Reenactors Rip Apart the Worst WWII Movies (with Reel History)

[@ReelHistory]

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[@billfurlong5954]

i m from hampshire

[@hooks_and_horns]

Bro whoever watches inglorious basterds for the history is wild 😭

[@scrappydoo7887]

Or stupid.... One of the two lol

[@BigusShrimpus]

I remember watching an old review of it where the guy said it was the worst war movie ever made because the map in Hitler’s scene was totally inaccurate and Hitler didn’t get shot in a movie theater in Paris 😂

[@kamechungaYT]

Real

[@warrenholmes3311]

Nahhh 'STOOPID'!

[@jvleasure]

I watched it to see the titular inglorious bastards scalp nazis. Instead, it should have been called "very angry jewish girl's revenge." By now, Tarantino's endless witty dialogue is tiresome and overdone. Seen it in literally every one of his films. It felt like it was 5 hours long. How relieved i was when it was only 1AM when it was over.

[@vr4787]

Re-enactor: “Inglorious Basterds wasn’t historically accurate.” Cpt. Sobel: “Your weekend pass is revoked! Every other man in the company who had a weekend pass has lost it.”

[@alistairhackney]

What about my can of peaches?

[@kylefrear7419]

​@@alistairhackney Can of peaches?!?! THAT is a piece of United States Army property, soldier! Your weekend pass is revoked!

[@Confedyank]

Ok, but Band of Brothers was shown to me for historical reference, lol

[@garysarratt1]

@@Confedyank Your pass is also revoked!

[@BBC42618]

11:02 Thank you for being respectful of that kid. You made his day👍👏

[@Some_equestrian]

He gave that kid memories that will last a lifetime 🥹

[@BBC42618]

@@Some_equestrian Yes he definitely did. That's why I watch this channel.

[@Some_equestrian]

@@BBC42618 same, but the moment was so adorable 😊

[@JTelli786]

Within the first 5 minutes of Wind Talkers you see a Marine do a dramatic diving barrel roll into cover for absolutely no reason at all. That should tell you all there is to that movie.

[@edm240b9]

That Marine doing the barrel roll with the ‘03 was hilarious in my mind.

[@keifergaudry3128]

Adam Beach is a terrible actor.

[@rithvikmuthyalapati9754]

@@keifergaudry3128 Absolutely disagree with you

[@stormtrooper1676]

Wind talkers in my opinion isn’t that bad. Not the best ww2 pacific. Theatre movie out there but as a kid I thought it was pretty awesome. Especially with the Japanese soldier disguise scene.

[@themobsprinter]

​@@stormtrooper1676About 12 years ago or so, I got to see the code talker that the switching uniforms story was based on. I can't remember his name at all and have been racking my brain to remember it. Guy said after they radioed in the men, he got up to meet his unit, and, as he was running over to talk the unit, an American hit him with his M1 and said "hands up Japanese!" He protested, but Asian looking man in Japanese uniform was enough for him. He was marched back to camp with 2 fixed bayonets at his back to be taken to the POW area. As he was marched, he marched past a codetalker on duty and said something to the effect of "Hey! Get me off the hook!" And the guy took off after him to get him freed. Really memorable story. I can remember more if you want to read them

[@starsjosephfrost]

who the hell said Inglorious Basterds was a “Historical film”, mofo the FILM WAS DIRECTED BY THE LEGEND QUENTIN TARANTINO.

[@PF2015]

it's in the same category as Kelly's Heros.

[@uraigroves7898]

He's a boring overrated hack

[@starsjosephfrost]

@@uraigroves7898 who?

[@uraigroves7898]

@@starsjosephfrost Tarantino...childish sadistic clown high on his own farts....his first few movies were good but it all went to his head and now he makes crap for gore loving morons.

[@amafirenze-vi1uh]

Tarantino made a movie with a chick with a katana sword, traveling on a commercial jet. So seems he's not interested in rules and history.

[@johnvorhees443]

Pear harbor do to it being a love story instead of actually being a war film

[@DeltaEchoGolf]

A chick flick with bombs!

[@josephpadula2283]

Pearl Harbor ! Opening scene on Flat Long Island , NY Mitchel Field with a 3 thousand foot mountain in the background . Looked like Santa Paula , California . Then there were the Aegis class cruisers Doing Cameos ….

[@BrianMale-u1s]

Speaking as a Brit , Pearl Harbor, if only for the idea that of all the highly trained medical staff in Hawaii apparently there was only one nurse that knew what to do with the casualties, really? There are lots of other questionable plot holes but I won't bore you all by listing them😢

[@timbuktu8069]

It's a way for a girl to get her guy to see a chick flick.

