Is there any military show or movie this good you can recomend?
And don't you dare say The Hurt Locker.
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Band of Brothers is probably the best military themed mini series ever made. The Pacific is alright, but could have been so much better.
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BoB may be the "best" overall (though I highly disagree with that), but as far as realistic goes GK is the best you're gonna find unless you watch a documentary.
share'Warriors' (I think it was called peacekeepers in the U.S.) a two or three part TV drama about British soldiers in Bosnia. It is not flashy or polished like B of B at all but excellent none the less.
shareI saw about 15 minutes of that on the BBC when I was overseas, and thought it was awesome. Damian Lewis (Winters from BoB) is in that one as well. It looked really awesome.
As far as documentaries, I just finished watching "Restrepo," and it's pretty awesome. It follows a platoon from the 173rd Airborne in Afghanistan for a year.
Don't try BoB if you're looking for a show like Gen. Kill
Honestly, I don't know if there is any. Try the Hurt Locker.
Just kidding...
Try the Wire, best thing on TV
As far as documentaries go, Restrepo and Armadillo are great ones.
Restrepo has already been described.
Armadillo follows a platoon in the Danish ISAF contingent. So it's in Danish, but I watched it with English subtitles and it was great.
TV series this great are rare. Great ones about servicemen are even rarer, especially when one is looking for something set in modern day Iraq or Afghanistan.
Full Metal Jacket and Paths of Glory.
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5 month old topic, but whatever, I'll throw in Tour of Duty. That show had a lot of resonance with me when I was a kid, and was one of the things that got me interested in the military when I was younger. It's a little bit tame by today's standards I suppose, and the second season was kinda lame, but easily one of the best shows about warfare you can find. Mind you if you watch it on DVD nowadays, you don't get the kick ass 60s-rock soundtrack that the show featured during its original run in the 80s, but that only hurts it a little.
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5 month old topic, but whatever
Thanks for your answer.
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I'll give Tour Of Duty a try.
Just coming back to the thread to report that I rented a PBS special from Netflix called "The Marines".
Well worth watching, and Nate Fick is in it too.
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eh. I loved Tour of Duty when I was a kid. But once I became an adult and actually deployed... I re-watched the series and it annoyed me. Way too much whining about feelings and such.
I know it was a made for TV drama, but it's like the writers took everything bad that ever happened to anyone in Vietnam, then crammed it into a few soldiers in a short period of time.
Had a platoon really had that many issues, they would have been declared combat ineffective constantly.
Just my opinion. Which is right. ;)
There was a short lived series called "Over There" that showed promise but was cancelled before an entire season played out, it got 13 episodes and that was that. It was quite similar to Generation Kill, not quite as good, and it involved a bit of the "back home drama" of the families. Oh, and it had a really obnoxious theme song. Other than that it was pretty good and worth watching at least once.
shareLove gk but bob craps all over it.
shareLetters from Iwo Jima, both American and Japanese versions are great. Possibly one of the better war films.
The Pacific was great, I don't know what you're talking about. Band of Brothers just happens to be a much better setting for a series-friendly dialogue/format. The Pacific is hard to follow the characters to a point where it would truly be a better impact the 2nd time watching. If you've got attention span of a child or whatever, you won't be able to follow through. The series of The pacific is about the mental changes that occurred in the Pacific campaign, as opposed to Band of Brothers being about paratroopers from Easy company that band together as brothers to fight against a great Nazi force.
Regular people pretend to be expert critiques trash-talking the Pacific when it won so many awards. I will admit that it could've been much better than it was. The reason being was that the Pacific war was constant endurance battle. Dig in deep, kill the Japanese, and endure the exhaustion.
There's a lot of great ones. Full Metal Jacket I'd say is more of a satire as opposed to a war film, although it is one of Vietnam War. If you're up to watch foreign war films, the BEST film I've seen is called "Tae Guk Gi" which is a film about two Korean brothers making a living; getting drafted to the Korean War. It is definitely the best war films I've seen if not a little overly dramatic. It definitely isn't the most realistic thing in the world, as there's a bit of a deeper storyline between the brothers.
I saw Restrepo too, and it's great but I wouldn't recommend it to everyone who's looking for a war film. It's more of a documentation where the veterans recall the events of Korengal Valley and mission Rock Avalanche and the aftermath of establishing an outpost named after a fallen friend, Doc Restrepo. You won't see amazing fire fight scenes. It's mostly you see the soldiers firing to the mountains or getting shot at. But it's true authenticity of war, raw and emotional.
Warriors. Named after the British Warrior-APC.
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This thread made me go and hunt down a tv series ( Heroes 2 : The Return) that I thought had been forever lost in my head, until I suddenly remembered that an actor from an Australian soap when I was a kid, is in it. I watched this at maybe the age of 12, back in the early 90s and it was one of the first war things that emotionally moved me. It was shown as a 2 part series in the UK. The story of it has been lodged away in my brain since that day.
I have no idea how it would hold up now, but I was interested to note that someone gave it very good review and that its rating is good from the 46 people that have voted on lol. Also interesting that Mirando Otto of LOTR fame, was in it !
Maybe this could be a hidden gem that needs to be re-dsocvored if possible.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099765/
Not a miniseries... but Black Hawk Down is an excellent movie that tells the story pretty much truthfully.
share"Breaker Morant," it's a little old (1980) but it's excellent.
It's about some Australians who get court martialled for killing some enemy combatants and a missionary during the Boer War in South Africa. It's like "Generation Kill" crossed with "Rules of Engagement" and set around 1900 in South Africa. It's got a lot of the same themes as GK.
In fact it's shocking considering how much has changed over the past 100 years, how much between the two is the same.