Top 25 British War Films

We may argue all day in regards to the definition of Britishness in warfare movies however everyone knows what it means. That is the Assume Defence record of the Prime 25 British Struggle Movies

The definition of a British Struggle Movie is one that’s largely British in character, they could have been directed by non-British administrators, or have non-British actors within the forged. and should even have been made in Hollywood or elsewhere, however they keep that factor of Britishness that all of us perceive.

So no Das Boot, Saving Non-public Ryan or Apocalypse Now, sorry people.

The judging standards don’t embrace historic accuracy, whether or not the proper buttons and rank insignia had been worn, or whether or not the movie is a ‘visceral and worthy portrayal of the realities of warfare’ or another such artsy bollocks, as an alternative, it’s merely enjoyability for a moist Sunday afternoon in. 

It isn’t a listing for the movie buff, historian or the yoghurt-weaving wheatgrass smoothy sorts for them to bemoan the inhumanity and pointlessness of warfare.

Most of those have a again story that’s pretty much as good as, if not higher, than the movie.

The Assume Defence Prime 25 British Struggle Movies

25 – Breaker Morant

Breaker Morant (1980)
Drama, Historical past, Struggle | 107min | July 3, 1980 (Australia)


7.9

Director: Bruce BeresfordAuthor: Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens, Bruce BeresfordStars: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John WatersAbstract: Throughout the Boer Struggle, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for taking pictures Boer prisoners. Although they acted below orders, they’re getting used as scapegoats by the Normal Employees, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the warfare. The trial doesn’t progress as easily as anticipated by the Normal Employees, because the defence places up a powerful struggle within the courtroom. —Kasper Sevaj

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A extremely good movie, what else is there to say?

Main Thomas: The barbarities of warfare are seldom dedicated by irregular males. The tragedy of warfare is that these horrors are dedicated by regular males in irregular conditions.

Edward Woodward and Bryan Brown are glorious.

The tip scene, bloody hell, lip-wobbling stuff

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaker_Morant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaker_Morant_(movie)

24 – The Heroes of Telemark

Director: Anthony MannAuthor: Ivan Moffat, Ben Barzman, Harold PinterStars: Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla JacobssonAbstract: Set in German-occupied Norway, that is an embellished account of the outstanding efforts of the Norwegian resistance to sabotage the German growth of the atomic bomb. Resistance fighter Knut Straud (Richard Harris) enlists the reluctant physicist Dr. Rolf Pedersen (Kirk Douglas) in an effort to destroy the German heavy water manufacturing plant close to the village of Rjukan in rural Telemark. Within the course of, Pedersen discovers that his ex-wife Anna (Ulla Jacobsson) and her uncle (Sir Michael Redgrave) have additionally joined the resistance. British commandos dispatched to destroy the plant are killed when their glider hits the mountainside at evening. An improvised raid by the resistance ends within the partial destruction of the heavy water canisters, however the contingency plans of Reichskommissar Terboven (Eric Porter) allow the Germans to renew manufacturing rapidly. Pedersen needs to suggest to London that the Allies bomb the plant. Straud opposes him due to the potential dying toll on Norwegian civilians and a struggle ensues. They ship in separate suggestions, and the air raid takes place, but it surely fails to destroy the heavy water. A Norwegian traitor offers away the resistance hideout, and Anna’s uncle is killed. The Germans load the canisters onto a ferry for cargo to Germany, and the resistance rig explosives to sink the ferry within the fjord. Because the ferry is about to depart, it’s boarded by the widow and child of certainly one of Pedersen’s and Straud’s colleagues. Pedersen boards the ferry and organizes a kids’s sport of “lifejacket” with the intention to reduce civilian deaths. This film closes with resistance members rescuing passengers because the ferry sinks. —Peter Grosvenor

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The surroundings, Kirk Douglas’ chin, and the bit on the boat with the youngsters, nail-biting. Not notably stuffed with memorable quotes although!

Terboven: Winston Churchill is puffing an additional huge cigar in the present day. And we snicker at him. Why? As a result of all these containers, which the British did a lot to destroy, have already been pre-fabricated in Berlin. They’re already on their method right here and can be put in by tomorrow.