[@ak9989]

I was a combat tanker for over 23 years, 1st ID 1990-92. Dont get a bunch of combat veterans tanker to watch Battle of the Bulge. We were none stop picking it apart😂😂😂

[@Sharpe2007Dent]

British para soft re-enactor here (I do WW2 airsoft but execute as much of the kit as possible and go to Normandy and Arnhem every year), fantastic to see some of our friends across the pond representing the Brits, we do the same etc, thank you x

[@Someloke8895]

U-571. I rest my case.

[@Adelina-293]

Agreed, as a Polish reenactor I hate how it omits their role in breaking the enigma cypher and British role as well.

[@thunderbird1921]

Even as an American I laugh at that film. Beyond historical issues (first to get the enigma machine, etc.), the drama is ridiculously over the top. You have to wonder if they even studied the U-505 capture (which the United States Navy DID achieve in real life).

[@bigbake132]

Why?

[@1rwjwith]

That is mine too

[@railfansteam7716]

I too was a Tanker in the 70's and also served in West Germany. I agree about the comment on how soldiers behaved epscially tankers.

[@BBC42618]

The most historic WW2 movie I've ever seen was The Great Escape. Basically the way the tunnel system was dug and how the escape was planned and the aftermath is 100 percent how it happened. RIP to the 50

[@spm36]

Apart from no yanks escaped or where in that camp..no motorcycle chase either

[@davidthefirst6195]

​@spm36 the part where 2 escaped POW's stole a plane didn't happen either

[@spm36]

Yep...still a great film ​@davidthefirst6195

[@mohammedashian8094]

As I recall the author of the book wanted NO Hollywood shtick in it.

[@uraigroves7898]

The German film downfall is the most accurate war movie ever made. Anything made by Russians or Americans is crap.

[@MichaelScheele]

"Pearl Harbor" inspired a song of the same title in "Team America: World Police" to roast its awfulness. Pearl Harbor sucked so much that 30 minutes in I was hoping the IJN would arrive so the movie could be over. To tack on the Doolittle Raid so the movie would end on a high note was downright weird. Did the producers think the audience wouldn't know who won the war? My takeaway: just watch "Tora! Tora! Tora!" if you want to see a movie about the attack on Pearl Harbor.

[@TheSuspectOnFoot]

Midway from 2019 includes Pearl Harbor and the Doolittle raid while also showing US-Japan relations before the war and obviously the namesake battle. I never heard much about the movie and happened to see it on a random occassion but it was surprisingly good regardless. The story-telling had an interesting approach in the way that it follows pilots, intelligence officers and the leadership.

[@jimmangum7566]

I agree that Tora! Tora! Tora! was excellent and historically accurate. Unfortunately I read that it fared poorly at the box office because it wasn't a fiction love story. The 2001 Pearl Harbor ticked me off when I saw U.S.S. Missouri and post 1960s cruisers and destroyers being attacked. That movie was a waste of time I will never get back!

[@MichaelScheele]

@@TheSuspectOnFoot, Midway was a better film than Pearl Harbor.

[@davidthefirst6195]

@@jimmangum7566 I read somewhere that the director, Michael Mann, didn't want to mention that the Japanese attacked the US in the film, in case it hurt their feelings madness personified

[@josephpadula2283]

Pearl Harbor Worst movie Opening scene on Flat Long Island , NY Mitchel Field with a 3 thousand foot mountain in the background . Looked like Santa Paula , California . Then there were the Aegis class cruisers Doing Cameos ….

[@DARTY132]

Nice to see some WW2 British reenactors as well much love 🇬🇧

[@Rocketsong]

Worst: Going to go with Pearl Harbor. Best: Das Boot.

[@DewyProductionsVHS]

Worst: U-571 Best: Das Boot

[@georgesouthwick7000]

Keep in mind, the purpose of a movie is to entertain, not inform.

[@jimfarrar4925]

Kelly's Heroes is a crime caper set during ww2...glorious movie...stop it with the negative waves Moriarty...its a beautiful bridge

[@kurtb8474]

Why don't you dig how beautiful it is a out here!

[@Dick_Gozinya]

Indeed.....it's a mother beautiful bridge!

[@BlipperOfRays]

Enemy at the Gates is easily one of the worst WWII movies ever made. If the most accurate part of Pearl Harbor movie was that there were boats in Pearl Harbor, then the most accurate part of Enemy at the Gates was that Vasily Zaitsev fought in Stalingrad. The rest of the movie is inaccurate and idiotic.

