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JamesAPrattIII


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Awhile back I spoted a question about WW I movies on youtube. i can't remember where on this site so i am posting it here:

Good Soldier Svejk Dobart Vojak Svejk Czech with subtitles a comedy. Sorry no combat.

Nicholas And Alexandra based on the book of the same name on the the last Tsar of russia and his wife.

Romanvy: Ventsenosvaya Semya Romanovs: an Imperial family A Russian Movie about the last days of  Tsar Nicholas II and family. With luck you can get it with subtitles.

You might call these movies about the WW I period



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And Charlie Chaplin's Shoulder Arms can be found on Youtube as well, but the Internet Archive site version is best:

Shoulder Arms (1918)

That is some fancy marching he does!



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Ironically, the real life Charlie Chaplin tried to enter the British military during World War One but was rejected because he was too scrawny, having grown up very poor.



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Good Soldier Svejk is one of the classics from WW1 - it's worth tracking down the book - the writing is clever and funny even in translation. If I were to try to convey Svejk by analogy perhaps Catch 22 (Joseph Heller) meets Slaughterhouse 5 (Kurt Vonnegut). One of the lines I remember was a Polish sentry who declares "Halt - or I'll shit" - probably says a lot about the Austro-Hungarian Army.

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CharlieC wrote:

 

 One of the lines I remember was a Polish sentry who declares "Halt - or I'll shit" - probably says a lot about the Austro-Hungarian Army.

 Thanks: you made me and the wife laugh out loud with this.

Sadly, I can't agree about the Good Soldier Svejk which, whilst I agree with its anti-militarism sentiment, was a dreadful, arduous read that I gave up on pretty quickly.



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More WW I movies on youtube:
Fraulin Doktor classic spy movie
Admiral Russian with subtitles
The Lost battalion
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"White Sun of the desert"  from Mosfilm I think all the movies have english subtitles....

Russian revolution- Civil war with a difference, I thought it an excellent film.... Orion produce a set of figures "Basmachi" based on the characters from this film....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yia2azQd4GY&wide=1

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