#wwii films

[musingsofahistorymajor]

The Six Triple Eight (2024)

"Can the troops march?"

"Yes, sir. I have the best marching troop you have ever seen, sir."

[omercifulheaves]

Soldier of Orange (1977) oh hey, looks like Paul Verhoeven's WWII Dutch resistance drama is free to watch on Tubi! Been hoping that some of his 70's / 80's dutch films got some kind of re-release over here but this will do for now. And hey, they also got Black Book, his spiritual sequel / companion piece (...and maybe his best movie).

[movie--posters]

[jessubear]

Come and See, 1985, USSR/Belarus, Dir. Elem Klimov

[deforest]

September 8, 1942 — "HEDY LAMARR SPURS WAR BOND SALE! The glamorous star makes personal appearance before thousands of admiring fans in Newark, New Jersey, as drive, slated for the entire country, goes into high gear."

[atomic-chronoscaph]

B-17 - Heavy Metal (1981)

[bettsfic]

okay so i saw The Bikeriders today and i knew i wouldn't be normal about this movie and even though my expectations were impossibly high it exceeded them. i was happy for it to just be a cool movie for the sake of being a cool movie, toxic masculinity ultraviolence whatever, and it was but with Jodie Comer's character narrating about what fucking idiots all these macho biker dudes are. it's like if a woman narrated Fight Club while constantly pointing out how stupid Fight Club is

also, most of it was filmed near where i live and it was so exciting seeing places i recognized! it's been all over the news for weeks

things i loved about it:

protective older woman/loose cannon younger man

lowkey romantic stalking

a relationship suspiciously close to a throuple, by which i mean protective older woman goes to war against possessive older man, re: their mutual intense love for loose cannon younger man. and that's not even subtext that's just text

hot sadboy who doesn’t talk much and is so cool he doesn’t know how cool he is

british people doing midwestern accents

NO PLOT, god bless. just stuff happening and a lot of gay tension building

accurate portrayals of the aftermath of the vietnam war

accurate portrayals of mid-century small-town life

accurate portrayals of men being fucking pathetic

things i did not love about it:

for the love of god please wear a helmet

idk man it's just a whole-ass movie about how vietnam changed the very definition of masculinity, and that awkward era between wwii and vietnam when guys were rebellious for the aesthetic, rebel without a cause shit, twinks in leather jackets manhood. the movie even points that out, like they're so against rules but then they make all these rules for their silly little biker gang because they're bored. and then allll these vets come home from a war nobody wanted and they're actually rebelling, full anti-establishment, and there's just no more honor anymore because everybody's broken. which is all to say, somebody please come into my ask and be insane about this movie with me.

anyway i'm seeing it again tomorrow and i have already started an ot3 fic goodbye

[musingsofahistorymajor]

The Six Triple Eight (2024)

"WACs are now taking over 239 different kinds of vital Army jobs. With such a variety of work to be done, there is an opportunity for every woman!"

Excerpt from the 1944 recruiting brochure "News For You: You're Opportunities in the WAC"

[bpdlottiematthews]

There are two things about Oppenheimer and the time period it depicts that if you ignore them in your critique of the film I will absolutely not consider you a serious person, and they are: 1. Oppenheimer was a Jewish man motivated by the fear that the Nazis would make the atomic bomb before America did; and 2. Imperial Japan was just as bad as Nazi Germany. If you refuse to grapple with those 2 historical facts in order to make your “hot take” about the movie, you should probably just stop talking.

[providence-park]

Liev Schreiber as Zus Bielski

DEFIANCE

2008 | Dir. Edward Zwick

[pedroam-bang]

"Yorki?" "Jojo!"

Jojo Rabbit (2019)

[deforest]

February 18, 1942: "Lana Turner Spurs Bond Sales! The lovely film star does a land office business for Defense, autographing every purchase . . . and for service men, a special dividend, a real Hollywood clinch!"

[sirbogarde]

Dirk Bogarde in The Damned (1969)

[davetada]

Hiroshima Peace Memorial

Hiroshima, Japan

[ceniphile-1704]

[musingsofahistorymajor]

The Six Triple Eight (2024)

"The WAC recruit upon arrival at a WAC training center was met by Army trucks, to and from which she carried her own luggage like other recruits...Recruits straggled in all week from recruiting stations all over the nation, and were grouped into basic classes that began weekly."

"After a few hectic classes in which the entire basic course was disrupted by such matters as uniform fittings, illness from shots, and visits to classification offices, the training centers [activated] reception and staging companies or battalions, which received the women and completed their processing in the first week, before turning them over to a basic company."

Excerpt from Chapter XXXII "Training" in United States Army in World War II Special Studies: The Women's Army Corp by Maddie Treadwell, Center of Military History United States Army Washing D.C. 1991