WWII movies

	A Bridge Too Far Actors: Dirk Bogarde - James Caan - Michael Caine - Sean Connery - Denholm Elliott In September 1944, flush with success after the Normandy Invasion, the Allies confidently launched Operation Market Garden, a wild scheme intended to put an early end to the fighting by invading Germany taking the bridges across the Rhine with airborne soldiers.
	Battle of the Bulge Actors: Henry Fonda - Robert Shaw - Robert Ryan - Dana Andrews - George Montgomery Nazi Panzer forces stage a last-ditch Belgian front offensive that could turn the tide of WWII. The american forces will desperately try to stop the german tanks until reinforcements arrive.
	Patton Actors: George C. Scott - Karl Malden - Stephen Young - Michael Strong - Carey Loftin A Portrait of George Patton during wwii. Patton commands many battles in North Africa, Sicily and France. He becomes frustrated many times when he is punished loosing command, due to his political declarations frequently against Russian allies. This movie also depicts a mystical aspect of the general.
	The Dirty Dozen Actors: Lee Marvin - Ernest Borgnine + Charles Bronson - John Cassavetes - Telly Savalas A us army major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of german officers in world war ii. The first half of the film allows the colorful cast of character actors to have their fun as they get their tails whipped into shape and develop shaky bonds with their commander. The second part is all action, as the culprit commandos wreck havoc and then run for their lives.
	The Great Escape (2-Disc Collector's Set) Actors: Steve McQueen - James Garner - Richard Attenborough - Charles Bronson - Donald Pleasence In 1943, the Germans opened Stalag Luft North, a maximum security POW camp, designed to hold even the craftiest escape artists. In doing so, however, the Nazis unwittingly assembled the finest escape team in military history. The Great Escape thrillingly celebrates the heroism of men who never gave up the fight.
	Enemy at the Gates Actors: Jude Law - Ed Harris - Joseph Fiennes - Rachel Weisz - Bob Hoskins Vassili Zaitsev a Russian sharpshooter, causes a lot of casualties among the nazis in the battle of Stalingrad. The Russian propaganda makes him a hero to inspire the overwhelmed red army troops forcing the germans to send their best man to hunt him.
	Downfall Actors: Bruno Ganz - Alexandra Maria Lara - Ulrich Matthes - Juliane Kohler - Corinna Harfouch This takes you into hitlers bunker during the brutal and terrifying last days of the third reich while the red army is assulting the city of Berlin where the last remains of the Wehrmacht desperately resist.
	Stalingrad Actors: Dominique Horwitz Thomas Kretschmann Jochen Nickel Sebastian Rudolph Dana Vavrova The films take the perspective of ordinary German soldiers at ground level. Stalingrad surveys the misery of the battle of Stalingrad, the winter siege that cost the lives of almost one and a half million people, Russian defenders and German invaders alike.
	Das Boot - The Director's Cut Actors: Jurgen Prochnow - Herbert Gronemeyer - Klaus Wennemann - Hubertus Bengsch - Martin Semmelrogge The best submarine movie ever made, this film shows the life in a german submarine in the northern Atlantic where it sailed to attack british convoys.
	Saving Private Ryan Actors: Tom Hanks - Matt Damon - Tom Sizemore - Edward Burns - Barry Pepper After the landing in France (this movie makes a spectacular recreation) a small band of u.S. Soldiers are sent on a mission during the tumultuous battle at normandy to find the lone survivor of four brothers.
	Band of Brothers Actors: Damien Lewis - Ron Livingston - Donnie Wahlberg - Frank John Hughes - Neal McDonough The epic 10-part miniseries Band of Brothers tells the story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army. Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as soldiers' journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men who knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear. They were an elite rifle company parachuting into France early on D-Day morning, fighting in the Battle of the Bulge and capturing Hitlers Eagles Nest at Berchtesgaden.
	Letters from Iwo Jima / Flags of Our Fathers Actors: With this two movies Clint Eastwood depicted the battle of Iwo Jima seen by both sides, one movie seen with american eyes and the other movie with japanese eyes. No doubt, for both bands this battle was hell.
	Cross of Iron Actors: James Coburn - Maximilian Schell - James Mason - David Warner - Klaus Lowitsch The war is grinding to a close, and veterans like Steiner are grimly aware that it is a lost cause. The battlefield is a death trap of sucking mud and barbed wire, and the German generals seem to pose a bigger threat to the life and limbs of Steiners men than the inexorable enemy.
	Windtalkers Actors: Nicolas Cage - Adam Beach - Peter Stormare - Noah Emmerich - Mark Ruffalo In the brutal World War II Battle of Saipan, Sergeant Joe Enders guardsand Ben Yahzee, a young Navajo trained in the one wartime code never broken by the enemy, the Navajo Code. This movie is full of action with one combat after the other. If you like bloody movies this is the one for you.