[@MemestiffGaming]

I still like it, but I almost have to treat it as alternate history lol

[@StuartHold-w4m]

The movie is based on a few pages from the book by Cornelius Ryan (The Longest day, A Bridge too Far) Ryan included a few stories that are somewhat myths.

[@DenSvartaStjarnan]

It's because of that movie (mainly the first Call of Duty that stole the opening scene) that I went through my teens thinking the Soviets made unarmed men charge into machine guns for no apparent reason.

[@DamienSmyth-v6k]

I didn't mind enemy at the gates other than that super awkward sex scene.

[@MagentaPurple0]

3:40 I'm not a reenactor myself so I can't comment on the impression, but Will's overall style and vibe are so good here!

[@ww2soldier87]

Appreciate it brother! 😂

[@dannylojkovic5205]

The worst WWII movie I ever saw is “My Honor is Loyalty.” It’s an Argentine WWII movie that tries to trivialize the crimes of the Waffen SS. The last line of the movie talks about how the Germans were no worse than the U.S., because the U.S. used the atom bomb

[@HMMurdock220]

Why would people in Argentina want to defend the Naz-- ohhhhhhh, nevermind.

[@Rob.S859]

I believe it was directed by an Italian and shot in Italy.

[@wyattkelly]

One of my least favorite WWII movies is "The Thin Red Line". I hated the historical inaccuracy. I even wrote a paper back in college about how much I hated that movie. Case in point: Alcohol flows like water in this film. My grandfather was in Guadalcanal, and said that in all the time he was in the Pacific, he had one beer. It was warm. Also the many Japanese prisoners that were taken in the film, when the historical truth was there were almost no prisoners. It just was like surfing between a National Geographic special and a bad WWII movie at 3 AM on cable.

[@PJA264]

How could you say something so controversial yet so brave? Real talk that movie is a pretentious travesty.

[@rickytorres8566]

You should read John MacManus's Army in the pacific trilogy he has a whole section on how American soldiers would use rotting fruit to turn into hooch. Soldiers finding weird ways to get drunk/high is a tale as old as time brother

[@boricteorii7327]

Same with enamy at the gate

[@monkeychife]

My great grandfather was also at Guadalcanal. Man was a double world war veteran and supposedly became friends with Chesty Puller post-war. Wouldn’t tell stories to anyone who didn’t serve and famously said “real men don’t talk about what they did in war”. One of the handful of things he ever said about the war was “Japs wouldn’t go prisoner and we wouldn’t take ‘em”. Now I’m sure it happened, but that always spoke volumes to me about the mentality of the marines back then.

[@Bryan-d8j]

@@monkeychifeMy Great Uncle was a Captain with the 42nd Battalion (Australian Army) in New Guinea and Bougainville. He also said they never took Japanese soldiers prisoner. My Grandad would talk about Australian Beaufighters strafing Japanese lifeboats during the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. Wasn’t just Marines.

[@ak9989]

I'm a vet, my sons too, plus my dad served on Okinawa 1st Marines landing on April 1st 1945. He hated Windtalkers. Part of my family is from Saipan and they were LOL😂 at the desert.

[@Boyer68]

Pearl Harbor stunk almost as much as Midway.

[@militanttriangle2326]

There are more BAD ww2 movies than good ones. I have no idea how that could happen. But it did.

[@ExaltedSalt]

It's the same reason that Hollywood told Audie Murphy that the movie about him and what he did in the war, where he was the actor of himself, needed to be scaled back because "no one would believe it"

[@raybeazley9896]

Any 1960-1970's Italian war film. Truely awful.

[@paulwee1924dus]

Yes, with the Klaus Kinski dude.

[@brinsonharris9816]

Saw Hornet’s Nest w Rock Hudson sporting a 70s porn ‘stache w my Dad when I was a kid. Projectionist screwed up and showed one reel twice. Good thing it didn’t ruin a good movie.

[@amafirenze-vi1uh]

Raybeazley you mean the Umberto Lenzi movies?

[@ChatNick]

😂😂😂 So, you didn't mention Yugoslav- partisan movies. The most pathetic commies propaganda 🤣 I can say- some sort of SF 😂😂😂😂

[@Mantis42]

italian b-movies were pretty damn fun imo

[@deirdre108]

I didn’t think “The Wackiest Ship In The Army” was very accurate--but it WAS a wacky movie.

