Alternate World War II films?

Drunkrobot

Drunkrobot

What 'great moments' of the Second World War that never happened would make their way onto the Big Screen, like how Midway and the Dambusters did IOTL?

Or, maybe you want to interpret the thread title differently, and discuss alternate history movies set in World War II, like Inglourious Basterds?

So, two topics, really:

1. ATLs that would spawn war films focused on event that never happened IOTL.

2. Alt-History fiction set in World War II made in our world, either real examples or premises you would lie to see made.
 

hammo1j

Donor
Always wanted to see a Battle of the Bulge where the aryan stereotype Panzer commander sticks to his promise to subsist on the same rations as his men.

Otl: After the initial successes he forgoes the austere diet of his men and cracks open the champagne and whores...

The way it seems in the film that this is the pivotal point at which the Panzers are not going to be making the coast...
 

mlp

Like Polish cavalry against Nazi Panzers(which by itself is highly a disputed incident), thousands of Korean infantry wielding muskets go against Japanese mechanised infantry divisions.
Bonus if sequel is about a Yugoslavia-style Korean resistance movement.
 

Johannes Parisiensis

William Tell's Children tell the story and the exploits of a group of Swiss franc-tireurs fighting against Nazi forces occuping their ountry in the aftermath of Unternehmen Grün
 

zoomar

Alternate WW2:

Downfall. (1980) German film exploring the last days of cripppled hunchback US President Franklin Roosevelt, his immediate staff, his Jewish secretary and lover, and his lesbian Communist wife in his underround bunker below the White House before the city was destroyed in 1947 by the atomic bombs.

Flags of our Fathers. (2010) Japanese film by expatriate Aryan States of America director Klint Ostwald providing, for a Japanese film, a suprisingly sympathetic portrayal of American forces during their last ditch and hopeless defense of Alcatraz Island during the 1946 Siege of San Francisco. American actor Bradrick Pitt received the coveted Berlin Kultur award for Best Actor as the doomed American commander, Colonel John Wayne.
 

Saphroneth

Banned
The Battle of Paris - the epic French film from 1944 about the German occupation of their capital city back in 1940 and the subsequent liberation.
Focuses, somewhat unusually, on the sewer workers of the under-city.
 
ramones1986

ramones1986

Miguel Hernández Gilabert: Poeta y soldado (1998):
A Spanish-Philippine co-production about poet and playright Miguel Hernández Gilabert and his last two years of his life, from drafting to the Royal Spanish Army in 1940 to his death from tuberculosis in a jail in Capas, Pampanga in 1942.
 
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pdf27

Saphroneth said:
The Battle of Paris - the epic French film from 1944 about the German occupation of their capital city back in 1940 and the subsequent liberation.
Focuses, somewhat unusually, on the sewer workers of the under-city.
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I wonder who gave you that idea :p
 

ghappy1000

Perjuangan Tentera Berani Dan Gigih Dalam Pertempuran Singapura [The fight of the brave and determined soldiers during the Battle of Singapore.] [2007]:
A Malaysian-Singaporean production about the courageous Royal Malay division during the battle for Japanese control of Singapore.
[The pod is that Britain sees the importance of defending Malaya from the Japanese and recruit a division of [Royal] Malaysians [of any ethnic group] instead of just a [Royal Malay] regiment. As a result, the Japanese advance is slowed although they still capture the Malay Peninsula. When they reach Singapore, the extra division manages to ensure the Japanese exhaust their supplies and they are forced to retreat after the city battle, which is followed by a siege of three months and a second failed attempt at taking Singapore before surrendering to the Japanese for want of food.]
 

Kaiser K

30 Miles to Moskau (1992)
American film about the last ditch efforts of Soviet soldiers to prevent German forces from capturing the former Russian capital city during the Eastern Front of World War II. Stars Nathanial Depp as doomed Russian Commander Gregoy Zhukov.
 

Saphroneth

Banned
pdf27 said:
I wonder who gave you that idea :p
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Well, yes...
In all seriousness, I think it would be THE war film of the Blunted-Sickle 'verse that would match to a major battle. The whole concept of Paris liberated is incredibly cinematic...
 

pattersonautobody

I'd like a US-movie on Kursk, being that it is the biggest tank battle and all. Soviet veterans report that the regular German soldier was still so arrogant in July 1943 that they took breaks for lunch in the heat of the battle. So, it's a feel-good story about a wicked enemy that is crushed.
 

Saphroneth

Banned
Oh, yeah, for another ATL one there's the Let's Play of War in the East on the Let's Play Archive... specifically, because that would produce a 1943 D-Day into a collapsing Reich which would be interesting.

There's also the early capture of the Liebstandarte Adolf Hitler in 1941 when they overdid it trying to pocket some Russian soldiers. Since they're SS and since it was basically the first Soviet victory of the TL, it's a great and cinematic one.
 

Cryhavoc101

The attack by the German Navy on Scarpa Flow that sinks every capital ship of the Royal Navy for no loss on 3rd Sept 1939.

The film shows the actions from the point of view of the Pocket Aircraft carrier RiesenholzBadger for which the film gets its name.

Although a big favorite of the people of the 4th Reich it was critisized for not being historically accurate and making no mention of the Lead laced tea that the British had been Drinking since WW1.

Despite this it is shown every year to huge audiances on the Furhers official Birthday.
 

Cryhavoc101

The Battle for Hanoi (1989)

A gritty Docu-Drama style War film directed by Stanley Kubrick that follows a small unit of US Marines as they advance into the North Vietnamese Capital in what would be the last major battle of that war before a final US / South Vietnam Victory and collapse of the Communist regieme in the North.

Despite focusing on the dehumanising effects of that the 'Brutal' training (earning 'Gunny' R. Lee Ermy an Oscar for best supporting actor) and the subsequant war experiance has on the men the film was hailed for its realistic potrayal of the Horrors of modern urban combat.

Many are suprised to learn that the film was mostly filmed in the East End of London in the UK!
 

Some Bloke

The Man who Walked Away.

A feature length 1990 BBC 2 production which started the "Anniversary Epic"
tradition. A thriller style piece dramatising lead up and immediate aftermath
of the parley at Mers-el-Kebir. The DVD version includes a historically inaccurate
ending where Gensoul elects to join DeGaulle instead of sailing to Martinique.
 

Scotty

Cryhavoc101 said:
The attack by the German Navy on Scarpa Flow that sinks every capital ship of the Royal Navy for no loss on 3rd Sept 1939.

The film shows the actions from the point of view of the Pocket Aircraft carrier RiesenholzBadger for which the film gets its name.

Although a big favorite of the people of the 4th Reich it was critisized for not being historically accurate and making no mention of the Lead laced tea that the British had been Drinking since WW1.

Despite this it is shown every year to huge audiances on the Furhers official Birthday.
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Whats German for 'Tora Tora Tora'

:)
 

Shadowlord

The Setting Sun (1996)

A joint American-Japanese production commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of WWII. Chronicles the invasion of Kyushu from the perspectives of both American and Japanese soldiers. Noted for it's gritty, realistic battle scenes and sympathetic portrayal of soldiers on both sides. Won several Academy Awards.
 
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