-hitlers-gi-death-camp/
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/explorer/articles/facts-hitlers-gi-death-camp/
Tora, Tora, Tora is on. I am partial to Battle of the Bulge with Henry Fonda. Kinda hokie but I like it.
At 5pm today on THIS-TV channel they are airing the 5 hour director's cut of Das Boot.
It's a long way to Tipperary....
It's a long way to Tipperary....
One of my favorites. Yesterday, PBS had excellent documentaries on Pearl Harbor and the Normandy invasion that I hadn't seen.
Kelly's Heroes! 
Or Midway!! Seen than one on the big screen back in the mid 70's at the old Airport road theater in Huntsville with my dad.
Or Midway!! Seen than one on the big screen back in the mid 70's at the old Airport road theater in Huntsville with my dad.
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Arguably the greatest example of divine intervention in military affairs ever.
God just willed the US to win that one. Big. (Which is not to take anything away from the courage and skill of the men who fought the battle).
5 hours?
The movie theater on DuPont Circle in DC used to show second-run movies for $2. They would also show double features. They would show Das Boot and Apocalypse Now back to back. Man. Talk about depressing.
I would add my favorites, Where Eagles Dare, The Longest Day, Ride with the Devil, The Green Berets, and (not US, but gut wrenching soldier's eye view of war) The Cross of Iron.
Yeah....5 hours.
1/2 hour to go.
Gotta say...this director's cut edition is WELL WORTH watching if you enjoyed the movie.
It's the same movie...but better.....more content, obviously. Some scenes that weren't in the regular version as well.
I'm of German heritage (hard to believe with the last name of Schultz, I know) so it makes it that much more endearing....
If I recall, that film starts with a statistic: "During WW II, 40,000 German sailors went to sea in German U-boats. 30,000 never returned home."
Holy smokes.
Good one. I was in a situation once where I used the line about body oils and dirt making one waterproof. Alas, I had to explain the quote due to the youth of the troops present.
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