Talk:List of World War II films

message: I getting into a bit of a crisis of conscience as to what to include under films made during the war. I had already said that I would exclude spy films, or things that do not directly concern the war, however the line is difficult to draw. On the one hand films made during the war, but not technically speaking, "war" films include things like Caseblanca or Rosie the Riveter, which have a degree of artistic and historical value, even though they are about spies or the Home Front. 
On th other, I don't want somebody adding Indiana Jones to the list on this basis. Perhaps it would be better to create another list for movies made during the war?--Dudeman5685 19:18, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What to leave in, what to exclude? 

message: I added the flags of the respective countries of origin for the films discussed. No real reason, just thought it would add a little color.--Dudeman5685 01:19, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added Flags 

message: Why was 1976's "The Eagle has Landed" excluded from this list? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.171.240.63 (talk) 14:22, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Eagle has Landed 

message: I believe that the 1944 film The Purple Heart should be on this list.  --72.90.130.253 (talk) 01:18, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Purple Heart 

message: The page is using the Alaska-Hawaii flag on films which predate that period.
Not noticeable at this scale, but if someone clicks on the icon ...
Varlaam (talk) 17:31, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  50-star US flag 

message: Shouldn't The Great Dictator be here ? I think it's clearly a World War II film.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.144.88.43 (talk) 21:06, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: The Great Dictator

message: I think we should have a similar list for documentaries about WWII. I'll start one soon at List of World War II documentary films; feel free too contribute. Jmj713 (talk) 14:18, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Documentaries 

message: The page has a number of pre-1991 films marked Estonia,
when those of course are Soviet films made in the Estonian SSR.
This page is not the place to rewrite the history of the 20th century.
Varlaam (talk) 17:06, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Corrected. Varlaam (talk) 23:31, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Estonian films which aren't (yet) 

message: Adding a picture to this article is a great suggestion.
All those with free images, one pace forward.
I have now added the only free image I can find.
Varlaam (talk) 21:00, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Illustrations 

message: I have read that there are lots of films of Korean Communists fighting the Japanese, but the list has none so far.
Varlaam (talk) 11:08, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  North Korea 

message: This page is intended to be brief. It is intended to be an index to other articles with full detail.
This page does not have a "Plot" column.
It has a "Battles, campaigns, events depicted" column.
This page is supposed to read:
 Battle of Stalingrad
If it says:
 Film depicting the Battle of Stalingrad
or
 Soldiers fighting at the Battle of Stalingrad during World War II
neither of those adds anything, other than verbiage.
Both can simply read:
 Battle of Stalingrad
This page is reductionist in order to be manageable. This page is currently 10 times the optimum size of a Wikipedia page.
If you want to provide a lot more information, then please add it to the existing full article, or create any missing article.
Thanks, Varlaam (talk) 16:44, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brevity: no "Plot" section 

message: An example of this genre that many readers of this page may have seen would be The Road to Guantanamo. It's a documentary, which includes interviews with the three principals involved, but then there are re-enactments where (younger) actors play the three principals.
Varlaam (talk) 19:19, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Dramatized documentary

message: I agree that that tag is accurate.
But I think this page should move in the direction of fewer links, rather than resolving the ambiguous ones.
I don't think this page should be linking things like:
*Nazi
*Hitler
and so on, simply given the nature of the page.
There are a lot of links here to Occupation of Country Name.
Do we want to have a section at the top of the page which just gives a list of common subjects frequently mentioned on the page, like:
*Occupation of Poland
Then we don't have to be constantly linking that, and making mistakes when we link it.
Varlaam (talk) 19:04, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The new disambiguation links tag 

message: Found one, apparently. :bg:Черните ангели.
Black Angels, my translation of the Bulgarian.
How did I find this? Easy. It's listed on the Russian version of this page.
It's still necessary to confirm the subject matter, but you've got a Bulgarian text, and a Russian text, to read over.
(And an IMDb link, if you want.)
Varlaam (talk) 18:18, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bulgarian film 

message: Our References section right now is full of claims like that.
I personally think those are interesting, if true. I added none of those statements.
Those need citations before a deletionist who thinks every uncited statement is a lie arrives and starts deleting them.
If the main pages for these films also make these claims, then the main pages require citations as well.
Varlaam (talk) 17:16, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The first ''this'' ... the first ''that'' 

message: I have had a cursory look over my copy of Halliwell's Film Guide, 1981. In the U's, I found these:
*Uncensored
*Uncertain Glory
*Under Your Hat
*Underground (1970)
*Unpublished Story
*Up from the Beach
*Up in Arms
The only one I have ever seen is Up in Arms, with Danny Kaye.
The list has a long way to go. Varlaam (talk) 16:09, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lots of films still unlisted 

message: Maximilianklein (talk) 00:01, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: WorldCat Genres

message: In case anyone is wondering, Sons and Daughters in a Time of Storm (traditional: 風雲兒女;  simplified: 风云儿女; pinyin: Fēngyǔn érnǔ) is the anti-Japanese film featuring March of the Volunteers (traditional: 義勇軍進行曲;  simplified: 义勇军进行曲;  pinyin: Yìyǒngjūn Jìnxíngqǔ), the patriotic song from China's War Against Japan, which became the national anthem of the People's Republic of China in 1949.  However, the film itself was released in 1935, two years before the war officially began, and the plot of the film actually refers to Chinese resistance against Japanese control over  the international settlement in Shanghai at the time.  Other films from this period, such as Street Angel (1937) (traditional: 馬路天使;  simplified: 马路天使;  pinyin: Mǎlù Tiānshǐ) also highlight Japanese aggression against China or the effect of this aggression has on Chinese civilians.  
The Chinese film industry produced almost no films about the Chinese war effort during the war itself, as most Chinese cities, including most of Shanghai, were under Japanese occupation by 1938.  Nevertheless, the Chinese did produce a few films such as Princess Iron Fan (1941) (simplified: 铁扇公主;  traditional: 鐵扇公主;  pinyin: Tiěshàn Gōngzhǔ), which used stories from Chinese history and mythology to celebrate resistance against foreign aggression, but without directly mentioning the Japanese.  
winstonho0805 (talk) 14:38, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:   Films made during the Sino-Japanese War  

message: Soviet/Russians alone crap out 400 films on WW2 http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BA_%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%BE_%D0%92%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9%D0%BD%D0%B5
It's like the most important thing, teh Holy War Священна явойна.
Russians and WW2 is worse than jews with their holocost (only 150 films). Actually, it's the Soviet who created the whole mythology, gave the impulse to the whole damned thing. --184.161.152.198 (talk) 20:45, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Soviet/Russian