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From BFBS TV - 31st January 2008
It's official: Zulu is the Forces' favourite war film
How do you really find out which is the best war film ever made? Forget asking a film critic, go straight to those who should know. A survey conducted by British Forces Broadcasting Service Television (BFBS TV) has shown that the most popular war film of all time amongst the British Forces worldwide is the 1964 classic Zulu*.
These results illustrate that the British Forces have a very different idea as to what makes a great war film in comparison with the general public. When the British people voted for Channel 4's 100 Greatest War Films, in 2005, Zulu was only voted 8th. Similarly, The Cruel Sea (1952) was placed 41st by the general public but was ranked 7th by the British Forces.
It�s a tribute to Zulu's iconic status that the vast majority of those serving on the frontline in Afghanistan today were not even born when it was made. Saving Private Ryan (1998) and A Bridge Too Far (1977) were ranked second and third respectively.
General Sir Mike Jackson, former Chief of the General Staff, was torn between A Bridge Too Far, The Longest Day, and Saving Private Ryan. Whilst the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Jonathan Band, chose Tora! Tora! Tora! which didn�t make it into the Top 20. BFBS TV will be showing the top three films on consecutive nights from 1st February.
* The top 20 war films as voted for by the British Forces are as follows:
Zulu (1964)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
The Great Escape (1963)
Platoon (1986)
The Cruel Sea (1953)
The Longest day (1962)
Enemy At The Gates (2001)
Ice Cold In Alex (1958)
We Were Soldiers (2002)
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Das Boot (1981)
Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Schindler's List (1993)
Cross of Iron (1977)
The Dam Busters (1954)
Where Eagles Dare (1968)
Battle of Britain (1969)
BFBS TV delivers its channels via DTT transmitters in most areas of Iraq and Afghanistan, so that service personnel can watch TV anywhere that there is a power source, rather than being limited to a communal TV in a mess tent. British Forces can watch BFBS TV via an inexpensive freeview style box in their own tent or on their laptop with a USB stick.
BFBS TV is part of UK Forces charity the Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC), providing TV, Radio, Cinemas, SSVC audio-visual shops and CSE live entertainment to British troops throughout the world.
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Peter Ewart
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Rich
I don't know how well Ice Cold in Alex did at the box office - quite well I'd imagine - but with Mills & Quayle in lead parts it could hardly fail at that time.
It is the film that always comes to my mind when I think of the hype attending the release of new ones. I remember its release very well indeed as the trailer seemed to be shown at our local cinema for weeks and weeks, so it was certainly "hyped" as a big film. For some reason, although a very regular picture-goer as a child, I never did see it, but I still have a vague memory of someone (Quayle or Mills perhaps) pulling someone desperately on the end of a rope & a lot of shouting going on at the time. I don't know why I still have this impression that the trailer came and stayed for weeks, but that little "clip" has stayed with me.
I think I was too young to know what or where "Alex" was and my brothers and I must have seen an awful lot of these classic 1950s British war films (the first and second-string actors were nearly always the same!) without having a clue what was going on, and we were probably satisfied if there was simply a lot of shooting! The two which stand out in the memory - way, way above all the others - from that period are The Bridge on the River Kwai (I still haven't seen cinema queues to match the length of those queues) and Dunkirk (probably because it was filmed in and around my home town, so it was part of our life for some weeks). Neither are on the above list, I see. I'm probably stuck in a time warp as I can only remember seeing about eight of the above and there are four or five on the list I've never heard of!
Peter
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