Nilssen: That’s… I have to say that’s incredible effectivity!

Terboven: Don’t you ever make the error of under-rating the Germans. By Easter we may have not merely 10000 kilos of heavy water, however 12000 kilos of heavy water.

An old-school warfare movie however one made particularly attention-grabbing by the again story, Hitler’s aspirations for atomic weapons and the at-all-cost effort to thwart them.

A documentary

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heroes_of_Telemark

http://www.moviemistakes.com/film1779

23 – The Dam Busters

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Particular results, questionable, however some basic quotes, the immortal Dambusters March music beloved of England soccer followers all over the place and the finest Carling Black Label advert ever.

Official, Ministry of Plane Manufacturing: You say you want a Wellington Bomber for take a look at drops. They’re price their weight in gold. Do you actually assume the authorities will lend you one? What doable argument may I put ahead to get you a Wellington?

Barnes Wallace: Effectively, in case you informed them I designed it, do you assume which may assist?

Maybe better of all, it’s a pretty unvarnished account of the precise operation.

And naturally, that advert

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dam_Busters_(movie)

http://www.timeout.com/london/movie/the-dam-busters

https://www.gov.uk/authorities/information/dambusters-raid-remembered

22 – The Weapons of Navarone

The Weapons of Navarone (1961)
Motion, Journey, Drama, Struggle | 158min | April 28, 1961 (United Kingdom)


7.5

Director: J. Lee ThompsonAuthor: Alistair MacLean, Carl ForemanStars: David Niven, Gregory Peck, Anthony QuinnAbstract: In 1943, the British Navy just isn’t in a position to rescue 2,000 troopers trapped within the Island of Kheros since two highly effective German cannons on the highest of the Navarone Island are sinking the Allied vessels. After a failed aerial assault, the Allied command resolve to ship a six-man crew disguised as fishermen to Navarone to blow-up the weapons. The squad is commanded by Maj. Roy Franklin and composed by Capt. Keith Mallory, who’s an skilled mountain climber, and his former companion Col. Andrea Stavros; the explosive knowledgeable Cpl. John Anthony Miller; the engineer CPO ‘Butcher’ Brown; and the Greek murderer Spyros Pappadimos, who was born in Navarone. They sail in the course of the evening and after an encounter with a German patrol boat and a storm within the sea, they arrive to Navarone and Capt. Mallory must climb a cliff face throughout a heavy wet evening to proceed their mission. Will they succeed? —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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It’s merely a basic.

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In musical type

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guns_of_Navarone_(movie)

http://www.moviemistakes.com/film576

21 – Hannibal Brooks

Hannibal Brooks (1969)
Comedy, Journey, Struggle, Motion | 101min | March 30, 1969 (United Kingdom)


6.6

Director: Michael WinnerAuthor: Michael Winner, Tom Wright, Dick ClementStars: Oliver Reed, John Alderton, Michael J. PollardAbstract: In WW2, captured British soldier Stephen Brooks is on a jail prepare to Germany.On the prepare he meets an American prisoner, Packy, who’s obsessive about escaping.Brooks tries to mood Packy and reminds him that escaped prisoners are shot if recaptured.Packy is insistent regardless of Brooks’ warnings. On arrival on the POW camp Stalag 7A, Brooks and different fellow POWs are despatched to work on the native Munich zoo, to take care of the animals.Brooks is assigned to take care of Lucy the elephant.The German caretaker in control of Lucy is requested to coach Brooks in his new job.At first, Brooks hates the task, contemplating the massive quantity of animal waste to be cleaned day by day.Nevertheless, he finally turns into hooked up to Lucy the elephant.After a devastating bombing raid that kills a number of the animals and zoo workers it’s determined to evacuate the surviving animals.Lucy is scheduled to be transported by prepare to Innsbruck, Austria.On the departure day, the prepare is commandeered by a moody SS Colonel, for his troops.The colonel jokes that Brooks can stroll the elephant all the best way to Austria, if he needs.The joke offers Brooks the concept of strolling the elephant to Austria, with two armed guards and a Polish maid as cook dinner.The Munich Zoo director, frightened for Lucy’s security, agrees to evacuate her and ship her to Austria on foot.Two troopers present the armed guard.One is Willy,a pleasant Austrian soldier, and the opposite is Kurt,a brutal German soldier who will get drunk usually, insults everybody and threatens to shoot the elephant.The group leaves Munich on a sunny day however the voyage to Austria is not a promenade within the park after they begin working into bother. —nufs68

