BONUS: 1917: The WWI Walking Simulator

You ask for more bad movies...Battle of the Bulge (1966). How bad do you have to be to get Dwight Eisenhower, the former WWII Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces, Europe and US President, to walk out of a screening of your movie within the first few minutes?

Harry D Richardson

Except Come and See. I believe that true anti-war movies focus on the civilian plight. Otherwise, yeah.

Spaghetti

Joe, if your tank had metal nipples underneath with stored milk like a cow, would drink it?

Mike

Corpse road, corpse fist. I think you guys just invented my new favorite off shoot of death metal. CORPSE CORE!!!!!!

Adam Wienecke

There isn’t really such a thing as an anti-war movie. No matter how terrible you make the conditions or what they look like, idiots will watch it and say “fuck yeah look how tough this is dude I would totally make it no problem”. Even stuff like Dr Strangelove, since that just provokes “but what about the mineshaft gap” strategizing. Threads and the inferior The Day After are war movies, but not the conventional conflict dynamic most Americans think of as war movies.

Matt

probably not unless i can get everyone else to read the book as well

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Are you guys going to do the new All Quiet on the Western front?

Spaghetti

Please watch the lost battalion....kind of a low budget flick but it's an awesome ww1 movie. I think it's streaming on Prime

X_shenanigans

There is another ww1 movie with runner. Staring Mel Gilbson

Mackenzie Toscan

As a PhD student I also care about sources!

Charlie Cussans

Great episode! I loved “1917,” although, as an Englishwoman, I am biased. If anyone is interested, the British Army instituted “Pals Battalions” early in the war to encourage men to sign up and fight alongside their friends. It wasn’t necessarily the brightest idea, though, because a considerable chunk of an entire town or region’s young male population could and did get wiped out in one go. I’m half Indian from a Sikh family and, though I knew a lot of Sikhs fought in WWI, I didn’t know it was 1 in 5! Amazing. The Sikhs are meant to wear the “Five Ks” at all times: 1. Kesh (uncut hair) 2. Kangha (small wooden comb) 3. Kara (metal bracelet) 4. Kachera (shalwar undergarment with a tie knot) 5. Kirpan (dagger)