These Are The 3 Battle Scenes Hollywood Actually Got Right

Good read, and some damn good movies.

Then again on a more modern note the taking chance film, american sniper, sole survivor, and blackhawk down, I'd obviously also be eager to hear thoughts about. I clearly can't know how precisely accurate they were, however for those who would know, of be most eager to hear, I of course found the taking chance film obviously quite inspiring, the same for the American sniper film. Also, flags of our fathers and letters from iwo Jima, relative to the book flags of our fathers, I'd also be most eager to have discussed as well if possible by all means. I have other films I will also try to list as they occur to me, as well, many thanks .

The piece was quite well written and I have watched both Zulu and platoon; pork chop hill I've only seen fragments of, though I will of course try to watch it. Clearly those three films were chosen with good reason certainly. However having said that, and only going on the basis of what I've been able to read regarding film renditions vs reality, my personal favorite is The Great Raid about the liberation of the Cabanatuan POW camp on Luzon in the Philippines during ww2 with survivors of the Bataan death march. I actually had read quite good reviews of that specific film pointing out that most critics apparently didn't like the excessive realism depicted at least from what I'd read of what impressions were drawn from the film, and the fact that there was to many critics' taste, too little emotive content. What little there was actually had been hollywoodized to some very slight extent, however the film struck me as resoundingly accurate to the accounts I'd read of the raid, that's all I'm trying to say. I'd read that Fury the brad Pitt film, was, according to real tank crew reviewing it, rather over the top. However, that being said, I was actually most impressed by the Angelina Jolie film Unbroken, in that the story was so epic, that all that had to be done was just recount what happened to Capt. Louis zamperini, whom I believe I may have seen on a CNN military history discussion program at one point before he unfortunately passed away recently. Now, also, there's actually a somewhat little known film called prisoners of the sun, also released originally under the title blood path, about the war crime trial that happened on the island of ambon involving prosecution of sevl Japanese naval personnel for war crimes against Australian and Dutch POWs of the Japanese Navy during ww2. The film has Bryan brown of Australia, and was an early Russell crowe film with him as a supporting cast member. Interestingly, the senior Japanese naval officer, a vice admiral Takahashi, who really did exist if one reads about the battle of ambon, was played quite convincingly by George takei from the original Star trek shows and films who'd played sulu his performance was actually surprisingly nuanced, while tetsu Watanabe played the senior Japanese naval officer a naval captain who was posed as having commanded the POW camp where the war crimes happened under vice ADM Takahashi, though I'm not certain how accurate that aspect was. There was mention of the massacre of Australian and Dutch POWs at laha airstrip on ambon, with some 300 casualties, a little known aspect of a quite unusual battle that did actually apparently take place. Another Japanese actor played a leading role as having been condemned for a war crimes at the end though once again I'm not certain how accurate that aspect was. However I found the uniforms personas and characterization quite good, I gather that film was what really caught people's attention about Russell crowe who actually gave a quite good and highly understated performance, another actor American played a staff officer under MacArthur I think involved in the Japanese war crime trials in Tokyo, he was also quite good, and I actually found the film extremely worth while. There was another film called Emperor about the meeting between MacArthur and Hirohito involving a brig genl Bonner fellers I'd seen pieces of recently that I'd also found extremely good, as well as despite some errors the Tom selleck film about Ike and d day the actor who played Churchill I actually found gave am incredible performance. Look also at the Brian denehy made for TV film some years ago called Day One his performance as Maj Gen Leslie r groves I found mind bogglingly good. Last, Gary sinise did a quite good film as truman in a biopic on him espec the ww1 artillery sequences when Truman was actually there in europe I found his performance quite good as well.