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RE: Today in History: First successful use of tanks in battle
well, i like the look of that really. Plus i know this is being a bit mean, but these days i have lately been drawn to non-English-language movies. Perhaps because they have to work harder with being inventive because they don't have Brad Pitt or a 80 million dollar budget. I'm gonna check this T-34 out right now.
The trailer is subtitled but I wonder if the whole movie is. It was one of the top grossing Russian movies ever.
The losers of wars tend to make better movies about them for one additional reason. They are somewhat less about patriotic glory. [Edit: Or, well, glory maybe but not bullshit.]
One interesting movie made by the losers of WW II was the Japanese film about the Battle of Midway:
Here's the final battle of the battleship Yamato: