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Posted by Mark (U2073932) on Sunday, 2nd October 2005
Trying to find the name of a war movie set around gallipoli.
It is something like England and I or Me and England.
It has a scene where anzac troops are coming ashore and getting mown down in their hundreds. (Apparently this led to some memorable scenes in Saving Private Ryan).
Anyone know what I'm talking about.
Cheers!!!
Can't say I recognise that, but you might want to check out IMDB.com That site has a list of just about every film ever made and you can do a search by title.
Hi there,
There are two films I can think of regarding Gallipoli, one called simply Gallipoli, which is about an ANZAC unit in that disastrous campaign, and the other I think may be called "The Lighthorsemen" on something along those lines. Both these films are pretty horrific in their depiction of World War One's suicidal "tactics", but both very good films.
Hope that helps.
Cheers
DL
Gallipoli, starring Mel Gibson, spring to mind
Hi Battlegroup,
Of course! It was a very young Mel Gibson though, had he made the film recently, no doubt the British would have been the ones manning the Turks' machine guns!
Cheers
It still manages to get a few anti-British whinges in, as does the Lighthorsemen.
Yeah but understandable given the level of (in-)competence of the local commanders in charge of the Gallipoli campaign! This was after all, the first use of ANZAC troops in the war, and the British Generals thought of them before this operation as ill-disciplined (which they sometimes were), poorly trained (not true) colonial troops only fit for garrison duties, and the British General Staff was convinced that the whole thing was a meaningless sideshow as in their opinion the only way to win the war was to "walk towards machine guns"!
Cheers
I have seen Galipolli but I'll check out Lighthorsemen. No the film I am thinking of is old, black and white and made just after the Great War.
Thanks anyway
I'm stupid. The film was called Tell England! Made in the forties.
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