Favorite war movies?

Mark J

Mark J

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Here are some of my favorite war movies.
  • We Were Soldiers
  • Saving Private Ryan
  • Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (not typical, but excellent nonetheless)
I'm always looking for other goods ones though. What are your favorite ones?

- Mark
 
black hawk down

glory

band of brothers (i know, its a miniseries, but still great)


honorable mention: a midnight clear, full metal jacket
 
Im only 28 but id pick the older ones Platoon Apocalypse Now also the first 25 min of Private Ryan though.
Not just a war movie but Dead presidents is a good movie.
 
1: Ken Burns' miniseries, The Civil War. Not a movie per se, but one of the best war documentaries I've ever seen.

2: Das Boot

3: Thin Red Line

thx - cpr
 
The Thin Red Line (1998, Terence Malick)
The Longest Day (1962)
Das Boot (1981, Wolfgang Peterson)
Zulu (1964, Cy Endfield)

The Thin Red line is one of my favorite movies, regardless of genre. I was really surprised at how poetic and almost dreamlike the movie is, the book is very much matter of fact. The Longest Day might be a bit old fashioned by today’s standards but remains impressive. Zulu depicts the Battle of Rorke's Drift between the British and the Zulu’s (1879). Is somebody going to mention 300?

I also like the part in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly were the Confederates and the Unionist fight over the bridge that finally gets destroyed by Blondie and Tuco.

Rafael
 
OKAY!

Gettysburgh (Civil War, great artillery)

Flight of the Intruder (Daniel Dafoe, Vietnam, air war)

Bat 21 (Gene Hackman, Danny Glover, Vietnam, air war)

The Lost Battalion (WW1, infantry)

The Big Red One (Lee Marvin, WWII, infantry)

The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly (Clint Eastwood, Civil War, free lancers caught in war)

A Piece Of Cake (BBC series, WWII, early air war over France and Britain, lotsa Spitfires and Messerschmidts)

Memphis Belle (WWII, air war, bombers)

These are a few of my favorites, there are so many.
 
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1. TORA!TORA!TORA!
2. Run Silent, Run Deep
3. Bismark
4. Winds of War (outstanding, may be a mini-series).
 
Many good ones listed in this thread! I like them all, but I'll list just my top three:
1.) The Civil War.
2.) The World at War.
3.) Victory at Sea.
 
No ones' mentioned the cold war movie "The Bedford Incident" (Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier).
 
The longest day
Saving Private Ryan
The Big Red One
Dirty Dozen
Dirty Dozen Next Mission
Black Hawk Down

a bunch of others
 
Best Cold War movie: "Dr. Strangelove, or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"

Runner up: Uh..."Red Dawn"?:confused:
 
in no particular order.

Zulu (British Fighting the Zulus under terrible odds)
The Longest Day (for the longest war film in history :)
Guns of Navarone (for the satisfaction at the end as the lot ends up in the sea)
Heroes of Telemark (as above)
The Dambusters (British inginuity to break the Ruhr Dam)
Black Hawk Down (for US determination in Mogadishu)
Das Boot (for the other side of the war viewed by a German U-Boat captain)
Full Metal Jacket (for the hell that was Vietnam)
and finally Band of Brothers (for the Garand M1) I bought a magazine clip just so I could hear it go 'ka-ching'!! (In england, that's not easy!)
 
Apocolypse Now:thumbup:

Platoon:thumbup:

Full Metal Jacket:thumbup:

Saving Private Ryan:thumbup::thumbup:

Schindler's List(kind of a war movie):thumbup:

Hamburger Hill:thumbup::thumbup:

We Were Soldiers:thumbup:
 
That haven't been mentioned:
Kelly's Heroes
The Great Escape
Lawrence of Arabia
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Blue Max
The African Queen
Stalag 17
Where Eagles Dare
The Desert Rats
The Bridge at Remagen
The Sand Pebbles
The Green Berets
Battle Cry
MASH


That have:
The Longest Day
Full Metal Jacket
Patton
BlackHawk Down
 
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