[@zerofail.455]

Kellys Heroes is absolutely one of my favorites but I have one issue and it's not Oddballs hippies. It's the fact that there us not one single M1 Garand in the whole film! Everyone had a Thompson and the units sniper had a Czech or Russian rifle. Always bugged me about the film

[@KevinSmith-yh6tl]

I think Oddball was more of a proto-Beatnik than a hippie. On second thought, if a Beatnik didn't shower for a week, he'd be a hippie, sooo yeah.

[@brinsonharris9816]

There’s a scene where Kelly tells Crap Game he wants 15 Thompsons, 2 30 caliber machine guns and enough supplies and ammunition to last a platoon of men in the field for 3 days. Don’t know if there were no M-1s available, but it seemed like Kelly wanted the firepower of the Thompsons specifically because the action would likely take place in the French town where the bank was. Sniper had a Mosin-Nagant with a PU scope. Movie was shot in Yugoslavia, so it’s likely no 03-A4s were available. BARs were FN Model Ds with pistol grips. Plenty of Thompsons, 1919-A4s and German weapons though. Oddball was a character written for a 1970 audience all the way, although his story about his CO being decapitated by an 88 explained his and his crew’s raggedy looks. One thing that always bothered me was Cowboy running around the corner warning a Tiger was coming down the street. They’d have felt the earth trembling and heard the tracks and known what was up-no surprise when 50 plus tons is rolling in.

[@banzi403]

@@brinsonharris9816 Mark felton has a video about captured German armour. He covers tiger 114, captured and used by the french. In kelly's heroes, tiger's 112, 113 and 115 are guarding the bank.

[@JohnPatterson-kz8jr]

Well,they filmed it in the former Yugoslavia so you could hire the Yugoslav army pretty cheap in 1979.😮😅😊😢

[@Boyer68]

One of my favorites was "A Walk in the Sun." (1945) Dana Andrews, John Ireland, Lloyd Bridges, Richard Conte, that guy who played Dr. Zorba, in Dr. Ben Casey in the 1060's.

[@WorkChannel-z8r]

Fury deserves a mention here as well, The Tank battles and Infantry battle are portrayed Horrifically. (just my opinion, but hey it's entertaining) Band of Brothers did a far better job at representing both sides. A special mention is April 9th, A Danish Film about the Invasion of Denmark. The attention to Detail is absolutely fantastic and the Battles are far more realistic (except for the one moment when the German machine gunner was using an Mg 42 and not an Mg-34) It's a Great movie. The King's Choice battle scenes were just as good (except for the fact that the Germans seemed to use entirely MP 38's and Mp 40's when there should have been Kar 98's as well) bush the sinking of the Blücher Scene is absolutley perfect. Dunkirk was also Good, Nice to see some "Mostly" accurate dogfights and stuff.

[@DamienSmyth-v6k]

I think fury was more about the emotional turmoil and fear about dying in a metal box. So the accurate fighting got ditched.

[@MrShenyang1234]

The WW 2 re-enactors are great. Keeping History Alive and Honoring those who made the ultimate sacrifice. Thank You.

[@titorunyan7848]

I was about to EXPLODE while watching The Battle of The Bulge. There were so many inaccuracies in that movie.

[@TellySavalas-or5hf]

Escape to Athena from 1979 with Roger Moore , Elliot Gould and Telly Savalas for starters.

[@4192362]

please say it “Haaaammmpsher” not “Hamp-shire”!!! as someone from that neck of the woods

[@kahn04]

Came to say that! Though I’m on the other side of the pond in a place called Markham (pronounced as you would over there)

[@scrappydoo7887]

Spot on

[@litorres4125]

It’s called different pronunciation dawg

[@4192362]

@@litorres4125 He is representing the English Hampshire regiment so he should be saying it the English way, Dog.

[@BURP39R]

Don't. You'll open the can of worms that's Worcestershire Sauce and the Yanks will verbally fold 🤣

[@502outlaw2]

Thanks. Nice interaction with your fans. Great channel young man. Keep up the good work.

[@NeoDragonKnight]

As a Canadian, Devil's Brigade was just awful and I remember a veteran from that unit that was interviewed on canadas History Television call it "That stupid movie", and he was holding back some expletives.

[@Star_Wars_Nerd_6J]

The kid saying hello was nice.

[@TimothyWiley-r2b]

My late uncle, a Pearl harbor survivor and called the movie Pearl harbor, "hurl harbor...."

[@megandarling2215]

11:23 aww bro that’s going to be me when I see my favorite people like you and other reenactors here

[@JDemonpbt]

“The Devil’s Brigade” The film really did not represent the First Special Service Force accurately.

