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Poll Sug: Best Movie Depicting An Actual Historical Event Or Person Of World War 2.

Even though the list page has not been created yet, I thought that with U.S.A. 's Memorial Day holiday weekend coming up and the release of Christopher Nolan's "Dunkirk" also coming up, it be appropriate to do a poll about films depicting actual events or persons of World War 2 even though some are highly fictionalized.
The page is at http://www.imdb.com/list/ls069400268/... and I just added to it right now.
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9 years ago

"An actual historical event or person of World War II"? There are literally hundreds of films that fall under this criteria. I think you should narrow it, covering only real people or setting a rating threshold, or something else. Your question is too broad currently. There are hundreds of stories about the horror of the holocaust that are also part of "an actual historical event of World War II."

Also World War II is listed as such, not World War 2. And IMDb doesn't like periods at the end of suggestion titles.

Question: Why are you including the Best Years of Our Lives? While Harold Russell and Homer Parish both lost their hands in the war, there is no indication that the film was based on him at all. Additionally, Russell was in the Army while Parish was in the Navy.

There are more of your options that appear to have the same issue as above.

FYC:
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First if you got better films, mention them and I'll put them in.
I used "The best Years Of Our Lives" because it dealt with a part of the war that is still apart of war long after the hostilities stops. That is the troops coming back home and trying to adjust to civilian life. Sure it may not have happened to one person but it did happen to thousands. Btw, the director, William Wyler, put his own homecoming in the film. It was the scene where Al Stephensonwalks into his apartment and his wife Molly is down the hall in another room. Coming home is apart of war.
As for the rest, weather a fictionalized story or not, they depict an actual event in the war. For instance, "Australia", in the last act, depicts the Japanese attack on Darwin that happened on February 19, 1942. It was the same attack force that attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941.
The war happened not only on the battlefield only. There were P.O.W. camps . There were was concentration camps. There were sea chases. There was the home front. There was common British neighborhoods under attack in the Battle of Britain. There were personal duels between two soldiers happened. "The Wooden Horse" happened. "Enemy At The Gates" happened. I didn't put films on here that were totally based on BS that "Inglorious Bastards" was. Even "In Harm's Way" and "From Here To Eternity", which both depict the attack on Pearl Harbor, has more factual information in them than Bastards did, or even "The Guns Of Navarone" or "The Dirty Dozen". And I love those two movies and own them on DVD.
But as I said, if you got better selections, please feel free to suggest them and I will replace some of the ones on this list.

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Are you sure "unbreakable " is the right title because all I'm getting is M. Night Shyamalan's "Unbreakable".

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Hacksaw Ridge  ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacksaw_Ridge

Hacksaw Ridge is a 2016 biographical war drama film about the World War II experiences of Desmond Doss, an American pacifist combat medic who was a Seventh-day Adventist Christian, refusing to carry or use a firearm or weapons of any kind.

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6 years ago

dgranger,

I found this old suggestion of yours. If you wish, you could update the poll text and occasion.

1 September 2019 marks 80 years since the start of World War II.

Please also adjust the title capitalization, and perhaps make it a bit shorter:

Best Movie Depicting a Historical Event or Person of World War II