What have you been watching?

I watched the whole thing in two sittings last year. I t was a pretty solid overview of the war from an American point of view. Many memorable things. I especially remember a section about rationing and recycling on the home front. These are things that I have not seen elsewhere. Well worth your time, I would say. Please post your opinion if you do watch it.

 

I'm sure getting through US propaganda isn't hard going for you though. US movies are full of propaganda just like the Soviet ones.
Why is it the best Soviet movie I watched so far? Because it showed strategic and tactical point of view of the battle and the combat scenes were brilliant.

 

"Poppy, sadly that except in the cities most providers seem to like monopoly's which hurt the consumer. If I got better digital reception I would have gone without cable/satellite, but 2 channels didn't cut it!"

So you have hardwired internet/phone and satellite tv?..You could prolly get a good bundle if you made a couple calls.

Think this conversation falls within the -What Are You Watching- thread.

 

And now, for a completely new breath of fresh air. The sport my heart is sold to.

"Earth Shattering." "An absolutely BREATHTAKING Video." by Dave Achuk.
Paragliding Mt. Harvey, Howe Sound British Columbia Canada atop Vancouver BC's North Shore mountains.
It is located on the Howe Sound Crest Trail in Cypress Provincial Park near Vancouver's "The Lions" Mountain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cBmRr26JV4

 

More. "You don't have to get high to get HIGH."

Sky Dancing With Aurora - Northern Lights in Tronson Norway by Spain's Horacio Llorens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvhvQ-PFM-k

 

Awesome videos Fred!

 

A landmark deal means much of British Columbia Canada's Great Bear Rainforest, home of the Spirit Bear, is now protected.
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/landmark+deal+protects+huge+swath+central+coast+from+logging/11689991/story.html
https://www.facebook.com/theglobeandmail/videos/10153857141973904/?fref=nf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjRAWql2A3E

 

Good documentary. Good American viewpoint of the war and its sequence. Interesting stuff. Was quite taken with the anecdotal stories strung throughout. I would say its a 15 hours well spent.

 

Good point about US "propaganda". It is much harder to keep an awareness of the war as represented by the American bias and movie aesthetic. Gets easier with movies like "Pearl Harbor" or "Saving Private Ryan" but harder when there is a more serious intent to represent the war with more accuracy.

 

Agreed!

 

Not Ken Burns related, recently watched "The Bridge" (Die Brücke). A 1959 West German film directed by Austrian filmmaker Bernhard Wicki. Based on true events involving a group of high school kids being drafted and promptly sent to the front line. Based on a novel by the journalist and writer Gregor Dorfmeister. Was one of the first post war German movies and was the first attempt to humanize the German soldier. Nominated for an Oscar.

 

Good one! Thanks! 2008 version here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY6tdzRG15U

Die Brucke 1959 (Part 1 - 9) English Subtitles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JHG2SD-9fI

 

I think it should be noted that his work is less about propaganda than it is as a look at historic events and how they affected and were seen by American's. To the best of my knowledge all his documentary's are about the US.

 

Thanks Fred. Will look up the 2008 version.

"The Damned," directed by Rene Clement. A 1947 French film that spins up in mid April 1945 about a small group of senior Nazi officers, their wives and mistresses who escape their collapsing world in a u-boat. With the port of call in South America to start new lives, the hardliners continue pursuit of their quests of the Third Reich.

 

Typical Ken Burns mauldlin crap.

"No disrespect"

 

The Wind and the Lion

So great on in so many ways.

Story, uniforms and equipment, settings, Candice Bergen at her most beautiful, Connery at his peak

As good as Lawrence of Arabia. I don't understand why it isn't shown more.

I just noticed another little tidbit. When Roosevelt is talking with his Secretary of State while practicing archery on the White House grounds, he is shooting with Japanese officers in uniform. Only a couple of seconds of them is shown. Alluding to the Treaty of Portsmouth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s587_qG8eg

 

Blacklist - Jimmy Spader taking a place among the Hollywood greats with this great series.

Peaky Blinders - Birmingham organized crime post WW1. Tough men looking for work.

Trailer Park Boys for comic relief.

Doc Martin.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/lewis/series1.html Inspector Lewis, Oxford, Masterpiece Theater

Stellen Skarsgaard as "River" - London Homicide Inspector.

 

"River" is a quality show. He's great in it.

 

"In the Fog," a 2012 Russian drama on the 1942 German occupation, sabotage, reprisals and hatred. A slow paced movie with highpoint eventful action replaced with implication. Coffee recommended. Brushes on my current chapter in the book, Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe.