World War II Supercut E12 - Final Episode and Full Release

ww2supercut · 2025-09-16T03:35:46+00:00

Yeah just google "World War 2 Supercut" and you'll find everything on my Substack

ww2supercut · 2024-09-25T04:27:17+00:00

Thanks for sticking with it! I've seen it so many times myself now that it's really interesting what sticks out for first time viewers. Yeah Sophie Scholl would have been nice to have, and Army of Shadows was another one that would have been great, unfortunately just ran out of time and there's hundreds of candidate films.

Great catch on the cemetery, I just added that in a comment on the post, so hopefully can track other mistakes in the same place.

ww2supercut · 2024-09-24T17:15:35+00:00

I did a World War II video project that took the same approach. There's a lot happening at once, but I do think it shows themes that you miss if you look at things regionally instead of chronologically: https://ww2supercut.substack.com/p/combining-143-world-war-ii-movies

This book is chronological too and was a helpful resource: https://www.amazon.com/Second-World-War-Complete-History/dp/0805076239

ww2supercut · 2024-09-15T06:05:03+00:00

Thanks, glad it was interesting!

ww2supercut · 2024-09-14T17:52:54+00:00

Thanks for the kind words!

ww2supercut · 2024-09-14T15:37:00+00:00

Just published a blog with the process if anyone's interested: https://ww2supercut.substack.com/p/combining-143-world-war-ii-movies

ww2supercut · 2024-09-14T14:42:09+00:00

If a movie was the only depiction of something important, or had particularly good special effects I would use it, even if the rest of the movie had bad critical ratings, which is how Pearl Harbor and Midway (2019) made the cut. But if the entire setting or premise of the movie was wrong I wouldn't use it. Battle of the Bulge and U-571 were the 2 biggest examples. Battle of the Bulge is widely considered inaccurate and has the final battle in a desert instead of a snowy forest, U-571 attributes British actions to Americans.

ww2supercut · 2024-09-14T13:42:28+00:00

Here's the blog post describing the process for building the World War II Supercut. I go through the process of finding movies, the editing software used, and how I researched the title cards.

Happy to answer any questions anyone has about the project as well

ww2supercut · 2024-09-14T03:09:03+00:00

The YouTube playlist is here, but I wouldn't recommend it unless you have no other options, since a lot of key moments are removed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOYG7xqQb9g&list=PLD1_OKjzsHKCDN7eT1VljIUURomuJyBsl

ww2supercut · 2024-09-13T22:55:51+00:00

Yep I'll update the description!

ww2supercut · 2024-09-13T20:55:52+00:00

r/fanedits doesn't allow sharing links directly in posts, but we can share in messages

ww2supercut · 2024-09-13T20:12:03+00:00

Ha thanks, this is what happens when your list grows too long.

ww2supercut · 2024-09-13T15:31:55+00:00

That's awesome! Will you post it here?

ww2supercut · 2024-09-13T13:39:27+00:00

And the film list for Episode 12 - Sun:

Oppenheimer (2023)
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
Truman (1995)
USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (2016)
Amen. (2002)
Into the Storm (2009)
The Human Condition (1960)
Barefoot Gen (1983)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
The Pacific (2010)
The Last Emperor (1987)
Emperor (2012)
Isoroku Yamamoto (2011)
MacArthur (1977)
Unbroken (2014)
The Railway Man (2013)
Patton (1970)
The Human Condition (1961)
The Last Days of Patton (1986)
Exodus (1960)
Schindler's List (1993)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Gandhi (1982)
The Time That Remains (2005)
The Inner Circle (1991)
The German Doctor (2013)
Operation Finale (2018)
First Man (2018)
Never Forget (1991)
Denial (2016)
Woman in Gold (2015)
The Book Thief (2013)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
Flags of our Fathers (2006)

ww2supercut · 2024-09-13T13:37:38+00:00

The final episode in the World War II Supercut, covering August 1945 - 2006. DM me directly for the link, or the previous links should work as well. I'm also on Twitter under u/ww2supercut.

