Favorite Military Movies

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

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Oh! And what about "Spartacus"?

[GeronL]

lol

Yup. I did like that movie. I wonder if I still would?

[dr_who_2]

Yeah, Kubrick was good at war films.

[cavtrooper21]

One of my favorites...
"The Lighthorseman"

An Aussie WW1 film...

[meisterbrewer]

The Last Castle (2001)

One of my favorite, all-time military movies. I teach military leadership classes for the Navy, and up until this movie, the only other one I have ever used was "Twelve O'Clock High." Twelve O'Clock High is an outstanding tool to explain differing leadership styles.

But I have now incorporated The Last Castle into my courses. Robert Redford's character is an excellent illustration of how to lead by example, whereas the "bad guy" character, Colonel Winter, the warden, is a perfect example of a pencil-pushing military leader devoid of integrity. If you haven't seen it, do.

[Vigilantcitizen]

Agreed. Midway was pretty good.

[Calvin Locke]

I served on diesel subs in the early 60's

The Albacore?

[Mark Felton]

The Great Escape.

[TomServo]

Our base will be the subject of a mail call episode.

Way cool! Oooooooooooh-RAH!!!

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

It took 25 posts to find another fan of "BREAKER MORANT" , which is a great movie in a lot of ways. At the time it was made, it was taken by many as a parable about the U.S. in Vietnam- and a better one than most of that breed.

[pawdoggie]

Plus Ryan as a General with his babyface was a bit much. Should of made him a Louie or something.

General Gavin didn't care much for self-confessed draft dodger Ryan O'Neal playing him. As for the baby-face, though, Gavin was a young general who kinda looked like a kid.

[dr_who_2]

battle at Ouistreham

Was it the one with the British commando raid? I liked that part.

[Leto]

A Few movies about the war in Russia: Stalingrad, Enemy at the Gates and Cross of Iron.

The Desert Rats, The Desert Fox, Decision before Dawn, Sink the Bismark, In Harms Way, King Rat, Kagemusha. Empire of the Sun, The Bedford Incident. Single Handed aka Sailor of the King.

[dr_who_2]

Kagemusha? Na, Ran or Throne of Blood. Or shoot, Seven Samurai.

[pawdoggie]

I think you may mean Sam Peckinpah's "Cross of Iron", which was a great Eastern Front war film.

[Dave Olson]

Castle Keep, The Guns of Navarone, The Big Red One, Stalag 17

[top of the world ma]

"Another good one is "Operation Daybreak" which was about the Czech resistance fighters who assassinated Heydrich in Prague."

If you're interested in Heydrich, then rent CONSPIRACY an HBO film. It's available on DVD.

[top of the world ma]

"War Hunt"

Redford's very first film in '62 about the Korean War. His uncle served in Belgium in WWII.

[philo]

Favorite War Movie

BTW Why A Duck?

[SAJ]

How is it that we're missing out Alistair MacLean's story, ''Where Eagles Dare'', with Burton and Eastwood? Romanticised and somewhat overdramatised, yes, but a wonderful film to watch.