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Not many would come with this in a listing however I prefer it, nice performances all spherical, is inconspicuous, and is simply an fulfilling movie with a pleasant ending.

It has an elephant in it.

The total movie can be generally accessible on YouTube

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Not a lot to be taught to be sincere!

20 – Grasp and Commander

Director: Peter WeirAuthor: Patrick O’Brian, Peter Weir, John ColleeStars: Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, Billy BoydAbstract: In April 1805 in the course of the Napoleonic Wars, H.M.S. Shock, a British frigate, is below the command of Captain Jack Aubrey. Aubrey and the Shock’s present orders are to trace and seize or destroy a French privateer named Acheron. The Acheron is at the moment within the Atlantic off South America headed towards the Pacific with the intention to lengthen Napoleon’s attain of the wars. This activity can be a troublesome one as Aubrey rapidly learns in an preliminary battle with the Acheron that it’s a greater and quicker ship than the Shock, which places the Shock at a drawback. Aubrey’s single-mindedness on this seemingly unattainable pursuit places him at odds with the Shock’s physician and naturalist, Stephen Maturin, who can be Aubrey’s most trusted advisor on board and closest buddy. Going through different inner obstacles which have resulted in what they take into account a string of dangerous luck, Aubrey in the end makes use of Maturin’s scientific exploits to determine a technique to obtain his and the ship’s seemingly unattainable aim. —Huggo

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Russell Crowe is excellent.

Capt. Jack Aubrey: England is below risk of invasion, and although we be on the far aspect of the world, this ship is our house. This ship is England.

The Royal Navy giving the French a correct kicking, as is the regulation.

The lesser of two weevils

The trailer

The battle scene

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_and_Commander:_The_Far_Side_of_the_World

19 – The Battle of Britain

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The story is in fact well-known, however this quote reveals the position of radar.

Senior civil servant: Churchill places nice religion in radar.

Air Chief Marshall Sir Hugh Dowding: It’s very important, but it surely gained’t shot down plane.

Senior civil servant: Ha… properly I have to say you don’t, precisely exude a spirit of optimism.

Air Chief Marshall Sir Hugh Dowding: God prepared we’ll maintain out minister.

Senior civil servant: I see. So I inform the cupboard, that you just’re trusting in radar and praying to God, is that proper?

Air Chief Marshall Sir Hugh Dowding: [chuckles] extra precisely the opposite method spherical. Trusting in god and praying for radar. However the important arithmetic is that our younger males should shoot down their younger males on the charge of 4 to at least one, if we’re to maintain tempo in any respect.

The few.

The trailer

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain_(movie)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Britain

http://www.moviemistakes.com/film1691

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/analysis/online-exhibitions/history-of-the-battle-of-britain.aspx

http://www.iwm.org.uk/historical past/8-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-battle-of-britain

18 – Canine Troopers

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Not technically a warfare movie however I make the principles round right here, and it’s an fulfilling portrayal of British troopers.

The most effective strains in any movie ever

I hope I provide the shits you fucking wimp

and

We at the moment are up in opposition to dwell, hostile targets. So, if Little Pink Driving Hood ought to present up with a bazooka and a nasty angle, I anticipate you to chin the bitch.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Soldiers_(movie)

17 – The Merciless Sea

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The one villain is the ocean, the merciless sea…

Capt. Ericson: [after choosing a battle strategy that has cost lives] I needed to do it!

Lockhart: Anyway, it’s all within the report.

Capt. Ericson: It was my fault!

