Old School Imperialist movies

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    Captain Jin said: October 10, 2010 05:22 PM

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    I really enjoy the older movies from the 60s and 70s that show foreign countries overseas. They always have that epic sense of adventure and I find the movies intensely enjoyable. Movies like Khartoum, 55 Days at Peking and March or Die. Does anyone else have any good recommendations about these types of movies?
     

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    Inhuman One said: October 10, 2010 06:46 PM

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    Depends on which side of the sea you live.
     

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    Augment said: October 10, 2010 07:22 PM

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    I too am very fond of these kinds of films, i can name a few.

    The Wild Geese - Merc film

    Dogs of war - Mercenary film where Christopher Walken is tasked with killing a dictator of some African country

    Dark of the Sun - Merc film set during the Simba Rebellion in Congo

    Africa Addio - Documentary about the last days of colonialism in Africa, shot by Italians, very real and some gruesome scenes.. interesting nevertheless.

    The Man Who Would Be King - set in the 19th century, two british soldiers travel to Tajikistan to become kings.

    Legionaire     - based heavily on March and Die

    Guns at Batasi - British soldiers in Africa

    I cant think of anymore right now, but ill be checking this topic and maybe even update the list.

     

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    Nikos said: October 10, 2010 07:30 PM

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    Lawrence of Arabia is a good one. Also Zulu and Zulu Dawn.
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    Niles Crane said: October 13, 2010 05:47 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nikos View Post
    Lawrence of Arabia is a good one. Also Zulu and Zulu Dawn.
    Ooo, don't watch Zulu Dawn! It's good for a laugh, but at the end of the day nobody, except maybe the Zulus, want to see the good guys lose.
     

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    Big War Bird said: October 10, 2010 08:15 PM

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    The Good said: October 12, 2010 03:36 AM

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    Here's a relatively obscure Italian film from the 1970s: Il Deserto dei Tartari, or The Desert of the Tartars. You may or may not find it to be a good film, but it fits in with the genre you're describing.


     

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    Augment said: October 13, 2010 04:13 PM

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    Totally forgot a few, here they are..

    The Day of the Jackal - A Hitman is tasked with killing President De Gaulle at Bastille Day.

    Raid on Entebbe - Israeli rescue operation in Uganda

    Battle of Algiers - France trying to hold on to their colonial possesions

    Lumumba - About one of the Congolese leaders, congo civil war and the belgians also make appearance.
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    Rapax said: October 14, 2010 10:11 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Jin View Post
    I really enjoy the older movies from the 60s and 70s that show foreign countries overseas. They always have that epic sense of adventure and I find the movies intensely enjoyable. Movies like Khartoum, 55 Days at Peking and March or Die. Does anyone else have any good recommendations about these types of movies?
    I suggest The Wind and the Lion, it's got Sean Connery as a Berber Pirate but it's set right at the beginning of the 20th Century in Morocco and features a nice scene of a US Marine Detachment storming some Sultan's palace in Tangier to force negotiations.

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    Africa Addio - Documentary about the last days of colonialism in Africa, shot by Italians, very real and some gruesome scenes.. interesting nevertheless.
    Actually a number of scenes in this "documentary" had been staged and I don't think this kind of propaganda work is really what was being asked for here.
     

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    Augment said: October 15, 2010 10:08 AM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rapax View Post
    Actually a number of scenes in this "documentary" had been staged and I don't think this kind of propaganda work is really what was being asked for here.
    Oh really? can you recall some scenes that were staged.

     

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    Lord Tomyris said: November 18, 2010 01:48 PM

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    The Man Who Would Be King is an all-time favourite; to all those who haven't seen it - watch it!


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    Dr. Croccer said: November 18, 2010 01:51 PM

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    Zulu and a similair movie with Peter O'Toole which name I have forgotten.
    Quote Originally Posted by A.J.P. Taylor
    Peaceful agreement and government by consent are possible only on the basis of ideas common to all parties; and these ideas must spring from habit and from history. Once reason is introduced, every man, every class, every nation becomes a law unto itself; and the only right which reason understands is the right of the stronger. Reason formulates universal principles and is therefore intolerant: there can be only one rational society, one rational nation, ultimately one rational man. Decisions between rival reasons can be made only by force.





