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What other war films / shows depict enemies making friends by serendipity?

As you saw in that portion of The Blue and the Gray, two enemy soldiers end up being unable to shoot each other so when the situation evens out too well, they just start talking and become friendly with one another, eventually making a bargain to surrender to the other depending on which side wins the nearby battle that day.

That was a scene from a battle of the American Civil War. What similar scenes can you recall and (possibly) link from other wars, before and since? I hope especially to see such scenes from films about battles in WWII, the Korean, Vietnam, Gulf and any war afterwards. Thanks in advance. --69.77.96.200 (talk) 20:02, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

On a larger scale, there's the WWI Christmas truce, which is depicted in Oh! What a Lovely War, and possibly in other films. AndrewWTaylor (talk) 20:20, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Summer of My German Soldier ? More of a romance than friendship, though. StuRat (talk) 20:21, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

You might find some more among the examples given in "Friendly Enemy" (TV Tropes). ---Sluzzelin talk 21:28, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Joyeux Noël. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 21:35, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Enemy Mine (novella), and the film adaptation. "Two" (The Twilight Zone), starring Elizabeth Montgomery and Charles Bronson. There is also a scene in How the West Was Won (film) in which a Union deserter (played by George Peppard) befriends his Confederate counterpart (Russ Tamblyn), only to have to kill him to stop him from shooting Generals Grant and Sherman. Clarityfiend (talk) 21:50, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

None But the Brave - American and Japanese soldiers stranded on an island during World War II. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:32, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

The Cuckoo (film) -- Staecker (talk) 11:16, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

In Ice Cold in Alex, the crew of a British ambulance cut off in the desert pick-up a South African officer who turns out to be a German spy. However he helps them through all kinds of adversities to get to back to base, so they buy him a beer and hand him over as a POW rather than a spy. Alansplodge (talk) 21:33, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

"Snoopy's Christmas" ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 02:14, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Hell in the Pacific (Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune) -- 220 of ^Borg 07:21, 26 August 2013 (UTC)