[@ak9989]

Agree. I got a good book on it and it was an injustice

[@tomryan914]

Canadians played by English?actors, 'Stiff Upper Lip', Rowdy Americans, Cliff Robertson's laughable attempt to 'sound' Canadian ... (As a Canadian, Who knew???)

[@thunderbird1921]

From what I've read, Canadian veterans were actually livid about that film...for how the AMERICANS were portrayed. They reportedly felt our guys were shown as arrogant, dumb idiots when they were in fact professional and respectful in countless cases.

[@johnhallett5846]

@@thunderbird1921 uh, official records show that a fair number of the US soldiers were delivered under MP guards to the camp.

[@johnhallett5846]

@@ak9989 the book does support some of what you saw in the move especially where a fair number of the US troops came from

[@kurtb8474]

I have to agree about Anzio. It wasn't what I expected, especially with such big stars in it.

[@duglife2230]

My worst WWII movie is a dead heat between The Battle of the Bulge (1965), Pathfinders: In the Company of Strangers (2011), or The Miracle at St. Anna (2011). If I had to make a pick it would definitely be Pathfinders, though. To play devils advocate, it had a low budget because it was probably made by reenactors, but it still didn't excuse some of the more ridiculous content. The part where they drop into Normandy, you know the important part known as the climax, was practically unwatchable because of the poor attempt at shooting night scenes. I didn't even finish that one. The Saints and Soldiers movies were low budget but still are relatively enjoyable to watch.

[@cameronkedas3375]

@duglife2230 I kind of like Pathfinders, but the only reason I watch it every now and then is because it’s the only WWII movie I’ve seen about the 82nd Airborne in Normandy, aside from The Longest Day which tells the story exceptionally. But if I had to pick between watching Pathfinders and Band of Brothers: Day of Days all the time, it would definitely be the latter.

[@duglife2230]

@@cameronkedas3375 Fair enough. I'm glad you got some enjoyment out of it! Apparently Captain Dale Dye (Col. Sink's actor from Band of Brothers and Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway) was going to make a movie about the Battle for the La Fiere Causeway, but that was going on ten years ago and nothing ever came of it, sadly.

[@apanapandottir205]

13:11 "it has the acting talent".

[@michaelkostiuk1009]

What screws us up most in life is the picture in our head of how it’s suppose to be. Movies require a ‘suspension of disbelief’ to portray ‘a story’ based on a story where facts are merely opinions without witnesses.

[@carlosspiceyweiner3305]

Best movie, 1949s “Battleground”.

[@uraigroves7898]

Nope. Awful movie. Not accurate at all. Downfall is the most accurate war movie ever made.

[@carlosspiceyweiner3305]

@@uraigroves7898 You must never have seen it, written by someone who was there and the extras had all been there. Downfall is a humanized Nazis history with the only fact being the battle of Berlin.

[@uraigroves7898]

@@carlosspiceyweiner3305 I've seen it several times. Typical US propaganda made right after the war for simpletons who believe the US is always in the right and everyone else is inferior. Not much dif from what most Germans during the war thought...

[@uraigroves7898]

@@carlosspiceyweiner3305 newsflash -;the Nat-zis were in fact human beings. Kinda like the US soldiers at my Lai were human too.

[@johnhallett5846]

@@uraigroves7898 moron alert

[@scrappydoo7887]

Thats super wholesome. Its great to see the youth recognising the good creators

[@VikingTeddy]

Surprise cute bomb, totally out of left field. I'm a stoic middle-aged curmudgeon but I wanted to squeal from the wholesomeness :).

[@rogerd777]

I was always a WWII history buff and when I was 12, I had my Dad (a WWII Army vet) take me to see the 1969 film Castle Keep, with starred Burt Lancaster, Patrick O'Neal, Bruce Dern and Peter Falk. It was a bizarre movie that neither my Dad nor I enjoyed at all. You probably have never heard of this movie, although some may like it.

[@paulwee1924dus]

I watched "Anzio" (1968) over 20 times. I loved that movie. Peter Falk revisted the WW2 part in "The Castle Keep" from 1969. Corporal Rabinof was a hero.

[@StuartHold-w4m]

Anzio is really about the Rangers who were given an impossible task with no heavy weapons support.

[@JamesB21a]

Growing up our local TV station played "Battle of the Bulge" all the time. I loved it until I started learning about the war. Have to admit that as a work of fiction the last stand at the fuel depot was pretty epic.