Lockhart: I… I recognized it as a submarine. If anybody murdered these males, I did.

Capt. Ericson: Nobody murdered them – it’s the warfare, the entire bloody warfare! We’ve simply acquired to do this stuff and say our prayers on the finish.

The scene the place the Service provider Seamen are within the water and the U-Boat beneath them is brilliantly accomplished.

Watch it only for that, being in cost is a lonely place.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cruel_Sea_(1953_film)

http://www.moviemistakes.com/film1771

16 – The place Eagles Dare

The place Eagles Dare (1968)
Motion, Journey, Struggle | 158min | March 12, 1969 (United States)


7.6

Director: Brian G. HuttonAuthor: Alistair MacLeanStars: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary UreAbstract: Throughout World Struggle II, a British plane is shot down and crashes in Nazi held territory. The Germans seize the one survivor, American Brigadier Normal George Carnaby (Robert Beatty), and take him to the closest S.S. headquarters. Unknown to the Germans, the Normal has full information of the D-Day operation. The British resolve that the Normal should not be allowed to reveal any particulars of the Normandy touchdown in any respect prices, and order Main Jonathan Smith (Richard Burton) to steer a crack commando crew to rescue him. Amongst the crew is an American Ranger, Lieutenant Morris Schaffer (Clint Eastwood), who’s puzzled by his inclusion in an all British operation. When one of many crew dies after the parachute drop, Schaffer suspects that Smith’s mission has a way more secret goal. —Dave Jenkins

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Overlook the historic nonsense, surprising voice process and typically comedy particular results, all may be forgiven for ‘Broadsword Calling Danny Boy’

Vice Admiral Rolland: Safety? The phrase’s turn into a bloody joke!

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Oh Danny Boy

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Eagles_Dare

http://www.moviemistakes.com/film1695

15 – The Approach Forward

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Filmed earlier than the result of WWII was sure it is a wonderful research of wartime movie making

We might have dug trenches and brought the Germans within the rear

Ooh-err

On the finish of the movie, as an alternative of closing with ‘The Finish’ it as an alternative exhibits ‘The Starting’

An neglected gem.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_Ahead

14 – The Wild Geese

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Mr Vickers makes a visitor look

The free-fall scene can be bloody incredible.

Dumbledore Richard Harris, Richard Burton, Hardy Kruger and Roger Moore give nice performances however they’re all upstaged by Jack Watson taking part in RSM Sandy Younger. Jack Watson served as a Royal Navy PTI in the course of the Struggle and eases into the overdone RSM position with acquainted ease borne of ‘doing plenty of shouting’

In your ft you fucking abortion

The actor that performed the a part of ‘Tosh’ was named Ian Yuletide, an ex-Para and SAS soldier, and Joan Armatrading does a reasonably good theme tune, what extra may you need?

RSM Sandy Younger

Theme tune

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Geese

http://www.moviemistakes.com/film5377

13 – The Nice Escape

The Nice Escape (1963)
Journey, Drama, Historical past, Thriller, Struggle | 172min | July 4, 1963 (United States)


8.2

Director: John SturgesAuthor: Paul Brickhill, James Clavell, W.R. BurnettStars: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard AttenboroughAbstract: Primarily based on a real story, a bunch of allied escape artist-type prisoners-of-war are all put in an “escape proof” camp. Their chief decides to attempt to take out a number of hundred abruptly. The primary half of the film is performed for comedy, because the prisoners largely outwit their jailers to dig the escape tunnel. The second half is excessive journey as they use planes, trains, and boats to get out of occupied Europe. —John Vogel

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What would Christmas be with out it

An impressive efficiency from every one of many actors, with a again story of equal measure.

Ramsey: Up the rebels.

Goff: Down the British.

The Cooler King and Von Luger’s Butter?

