How about that movie about the Danish bicycle infantry fighting the Germans in 1940? I forget the name of the movie, it was on Amazon Prime. It was pretty good.
9th of April.
I really like it.
The unit is fictitious. There where fights the 3 places we see, but no single unit was involved in all 3.
The men are also fictitious, but do give a good idea of ordinary danish conscripts.
Iam no expert on the danish army in 1940 but there is nothing in their way of doing things that I find strange.
(M/1889 rifles, Madsen LMGs, Madsen 20mm cannons on motorcycklere are all original. So are uniform, bikes and similar)
I got a few friend who was German soldiers in the movie (reenactors) and do know way more about the topic and And they say it is generally correct.
We do see the germans using MG42s... in 1940. The production did have an agreement with a collector about borrowing a MG34, but he backed out at the last moment. So they had to use their 42s. (that the reenactors already own)
And when in the town at the end, you can see modern windows and similar.
But that is because It was recorded on location in the town of Haderslev at the correct locations. At one point near the end we see a 37mm bofors Anti tank gun. With a hairdresser on the other side of the street.
That is recreated more or less perfectly. (thanks to this photo)
Another danish war movie that I will highly recommend is "A war".
Same writer and director Thomas Lindholm.
And with Pilou Asbæk as the Main officer just like he play the LT in 9th of April.
(And the horrible Captain in 1864, that we see begging for his life in the 1864 clip above)
It is about a infantry company in Afghanistan.
It is a good movie and a good example of how a movie can be entirely unhistorical but very authentic at the same time.
All but 3 of the soldiers are actually danish soldiers who served in Afghanistan.
(The CO, XO, who did serve for 10 month and one of the private soldiers are actors)
So the gear, drill,orders and all that is correct. The afghans civilians are afghans. Even the Taliban in it is played by an afghan who did in fact fight ISAF troops before fleeing to Turkey. The same with a number of other "professions in the screens in Denmark. Doctores, judges and so on.
But the actual story is invented.