[@alexmaclean6132]

Surprised nobody chose Fury. Very entertaining as you watch in awe as one of the most powerful militaries in history forget basic combat tactics and throw themselves mindlessly at a fixed target.

[@notaredcoat]

I'm disappointed that nobody brought up The Big Red One. Mark Hammill was horrible in that one and they painted some Shermans with iron crosses and added muzzle brakes to them and called them "Tigers" for the battle of Caserene pass

[@mypl510]

"Red Tails" is so terrible, that I almost asked for my money back at the theater! LOL!

[@uraigroves7898]

Yes. The first dei war movie and one of the worst.

[@Ech0_0]

​@uraigroves7898 It's as if you want to say another word for the majority black cast.

[@uraigroves7898]

@@Ech0_0 nope. Just absurd propaganda that tarnishes the real men. Tuskegee airmen were great pilots but nothing like the movie. History is too important to make cartoon movies about it.

[@bigbake132]

Yeah agree, it was awful.

[@uraigroves7898]

@@bigbake132 ironic that the Germans make the best war movies.

[@Kyanpepper25]

For me it's easy, Fury Wanna watch a melodramatic film that pretends its deep but really has nothing to say at all except "look! our combat scenes have so much BlooOooOOoooOd!" watch Fury. You want a really great and under appreciated film? Watch Letters from Iwo jima

[@ude_k]

For me, Fury was a pretty decent movie.

[@biffwellington1782]

Total gore p*rn

[@senventyFour]

I just liked the way the tank crew interacted with each other

[@Panzerkampfwagen_VIII-y9k]

Fury was a pretty good movie but I felt they should actually be more historically accurate the tank they used was a M4A3E8 Sherman even though that type was given to the soviets

[@davefielder4411]

Kelly's Heroes ... the worst!?!? I thought it was a documentary it was so accurate ;-)

[@Frankensteins_Highboy]

10:16 Thats Ken's Studebaker US-6 'Phantom' Ive driven that truck at a tactical a few years ago. Ken has that engine so nicely tuned that he can hand crank start it in a half turn

[@paulleow8017]

my pick for the worst WWII movie is this weird Italian flick from 1973 called "The Heroes". the costumes and props look like something out of a highschool play and the plot is mostly just aimless wandering throughout the desert, I think it was some sort of mockbuster for kelly's heroes...? my other choice is this movie that's simply called "d-day", a movie about Pointe Du Hoc that was made by The Asylum, it's also on a shoestring budget and features a lot of GIs wearing helmet liners by themselves, lol

[@galexeqe]

"It's a decent movie, but if you want *our* story.....pick up a book" Never have more wise words been spoken That being said, my father was a child apprentice as a ship builder in Italy during WW2, and when he saw the film Pearl Harbor, he said the only thing they got right was a scene where one of the ships rolled over. He'd seen it happen himself and it still haunted him

[@Paladin1873]

If by worst you mean lame, check out Tony Curtis and Frank Lovejoy in "Beachhead" (1954). The climax of the movie has our hero swim out to a Japanese destroyer and blow it up with hand grenades and diesel fuel. As for "The Battle of the Bugle", it is not historically accurate (the producers admit as much in the screen credits), but it is an entertaining film that paints a broad-brush story involving many characters. It also presents the viewpoint of all war as seen by everyone from private to division commander, and from rifleman to staff officer. This is what I appreciated about it (and Der Panzerlied scene, of course).

[@sirridesalot6652]

Der Panzerlied scene repeated the same verse over and over and wasn't the complete song.

[@scrappydoo7887]

A reenactor should really be able to pronounce the names of the units they are honouring correctly lol

[@CanadianSmoke]

I would have to go with Pearl Harbour... starts out with the Battle of Britain, detours to the attack on Pearl.... and then ends up up the flight deck of the USS Hornet CV-8... the same two guys romancing the same girl...

[@BearCreekWoodworking]

It’s awesome to have fans! That boy was so excited to see you! 😃

[@thewellsfamily5715]

WW2 video games I would say Enlisted it’s just so inaccurate

[@DamienSmyth-v6k]

What does you mean I'm sure whenever the co got shit in the squad there was a three seconds delay before the squad moved again lol

[@Nick_B_Bad]

In Wind Talkers, Cage running while shooting his Thompson 1 handed & level the whole time had me doing the eye-roll hard.. Best WW2 movie, Kelly’s Hero’s! 😂😂😂

[@MTF_operative]

He should react to those lego ww2 battle videos

[@Panzerkampfwagen_VIII-y9k]

May not even be close to a WW2 movie but All Quiet on the Western Front was actually one of my favourite movies, I have watched the 1970s one and the 2022 one along with reading the book, 2022 may not have been similar to the book but still showed the horrors of WW1

[@enzothetraveler]

Hey so that picture of you as a little kid with that usaaf is that like an original hat? Where did you get it? And what’s the coat that you had on?

