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Alone In Berlin, Red Tails, Saving Private Ryan, And Hacksaw Ridge

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WORLD WAR 2 MOVIES The movies we have been watching in class were: Alone in Berlin, Red Tails, Saving Private Ryan, and Hacksaw Ridge. All of these films were based on 1900s events, especially wars. However, the movies tend to add real and fictional events. Therefore, these motion pictures were not completely historically accurate, but they do help in spreading the principle idea of history. The first movie, Red Tails, is based on the Tuskegee Airmen in Italy during WW2. It provides visuals of what problems this group of colored airmen faced. For example, they were only given used, hand-me-down flying equipment from the white airmen. In addition, they were barely permitted to be hands on in the fighting of the war, so they were given jobs to protect lands. Finally, the end they are able to fight next to the white men and triumph the war. These were the true historical facts about them; however, the dialogue used and how they act unmoved when a pilot goes down is fictitious. …show more content…

The dialogue plays an important part to understand what was happening, but they do have to change some of it because it’s impossible to know everything that was said back then. However, some of that communication between characters did happen even if it wasn’t in those exact words. For example, in Hacksaw Ridge, one of the soldiers Desmond saves says “I thought I was blind” after Doss cleans him up, and he always said “Lord, please let me get one more” each time he went back up making an effort to save another soldiers life. In addition, in Saving Private

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