Six Lesser Seen Modern WW2 Movies That Are Good
2) Generation War (2014)
If A Midnight Clear is a quieter movie, this one is anything but. World War 2 was fought, won and lost in the east. Anything that happened in the west paled in comparison, with Axis troops ceding 80% of all combat losses to the Soviets, and the Soviets losing even more. It was probably closer to hell on earth than civilisation has ever been witness to before.
This movie, or mini-series to be more accurate, follows two German brothers thrown onto the Eastern Front. Aside from one problem of romantic subplot/s, this series more or less does it justice. It’s a big budget 270 minute feature and, probably best of all, the battle scenes are fuckin’ stupendous! That means no shaking cameras or brain-melting editing. Like the old days, like Saving Private Ryan but without even Spielberg’s shaking. Better than Stalingrad (’93) and miles ahead of the ridiculously overrated and chokingly flatulent Come and See (’85).
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