Favorite Military Movies

The Washington Times ^ | Oct. 10, 2003 | John McCaslin, Inside the Beltway

[wardaddy]

One of the world's great beauties and Italy's best current export:

BAND OF BROTHERS is a must see...it'll have you riveted and at times misty-eyed and it was true...and those old guys lived it and saved our bacon. That fellow who started out as an NCO and ends up top dog is still alive....a real hombre..and smart.

[Squantos]

Seems to me you married a lady that looks a lot like all the recent pics you've posted to me........:o)

Lucky Bastard !...........Stay Safe !

[Dante3]

Bravehart
Gods and Generals
Blackhawk Down
Shaka Zulu
Das Boot
Gone with the Wind
The Red Badge of Courage

The choice also depends on the age of the individual. One young guy recommended a Disney film MOSBY'S MARAUDERS.

[judywillow]

I'd rather watch old Victory at Sea sequences and similar things taken from military film and newsreels during the 40s and 50s than most war movies. The scale of many of the major operations in WW-II were large enough to make filming more than a little of them nearly impossible. In other words, how are you going to film a group of B25s flying in a wedge formation which is several miles across?

[Qatar-6]

Sand Pebbles was about Warlord China in the 1920s, Great flick

Another great Brit movie worth the watch is "Culloden" made in 1964.

A really good movie if you can stand subtitles is the Polish film "Kanal" about the Warsaw uprising of 1944

Breaker Morant - Law of land warfare class film in Infantry Advanced Course 1982

I can't believe no one has mentioned "Zulu"

[Squantos]

Agree on Zulu......saw it above somewhere. Have you seen The Four Feathers ?..........comments ?

Stay Safe !

[91B]

I read the whole thread and agree with pretty much everything that has been posted so far. I would like to add the BBC adaptations of the "Sharpe's" series that was on the History Channel a few years ago. Sean Bean played Richard Sharpe.

[harpseal]

Favorite military movies.

Guadalcanal Diary
Destination Burma (Merrills' Maurauders)
12 O'Clock High
Run silent Run Deep
They were Expendable
Battle Cry
Rough Riders
Action in the North Atlantic


I also like every movie you mentioned but those are my favorites.

[SLB]

When I couldn't find an M16 like old Johns that I never had to reload

I am laid up today after some minor surgery on my foot this morning so have been watching some old westerns on the Western Channel (we splurged and signed up for digital cable and that is the favorite of all the kids). I did not know there was such a thing as an eleven shooter, but I just saw Matt Dillon with one. It might even have been a twelve as he reholstered after dispatching three bad guys. Still love them old episodes and Gene Autry, and others.

[Squantos]

Rough Riders....the recent remake ?

[Squantos]

Western movie thread friend.......... Sitting here hurt/lame myself after my back surgery few weeks ago. My favorite westerns list is too long. We had that thread a few months ago I believe. On my bookmarks I believe. All round good fun western was Silverado. Classics , High Noon and The Wild Bunch. I'm gonna go buy "the wind and the lion" this evening. Short of Charlie McCarthy's biggest dummy being in it I like the movie.

Stay Safe and Stay off yer feet till the paw gets healed properly !

[oh8eleven]

Most if not all of my favorites have already been listed, but I think Hamburger Hill comes as close to the raw emotion most of who've "been there" have experienced.

A very good, but rarely seen flick is The Bridge.
"Near the end of World War II, a small German town braces for the onslaught of American troops. Eight schoolboys are conscripted into the army and their first order is to defend a bridge leading to their town."

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

"...There was an old one (made during the war) about Doolittle's air raid.."

30 Seconds Over Tokyo-Van Johnson.

[F-117A]

A few that I have that haven't been mentioned are:

Go Tell the Spartans (Viet Nam)
317 Platoon (Viet Nam - French)
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Bosnia - Yugoslav)

[Michael121]

Band Of Brothers (yeah yeah its a 10 part series but cannot be beat)

Hamburger Hill

Patton (Needs to be made again and be MORE TRUE)

Saving Private Ryan

[laredo44]

Every time I watch The Dirty Dozen I somehow keep hoping that Jim Brown makes it.

And grateful that Telly Savales as Maggot doesn't!

[laredo44]

Read through the posts and didn't see a couple of my favorites listed, but i read pretty quickly -- for me at least.

Heartbreak Ridge. Big eastwood fan.

Top Gun. Good kick ass story and great songs -- Highway to the Danger Zone.

Casablanca although not strictly a war flick.

There is also a movie that's been played recently on cable recently about the Nazis. Based on fact, I believe, no actual war footage, a meeting where officers and officials of the Reich discuss the solution to the "Jewish Problem." Anybody know what's it's called? If you get a chance to see it, do. Absolutely incredible, you'll sit there with your mouth open, shaking your head.

[A CA Guy]

One thing could be said about most military movies, they are usually pretty good except for that one made up liberal story about the vet in the chair.

[Godebert]

"I like the Yugo movie with Dennis Quaid recently....at least it gave the Serbs a fair shake...Savior...not great but good. "

I thought that was a good one too. Gruesome massacre scene near the end. Another good Yugo film is "No Mans Land". Wounded Serbian is boobytrapped laying on top of a bouncing betty. I didn't see anyone mention "Memphis Belle" yet either.

[dr_who_2]

Right on.