Today we look at the the films and TV shows which have depicted tank battles set in the Second World War. They will be a lot of familiar ones and a few less well known, but what we will try to do is look at what is presented accurately and well.
Before looking at fiction, we talk a bit about actual footage. The documentary At the Front in North Africa from 1942 can be found on YouTube at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-vBymPlZeU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJwah8YpfCs&t=2217s
We also think about the famous footage from Cologne in 1945, and I would recommend the book by Adam Makos, Spearhead: An American Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II (2020).
Vidcaps taken from respective dvds of the films and series, so obviously copyright to the respective studios.
00:00 Introduction
06:00 The Real Thing
18:48 Tanks in films and men against tanks
24:36 The Winter War
25:36 April 9th
26:12 Punishment Batallion 999
28:48 08/15
29:00 Stalingrad
30:18 They Fought For the Motherland
31:12 The Bridge
32:06 Hollywood and the Bridge at Remagen
34:12 Saving Private Ryan
38:36 Panfilov's 28 AKA Battle for Moscow
40:12 Final Stand
44:48 Cross of Iron
47:00 They were not divided
54:00 A Bridge Too Far
56:12 The Battle of the Bulge
01:03:24 Band of Brothers
01:09:00 Tali Ihantala 1944
01:16:48 White Tiger
01:20:48 Invincible
01:26:49 T34
01:44:26 Battle of the tanks AKA Saints and soldiers into the void
01:52:12 FURY
02:11:00 Kelly's Heroes
02:20:36 Conclusion