Yamato trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4QWqDTCk2A

I can't find any of the movie's battle scenes. Youtube must have removed them.:shifty:

The Yamato film looks interesting, and August your post about 1911 reminded of the of the movie The Sand Pebbles which takes place in China in 1926. From what I remeber of it, it was a good movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sand_Pebbles_(film)

Where Eagles Dare was an interesting movie as where the Navarone movies and they where novels written by the same person!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alistair_MacLean:yep:

The battle scene from Yamato (the only part of the film I've seen) are incredibly impressive. Ah, here we are...in Vietnamese? :doh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG1TWBW8HEM

This film also looks quite good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNhBDJmZcVo


Also, if you're willing to look at anime, Zipang is a good series, here's a clip from it, unfortunately even the Americans talk Japanese in Zipang, but it's still pretty good and faithful to procedure and technology:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A6T_rrUFIg

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Another good "non-hollywood" film is "The battle of the river plate", about the Graf Spee.
Is the "Battle of Britain" a Hollywood film? Any way I like it not only because of the planes etc, but the brief (pun intended) scene with Suzannah York in a man's shirt, cotton knickers, and stockings/suspenders. Hubba hubba.
In defence of "The Red Baron" I feel that if there hadn't have been Macaulay Culkin the film would have been better appreciated and the casting people did get it right.
The Baron died almost a century ago and anyone that personally knew him has been dead for generations. He was an Aristocrat born of a Noble Family with all that that entailed. If it wasn't for the war he would probably have had an arranged marriage. He was Chivalrous and very well mannered, the norm for people of his class in those days. Nowadays these qualities seem to be frowned upon.
In the film the character comes across as possibly "batting for the other team", but from reading a few of his biographies I still don't know or care.
What is true is that he had Balls and Guts. The Kaiser once made some remark about if he had any girlfriends, and the Baron fobbed it off. Then later the Baron had the Balls to tell the Kaiser to his face that he was sick of killing men and wanted to retire. Hardly wimpish at all.
He continued to fly after he'd been shot in the head, was blind in one eye, and had a headwound that wouldn't heal. All this was sympathetically portrayed in the film.
Also to the film's credit they paid tribute to the many Jewish airmen/soldiers that fought for Germany. The Jewish pilot in the movie was a "top bloke".
The poor reception the film received was probably due to the Baron not being depicted as a two fisted hard drinking womaniser.
He was a great man and I feel the movie's depiction was accurate, but unfortunately there's the immediate association with Macaulay Culkin based purely on appearance.
Your Shout.

Not like any other nation is exempt from such self fellatio.

Tora Tora Tora.

"Get the (curse) out of my office." I cheered at the TV. Yet felt the pain and regret in the Japanese diplomat, for his percieved (not his fault) dishonor.

One of the few fair war movies we ever made, the rest of our crap is dripping full of American exceptionalism, and Top Gun type ass slapping.

OK maybe Band of Brothers is exempt, but technically it isn't a movie.

Edit: I am giving a pass to Platoon as well. Very few American film makers are willing to expose perhaps some of our guys might have made mistakes in the passion of battle (but were still good men), and outright attack our government, like Platoon did.

(my apologies in advance, I ticked off a few Vietnam vets saying that on other boards/ in real life)
Considering it was made in cold war uber patriotic times (when America was supposed to be flawless), it was a great film.

No. :shifty: Hard to get here. I always try the local shops, better try Amazon I guess. :)

Very nicely done. I was impressed that they showed the main battery firing. The Japanese actually manufactured an 18" AA shell, not that it did much good.

I'll be ordering it soon.