# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2008, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/21 "2008-05-24T02:29:36Z")
[QUOTE=Ranchoth] _Battle of the Bulge_ had some classic, if somewhat fanciful, scenes on the German side, especially with Robert Shaw. [/QUOTE] Heh. I don’t sprekenzie German, but something about _Panzerlied_ that reaches in to my male hormones, and morphs me into a boot clomping idiot. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2008, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/22 "2008-05-24T13:03:41Z")
[QUOTE=astorian] “The McKenzie Break” is, basically, “The Great Escape” in reverse- a story of crafty German POWs escaping from a British prison camp. [/QUOTE] What some people won’t do to get to Canada. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/23 "2008-05-25T12:22:12Z")
All quiet on the Western Front. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/24 "2008-05-25T14:56:05Z")
I second **Stalingrad**. A nice cheerful family film with absolutely no severed torsos, gangrenous, frostbitten feet or flamethrower-mutilated Russians. Obviously they all live happily ever after too. ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/25 "2008-05-25T15:57:04Z")
**The Desert Fox** , the story of Gen. Rommel \*\*The Young Lions \*\* has sections of the war as seen from the German side. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/26 "2008-05-25T16:16:32Z")
[QUOTE=mlees] Heh. I don’t sprekenzie German, but something about _Panzerlied_ that reaches in to my male hormones, and morphs me into a boot clomping idiot. [/QUOTE] _Ich sprecht nicht den Deutch_ would be closer, AIUI 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/27 "2008-05-25T16:22:39Z")
_Eye of the Needle_? ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/28 "2008-05-25T16:38:43Z")
[Swing Kids](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108265/) Mediocre movie, but not a bad watch. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/29 "2008-05-25T21:53:19Z")
[Inside the Third Reich,](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084140/) with Derek Jacobi as Hitler, based on Albert Speer’s self-derving, distored memoirs. Since that brings Rutger Hauer to mind, there’s [Fatherland](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109779/), a What-if? movie aobut Nazi-dominated Europe in 1964 (The Beatles are still big, but why not a Hamburg band that got started in Liverpool instead?) Other than Derek Jacobi, if you want to see which actor best chews the scenery in a claustrophobic set under 60 feet of concrete, there’s [The Bunker,](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082114/) with Anthonly Hopkins; [Hitler: The Last Ten Days,](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070184/) with Alec Guiness, and (recommended) [Der Untergang](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363163/) with Bruno Ganz as a Parkinson-quaking Hitler. For a look at young Hitler when he was only able to kill Jews in his fantasies while masturbating, there’s [Max,](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290210/) about a well-intentioned Jewish guy who gave him the recognition he needed to build his dream. There’s also [Hitler’s S.S.: Portrait in Evil,](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089279/) an American-made TV movie about two brothers, one in the SA, the other in the SS. The Night of the Long Knives made for awkward family mealtimes. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/30 "2008-05-25T23:34:16Z")
[QUOTE=astorian] “The McKenzie Break” is, basically, “The Great Escape” in reverse- a story of crafty German POWs escaping from a British prison camp. [/QUOTE] Also [The One That Got Away](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050803/) , “the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war taken in Britain during the Second World War who escaped from numerous British POW camps and got back to Germany.” The movie starred Hardy Kruger, who himself served in the German army in the war and escaped as a POW from the Americans three times. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366/31 "2008-05-26T01:49:38Z")
Seconding both **Das Boot** and **The Young Lions**. [QUOTE=Lust4Life] All quiet on the Western Front. [/QUOTE] 1/ already mentioned in post #12 2/ not WWII [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-movies-from-the-german-perspective/450366.md?page=1)