[Skybird]

Don't remember to have been impressed by any dedicated tank movie in the past, but I remember three novels that impressed me with their realistic (at least I imagined them to be realistic) atmosphere: "Sword Point" and "Silver Star" by Harrold Coyle, "Vortex" by Larry Bond.

General war movies I kept in mind were: "The Thin Red Line" by Terrence Mallick (one of the best movies I've ever seen), "Apocalypse Now" by Coppola, and "Band of Brothers", which I liked better than "Saving Private Ryan". "Ryan" started impressive, but in the end during that battle at the bridge had too much nationalistic sentiments again. BoB was free of this attitude, but else had the same film-technical approach on the matter, thus I found it very impressive. "The Deer Hunter" also was impressive in it's ways, although the decription of the VC must be doubted. The film scores in the psychological field anyway.