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If the home nation's military will not cooperate, or if filming in the home nation is too expensive, another country's may assist.

Many 1950s and 1960s war films, including the Oscar-winning films Patton, Lawrence of Arabia, and Spartacus, were shot in Spain, which had large supplies of both Allied and Axis equipment.

The Napoleonic epic Waterloo was shot in Ukraine ( then part of the Soviet Union ), using Soviet soldiers.

The D-Day scenes in Saving Private Ryan were shot with the cooperation of the Irish army because the French couldn't afford to close down the real Omaha Beach due to it being a monument.

All of the major sequences in Dark Blue World were shot in the Czech Republic, at a disused air force base.

In the " Crimson Tide " example, the French Navy ( Marine Nationale ) assisted the production team with the French aircraft carrier Foch and one SNLE.