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 HQ Batallón) November 10, 2016

They used the only working tiger tank in the world, pulled it out of the museum just for this movie. They had the real tanks for 95% of the scenes, and built replicas specifically for when the tanks explode or get knocked out on screen. They made a replica Tiger and replica Shermans to destroy. ...read more

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The first appearance of the Flying Fortress in film was a Y1B-17 in the 1938 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) production Test Pilot, although for the crash scene a Douglas DC-2 was modified to stand in for the bomber, the...read more

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 Lieutenant) May 27, 2016

Do you have some tank movies to recommend? Here is my list of the 17 best tank scenes from movie history. If your favorite tank scene didn't make the cut, feel free to add it to the talk backs below: 

  • KELLY'S HEROES (1970); PATTON (1970); SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998); TANK BRIGADE (
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Episode Three, entitled Carentan, explores Easy Companys participation in the Battle of Carentan. This battle commenced on June 8, 1944, and will continue until the 506th is relieved by the 83rd Infantry Division and Tanks of the 2nd Armored Division on June 27th.

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 Lieutenant) May 04, 2016

Footage from film "Red Tails": The Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe ("Swallow") was a German aircraft, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft. It was produced in World War II and saw action starting in 1944 as a multi-role fighter/bomber/reconnaissance/interceptor warplane for...read more

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 Lieutenant) May 04, 2016

From award-winning director Philip Stevens and award-winning producer Tom Walsh, ‘Lancaster’ is a powerful and moving portrayal of the courage and sacrifices of the men who took to the air in the name of duty during the bombing campaigns of the Second World War.

125,000 men volunteered to...read more

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 Lieutenant) May 04, 2016

The UK trailer for his first indie feature film. Took him 5 years to finish this film. Made with $35000 and many hours rendering on his computer at home. No fancy studios or big crews. This is as indie as it gets. He envisioned this film as a short film, but he couldn't stop writing, and in the...read more

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"The Big Red One" is a World War II war film starring Lee Marvin and Mark Hamill. This 1980 war movie was very much a personal project for director Sam Fuller. It was his unsentimental tribute to his former...read more

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 Lieutenant) August 14, 2015
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Quiero compartir con vosotros que he escrito un libro. Su título es: "1944, Una guerra de cine" de T&B Editores. Se publica ahora y quiero darlo a conocer. La idea surge de la fusión de dos pasiones; el estudio de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la fascinación por el séptimo arte. No tengo...read more

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