The most realistic war movie I watched

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Film name: "The 9th company"
Description: Story war drama "9th company" has its origins in 1988, when still in full swing, the fighting in Afghanistan. A few young men drafted into the Armed forces of the Soviet Union, and sent to one of the training units. There they fall in obedience to experienced military the senior warrant officer Dygalo, who has repeatedly been in hot spots, and it undoubtedly left his indelible mark on fate. After the recruits spend only a few months in the training centre, they are being moved to Afghanistan, where young fighters doukomplektovuyut valiant company 9 345-th separate guards airborne regiment. Soon after this division paratroopers entrust a responsible task – to take a strategic height, and hold it until until after the column, delivering food and ammunition to the distant province of Khost. At the same time the top leadership of the USSR takes a decision on the complete withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. The result is that the withdraw column, and the soldiers of the 9th company command simply forgets, leaving their soldiers in a foreign country where everyone wants them dead...

From myself I can add that the film is very realistic. One of my favorite movies of my father, who served in Afghanistan. The film is not thoroughly conveys the true story of the 9th company, but it deserves attention and applause for the atmosphere of war. When viewing I want to take an AK and wear a helmet, that would help the main characters in heated clashes.
 
I quite like 9th Company. Not bad for a Russian flick and one of a few churned out by the Russian movie industry about Afghanistan.
 
There is a German TV series out there and it has been called "A German Band of Brothers" I have only seen fragments of it so I cannot really say anything about it, but the little I have seen of it on youtube seems quite ok.
 
I3BrigPvSk said:
There is a German TV series out there and it has been called "A German Band of Brothers" I have only seen fragments of it so I cannot really say anything about it, but the little I have seen of it on youtube seems quite ok.
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Hello 13,
One of these days I will check it out and report back to you. Hope you're well.

Dadsgirl
 
Has anyone seen pearl Harbor it is super good and realistic (it is also the reason I think ships are floating coffins)
 
I have quite recently watched the movie "Greyhound" a movie about what I assume is a US destroyer conducting convoy duties during the war. I don't really know what to think about this movie. It is better than the U 571, but all movies are better than that one.

I haven't seen a lot of naval "war" movies. I can't recall any movie about a destroyer, a destroyer escort, a frigate, a corvette, and/or any other smaller surface ship. There are a few submarine/U-boat movies.
 
I3BrigPvSk said:
I have quite recently watched the movie "Greyhound" a movie about what I assume is a US destroyer conducting convoy duties during the war. I don't really know what to think about this movie. It is better than the U 571, but all movies are better than that one.

I haven't seen a lot of naval "war" movies. I can't recall any movie about a destroyer, a destroyer escort, a frigate, a corvette, and/or any other smaller surface ship. There are a few submarine/U-boat movies.
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A classic is ""The sea shall not have them""

It is the autumn of 1944. Allied armies are sweeping through France towards Germany. A British Lockheed Hudson has been damaged in aerial combat with a German Messerschmitt, with both aircraft ditching in the North Sea, twenty miles off the Dutch coast. The four crew from the British aircraft are unable to send a complete mayday alert, although a signal fragment reaches England. Among them is Air Commodore Waltby (Michael Redgrave) who has a briefcase containing secret German plans related to rocketry. Flight Sergeant Mackay (Dirk Bogarde) assumes a leading role in the rescue dinghy, tying everyone together to prevent anyone falling overboard, and sharing his boots with the pilot despite the cold. As the weather closes in and a freezing cold night descends, aircraft suspend their search, leaving the now waterlogged dinghy to face the sea alone. Cryptically, Waltby orders the crew members that if he dies, they must get the briefcase to London or throw it overboard should they face capture.

An RAF Air Sea Rescue sea launch is deployed to the search. Commanded by Flying Officer Treherne (Anthony Steel), Launch 2561, or "Sixty One" in radio signals, struggles against the bad weather, mechanical problems and a fire in the galley. Second in command, Flight Sergeant Singsby (Nigel Patrick) dominates the crew, playing a benevolent but demanding hand with the questionable seamanship of junior ranks. On the second day, updated intelligence about the dinghy's likely location is received from the downed German Messerschmitt pilot, who the RAF has since rescued. RAF Air Sea Rescue is now aware the dinghy has drifted inshore, far from its ditching point. As the weather clears, "Sixty One" sights the dinghy and approaches for rescue, negotiating fire from enemy shore batteries and a mine field. Launch 2561 safely returns to England where the briefcase with secret documents is delivered. An injured Flying Officer Treherne and Flight Sergeant Mackay are applauded by senior officers.
 
