Films with Military Life

[TangoTwoBravo]

"Tunes of Glory." It is set just after WW2 so it is a little dated, but it might give you some insights into a post-war military.

 

[cupper]

"Tunes of Glory." It is set just after WW2 so it is a little dated, but it might give you some insights into a post-war military.

The Hill
http://imdb.com/title/tt0059274/

Two excellent movies in my opinion.

 

[Old Sweat]

Maybe I am just getting bitchy in my twilight years, but there is a dearth of films that depict life in an army between wars, or at least between deployments. Any you are apt to find will be British or more likely, American. Culturally the Canadian Army comes somewhere between them, with a structure closer to the British but a social background that reflects our North American roots. Tunes of Glory is a great film, but it is about a conscript British battalion in the dark days after the Second World War when rationing and all the rest made the UK a dark and dreary place.

Maybe From Here to Eternity would be a start, but again it is American, and maybe not all that reflective of real life at that. It is, however, a helluva good movie.

My 2 cents, which is considerably more than I made as a movie critic last year.

 

[Jimmy_D]

For a movie that depicts some theatre and post theatre I would recommend "Home of the Brave".

 

[Greymatters]

If you are looking for a more modern 'Canadian' film there is a made-for-TV one called 'Peacekeepers' that came out in 1997, starring Gabriel Hogan, and Jeremy Ratchford.  Not the best depiction, heavily stereotyped, but it was 'Canadian' and did show some of the issues soldiers deal with on deployments...

 

[Ducimus BTC]

Generation Kill is an HBO series that also does this quite well IMO.

Agreed, definetly a must see series.

 

[Sizzle709]

If you want something a bit more real I would suggest:

Armadillo or Restrepo

 

[Ignatius J. Reilly]

It has been ages since I saw it, but I recall that Nicholas Campbell starred in a movie called "Going Home" in the late 80's.  It portrayed some of the events of the Kinmel Park Riot in 1919.
http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/writing/kinmelpark.asp

http://cobwfa.ca/DOCUMENTS/WWI-Kinmel%20Park%20Mutiny%20-%20Canadian%20Army.pdf

Apparently, there is a Welsh TV documentary about the Riot/Mutiny, but not much info on the internet on where to find it.