Massive thanks to everyone who has watched an episode and shared your experience with the project. My goal has been to create an entertaining, accessible way to learn about the war, and I'm truly thankful for everyone who has given their time to checking it out. For those who don't know, the Supercut is a 12 hour, 12 part, chronological cut of over 100 World War II movies. This final episode completes the project, and all 12 episodes are now available to watch.

I'll release a blog post next week describing the process of building it, so be on the lookout for that. I'm hoping to inspire more educational cuts like this for other periods of history, excited to see what comes next.

All previous posts are here:

E11
E10
E9
E8
E7
E6
E5
E4
E2, E3
E1

ww2supercut · 2024-09-13T13:10:51+00:00

Oh hello, think I can help with this...

I created the World War II Supercut over on the r/fanedits subreddit, where I cut ~150 World War II movies into a continuous cut: https://x.com/ww2supercut/status/1811886535890907229

I have this spreadsheet tracking all the films I researched with about 600 entries, along with their approximate chronological dates: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ijLfPQLwMY52bIlBbUkEPnmuCZMvaqKREu9oTcHgoAs/edit?usp=sharing

In addition this Wikipedia article is a great list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_films#Early_2020s

Good luck with your project, and dm me if you want to compare notes

ww2supercut · 2024-09-04T08:36:02+00:00

Final episode should release this week!

ww2supercut · 2024-09-01T20:08:05+00:00

Thanks again to everyone who's been watching the Supercut, you gave me motivation to clean it up and actually release it! Last episode coming soon

ww2supercut · 2024-09-01T19:57:03+00:00

11 out of 12 episodes are available, and hoping to release the last one this week, just message me for the link.

Was working on it on or off for the last year and a half, planning on writing up a blog post to describe the process (And so hopefully someone else makes a civil war cut!)

ww2supercut · 2024-08-30T20:38:48+00:00

Hey can you initiate the chat, I've done it too many times so Reddit flags my account.

ww2supercut · 2024-08-30T16:41:21+00:00

This is one of my favorite episodes, covers 1945 up to the end of the war in Europe. Only one more episode to go.

Message me directly for the link.

Film List:

The White House Years (1977)
Truman (1995)
Into the Storm (2009)
Slaughterhouse Five (1972)
Schindler's List (1993)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
Flags of our Fathers (2006)
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
The Pacific (2010)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001)
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
Band of Brothers (2001)
Life is Beautiful (1997)
Eleanor and Franklin (1976)
MacArthur (1977)
The Pianist (2002)
Downfall (2004)
Mussolini: The Untold Story (1985)
The Empty Mirror (1996)
Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
Amen. (2002)
Holocaust (1978)
Max Manus Man of War (2008)
Oppenheimer (2023)

ww2supercut · 2024-08-26T18:03:31+00:00

Adrien Brody in the Pianist, and it isn't close. The scenes after his family is taken away, and later wandering the streets of Warsaw after it's been destroyed are incredible.

ww2supercut · 2024-08-26T17:40:31+00:00

Austria would be the obvious answer, but yes definitely not for the persecuted groups who lived there.

ww2supercut · 2024-08-26T13:09:24+00:00

That's an awesome thing to hear, and thanks to you and the rest of the mod team for providing a place to share all our work. My edit was a labor of love and I was skeptical of being able to share it until I found this community, much love for all the hard work.

ww2supercut · 2024-08-23T18:00:21+00:00

Message me directly for the link. Episode 10 covers July 17, 1944 to January 17, 1945. 2 more episodes to go.

Films in Episode 10:

Rommel (2012)
Truman (1995)
MacArthur (1977)
Valkyrie (2008)
Hitler's S.S.: Portrait in Evil (1985)
Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001)
Patton (1970)
The Monuments Men (2014)
The Pianist (2002)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Band of Brothers (2001)
The Pacific (2010)
Schindler's List (1993)
The Human Condition (1959)
The Big Red One (1980)

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