Help me find research material! (in WWII movies)

Nabob

Hey everyone, I am writing my capstone research paper about WWII films. Specifically, how films have depicted human rights violations committed by Allied troops in WWII. So far I can think of Band of Brothers and (possibly)Inglorious Basterds. Google search is proving a bit difficult, so I figured I'd ask here if anyone knows of any! They can be new or old, documentary or fictional, as long as it's about WWII and has Allied troops doing bad things, I might be able to use it!

Macro9

Do your own fucking schoolwork.

Melding

The dirty dozen, inglorious bastards (either one) and hogan's heroes. it is all you need.

PS. we aren't here to do your homework.

YaYa

nazis ain't people, yo

Grey Ghost

Capstone

Are you at South Carolina?

Weaver

This is a youtube link, but totally relevant. Watch the film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKDPX8PEiVk

Mr Fuzzbutt

YaYa wrote:

nazis ain't people, yo

The only good thing about Call of Duty: World at war was when you got a gun that could shoot limbs off and you shot both of a Nazi's legs off with a single bullet.

Solar

Dude you really need to be getting this info from textbooks

What are you gonna say, you selected The Dirty Dozen because Melding on the internet said so?

It's good to ask for suggestions, but when it comes down to it if you aer doing your dissertation on this you need to know more about that than any of us, select your pieces carefully and do it based on textbooks and other established works.

Good luck on the paper, fella, doing my own right now

YaYa

yeah what Solar said is good advice, do that, there'll be all sorts of academic texts covering this that'll give you crazy insights and be perfectly legitimate sources for you

Google Scholar that shit, if nothing else

Peter Ebel

Naw, man. Watch that Dirty Dozen movie.

L|ama

no I think you're confused, it's the germans and japanese that committed the war crimes. The allies were faultless.

Macro9

And America saved all asses during the war.

Especially the tight asses on French and Dutch ladies.

The History Channel is the greatest teacher of history and alien culture.

Ubik

Pearl Harbor

because that acting was a human rights violation, heyoooo

L|ama

if you dont realise that the war was pretty much over the instant russia entered then lol @ u

Langly

Watch the boys from brazil.

It doesn't have what you're looking for, but it's a good movie so hey

JoeUser

I believe this is historically accurate:

Solar

Ubik wrote:

Pearl Harbor

because that acting was a human rights violation, heyoooo

Zing!

Skull Man

Grey Ghost wrote:

Capstone

Are you at South Carolina?

gg lots of places do capstones you solipsist

Grey Ghost

Well there's a program at USC called Capstone and it's like a mini honors college for freshmen where you really only have to do like one extra project and I thought maybe that's what he's doing!

Also I've never heard a final paper referred to as a capstone, just a thesis or dissertation

Nabob

Thanks for the suggestions guys. Solar, you misunderstand me, I am here just for suggestions, its not like I'm going throw all these into my proposal and say I'm using them cause the internet said so. I am just looking for suggestions, I will watch whatever people suggest and decide if it is relevant to my research. I am looking and finding plenty in academic sources, I just figured you smart dudes from the internet might know about some good films that I have not found yet. I'm trying to cast as wide a net as possible.

Also Grey Ghost, no I'm at the U of A.

Skull Man

they shoot that one nazi who's surrendering in saving private ryan

oh and one of the flashbacks in shutter island has some stuff

cj iwakura

Enemy at the Gates is good stuff on the Russians.

Quetzi

If I remember correctly, Letters from Iwo Jima is a solid choice.

Solar

Both Band of Brothers and The Pacific are good examples of what you are looking for, I guess.

Zonugal

Saving Private Ryan has some solid material in the form of prisoners being killed. It also has this scene:

The two "German" soldiers who are shot trying to surrender were speaking Czech. They were saying, "Please don't shoot me, I am not German, I am Czech, I didn't kill anyone, I am Czech!" They were members of what the Germans called Ost East Battalions, men - mostly Czech and Polish - taken prisoner in eastern European countries invaded by Germany and forced into the German army.

Another nice resource might be the Why We Fight series which is incredibly nationalistic, racist and propagandist towards the Allies efforts in the war (it is also a really good series of documentaries).

The Otaku Suppository

Any scene in the movies on either front where they shot enemy combatants in a situation where they could have taken them prisoner. Pretty much straight up violation of the Geneva Convention right there.

You'd also be doing yourself a favor by making a clear distinction when speaking of the Allied Powers between the Western Allies v. the Germans and the Soviets v. the Germans. The Soviet Union never signed the Geneva Convention. Germany did, but they generally chose to ignore it. It is worth noting, however, that Germany did treat Western prisoners in accordance with the Convention. The entire Eastern Front is one giant human rights violation on both sides. Before Operation Barbarossa even starts you have the Commissar Order being passed down which says all political officers among Soviet troops captured must be executed on sight as well as any prisoners deemed fully bolshevik-ized. Soviet POWs were horrendously mistreated as well. And in response, the Soviets generally showed no quarter towards their prisoners mostly due to German brutality, but also as mentioned before they didn't sign the Convention and as such didn't give a fuck.

Oh and do your own damn schoolwork. Especially for a capstone project.