Oh, and watching the RAF personnel sporting white socks with their uniform, priceless

The trailer

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http://www.timeout.com/london/movie/the-great-escape-1962

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Escape_(movie)

http://www.thegreatescapelocations.com/

12 – Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Journey, Biography, Drama, Historical past, Struggle | 228min | December 11, 1962 (United Kingdom)


8.3

Director: David LeanAuthor: T.E. Lawrence, Robert Bolt, Michael WilsonStars: Peter O’Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony QuinnAbstract: Because of his information of the native Bedouin tribes, British Lieutenant T.E. Lawrence is shipped to Arabia to search out Prince Faisal and function a liaison between the Arabs and the British of their struggle in opposition to the Turks. With assistance from native Sherif Ali, Lawrence rebels in opposition to the orders of his superior officer and strikes out on a daring camel journey throughout the tough desert to assault a well-guarded Turkish port. —Jwelch5742

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Merely put, a tremendous movie.

Seems incredible on the widescreen

T.E. Lawrence: As long as the Arabs struggle tribe in opposition to tribe, so lengthy will they be just a little individuals, a foolish individuals – grasping, barbarous, and merciless, as you’re.

That is what they imply when a movie is described as epic

The trailer

The Assault

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_of_Arabia_(movie)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._E._Lawrence

11 – Bridge on the River Kwai

Director: David LeanAuthor: Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman, Michael WilsonStars: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack HawkinsAbstract: Throughout WW II, allied POWs in a Japanese internment camp are ordered to construct a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway. Their intuition is to sabotage the bridge, however below the management of Colonel Nicholson they’re persuaded the bridge must be constructed to assist morale, spirit. At first, the prisoners admire Nicholson when he bravely endures torture fairly than compromise his rules for the advantage of Japanese Commandant Colonel Saito, however quickly they realise it is a monument to Nicholson, himself, in addition to a type of collaboration with the enemy. —alfiehitchie

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An ideal huge fats ethical dilemma and a really horrific again story

It does have a fairly good cantilever bridge although, and a few sunshine.

Colonel Nicholson: What have I accomplished?

Alec Guinness, stiff higher lips all spherical, a 2″ mortar and the memorable finish scene.

The trailer

The ending

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_on_the_River_Kwai

http://www.timeout.com/london/movie/the-bridge-on-the-river-kwai

http://www.diggerhistory.data/pages-battles/ww2/kwai.htm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/information/article-1254168/Monsters-River-Kwai-One-British-POW-tells-horrifying-story.html

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10 – Who Dares Wins

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The music is nice, it has SLRs and a number one actor with a little bit of a army background.

Colonel Hadley: When the SAS is known as upon to do what we’re skilled to do, we have now been likened to a surgeon chopping out a most cancers. It’s a dirty and troublesome job. We don’t like doing it, but it surely’s our obligation

Better of all, the unique embassy re-decorators had been intently concerned together with, if Wikipedia is to be believed, in numerous scenes.

The ultimate raid scene is brilliantly accomplished, OK, so the ninjas hanging beneath the Scout helicopters may need been a bit far-fetched however the remainder is fulfilling stuff.

It didn’t obtain nice crucial acclaim, particularly from the Guardian, what would they know?

Did I inform you I used to be the second man on the balcony?

The raid

The late nice Lewis Collins

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Dares_Wins_(movie)

9 – Went the Day Effectively

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One other wartime movie, with apparent echoes in Dad’s Military and The Eagle Has Landed, like The Approach Forward, an neglected basic.

This quote is unintentionally amusing;

You Germans are keen on sausage, aren’t you?

However watch it and you’ll not neglect the trainer with the hand grenade scene or Dame Thora Hird dropping Germans with a .303

The trailer

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Went_the_Day_Wellpercent3F

http://www.timeout.com/london/movie/went-the-day-well

8 – Warriors

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Acclaimed drama documentary Warriors depicts British troopers’ experiences as peacekeepers for the United Nations Safety Pressure in the course of the Bosnian Struggle (1992-95), the psychological impression of the atrocities they witness however should not allowed to cease, and their wrestle to readjust to civilian life. Though the characters are fictitious and Bosnian scenes had been filmed within the Czech Republic, the manufacturing crew completely researched actual occasions corresponding to 1993’s Ahmići bloodbath by way of interviews, paperwork, archive footage and a go to to Bosnia by director Peter Kosminsky and author Leigh Jackson.

