[Voyager13b]

Originally posted by Hans_Testicleese

I have just noticed I said "first WW2 movie that didn't invole yanks" , I meant to add that it is the only WW2 film I HAVE SEEN without yanks.

Hans,

I guess you don't watch many WWII films. Here are a few that don't include Yanks.... Sink the Bismark, The Dam Busters, Submarine X-1, Stallingrad, Das Boot, and (post WWII, but recent) K-19. Those are just off the top of my head. There are many more. Several come to mind that deal with prison camp situations, or with focus on special missions behind enemy lines.

In any event, they are there, and are offered often enough on American TV and movie channels that they must be in demand. I think it must be easy to want to believe that American viewers are never told about the efforts of their allies, and to take the plunge and declare it to be fact, but a quick look at a TV guide points out the truth.

By the way, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a majority of war films coming out of American studios to provide story lines that appeal to American pride and patriotism.

I have a pretty large collection of Russian films, and with the exception of the Spetznas TV series (which is an entertaining, but grand overglorification of Russian operations in Chechnya), none of them mention anything about the efforts of Soviet allies in wartime. French, German, and British films also play to the national pride. So what? If they are done well, I enjoy them all.

(I think I made up "overglorification", but I like long Russian words, and try to find a few for the English language)


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