What is your favorite battle scene in a movie with old milsurps in it.

I like both of these scenes. The entire film, Passchendaele, is a bit scattered really. I've seen it a couple times and I'm not really sure what I've seen either time. The story seems subverted by romance (in the academic sense). Rather than telling an interesting war story, he shoehorns a love story in, which is as strange as inserting a social faux-pas into the Fifth Proposition of Euclid.

But the battle scenes are very well done, I feel. The audience feels the sheer terror of being in a fight like that. All training seems to be forgotten, except what they've learned from experience. At one point Paul Gross pulls a fighting knife, which is a field-altered Ross bayonet—very good detail. You can't watch the final scene without being shocked in some way.

http://youtu.be/ZfJGC-drDSw

http://youtu.be/kUox_hQAih8
 
Wind and the Lion: American marines attack the Sultan's palace. Tried to find a film clip on YouTube but nothing came up.
 
CdnCombatMedic said:
Blackhawk Down

When the two special ops snipers were dropped off to secure a Blackhawk crash site.
CoC did not want them to go but they did not want to leave their brothers alone.
They continued to fight until their very last few rounds before being over run.
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After reading the book and then watching the movie when it came out I have said that every street in the US should named after Shughart and Gordon.
 
Besides what's been mentioned...just saw a movie called "The Forbidden Ground". Some good WWI trench scenes in that one (and some romance stuff if that's your thing).
 
tiriaq said:
Nelson84 - with your recent threads asking about bullet wounds and long bayonets, you should watch the scene in "Gandhi" depicting the 1919 massacre at the Jallinwala Garden in Amritsar, India, when a force of Gurkhas under the command of British General Dyer fired over a thousand rounds in 10 minutes into a trapped crowd of several thousand peaceful demonstrators, killing almost 400 and wounding over a thousand.
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That's sick! Your post is disturbing.
 
"Paths of Glory", a stark black & white with Kirk Douglas. Based on a true story of the French shooting some of their own for cowardice following a failed assault. The battle scenes were not long, but vivid as the Poilus went over the top into German machinegun fire and fell in droves.
The subsequent Court Martial was brilliantly done as was a final segment of a young woman from Alsace-Lorraine made to sing the "Faithful Hussar" in Deutsch, a song familiar to all of the French soldiers who tearfully joined in after initially booing her.

If you wonder why the soldiers in this film look so 'soldierly', it's because they were on loan from the Bundesgrenschutz Polizei, the West German Border Police. Their drill and deportment was immaculate! France would not allow the movie to be filmed on their territory. Too embarrassing.
 
The "Australian movie" was THE LIGHTHORSEMEN, made in 1987. Mouth-watering amount of original equipment. Battle of Beersheba while Allenby was leapfrogging his way from Gaza to Damascus, just a few days before Jerusalem. My old friend Angus Kellie was there with his 100-pdr and his Holt 75-hp tractor. Aussies started a suicidal charge at a mile, but Johnny Turk was raw; the 1600m setting on the sights was fine at a mile, shot over at closer ranges.

Try PATHS OF GLORY if you want one that will give you nightmares. French Army in WW1, location a poorly-concealed location which we call Vimy Ridge. American film (Kubrick) based on a British history book, made in Germany because the French would not allow it to be made in France: too brutal, too honest. Star Kirk Douglas (who was Jewish with a guid Scots screen name!) put his own money into the film because he felt that the story HAD to be told. One of the Great Classics of filmdom. NOT as rough as what REALLY occurred at the time of the Mutiny after the Nivelle Offensive, but pretty bad.

PASSCHENDAELE was a great effort, truly. The battle was cleaned-up enough to be filmed. Nobody would have BELIEVED a retelling of the real thing: they drowned Tanks at Passchendaele. The ultimate comment on that battle has to come from F/M Sir Douglas Haig: "Oh my God! We sent men out to die in THAT!" Haig may not have been the best commander.... but he spent the rest of his life doing the very best he could to help the Vets. Something our own Government might think of some day......

Ross Rifle in JOE KIDD. Take-down with a scope! Great 800-yard shot. Clint shoots better with blanks than I do with Ball!

REMINGTON-KEENE in the same film.

Stripped Ross Mark III in GOING HOME, the CBC/NFB/BBC film they refuse to release, do not acknowledge they made. I HAVE it! Shown once only.

4-barrel Naval Nordenfeldt in KHARTOUM.

A ton of MLEs in THE 55 DAYS OF PEKING. Also Charlton Heston and David Niven, who was The Real Thing. Google him.

MG-42 in THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY (in th Civil War, none the less!). Also a MONTIGNY MITRAILLEUSE.

LOTS of BESSS and BAKERS in SHARPE'S EAGLE (also most of the Ukrainian Army!).

MAXIMS, MOISINS and an ARMOURED TRAIN in DOCTOR ZHIVAGO.

And let us not forget LAWRENCE OF ARABIA: WEBLEY MARK VI, a zillion SMLEs, VICKERS Guns and Rolls-Royce ARMOURED CARS.

Lotsa good stuff out there. Just have to look for some of it.
 
Tho they technically are not movies, Band of Brothers and The Pacific have many many many scenes with Garands, Thompsons, M1 Carbine, K98s Lugers, 1911's Water Cooled 1919's air cooled 1919's AA Guns, Tanks the whole shebang! I love both of those Mini Series.
 
Here's an excellent one depicting the savagery of the opening days of Barbarossa..."Fortress of War". The movie has lots of amazing scenes with small arms. And by the way, if anyone can tell me how to actually embed YouTube videos and not just post a link, I'd be much obliged. Lately, whenever I try, both on this iPad and my laptop, all I get is links...

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l1W2y9BujkM
 
I "really" liked the 2003 movie "Saints and Soldiers" about American servicemen trapped behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge. The movie budget was so low many of the Americans were carrying No.4 Enfields in the action scenes but when they were in closeup they had M1 Garands. Actually the movie was so bad I stopped watching it before it was half over.

Other than that I would pay to see any Australian shoot sunray with a couple of dull Mk.7 bullets in the kneecaps and that would be my favorite milsurp scene. :evil:
 
@ Nelson 84:

Google AMRITSAR MASSACRE. Wiki has a good article on it.

Major boost to the idea of Indian independence, btw.

Sick?

Yes, ANY outright slaughter is sick.

But it happened.

So did Katyn, but everybody (except the Poles) is trying to forget that one. Also the massacres in the Polish Corridor (1939) and the Sudetenland (1945/6) but that was Germans being slaughtered, so likely it's okay...... Latvija, Lithuania, Estonia in 1940, but that was our ALLY who did that, good old Uncle Joe. The DEF Camps: starvation and exposure, Red Cross food trains actually turned back: France and the USA. Tito's slaughters in Yugoslavia, but that was for The Party. What became of the Vlasov Army? Britain shipped 'em, Mother Russia massacred them. Over half a million right there.

Human history is written in the spilled blood of innocents and honest patriots.

Sometimes the Human Race disgusts me.
 
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