Will they ever make a film about Canadian soldiers?

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#1

It has come to my attention that there is only one Hollywood film that depicts Canadian soldiers during WWII. The Devils Brigade. Its been 40 years and we still havn’t seen any Canadians on the big screen. Its funny to seesome of these films with American soldiers fighting off the Wermacht and winning the war single handedly. But the truth is most of the dirty work was done by the Canadian Corps.

when there was a stiky spot on the battlefeild it was usually the Canadians who were sent in to clean it out. Ortona is the best example of this happening. Eight bloody days of fighting, 1375 dead, and a new urban warfare tactic resulting from this. Why wouldn’t you want to make a movie about this? Even on D-day the Canadians advanced the furthest out of any of the Allied beach landing forces completed all of their objectives and oupened the road to Caen resulting in the Normandy Breakout.

My point is that the Canadians deserve just a littlebit of credit.

#2

I believe the new HBO “Band of Brothers” (titled THE PACIFIC) will showcase the Canadian military in one episode, as well as Australian forces.

#3

Several years ago I heard there was to be a movie/mini series? on the Dieppe Raid. Haven’t heard a thing since.

Regards digger.

#4

What about this 1992 movie…I pretty sure that I would gouge out my eyes before watching this! :shock::shock::shock:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voor_een_verloren_soldaat

#5

Totally agree!!!

#6

Anyone ever see this jewel? Me no…seems like the child porn WW2 version of Brokeback Mountain.

#7

Roger that! ! ! I even have other parts to volunteer for gouging if necessary. . :shock:

#8

I do believe there is a movie in the works, being made in Canada, about us in WW1 (not sure where).

But I would also love to see us in a WW2 movie. But unless its made here, it wont happen. Why would hollywood do a movie about Canadians? That just wouldnt sell

#9

That’s some pretty disturbing shit!

#10

A fun, if not great, film. I saw it recently again on the Military Channel. I think it’s worth noting though that the film is completely historically inaccurate, showing the Canadians as well trained, disciplined professionals and the Americans as “Dirty Dozen” (the film makers were obviously guilty of copycatting) like criminals and misfits released from the stockade for a ‘suicide mission.’ In fact, all were highly trained volunteers and immensely proud to have served. There were also no nationalistic rivalries between the Canadians and Americans as shown, as both faced the same risks and citizenship was ignored in the field…