Movies to watch while playing AA

In “War Comes To America,” the seventh film of the “Why We Fight” series, there are some animated sequences (about ten minutes before the end of movie) which show little animated tanks pushing rows of little stick figures into stylized factory buildings to illustrate the industrial potential which Germany and Japan would command if they were to dominate Europe and Asia.  The factory buildings look almost exactly like the industrial complex pieces in Axis & Allies: a square building with three sawtooth projections on top and two smokestacks at one end of the roof.

CWO Marc

Bridge at Remagen
Guns of Navarone
Force 10 from Navarone
Where Eagles Dare
Kelly’s Heros
The Thin Red Line
Platoon
Operation Daybreak
Patton

@F6FHellcat:

No.  Is Final Countdown.  USS Nimitz enter time storm.  Commander of Nimitz recall F-14 Tomcat fighter just before they attack Japan force go to Pearl Harbor when Time Storm reappear.  Is strange movie.

Crap, yeah that’s right it was Final Countdown, thanks for the correction Hellcat.  Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen……

I did get it confused with the Philadelphia Experiment though.  That movie had the guy from Eddie and the Cruisers in it.  It was about the government experimenting with electro magnetic fields on a destroyer to send back to WWII.

yeah, i’d go with falconrider about kelly’s heroes or where eagles dare.

but that brought me to the thought of I’d be distracted by those and not play my best, so I guess the optimal thing to do would be to have something playing that will distract my opponents?

for instance–they like the war movies, show those
they like comedies, show those
they like chick-flicks… what the heck are you doing playing AA with them?

my group has actually put on music from the 30’s and 40’s. like them music  :-D

heartbreak ridge

Saving Private Ryan

@TexCapPrezJimmy:

Sometimes we’ll put a movie on in the background…

U-571

Oh please NO!!!

I know A&A isn’t a historically accurate board game, but that film is so bogus

It was British personnel from HMS Bulldog who first captured a naval Enigma machine, from U-110 in the North Atlantic May 1941, before the United States entered the war. The british government even issued a statement condemming the film.

Imagine, if you would British Soliders raising the flag on Iwa Jima in a film?

Anyways, I would put a documentary series on. I prefer a good war doco to most war films, as historically inaccuarcy makes the history teacher in me rage  :-D

A little love to the pacific theater, AMC had Tora Tora Tora, and Midway back to back on Sunday, had to tell the GF it was a stay in Sunday.

Big Red 1

Zulu!!!

Das Boot.

how bout Dazed & Confused? the Doors?  something with good music in it.  when we play i dont watch as much as listen.  usually i’m too busy getting my butt kicked… :x

@Pvt.Patterson:

Zulu!!!

SHAKA???  :evil:

The Battle of Britain
The Dambusters
633 Squadron
Kelly’s heroes
Anzio
Where eagles dare

Just Zulu! its a 1960’s movie. Everyone Needs to Watch it!

Oh Yea, movies great choices,

If I am Japan, then
    , Tora, Tora Tora, In Harm’s way, Midway, Sand Pebbles ( not sure why, )
TV-show-Ba Ba Blacksheep

If I am Germany,
    Das Boot, Longest Day, Sink the Bismarck, Battle of the Bulge, Stalag 18, Where Eagles Dare, The enemy below, TV show-Combat

Allies,
      Kelly’s Heroes, Dirty Dozen, Great Escape, Bridge too Far, Guns of Navarrone, Patton, Mini-Series Band of Brothers, Tv show-Desert Rats

Their are many more of course,
but what a good table setter these movies and Tv series make.

@Pvt.Patterson:

Just Zulu! its a 1960’s movie. Everyone Needs to Watch it!

I know that’s why I put the little devil smile at the end of my post.

I like that movie. Micheal Caine and that other bloke did quite well. Lots of tension and the end was cool.

I second Band of Brothers. What a great miniseries. If you haven’t seen it, watch it now.