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Another classic is ""The Cruel Sea"" the story of HMS Compass Rose.

In late 1939, just as war breaks out, Ericson is recalled to the Royal Navy and given command of HMS Compass Rose, a newly built Flower-class corvette intended for convoy escort duties. His sub-lieutenants, Lockhart and Ferraby, are both newly commissioned and without experience at sea. The new first lieutenant, James Bennett (Stanley Baker), is an abusive martinet.

Despite these initial disadvantages, the ship's company gains hard experience and becomes an effective fighting unit. At first their worst enemy is the weather, since German submarines lack the range to attack shipping far into the Atlantic. With the Fall of France, French ports become available to the Germans and U-boats can attack convoys anywhere in the Atlantic – making bad weather the convoys' greatest advantage. Germany is joined in the war by Italy, while the Spanish dictator Franco allows Axis U-boats to use Spanish harbours. The first lieutenant is put ashore due to illness, the junior officers mature and the ship crosses the Atlantic many times escorting convoys, often in brutal weather. They witness the sinking of many merchant vessels they are charged with protecting and the tragic deaths of merchant navy crewmen. A key scene involves Ericson's decision to carry out a depth charge attack even though the blast will kill merchant seamen floating in the water. After close to three years of service, including one U-boat sunk, Compass Rose is herself torpedoed and her crew forced to abandon ship. Most of the crew are lost. Taking to a couple of liferafts, Ericson survives this ordeal along with his first lieutenant, Lockhart (Donald Sinden), and with the few crew left (including Ferraby) they are picked up the next day.

Ericson is promoted commander, and together with Lockhart, his now-promoted "Number One", takes command of a new Castle-class frigate, HMS Saltash Castle. With Ericson leading an anti-submarine escort group they continue the monotonous but vital duty of convoy escort. Late in the war, while serving with the Arctic convoys, they doggedly pursue and sink another U-boat, marked as U-53, Saltash Castle's only "kill". As the war ends the ship is shown returning to port, as guard to a number of German submarines that have surrendered.
 
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I shall take a closer look at them both.

The Japanese made a movie about Yamato, but I have only seen the final moments of it. The movie Midway must be considered to be a naval war movie, I liked it. It had intense scenes when the US dive bombers dived toward the Jap carriers.

I have almost waited for a TV series about the naval war in the Pacific. Something similar as the Band of Brothers and the Pacific, but about a Fletcher class destroyer or a few destroyers.

I would like to see a remake of the movie Sink the Bismarck
 
I3BrigPvSk said:
I shall take a closer look at them both.

The Japanese made a movie about Yamato, but I have only seen the final moments of it. The movie Midway must be considered to be a naval war movie, I liked it. It had intense scenes when the US dive bombers dived toward the Jap carriers.

I have almost waited for a TV series about the naval war in the Pacific. Something similar as the Band of Brothers and the Pacific, but about a Fletcher class destroyer or a few destroyers.

I would like to see a remake of the movie Sink the Bismarck
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The careers of HMS Bulldog or HMS Cossack would make good viewing.
 
I3BrigPvSk said:
I watched a Norwegian TV series "The Heavy Water War." A Tv series about the Norwegian commando raid to destroy the heavy water facility in Rjukan, Norway.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3280150/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt


We can maybe discuss the German attempt to get nuclear weapons.
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There was a TV programme a few years ago regarding the SF Hydro. It was a Norwegian steam powered railway ferry that operated in the first half of the 20th century on Lake Tinn in Telemark. It connected with the Rjukan Line and Tinnoset Line, at Mæl and Tinnoset, operating between 1914 and 1944. The combined track and ferry service was primarily used to transport raw materials and fertilizer from Norsk Hydro's factory at Rjukan to the port in Skien. It was the target of a Norwegian operation on 20 February 1944, when resistance fighters sank the ferry in the deepest part of Lake Tinn to prevent Nazi Germany from receiving heavy water.

Many years after the war (1990's perhaps), a team of divers managed to bring up one or more of the heavy water barrels, after various tests it was still found to be heavy water, it hadn't degraded whatsoever.
 
Band of Brothers, The Pacific, or All Quiet on the Western Front. Still can't decide
 
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