That is truly troublesome to pay money for because it was a BBC movie, made for TV, however it’s a very good movie and properly price searching for out.

Some acquainted faces, ‘earlier than they had been well-known’

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7 – An Ungentlemanly Act

Director: Stuart CityAuthor: Stuart CityStars: Ian Richardson, Rosemary Leach, Ian McNeiceAbstract: Primarily based on precise accounts, this movie portrays the times and hours earlier than and in the course of the invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentina, which finally result in the Falklands Struggle. Because the Argentine forces land on the principle island and make their method in direction of Authorities Home, the British Royal Marines batten down the hatches and put together to defend Governer Rex Hunt, his household and their fellow islanders from the invaders. —Alexander Lum

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The movie has a few incredible quotes

Why would anybody hassle with half 1,000,000 sheep and a few seaweed

and my favorite

Lt. Quiroga: Mr Hunt… Time to surrender Mr Hunt… your cellphone is reduce off… armoured amphibious automobiles can be closing in quickly!Mr Hunt,We have now very superior numbers… I’m positive you’re a affordable man… come out along with your palms on head… alone!

Color Sgt. Muir: Fuck off you spick bastards!

Fairly

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Ungentlemanly_Act

6 – Ice Chilly in Alex

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The scene with the ambulance and the hill, spirit-crushing, or not.

Capt. Anson: [draining his glass of beer] Value ready for.

The ultimate scene used actual lager and required a number of takes, they had been mullered on the finish!. In the end, a movie about British truthful play and willpower, which is why it has such a satisfying ending.

The trailer

The advert!

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Cold_in_Alex

5 – A Bridge Too Far

A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Drama, Historical past, Struggle | 175min | June 15, 1977 (United States)


7.4

Director: Richard AttenboroughAuthor: Cornelius Ryan, William GoldmanStars: Sean Connery, Ryan O’Neal, Michael CaineAbstract: The true story of Operation Market Backyard, the Allies try, in September 1944, to hasten the top of World Struggle II by driving by way of Belgium and Holland into Germany. The concept was for U.S. airborne divisions to take the cities of Eindhoven and Nijmegen and a British airborne division, strengthened by a Polish airborne brigade, to take the city of Arnhem. They might be strengthened, in the end and in flip, by the British XXX Corps, land-based and driving up from the British strains within the south. The important thing to the operation was the bridges, as if the Germans held or blew them, the paratroopers couldn’t be relieved. Defective intelligence, Allied excessive command hubris, and cussed German resistance would be certain that Arnhem was a bridge too far. —grantss

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Two bridge-related movies within the Prime 10, who would have thought it!

Corporal Hancock: Sir.

[Offers mug of tea]

Main Normal Urquhart: Hancock. I’ve acquired lunatics laughing at me from the woods. My unique plan has been scuppered now that the jeeps haven’t arrived. My communications are fully damaged down. Do you actually imagine any of that may be helped by a cup of tea?

Corporal Hancock: Couldn’t damage, sir.

[Urquhart accepts his mug of tea]

Watch it as a result of; it has a Bailey Bridge, an unbelievable storyline and the truth that it had just about each actor of the day in it.

The trailer

The Germans give up

The Pink Devils of Arnhem

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bridge_Too_Far_(movie)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Market_Garden

http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_arnhem.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/historical past/worldwars/wwtwo/battle_arnhem_01.shtml

http://www.rememberseptember44.com/rs44.htm

https://paradata.org.uk/occasions/arnhem-operation-market-garden

4 – Kajaki

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A narrative informed with no sentimentality or commentary on a number of the extra apparent points it raises

Spud McMellon: This nation’s stuffed with shit left behind when armies fucked off, Russians, it was the mines. Ten million fucking mines. God is aware of what we’re going to depart behind.

It’s known as Kilo Two Bravo for US audiences, however don’t let that put you off.

A humbling story of courageous males and an excellent movie, whichever method you place it.

