Posted on 05/30/2015 11:22:38 PM PDT by Michael.SF.
This list is in no particular order, and comes in various categories. Going back to the Civil War:
GLORY
GETTYSBURG
For the World Wars:
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI.
DAS BOOT.
PATTON.
THE GREAT ESCAPE.
SCHINDLER’S LIST.
THE DIRTY DOZEN.
Vietnam War:
FULL METAL JACKET
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A second on “Lost Battalion” (WWI - 1 Battalion vs an entire German Army) and add “Enemy at the Gates (WWII - Russia).”
Because I am a former Naval Aviator: The Bridges at Toko-Ri (best depiction of carrier aviation)
They Were Expendable - Very Accurate Navywise - John Ford movie. Best WWII Navy movie in my opinion.
I liked Saving Private Ryan the first time but after watching it a couple times after it really isn’t that good of a movie. Hanks was very good at the landing but later he turned into a very smaltzy guy.
When trumpets fade is a good movie about the forgotten but bloody battle of the Hurtgen Forest.
To Hell and Back, The Man Who Never Was, Guns of Navarone were some of my favorites not yet mentioned.
Best “war” movie: “Best Years of Our Lives.”
I thought I was the only guy on the planet who remembers 84 Charlie Mopic....
RLTW
I think Band of Brothers was the best ever, but it might be under the category of mini-series not movie...
I know it “technically” isn’t a war movie in that sense, but my favorite (not only war movie, but all movies) is “The Best Years of Our Lives”.
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
The Caine Mutiny
Twelve O’Clock High
Saving Private Ryan
Downfall
Das Boot
The Sand Pebbles
Gladiator
The Bedford Incident
Note: Apocalypse Now is what I would call a “Guilty Pleasure”. I know it is written and produced by liberals...I know Martin Sheen is an liberal anti-war douchebag of the Code Pink variety, and I know the movie is a parody of the stereotypes of the Vietnam War, but...there are a lot of scenes from that movie that I really enjoyed...”Don’t get out of the boat”...”Charlie Don’t Surf”, etc. Like Platoon, I can’t put it on my list, but...there were parts that I found funny and memorable from both of them.
And I have always enjoyed Dr. Strangelove, but I have never been able to view it as a war movie...Any movie based on comedy can’t really make it onto that list for me.
Nobody has mentioned Longest Day (unless I missed it).
Great film about the D-Day invasion with an amazingly star studded cast. John Wayne, Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, and a bunch of others you’d recognize as major stars of the time.
Covers the battle from generals on down to privates. Same director and writer as A Bridge too Far.
Quite a long movie at 178 minutes.
Agreed.
My Tivo recorded Kelly’s Heroes on Memorial Day and I’m watching it now. Lots of good effects, but so damn implausible that it’s utterly ridiculous. It has such a 60s hippy (Sutherland) and anti-Vietnam vibe to it that it is quite annoying. A big disappointment to me.
The Train is a very good movie. Can see it for free on some websites. Another good movie is “The Beast” from 1988. Description: During the war in Afghanistan a Soviet tank crew commanded by a tyrannical officer find themselves lost and in a struggle against a band of Mujahadeen guerrillas in the mountains.
I also enjoyed:
From Here to Eternity
The Cruel Sea
Hell in The Pacific
Heaven Knows Mr. Allison
Memphis Belle
Agreed. And timeless, too. Same issues then as now...
Films made during the war-—”A little Walk in the Sun”
“Lifeboat”
“Sahara”
Eastwood’s “Flags of our Fathers”
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