# WWII movies from the German perspective? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 23, 2008, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366 "2008-05-23T15:33:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unspun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b9bd4f/32.png) [@unspun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unspun)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/1 "2008-05-23T15:33:57Z")
Have there been (m)any movies telling soldier’s stories (like Private Ryan or whatever) from the German’s side? (maybe this is a cafe question?) ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/2 "2008-05-23T15:34:24Z")
There was Das Boot. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/3 "2008-05-23T15:45:36Z")
Reported for a mod to move. **Cross of Iron** ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/4 "2008-05-23T15:47:16Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Reported for a mod to move. **Cross of Iron** [/QUOTE] And moved from General Questions to Cafe Society. **Gfactor** General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/5 "2008-05-23T15:50:29Z")
Try Stalingrad [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalingrad\_(film)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalingrad_%28film%29) ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/6 "2008-05-23T16:16:05Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Amazing] There was Das Boot. [/QUOTE] Also _The Enemy Below_, the Robert Mitchum/Curt Jurgens submarine flick. Unusually sympathetic to the German characters for a 1957 film, I would have thought. ---
**Author:** ![Spiny\_Norman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Spiny\_Norman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiny_Norman)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/7 "2008-05-23T16:17:07Z")
[Die Bruecke](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Br%C3%BCcke_%28film%29) is a pretty haunting depiction of a handful of german teenagers meeting war head-on. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/8 "2008-05-23T16:30:08Z")
I suppose [_The Eagle Has Landed_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074452/) would qualify. ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/9 "2008-05-23T16:36:44Z")
[QUOTE=Spiny Norman] [Die Bruecke](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Br%C3%BCcke_%28film%29) is a pretty haunting depiction of a handful of german teenagers meeting war head-on. [/QUOTE] I remember reading that, at about the age the protagonists were. Messed me up. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/10 "2008-05-23T16:47:18Z")
[Der Untergang](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Untergang) portrayed the war’s last days from a variety of perspectives, not just Hitler’s. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/11 "2008-05-23T17:27:38Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Amazing] There was Das Boot. [/QUOTE] If you have never seen the director cut of Das Boot, it is 3.5 hours well spent. Very very intense. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/12 "2008-05-23T18:34:52Z")
If it’s OK to go before II back to I, there’s _All Quiet on the Western Front._ ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/13 "2008-05-23T18:37:31Z")
[QUOTE=Spiny Norman] [Die Bruecke](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Br%C3%BCcke_%28film%29) is a pretty haunting depiction of a handful of german teenagers meeting war head-on. [/QUOTE] I heard that’s _so_ good, but it isn’t in print. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/14 "2008-05-23T18:40:36Z")
[The Young Lions](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052415/) featured parallel story lines about US and German soldiers, the German being played by Marlon Brando. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/15 "2008-05-23T19:54:57Z")
[The Marriage of Maria Braun](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079095/) , for the homefront and aftermath. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/16 "2008-05-23T20:37:41Z")
[QUOTE=Rick] If you have never seen the director cut of Das Boot, it is 3.5 hours well spent. Very very intense. [/QUOTE] The full uncut version is over 5 hours long. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/17 "2008-05-23T22:05:13Z")
WWI also has **[The Blue Max](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060177/)** **[The Tin Drum](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078875/)** covers WWII from a German POV, but on the home front. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2008, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/18 "2008-05-24T01:28:32Z")
“The McKenzie Break” is, basically, “The Great Escape” in reverse- a story of crafty German POWs escaping from a British prison camp. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/19 "2008-05-24T01:30:20Z")
_A Bridge Too Far_ and _The Longest Day_ both had multiple segments devoted to the German POV. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2008, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/20 "2008-05-24T02:13:48Z")
_Battle of the Bulge_ had some classic, if somewhat fanciful, scenes on the German side, especially with Robert Shaw. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366.md?page=2)