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Thursday, November 10, 2016

Movies To Watch For Remembrance Day


    Saving Private Ryan - This touching and iconic Steven Spielberg movie tells the story of a search for a paratrooper, during the invasion of Normandy in World War II. 

    Flags of Our Fathers - The movie features the stories of five marines and one navy corspman who raised the flag in 1945 at The Battle of Iwo Jima, which was an important turning point in World War II. 
    The Longest Day - This extremely intense movie tells all of the graphic events of D-Day, told from the views of the Germans and the Allies. 
    Passchendale - Different from all the other movies, this movie features the life of a troubled veteran, his girlfriend who is a nurse and a naive boy. The plot is centred around the bloody WWI battle of Passchendale. 

    The Devil's Brigade - The movie tells the story of an American soldier who has never been in combat, and is assigned to make a special forces unit from the Canadian Army Troops and a group of U.S. Army men who are extremely rowdy.