Going back to the origin of this thread, a great flick that I don’t think has been mentioned is The Flying Fleet. Silent film, pretty early cinema, but a very cool era in Naval Aviation.
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Military History in Film
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Is it available on streaming services? I'm not even sure where to find silent films.
Hmm just searched around and looks like DVD currently the only option. I think I caught it on TCM.
Yeah, I get it..."Awfully Slow Warfare" doesn't translate with precision to the time constraints of a motion picture.
Max the Mad Russian
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BTW, it was hard to defeat an impression Hanks is acually playing the naval version of one respected VMI professor, Stonewall Jackson - there's so much religion in his background. Could be quite theatrical hint, though there weren't, AFAIK, agnostic Confederate generals. In that same "The Cruel Sea" there's no big accent on belief and etics, just... people in sea. In cruel sea.
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Fun fact: Thomas Johnathan Jackson was hated as a professor (though beloved as a military instructor) because he was terrible at it. In fact, he was so hated that a student challenged him to a duel over his grading. That student was expelled but would eventually become a hero of the Confederacy.
Most of the best movies could easily be shifted to the stage. I once took a film class (about a million years go) where the professor posited that the two best possible movie settings are a submarine or a stuck elevator.
Wings. Silent movie awarded the first Best Picture Acadmey Award. Flying scenes are awesome. The technology required to film air to air simulated combat was a challenge for the day. I enjoyed the airfield scenes depicting sitting alert, scrambles and down time.
Danger UXB was a personal favorite of mine. Think it was my introduction to the BBC. Props for the obscure but worthy mention.
I learned a shit-ton of history from that.
Finally watched Midway. Very good film. Nice feature for naval intelligence and cryptology.
Max the Mad Russian
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IMO, far from it. Have a French buddy who LOLs about Gestapo/French police relationships in that series. And I just can't imagine any case the enlisted men participated in public humilitation of their officers in Kriegsmarine of 1942-44. Simply impossible. They couldn't even see something similar: a Kriegsmarine ethos was quite equal to old Prussian Wehr one, where any officer is not simply gentleman, he is noble gentleman, by definition.