Battle Of The Bulge (DVD)

The Battle of the Bulge is a cracking World War 2 film. Quite faithfully recreating an epic historical turning point in the war, with a counter attack by the Germans using tanks to get through the thin Allied lines in France. Ultimately, this strategy fails through lack of fuel for the tanks. Lots of action and tank battles in this film. The film has an all star cast of Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw and Robert Ryan. Telly Savalas and Charles Bronson have good character roles and act these out very well. The film highlights some poor military decisions by the Allied commanders e.g. thinking the Germans were a spent force after D day (big mistake) and ignoring their own ...  Read the complete review

There are a number of excellent war films that are repeated over and over again on television and this is one of those films. The film is set during the Second World War in December 1944 when the allied forces were advancing across Europe and most people believed that the war would soon be over. However, some of the German Army senior commanders still wanted to fight on, and believed that a new offensive could split the allied forces in Central Europe and allow the German’s to regroup and fight back. Like a lot of Second World War films it can now be difficult to tell the truth from fiction and the two are merged together for the purpose of the ...  Read the complete review