| Best ww2 films for a 10 year old 14:31 - Sep 10 with 7408 views | giant_stow |
about to learn that bit of history?
I use to love them, but my minds gone blank - I can only think of Where Eagles Dare, Battle of Medway, Guns of Navarone.... |  |
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| Best ww2 films for a 10 year old on 15:54 - Sep 11 with 735 views | Keno |
| Best ww2 films for a 10 year old on 14:54 - Sep 11 by ElephantintheRoom |
You see to be something of a plane buff.
Care to hazard a guess (or well-informed answer) to this old chestnut….
What feat has been achieved by at least five Luftwaffe pilots - and by pilots from the USA, Pakistan, Viêt Nam, Iran, Iraq, Israel…and even Ethiopia - but never by an RAF pilot? |
In a pre-franchise era of corinthian sport did they play for their local football team? |  |
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| Best ww2 films for a 10 year old on 17:11 - Sep 11 with 686 views | ElephantintheRoom |
| Best ww2 films for a 10 year old on 14:36 - Sep 11 by Perublue |
i imagine you would be interested in the Hannibal Elephas maximus film ? |
Funnily enough I do have a first edition of the book - somewhat bizarrely a first wedding anniversary present from my mum to my dad that must have brought back a few unpleasant memories
As to the film - maybe not the drunkard’s hour and a half! |  |
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| Best ww2 films for a 10 year old on 17:13 - Sep 11 with 686 views | ElephantintheRoom |
| Best ww2 films for a 10 year old on 15:19 - Sep 11 by Churchman |
Second paragraph: not accurate. It fails to recognise that without huge allied material support, Russia would probably have lost. That’s before the war conducted by the the allies against Germany. |
You forget the T-34 and 24 million war dead | |
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| Best ww2 films for a 10 year old on 17:15 - Sep 11 with 684 views | ElephantintheRoom |
| Best ww2 films for a 10 year old on 15:43 - Sep 11 by Churchman |
No idea. More than five jet kills? |
You’ve aced it | |
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| Best ww2 films for a 10 year old on 17:32 - Sep 11 with 675 views | Churchman |
| Best ww2 films for a 10 year old on 17:13 - Sep 11 by ElephantintheRoom |
You forget the T-34 and 24 million war dead |
No, I didn't forget the T34, especially given it was one of the best medium tanks of the war. In many ways really advanced for its time. At the start of Barbarossa, the Russians had about 1000 T34s in service. Far better than German tanks, virtually all were lost in weeks due to poor use and tactics, mechanical problems and lack of battlefield recovery and repair.
The scale of loss is not the overriding measure of winning a war and nor is it the only measure of contribution. The U.K. and US chose mechanisation over human wave style sacrifice of men. Lessons of WW1 were fully learned. Russia and indeed Germany did not. Dictatorships have no regard to the loss of human life. Looking at that miserable bit of filth Putin, somethings never change.
Russia did not have to fight a world war either, unlike the allies. |  | | |
| Best ww2 films for a 10 year old on 18:18 - Sep 11 with 659 views | Trequartista |
'allo 'allo box set |  |
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| Best ww2 films for a 10 year old on 18:53 - Sep 11 with 636 views | Churchman |
| Best ww2 films for a 10 year old on 18:18 - Sep 11 by Trequartista |
'allo 'allo box set |
What about It Ain’t Half Hot Mum and Dads Army? | | | |
| Best ww2 films for a 10 year old on 22:25 - Sep 11 with 595 views | WeWereZombies |
| Best ww2 films for a 10 year old on 13:33 - Sep 11 by BondiBlue |
What do you want to focus on? The history (what happened when) or how horrible war is? Older films do the history well and skip past the horrors. Battle of britain, a bridge too far and the longest day were my favourites. The newer ones zero in a bit more on the soldier's experience and tell a much more personal story. The opening 5 mins of saving private ryan will knock his socks off and the concentration camp episode of band of brothers will get him asking a few questions. If he loves adventure, get him reading the alistair maclean books - where eagles dare, guns of the navarone etc. I always thought the books were way better than the movies. |
Not a film about the Allied war experience but one with a decent lead in to the type of pressures that were forming before the war, plus a father and son put into a concentration camp, and all done with the maximum comedic value possible - whether that was successful has been hotly debated ever since it was made:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118799/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_Life%2520is%
And it's rated PG |  |
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