I don’t know. I have absolutely no recollection of it
But this discussion flags the difficulty of defining a “patriotic” movie in Canada.
If that movie was popular in Ontario, does that make it “patriotic”? Would it have been seen as “patriotic” in Quebec? Would it have any appeal for Newfoundlanders, who had no connection to the War of 1812? Or folks in BC or on the Prairies?
This applies to most countries, not just Canada.
Is a movie depicting General Sherman gloriously making Georgia howl patriotic? What about Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter?
Actually an easy way to look up patriotic national movies is to put country name and “Top Gun rip-off”.
Sky Fighters is France, Fighter is India, Best Guy is Japan, Return to Base is South Korea etc.
Sure, there are specific movies that would not necessarily have wide appeal in parts of the US. But there is a broad genre of patriotic action movies in the States; that’s implicit in the OP’s question. They are usually war-related. There were a lot of movies that depicted the US role in WWII that would fit that bill: nation pulling together, defeating the outsider, defining the American Way, etc.
But wars in Canada have been internally divisive, so almost by definition movies about Canada in war-time will not fit the category of “patriotic”, because they will not have broad appeal;
There is a patriotic Canadian war movie about Juno Beach though, it’s claimed to be a docudrama but it’s basically like Band of Brothers where they have the movie and then at the end they have real like veterans pop up at the end and tell their real life stories. It ends on a Canadian flag too.
And did it have broad showing and popular appeal in Quebec? I’m not denying that you can have Canadian war movies. It’s the concept of a “patriotic” movie, that has broad popular appeal across the country, that I’m struggling with.
ETA: when you say it ends with the flag, does it end with the current flag, or the flag that was used in 1944: the Red Ensign, with the Union flag in the canton?
It ended on Canada House with the modern Canadian flag
Quebec is less than 25% of the population of Canada. Broad popular appeal with 75% of the country is broad enough.
And opposition from the other 25%? How is that Canadian patriotism, if 25% of Canadians reject it as a vision of the country?
Countries that would not (IMO) are: the Vatican State, Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein, Luxemburg, Malta and Swizzerland. I may be wrong about Luxemburg.
If that looks a bit eurocentric, go to the smaller Pacific States. Like Vanuatu.
So ninjae’d, I guess. By 13 hours. Oh, well…
I think you forgot Eastern Germany. Perhaps Leute mit Flügeln counts? It is full of patriotic ideology, that is for sure. There were plenty of others, can’t think of the titles right now, and a lot of TV series and productions.
What about Monaco? Perhaps a casino heist film?
Maybe I did, but though I know very few DEFA films, I didn’t expect the GDR making overtly patriotic war movies. I’m interested in the film, but I don’t want to watch it right now, so what’s it about and in which time does it play?
ETA: sorry, you don’t need to answer, I’m on the wiki page for the film right now.
It is probably safe to say they hid the patriotism behind marxist-leninist ideology, but it was patriotism nonetheless. The action part may be a bit dull for modern standards, that I grant.
There’s no English page, but reviewing the German one with Translate shows that the plot is about a guy who fights for the Communists in Spain, opposes the Nazis, and aids the Red Army.
The modern Vatican would probably disapprove of such a film, but you could conceivably make a film about the Papal States fighting against invasions by France or the Holy Roman Empire.
The Knights of Malta were once hailed as the heroes defending Christendom against the perfidious Turk. You could easily turn that into a movie. (Granted, most of the Knights were not ethnic Maltese, but film-makers rarely let pesky little facts get in the way of an entertaining story.)
You could make a really fun movie about the way the Grimaldi dynasty played Spain, France, and Genoa against each other, and basically swindled their way into independence for the country, and princely rank for the rulers. However, it would be more of a caper flick than an action film.
Switzerland never made an action film about their folk hero William Tell?
The closest thing to this for South Africa in the old days was this comedy film:
Boetie Gaan Border Toe - Wikipedia .
For post-Apartheid South Africa, can’t really think of anything. Lots of dramas, not any action.
True, but bear in mind that La Grande Vadrouille was filmed only about 20 years after the war ended. Most of the French population had vivid memories of the war, and the topic of collaboration was still highly taboo for obvious reasons. It still is, to some extent.
There’s a lot of myth-making going on in Gallipolli. It’s a foundational component of modern Australian identity.
Was about to say.
The thread content has drifted in a typically Dope informative and enlightening way, but I can’t help but get that the spirit of the OP question was along the lines of the sort of film where there are “whoeee that blowed up real good” scenes and sequences where the leading man/lady kicks ass awesomely, and there is some either blatant or subtle element of “F—-k yeah! U-S-A! U-S-A! (or Jai Hind or whatever applies)” at play in the intended reaction.
The American film industry is just so big it sometimes looks like they’re the only ones doing something out of sheer numbers.