Ike: Countdown to D-Day (Part 1 of 9)

IKE: COUNTDOWN TO D-DAY depicts the tense 90 days leading up to the D-Day invasion and how Dwight Eisenhower, against all odds, brilliantly orchestrated the most important military maneuver in modern history.

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• WWII
• WW2
• Eisenhower
• D-Day
• Selleck

[hanno21664]

my students loved this A&E speical movie. however i taught my students that it was not only the americans, but all the allies present in london who colaborated together to mastermind D-Day. The Logistics of this massive operations is beyond anything ever concieved.

awesome thank you for posting this.

Blessed Be.

[MattiasTannhauserXX0]

Never ever ever ever would i have classed Tom Selleck as a good actor but im impressed with this, wasnt that bad :P good stuff matey.

[108Dax]

Magnum P.I. was really diverse in his skills.

[SocratesTheGadfly]

@46spoony who would you rather have seen in this movie? possibly tom cruise (cruise's vanity and narcissism was perfect for stauffenberg was it not?) the movie valkyrie was such a wonderful movie especially with cruise saying how "perfect" he looked resembling count stauffenberg. what about ASSFLACK? his hubris would even rival cruise's vanity. it really sounds like your effete snobbish liberalism clouds your judgement. could it be your bias AGAINST card carrying CONSERVATIVE NRA MEMBERS?

[hanno21664]

hi friend, i can see your point, it is true we were the first to get the ball rolling for D-Day, but i have read plently of books stating that Marshall, Eisenhower, Churchill, Bettle Smith, and even US politicans saying without the combined collective efforts of all the countries allied to us, the american forces would have not been able to win d-day on its own. edward Cray, Dennis E. Showalter, Stephen A. Ambrose, Carl D'Este, and others have written about this. what other books show i read?

[EliteAmericans]

@hanno21664 but you are wrong. America was the boss, and we still are. All the other allied countries are weak little peons. Get over it. None of the other countries have even evolved into humans yet.

[Onlymusical]

@kalamere He passed up "Raiders of the Lost Ark" for his fellow cast members? That doesn't make sense since he hardly knew them at the time. "Magnum PI" started filming in March 1980 while "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was released a couple of months later, while "Magnum" premiered on television that December.  He had not started "Magnum" yet. If he did choose "Magnum PI" over "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and could have gone the other way, it ranks as the biggest mistake ever made by any actor.

[kalamere]

@Onlymusical Selleck kept his contract at Magnum PI for his fellow cast members and gave them the bonus he was given to stay to divide up between them all. He did what he thought was right.

[MoveOverCasanova]

the people talking about the logistics of d-"day" never talk about the logistics of unternehmen barbarossa! -- d-day was a one day battle --

americans haven´t even caught a glimpse of WW2 in all its monstrousity

[46spoony]

Tom Sellek and Gerald McRainey? They scraped the bottom of the barrel to find these actors. except for the guy playing Montgomery who is very good.

Sellek looks absolutely nothing like Eisenhower and is about 5 inches taller.

[goombabear]

THEY ARE ALL HEROES. RIP. GOD BLESS YOU.

[redcoltken]

@zen4men one of the first things you learn in film screenwriting is that you do not have the tools in a film to "be authentic"- all you can do is create scenes that explain who the person is and hope the audience can follow. It's hard to do.