Ardennes

PBS - The American Hero Film Series (1991) Movies

Posted by rwdfox at July 8, 2023

Produced by an independent film production company four World War II documentaries, "Peleliu 1944: Horror in the Pacific," "Pistol Packin' Mama: Missions of a B-17," "Fighting 17: The Jolly Rogers," and "17th Airborne: The Bulge to the Rhine," have received 11 prestigious film awards, including two Telly Awards, two Columbus International Film Festival Awards, and two New York International Film Festival citations.

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A History of the 3rd Reich - Hitlers Warriors - 02 - Manstein The Strategist Movies

Posted by Historyarm at Dec. 24, 2010

Erich von Manstein served the German military as a lifelong professional soldier. He became one of the most prominent commanders of Nazi Germany's armed forces (Wehrmacht). During World War II he attained the rank of Field Marshal and was held in high esteem by his fellow officers as one of the Wehrmacht's best military minds.
He was the initiator and one of the planners of the Ardennes-offensive alternative in the invasion of France in 1940. He received acclaim from the Nazi-German leadership for the victorious battles of Perekop Isthmus, Kerch, Sevastopol and Kharkov. He commanded the failed relief effort at Stalingrad and the Cherkassy pocket evacuation. He was dismissed from service by Adolf Hitler in March 1944, due to his frequent clashes with Hitler over military strategy.

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PBS - The True Glory (1945) Movies

Posted by Historyarm at Nov. 19, 2011

PBS - The True Glory (1945)
DVDRip | 1945 | English | 01:20:47 | H264 | 640x480 | 29.97fps 2101 Kbps | AAC 128 Kbps 48.0khz | 1.19 GiB
Genre: Documentary

A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen. It opens as the assembled allied forces plan and train for the D-Day invasion at bases in Great Britain and covers all the major events of the war in Europe from the Normandy landings to the fall of Berlin.

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National Geographic - Hitler's Last Year (2015) Movies

Posted by notbanned at May 11, 2015

This film tells the story of the last year of the war in Europe, from the D-Day landings in Normandy in June 1944 to the dual German surrender, first in Reims then Berlin, in May 1945. Eleven months of unprecedented combat. The hopes of the Allied landings, the liberation of Paris, the battle of the Ardennes, the massive bombing campaigns over Germany, the Soviet offensives, the libera- tion of the concentration camps, Hitler’s self-destructive folly, the battle for Berlin, and the final surrender. This series of major events contributes to making a powerful, intense and epic film.

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(Fr3) L'ombre d'un doute - Edouard VIII, agent des Nazis ? (2013) Movies

Posted by Morocco at April 3, 2013

11 décembre 1936, 21h30 : le souverain britannique Edouard VIII annonce qu’il quitte le trône, moins d’un an après y avoir accédé. Officiellement, il abdique par amour. Il veut épouser Wallis Simpson, une américaine divorcée qui ne peut accéder à la couronne. En renonçant à son destin royal, Edouard VIII entre dans la légende des amours contrariés. Une légende de conte de fée dont l’histoire a récemment révélé la face cachée. L’Ombre d’un Doute s’est procuré un rapport de 277 pages issues des archives secrètes du FBI. Il contient des révélations fracassantes : Edouard VIII a été poussé à abdiquer pour ses sympathies nazies …

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War in the Air part 12 The Cold Dawn Movies

Posted by Historyarm at May 24, 2011

War in the Air part 12 The Cold Dawn
DVDRip | 1954 | English | 00:30:00 | DivX 5 - 1430 Kbps | 720x536 | 25 fps | MP3 64 kbps avg | 340 Mb
Genre: Documentary

In 1954, the BBC produced an outstanding documentary series on aerial warfare from 1935 to 1950, comprising fifteen half hour shows that was aired on the first Monday after Remembrance Sunday.
Taking two years to make, and compiled from nearly 12 million feet of Allied and enemy film footage, there had been little to compare with it in terms of scale, depth and content.
This landmark series represents an important piece of television history and will give every viewer an honest telling of the development of airpower.
Some of the highlights include; amazing footage taken from the nose of a Mosquito during low level attacks, camera's placed on the wings of various aircraft and a dozen other earth grazing operations.
This series will make your hair stand up on end!
Episode 12 - The Cold Dawn
Allied air power seemed to be tipping the scales everywhere. The converging Allied air forces could be found in Norway, beating off the powerful German counteroffensive in the Ardennes, in Italy, in the Balkans and on the Russian Front.The Luftwaffe collapsed almost completely under the strain of trying to defend the Fatherland and vicory was assured.

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La vie est un roman / Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983) [Repost] Movies

Posted by fekmax at Aug. 29, 2015

Three intertwined tales. On the eve of the First World War, Count Forbek starts to build a fantastic castle in the Ardennes forest. After the war he uses it to start a utopian society by brainwashing his friends, including his former fiancee, Livia, and her husband. In the present day, the castle is being used as an alternative school and, in the summer holidays, for an educational conference.

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History Channel - Clash of Warriors: Bradley vs. Model - Battle of the Bulge (2000) Movies

Posted by Polik88 at Sept. 3, 2015

Shortly before dawn on December 16, 1944, US troops controlling the Ardennes sector of France were pulverized by massive German artillery bombardment. At 5:30 a.m., a German force of 275.000 men and over 2.000 Panzers rolled forward.

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The Last Train Movies

Posted by at Oct. 20, 2020

The Last Train (1973)
Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.

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The Big Red One (1980) Movies

Posted by rwdfox at Nov. 7, 2015

The story of a hardened army Sergeant and four of his men from their first fight at the Kasserine Pass after the invasion of North Africa through to the invasion of Sicily

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