Historian Breaks Down D-Day Movies and TV Series | Deep Dives

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  @Snorlax_il · 2 years ago

  One of the best lines in Band of Brothers is just before they entrench outside Bastone Capt. Winters simply says "We're paratroopers. We're supposed to be surrounded" as if it's the simplest thing there is

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  @marka351 · 2 years ago

  The one complaint I have with "The Longest Day" is that they did not film any scenes of the Canadians on Juno Beach.

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  @osrizzo9219 · 2 years ago

  Two things about the Saving Private Ryan part:<br><br>1: Those German soldiers that were surrendering were telling the Americans that they weren&apos;t German, they were Czech. Which is awesome storytelling. When I first saw it, I had assumed they were trying to say that warfare isn&apos;t black and white, but rather shades of grey (showing the &quot;good guys&quot; actually commit a war crime), but when you dive a little deeper it also shows the very real history of men being conscripted against their will to fight for a Germany. <br><br>2: The bit about the real family that the Ryan&apos;s were based one, the Neiland family, that third brother who was shot down over Burma actually survived and was able to return home after the war, alongside his brother, the paratrooper that Matt Damon&apos;s character was based on.

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  @TheOffertonhatter · 2 years ago (edited)

  One of the most interesting things about &quot;The Longest Day&quot; film, to which I am fascinated, is that Richard Todd Played Major John Howard in the film, and yet he was a Captain himself during D-Day and actually played a part in capturing Pegasus Bridge himself, even joining forces with the real Major whom he played in the film. Another actor - Patrick Jordan - Played Todd in the film.

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  @LocoJunius · 2 years ago

  Can we just appreciate of legendary of a Historian Dan Snow is

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  @brettfromla4055 · 2 years ago

  My World War II European Theater vet father scoffed when I said that Saving Private Ryan seemed realistic. <br>He said if you really made a war movie realistic, you’d have to turn the volume so loud it hurt your ears, and have the smell of 3 day-old dead bodies in the theater.

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  @FideiDefensorUK · 2 years ago

  Thanks for this! My father landed on Sword Beach 6 June 44. He died when I was only two years old so I don’t remember him, but I remember him through his war record and shows like this. 👍

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  @akaToeB · 2 years ago

  In the surrender scene @<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEdmpUXoxAI&amp;t=477">7:57</a> the soldiers are actually trying to explain that they aren&apos;t German and are in fact Czech. Many Czech men were conscripted to the German army and many died never firing a bullet, after being mistaken for Germans. One of the many small details which I think takes Saving Private Ryan to another level of realism.

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  @brettfromla4055 · 2 years ago

  My dad said his experience with combat was 90% bordom, and 10% sheer terror.<br><br>He wouldn’t really speak of his experiences until he turned 80, and even then his anecdotes were redacted. He took his real feelings and experiences with him to his grave.

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  @fromadhdtodndtomtg · 2 years ago (edited)

  Richard Todd, playing his boss.

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  @rob_in_stowmarket_uk · 2 years ago

  Small point: The Niland brother in the Pacific Theatre, thought to be dead, was actually a POW who was returned home after WWII ended.

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  @HavocParadox · 2 years ago

  god hearing that band of brothers intro music even for the quick moment.. i rewatch the entire show every few years and i still get teary eyed hearing it

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