Cross of Iron directed by Sam Peckinpah, my favourite film.
Btw, another good wwII movie I saw recently coming out of Japanese cinema was "Oba: The Last Samurai", really good movie.
Also Empire of the Sun no-one mentioned, people say it's the better of Spielbergs works.
I saw something recently on Netflix that I thought was spectacular: The Heavy Water War.
It's a modern HD TV series (1 season), basically about Hitler's nuclear program trying to create the bomb, and whoever did it first (Germans or Americans), would most certainly win the war. There are special ops missions in blizzards and snowy night time conditions, gun chases on skis, basic winter survival issues, aerial scenes with bombers, etc... Lots of action and suspense.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3280150/
Warning - The trailer is really boring, but the series is really cool if you can handle subtitles. Germans speak German. Norwegiens speak Norsk, Americans speak English.
Boring Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K3Ry2K4yNE
I recommend watching the first one, even if you hate the trailer. Give it a chance.
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My Way is a really good movie and i recommend to everyone it is a foreign movie (english subtitles) about a japanese and korean athelete in WW2 who are sent to fight for the imperial army and have to learn to forget there diferences and survive together
Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter also known as Generation War is a decent 3 part series worth a watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmyGPX23px4
If you are going to watch Flags of our Fathers - you might as well watch the twin movie Letters from Iwo Jima. Clint did both movies as one -- that one is from the Japanese point of view.
Also - The Longest Day is by far the best WW2 movie if you want big names from awhile ago and what actually happened around D-Day.
Tae Guk Gi is a movie about the Korean war - 2 brothers drafted into the S Korean army (subbed is best. - makes me tear up every time I watch it, being the oldest brother of 4.)
Right now my all time favorite is FURY. The Tiger 131 they used in the movie was the last workable Tiger left. You can read up on it here http://www.livescience.com/48245-fury-film-ww2-tiger-tank.html
If you haven't seen the movie or have this is my favorite scene Tiger 131 vs Easy Eight https://youtu.be/L8vFGQ0uJQc
Other movies I liked was The Thin Red Line,Saving Private Ryan, and I watch AHC Channel a LOT full of WWII Footage.
I second "The longest day" as the best WW2 movie ever.
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WhiteYeti: Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter also known as Generation War is a decent 3 part series worth a watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmyGPX23px4
This, so much this.
it's a german series, filmed by a german director, with actual german actors and in Germany.
It shows you a rarely seen side of the war: The german one.
And by that I don't mean the faceless evil men screaming "HANS AMERIKANER", it shows the people behind the uniforms, their stories.
It's very good and touching, give it a watch.
Letters from Iwogima, Platoon (vietnam),
Generation War is really good, like Zlipnit here recommended earlier.
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I would recommend Fury as one of newer WW movies. It's goooood
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My favorite is was actually a series. it involved actual events of Easy company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division of the US Army. It is 10 hours long and draws from interviews of surviving Easy company members.
It covers them from D-Day to capturing the Eagles Nest. An absolute must see.
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- The Big Red One seems to be a classic.
- Battle for Sevastopol - Soviet sniper film about the badass female sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko (I googled, copy and pasted that name). She had ~309 kills in the war. Vasily who?
-Stalingrad (2014) - another Soviet perspective type film.