[@kurtb8474]

The Longest Day, Battle Of The Bulge and Kelly's Heroes are my top favorites. I don't watch them for historical accuracy, but for the storyline and, of course, action. And having classic big name stars in them is also a plus. A couple of my uncles were in on the D-Day invasion and one of them never made it back.

[@bloodharrier3333]

“Hey Donny! We got us a reenactor that wants to die for country. Oblige him.”

[@stormtrooper1676]

If yall haven’t check out sands of Iwo Jima. It stars John Wayne and some other popular actors at the time. It’s black n white but it’s a great ww2 classic.

[@davidcreager1945]

I have to say a lot of WW 2 movies were made to entertain and tell a story rather than be " historically accurate . Example : Kelly's Heroes. As for using " modern " equipment in those movies , you have to remember a lot of that equipment was scrapped and simply not available, directors had to use what they had. Cgi wasn't available then.

[@MarkBluck]

1. Battle of the Bulge 2. Inglorious Bastards 3. Saints and Soldiers 4 Saints and Soldiers Airborne Creed 5 Saints and Soldiers Into the Void (Jesse Owen's as a tank commander, really? He served, but in the Coast Guard.)

[@Navygrl58]

This is such a great channel!!👍🏼🇺🇸🙏

[@gordonbergslien30]

I wanted to like "Pearl Harbor." I had several friends who worked on it. I went to see it with a buddy. After the first hour l remember thinking, "it's going to start getting better." Of course it didn't. After the second hour, my buddy whispered, "We're watching this wrong. It's "Springtime for Hitler.'" "PH" is not just the worst WWll movie, it's, hands down, the worst film in the history of the cinema! Dishonorable mention: "Battle of the Bulge."

[@Ocrilat]

Imo the mist historically inaccurate war film (but seen as accurate for unknowable reasons) was Midway (2019). Not just small things like mountainous coral atolls, being on deck when the Arizona exploded and living, making the Lexington a Yorktown-class carrier, stuff like that. I mean asinine things like the deadliness of Japanese AA (irl the Kido Butai shot down 2 aircraft on June 4), not understanding how dive bombing (or physics in general) works, editing out the overall commander of the battle Frank Jack Fletcher, or the insane move to mislead the audience into thinking that American aircraft carriers didn't carry fighter planes. Since there were no fighters on American carriers, then of course heroes like John Thatch don't exist. It's a war film that actually makes the subject less understood by watching it. The real Wade McClusky was originally a fighter pilot before moving into dive bombers...which is why he made the error on doctrine that James Best corrected. Of course since Wildcats don't exist as far as the film is concerned, then McClusky can't have been a fighter pilot...so instead they made him a previous Devastator pilot...which makes no sense since both SBDs and TBDs would follow the same doctrine. I am sure I am already boring you with this post. Just know I could bore you for hours more.

[@OwenThe_serf]

Is there any place where I can get historical cigarettes that don’t have the chems? Will looked badass

[@Charlie-fk4ly]

While Pearl Harbor isn't my favorite ww2 movie, it holds a place close to my heart because it was the movie that got me into reading history in the first place.

[@josephpadula2283]

Pearl Harbor ! Opening scene on Flat Long Island , NY Mitchel Field with a 3 thousand foot mountain in the background . Looked like Santa Paula , California . Then there were the Aegis class cruisers Doing Cameos ….

[@tilley7242]

Definitely fury

[@MayumiC-chan9377]

3:09 god my husband and father-in-law both veterans really hated that movie

[@archibaldhaddock3970]

From a Hampshire resident, thank you to the chap for representing the Hampshire Regiment 🇬🇧 One small tip, it’s pronounced Hamp-sher, not -shire.

[@nev707]

Pearl Harbour had the Fighter pilot with a stutter.

[@StuartHold-w4m]

A love story in the guise of a historical background. But even that was weak!

[@thegreatdominion949]

"Eagles Over London" (1969) beats all of the mentioned films.

[@davidmartin9743]

Thin red line is painful to watch.

[@HuLou]

The Thin Red Line is a beautiful movie. I will agree it is not everyone’s cup of tea, but it lends itself themes that align closer to trancendentalism than other popular war movies like Saving Private Ryan - the latter being my favorite WWII film. While movies like SPR, Fury and Dunkirk's most memorable scenes mostly come from action, The Thin Red Line is quite the opposite. That is what separates this movie from the others.

