If you want to watch documentaries, there's always PBS.
Here's an interesting little video showing the 3rd Army taking Cologne.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qfHgoSTm48
Lots of similar footage in Fury. The battle with the Tiger tank alone is worth the price of admission.
After they destroyed that Panther, they moved up to view the damage. One of the German soldiers was missing everything from his belly button on down.
I just wasted 20 minutes perusing the Fury reviews on some of the Military groups.
With some of the usual niggling complaints about making a Hollywood production out of war (not too dissimilar to our nits with "Top Gun"), most of the reviews there are positive. Fury very much captures the violence of war, and realistically portrays tank warfare according to those who have been there and done that.
Some of the characters are stereotypical. Some of the action is overdone. But, overall, Fury is the best tank movie since Patton, IMHO, and certainly the best war movie since Saving Private Ryan.
I'm hoping to see it a second time.
*****SPOILERS*****
You really think they talked with that slang over the intercom?
I can't remember the last time I saw a tank commander keep his head outside of the tank when the metal started flying.
The Germans could shoot, they just forgot how to when filming this movie.
An anti-tank gun (88mm?) inside of the bottom floor of a building? Lol.
Missing a 100 foot shot at the broad side of a Pershing? No.
That stupid typewriter kid finding that girl, looking at her hand, getting busy, and then she gets killed. I laughed out loud in the theatre. Utterly moronic.
Going from mid-day to the darkest night you've ever seen in a matter of seconds while in the tank at the final battle. The dramatic effect really wasn't necessary. The only reason they did it was to make the bullsh*t that happened later on somehow believable, which it wasn't.
Getting out of the tank AND THEN BACK IN IT while fighting? Lol.
That sniper scene
German SS shooting at a tank with an MG42? Even if it was to be used as a distraction, it didn't work. I don't know what they were doing, or why it was even necessary to show it.
Soldiers getting together for a small briefing as the fighting is going on? You've got to be kidding me.
Letting your soldiers becoming Swiss cheese BEFORE using your Panzerfaust?
Having a Panzerfaust penetrate, only to take out that stupid Georgia guy? Lol. Don't even get me started on him. I liked him in The Pacific, but not this movie.
I'm not even scratching the surface. I could go on, but I don't need to. I didn't enjoy it.
So you missed "Natural Born Killers" and "Cannonball Run II"?
Guess so.