    Quote Originally Posted by H.L Spieghel
    Is het niet hogelijk te verwonderen, en een recht beklaaglijke zaak, Heren, dat alhoewel onze algemene Dietse taal een onvermengde, sierlijke en verstandelijke spraak is, die zich ook zo wijd als enige talen des werelds verspreidt, en die in haar bevang veel rijken, vorstendommen en landen bevat, welke dagelijks zeer veel kloeke en hooggeleerde verstanden uitleveren, dat ze nochtans zo zwakkelijk opgeholpen en zo weinig met geleerdheid verrijkt en versiert wordt, tot een jammerlijk hinder en nadeel des volks?
    Quote Originally Posted by Miel Cools
    Als ik oud ben wil ik zingen,
    Oud ben maar nog niet verrot.
    Zoals oude bomen zingen,
    Voor Jan Lul of voor hun god.
    Ook een oude boom wil reizen,
    Bij een bries of bij een storm.
    Zelfs al zit zijn kruin vol luizen,
    Zelfs al zit zijn voet vol worm.
    Als ik oud ben wil ik zingen.

    Cò am Fear am measg ant-sluaigh,
    A mhaireas buan gu bràth?
    Chan eil sinn uileadh ach air chuart,
    Mar dhìthein buaile fàs,
    Bheir siantannan na bliadhna sìos,
    'S nach tog a' ghrian an àird.

    Quote Originally Posted by Jörg Friedrich
    When do I stop being a justified warrior? When I've killed a million bad civilians? When I've killed three million bad civilians? According to a warsimulation by the Pentagon in 1953 the entire area of Russia would've been reduced to ruins with 60 million casualties. All bad Russians. 60 million bad guys. By how many million ''bad'' casualties do I stop being a knight of justice? Isn't that the question those knights must ask themselves? If there's no-one left, and I remain as the only just one,

    Then I'm God.
    Quote Originally Posted by Louis Napoleon III, Des Idees Napoleoniennes
    Governments have been established to aid society to overcome the obstacles which impede its march. Their forms have been varied according to the problems they have been called to cure, and according to character of the people they have ruled over. Their task never has been, and never will be easy, because the two contrary elements, of which our existence and the nature of society is composed, demand the employment of different means. In view of our divine essence, we need only liberty and work; in view of our mortal nature, we need for our direction a guide and a support. A government is not then, as a distinguished economist has said, a necessary ulcer; it is rather the beneficent motive power of all social organisation.


    Quote Originally Posted by Wolfgang Held
    I walked into those baracks [of Buchenwald concentrationcamp], in which there were people on the three-layered bunkbeds. But only their eyes were alive. Emaciated, skinny figures, nothing more but skin and bones. One thinks that they are dead, because they did not move. Only the eyes. I started to cry. And then one of the prisoners came, stood by me for a while, put a hand on my shoulder and said to me, something that I will never forget: ''Tränen sind denn nicht genug, mein Junge,
    Tränen sind denn nicht genug.''

    Jajem ssoref is m'n korew
    E goochem mit e wenk, e nar mit e shtomp
    Wer niks is, hot kawsones
     

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    Azog 150 said: November 19, 2010 12:28 PM

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    ^^^Zulu Dawn?
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    Dr. Croccer said: November 19, 2010 12:30 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Azog 150 View Post
    ^^^Zulu Dawn?
    Yes, that one.
    Quote Originally Posted by A.J.P. Taylor
    Peaceful agreement and government by consent are possible only on the basis of ideas common to all parties; and these ideas must spring from habit and from history. Once reason is introduced, every man, every class, every nation becomes a law unto itself; and the only right which reason understands is the right of the stronger. Reason formulates universal principles and is therefore intolerant: there can be only one rational society, one rational nation, ultimately one rational man. Decisions between rival reasons can be made only by force.





    Quote Originally Posted by H.L Spieghel
    Is het niet hogelijk te verwonderen, en een recht beklaaglijke zaak, Heren, dat alhoewel onze algemene Dietse taal een onvermengde, sierlijke en verstandelijke spraak is, die zich ook zo wijd als enige talen des werelds verspreidt, en die in haar bevang veel rijken, vorstendommen en landen bevat, welke dagelijks zeer veel kloeke en hooggeleerde verstanden uitleveren, dat ze nochtans zo zwakkelijk opgeholpen en zo weinig met geleerdheid verrijkt en versiert wordt, tot een jammerlijk hinder en nadeel des volks?
    Quote Originally Posted by Miel Cools
    Als ik oud ben wil ik zingen,
    Oud ben maar nog niet verrot.
    Zoals oude bomen zingen,
    Voor Jan Lul of voor hun god.
    Ook een oude boom wil reizen,
    Bij een bries of bij een storm.
    Zelfs al zit zijn kruin vol luizen,
    Zelfs al zit zijn voet vol worm.
    Als ik oud ben wil ik zingen.