[@rithvikmuthyalapati9754]

If you can overlook the historical inaccuracies it is a really good WW2 movie

[@johnhallett5846]

@@HuLou what separates it from real movies is its idiocy and garbage; but then anyone looking for transcendentalism in a MOVIE is a moron

[@EliteFuller]

u should a video on what is the Best WW2 Movies

[@Nyllsor]

Yes! :)

[@matthewhorton2835]

Anzio is great. I love, in particular, 1960s-70s squad based vignettes.

[@comicbookguy8818]

Oh, come on, Kellys Hero's was never intended to be a historically accurate film.

[@alistairhackney]

Deffo agree with Battle of the Bulge. They used U.S halftracks as German halftracks and used post-WW2 tanks aswell

[@sirridesalot6652]

Where were they supposed to get WW2 German vehicles?

[@BillSilver-kg8hs]

If you thought "Inglorious Basterds" was meant as an accurate depiction of historic events, don't go any where NEAR "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"!

[@micahzoagata9560]

I’ve been waiting for this video

[@ericb2501]

Battle of the Bulge is So Bad that it's good!!

[@kygent508]

I think Peter Falk was in a movie called Castle Keep.

[@michaelmatthews2759]

One of my favorite WWII films thats not historicaly accurate, is "A midnight clear"

[@jasonp572]

Fantastic movie. Saw it in the theater when it came out.

[@ckc9913studios]

Historically? Overlord (2018)

[@ak9989]

Black guy ruined it

[@TellySavalas-or5hf]

What's up with "Codename Emerald" The 1985 war thriller with Overlord spies in it.

[@misolgit69]

in it's very limited defence you have to remember the script of Kelly's Heroes was written by a British author mainly responsible for 70s British weekly cop shows full of gritty action

[@wpatrickw2012]

9:22 Kelly’s Heroes was more about Vietnam than WW2

[@johnswoboda9809]

As much as it pains me to say this - twofold, because a) because I think with a little more script polishing, this could've been a truly great WWII film, and b) because I had the distinct honor of meeting some of the heroes who flew in this legendary unit - But I have to say "Red Tails" because it came SO close to true greatness, but just fell short of the mark. I still think it's an engaging and entertaining film, and does give the gist of this story, but I feel that 1995's "The Tuskegee Airmen", though less excitingly titled, is a much more accurate representation of the story of this history-making group of men. It's also interesting to contrast Cuba Gooding Jr's roles in both films, though I wish "Red Tails" had something close to the late and sorely missed Andre Braugher's portrayal of the legendary Lt. Col. Benjamin O. Davis. Both great films, I just wish Red Tails felt less rushed.

[@tsufordman]

The blasphemous response of "Kelly's Heroes" should have been purged in editing. I can only validate that response hoping that he just hasn't seen many old movies, or doesn't remember them.

[@DelcoAirsoft]

Let's go! I hope to see you guys in Reading, PA one of these years.

[@samohtlion]

I see my tent in the background. Must of been 2022.

[@DNITE1337]

Longest Day was based on Veterans of D-Day whomst of which many were in the film itself. The accurate buildup to the invasion, lots of dialogue of course, but like Tora Tora Tora its was leagues more accurate than Saving Private Ryan or Pearl Harbor.

[@mohammedashian8094]

I don’t think it’s fair to compare because as the title suggests, it’s only focuses on June 6th specifically and the build up to it. While SPR only had d day as the opener for the film. But you’re right on watching Tora Tora Tora if you wanted a more authentic story of Pearl Harbor (seen it and it was AMAZING)

[@johnhallett5846]

I talked to many veterans of D Day and they all say that first thirty minutes of SPR is as close as they had ever seen to the real thing. After that not so much

[@timbuktu8069]

When you make lists like this you have to draw a line between history and fantasy.

[@sax9eleven]

Omg not ‘the longest day’ being the longest movie 🤣🤣 😭

[@MichaelScheele]

Runtimes: The Longest Day (1962): 178 minutes Pearl Harbor (2001): 183 minutes Saving Private Ryan (1998): 169 minutes

[@sax9eleven]

@@MichaelScheele hahahaha

[@sirridesalot6652]

@@MichaelScheele A Bridge Too Far aka A Movie Too Long.

[@MichaelScheele]

@@sirridesalot6652 , that had a 175 minute runtime. Still shorter than Pearl Harbor...