(06-27-2016 09:52 AM)Lush Wrote:  

(06-25-2016 06:37 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  

(06-25-2016 01:29 PM)Lush Wrote:  has anyone seen the miniseries the heavy water wars? it's about the allied attempt to thwart germany's nuclear program. it's on netflix and it was awesome. it could have been more than six episodes

I have not Lush. Sounds pretty good. I did watch an old movie (1944) earlier today that I had never seen - The Fighting Sullivans. I was loosely familiar of the story of the five Irish-American brothers from Iowa who joined the Navy after Pearl Harbor and demanded to serve on the same ship because their bond was so strong. They all died together during the Battle of Guadalcanal leaving behind both parents and a sister. The youngest bother had a wife and toddler son. Most of the movie was pre-war but it had a poignant ending. Later, the Navy named two destroyers after them.

netflix? that sounds pretty powerful. do you know how loosely based?

I watched it on Turner Classic Movies (DirecTV) but I don't know how accurate it was from the standpoint of the family's pre-war days. FWIW, The Fighting Sullivans did serve as the inspiration for Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan film in terms of the plot to get Private Ryan back to his family due to the war casualties of his siblings.