Will you check back the history after watching some movies based on the truth?

This is a very old movie so I think not many people watched it.

but the little girl's dairy really tells the real story that how they suffered for such a long time..

I never new John Rabe but now! He must be a hero in your country, luckily it was released this year, hope I could grab a copy of it. Thanks Youless

I am not sure whether you have watched John Rabe. It is also a moving movie about the World War II. I checked about John Rabe via the net and he is a great man.

I think it is so amazing to see the Titanic exhibition.

Thanks for your response.

If there is no internet, perhaps I won't have the chance to watch this movie.

This is a good movie but it is also an old one because this is a black and white movie. I hope this movie will be filmed again so that it may attract more people today.

I read the book about it. So I also think the movie Troy is not so good enough.

Thanks for your response.

I watched Schindler's List and I think it's a good movie.

[b]Oh, it's a fine movie, but I object to classrooms being forced to accept any movie as history. Hollyweird has a bad habit of "taking liberties" with history, the better to promote its agenda du jour. Any resemblance to fact is mere co-incidence, so they can't be trusted not to use films to propagandize. Fine, if you like, in a theater setting, but lazy, & maybe even malicious in a school setting. How many films made during WWII did this little dance with the truth, the better to stir up the fervor for our side? Entertaining, but hardly a source of impeachable fact! And "Inherit the Wind" isn't even the worst of what the film industry has done to the truth. No, when it comes to films, I can't recommend highly enough going to actual historical texts to check the facts. You'll be amazed how often these don't jive. Maggiepie "WHERE'S THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE?"[/b]

I think you learn about the story of Anne Frank much more.

You are right. The young people shall understand how lucky they are right now.

Yes, I checked this fact via Wikipedia.

I haven't watched the drama series you mentioned yet. Perhaps it is also based on the truth?

Sandra my dear, spooky again, my degree was in Lit but I studied history alongside, come on now, start a topic on old Henry and his gout or something.

I think I also need to read this original book. Usually the books are better than the movies.

It is history and the Dutch preserve their history. In fact I think it is only us Americans that don't. We would have torn down the building and put condos on the site.

Yes, I also saw the house via the net and out of my expectation, this house still looks well today.

You are right.

Perhaps you don't like the black and white movie very much. If this movie can be filmed again, perhaps it will attract more people.

No, it's not that I don't like black and white movies. In fact, I like some of these movies better than some of the ones they make these days. It's just that, knowing me, I was probably so busy at the time and didn't have time to watch it. Kathy.

Hopefully there won't be some people like Hitler any more.

[b]Doglady (& Youless), I wouldn't call him "sick," but evil. Those who think the Holocaust was a myth should've met an old boss of mine, who was often harsh to his employees. One day I saw him when he had his shirtsleeves pushed up. In old, but still all-too-visible ink, there on his arm, was tattooed a concentration camp number. A chill prickled up & down my spine. I resolved to take that into account thereafter. Who knew what horrors he'd survived, & what it did to his spirit? He was a fair, if very strict employer. Then there was my (now deceased) friend Judith, who told me that her own parents would never answer the door if someone knocked exactly 3 times, because invariably, that's how the SS knocked when they came to haul someone off to interrogate...& sometimes kill. Her folks would always hold their breath, hoping for a fourth rap. They did this even into their old age.... Oh, & Youless, there is always a Hitlerian sort in the world. Usually several. Some just don't get as much fame or power, but there's never a shortage of evil people who are ruthless, twisted, domineering. Think Pol Pot & his vast "killing fields." Or Che Guavara, the Communist murderer, or his chosen successor, Castro, who puts political prisoners in what are basically body-sized dirt holes, keeping them there, barely alive, in their own excrement, for months), or Stalin (at one point, he'd put one-fourth of Moscow under arrest! And he purposely starved many of his own people!), or Saddam Hussein (who often put people alive into wood chippers), or Vlad the Impaler, or...or.... Well, you get the idea. Maggiepie "WHERE'S THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE?"[/b]

I think the movie isn't enough to told me everything about the fact. So I check it via the net to learn more about it.

movies do have a time limit and cannot do justice to the real event. but it does give you a fairly good idea of what happened.

Usually the movie will tell you whether it is based on a true story or not at the beginning or at the end.

Obviously the movie says it, mostly or in all cases at the beginning only and in some cases at the end :)