    Cò am Fear am measg ant-sluaigh,
    A mhaireas buan gu bràth?
    Chan eil sinn uileadh ach air chuart,
    Mar dhìthein buaile fàs,
    Bheir siantannan na bliadhna sìos,
    'S nach tog a' ghrian an àird.

    Quote Originally Posted by Jörg Friedrich
    When do I stop being a justified warrior? When I've killed a million bad civilians? When I've killed three million bad civilians? According to a warsimulation by the Pentagon in 1953 the entire area of Russia would've been reduced to ruins with 60 million casualties. All bad Russians. 60 million bad guys. By how many million ''bad'' casualties do I stop being a knight of justice? Isn't that the question those knights must ask themselves? If there's no-one left, and I remain as the only just one,

    Then I'm God.
    Quote Originally Posted by Louis Napoleon III, Des Idees Napoleoniennes
    Governments have been established to aid society to overcome the obstacles which impede its march. Their forms have been varied according to the problems they have been called to cure, and according to character of the people they have ruled over. Their task never has been, and never will be easy, because the two contrary elements, of which our existence and the nature of society is composed, demand the employment of different means. In view of our divine essence, we need only liberty and work; in view of our mortal nature, we need for our direction a guide and a support. A government is not then, as a distinguished economist has said, a necessary ulcer; it is rather the beneficent motive power of all social organisation.


    Quote Originally Posted by Wolfgang Held
    I walked into those baracks [of Buchenwald concentrationcamp], in which there were people on the three-layered bunkbeds. But only their eyes were alive. Emaciated, skinny figures, nothing more but skin and bones. One thinks that they are dead, because they did not move. Only the eyes. I started to cry. And then one of the prisoners came, stood by me for a while, put a hand on my shoulder and said to me, something that I will never forget: ''Tränen sind denn nicht genug, mein Junge,
    Tränen sind denn nicht genug.''

    Jajem ssoref is m'n korew
    E goochem mit e wenk, e nar mit e shtomp
    Wer niks is, hot kawsones
     

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    Lumina said: November 19, 2010 05:57 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Jin View Post
    I really enjoy the older movies from the 60s and 70s that show foreign countries overseas. They always have that epic sense of adventure and I find the movies intensely enjoyable. Movies like Khartoum, 55 Days at Peking and March or Die. Does anyone else have any good recommendations about these types of movies?
    Watch the Young Adventures of Indiana Jones. It was a great mini series by George Lucas it tells about Indiana Jone's childhood from boy to young adult before the movies, filmed all around the world during an attempt to show the late 1800s and early 1900s history to young viewers like myself with Indiana Jones being the fictional character you get the see the world around. They filmed it in over 100 locations around the entire world. Get to see many of the Imperial countries in a micro like setting before the First World War including British/German/Belgium held Africa/Middle East/Asia before and during the war in Africa. I personally find it one of the biggest undertakings in Television history outside of Shaka Zulu. You get to see many of the Empires fall during it as well, little remembered underhand deals trying to get Austria out of the war but yet keep the Monarchs in power Indi being one of the operatives in the negotiations.
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    IronBrig4 said: November 19, 2010 11:18 PM

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    The Four Feathers (1939) - This is NOT the one with Heath Ledger. Unlike most contemporary Hollywood productions, the film crew actually traveled to the Sudan to film their recreation of Omdurman.

    Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) - Although the climax is the Battle of Balaclava, most of the movie takes place on India's Northwest Frontier. Errol Flynn's in it so you know it's good.

    Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) - A typical 30's adventure flick set in India. Starring Gary Cooper.

    Gunga Din (1939) - Loosely based on Kipling's poem. It's got Cary Grant and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

    Okay, i seriously need to see some Classic Hollywood films now. I've got a hankering.

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  17. Darkarbiter said: November 20, 2010 09:03 AM

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    Not old, but what about the sharpe movies?