The trailer

A documentary

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http://kajakimovie.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kajaki_(movie)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kajaki_Dam

http://www.theguardian.com/movie/2014/dec/03/kajaki-reel-history-british-army-afghanistan

3 – Carry On… Up the Kyhber

Director: Gerald ThomasAuthor: Talbot Rothwell, LarryStars: Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Charles HawtreyAbstract: Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond takes care of the British outpost close to the Khyber Cross. Protected by the kilted Third Foot and Mouth regiment, you’d assume they had been protected. However the Khazi of Kalabar has different concepts. He needs all of the British lifeless! However his troops worry the “skirted-devils”; they’re rumoured to not put on something beneath. Then one is caught together with his pants on… —Simon N. McIntosh-Smith

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Simply absorb the wonderful late sixties-era humour, Welsh surroundings and the devils in skirts!

Captain Keene: [news of the native revolt arrives] What do you plan to do, sir?

Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond: Do? Do? We’re British. We gained’t do something…

Main Shorthouse: …till it’s too late.

Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond: Precisely. That’s the primary smart factor you’ve stated all day.

The banquet scene, is likely one of the funniest items of cinema ever

The trailer

The banquet

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2 – The Weapons at Batasi

Weapons at Batasi (1964)
Drama, Historical past, Struggle | 103min | September 25, 1964 (United Kingdom)


7.1

Director: John GuillerminAuthor: Robert Holles, Leo Marks, Marshall PughStars: Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora RobsonAbstract: Regimental Sergeant Main Lauderdale (Sir Richard Attenborough) is a by-the-book, strict disciplinarian, who looks as if an anachronism in a sleepy peacetime African outpost of the trendy British commonwealth. Ridiculed behind his again by his subordinate N.C.O.s, he should play host to a liberal girls M.P. making a tour of the bottom. Nevertheless, when an bold African officer, who occurs to be a protegè of the M.P., initiates a coup d’etat in opposition to Captain Abraham (Earl Cameron), the lawful African commandant, the resourceful Sergeant Main makes use of all of his army coaching to avoid wasting his males from a sure firing squad. —Gabe Taverney (duke1029@aol.com)

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Definitely one of the best portrayal of an RSM ever seen on display screen (though maybe a bit hammed up), a incredible efficiency by Richard Attenborough

Headress, within the mess, perish the thought!

Mr. Boniface! I’ve been a member of this Mess for 23 years, Sir. In all that point I’ve by no means seen anyone, man, lady or little one, Sergeant, Warrant Officer, Discipline Marshal or Prime Minister stroll into this mess together with his hat upon his head. I don’t see you now, Sir.

The trailer

See the clip, at about 3 minutes 40, RSM Lauderdale tears Mr. Boniface a brand new one!

Lastly, in a scene that can be acquainted to anybody who has ever dared to not salute an officer while within the presence of an RSM.

Be taught extra…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_at_Batasi

1 – Zulu

Watch it as a result of…

Overlook the outrageous slurs on the nice character of Non-public Henry Hook (who was a mannequin soldier and campaigning teetotaller) and Commissary James Langley Dalton (who was essentially the most skilled soldier on the mission station and extensively credited with initiating the defence)

Singing, bayonets

The perfect bits are far too many to record.

Color Sergeant Bourne: It’s a miracle.

Lieutenant John Chard: If it’s a miracle, Color Sergeant, it’s a brief chamber Boxer Henry level 45 calibre miracle.

Color Sergeant Bourne: And a bayonet, sir, with some guts behind.

The trailer

The ultimate scene is, as the youngsters say, superior

Be taught extra…

Honourable mentions…

There are such a lot of nice movies that didn’t make the reduce.

Contact, The Hill, Waterloo, Too Late the Hero, The Eagle Has Landed, Sink the Bismark, The Battle of the River Plate, Life and Loss of life of Colonel Blimp, Dunkirk, We Dive at Daybreak, The Cockleshell Heroes, They Have been Not Divided, 71, Attain for the Skies, 633 Squadron Dunkirk and 1917.   

So there you go, so many nice movies not on the record, and maybe just a few unforgivable omissions let’s have at it within the feedback!

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