The Lost Battalion

[Wireworm5]

I had a brief discussion at work about graphic war movies. Band of Brothers was one that was mentioned that I haven't seen yet. Saving Private Ryan, and of coarse the WWI movie The Lost Battalion which I couldn't remember the name of at the time.
Anyways this was a movie made for tv that was aired on the History channel. Apparently it is now available on dvd which I will have to get. If you haven't seen it, it is very graphic that makes no allusions of the horror of war. I thought of Private Ryan when I saw this only it was WWI setting.
Now that it is available on dvd it should quickly rise to recognition of one of the greatest war movies ever, if you can call war great. :smoke:

[Thatch_Ear]

There is another very good HBO movie that is about WWII called When Trumpets Fade. I thought it was very well done and showed the mental as well as physical trama, was bloody but not gory and the lead is the guy who used to play the ambulance driver, love interest on ER, Ron Eldard.
It was directed John Irvin who did Hamburger Hill a few years back which was a movie about fighting in the Viet Nam highlands that I thought was well done.

I think it was a $6 special buy a BB. I have been picking up some pretty good movies in the $5.50 bin at Wall-Mart and used to find some good stuff for $6 at BB like Ruthless People and Bugsy.

The Lost Battalion was a good movie, and one I have been kinda looking for because I can't remember the name, but was very impressed with a decade back was about an American platoon lost in the winter of 44/45 that comes across a lost platoon of Germans.

Hell In The Pacific is a great war drama with Lee Marvin where he and a Japanese pilot are marooned together on a small Pacific island.