Favorite war movies?

Mark J said:
Here are some of my favorite war movies.



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    Many others were popular with the masses but lacked realism.


    Uncle Alan :thumbup:
 
I thought Private Ryan was an incredibly moving film, I started to get choked up just watching the opening scene in the cemetary at Normandy.
My dad was in the Pacific; I'm the consummate "boomer", born in 1946.

I like a couple of oddball films:

The Thin Red Line. Not the current remake; the 1964 original with Jack Warden and Kier Dullea. Very dark...

Also a real obscurity, Morituri. Marlon Brando as an ex-pat Austrian hiding out in the far East, till he's tapped by British secret service to do a little "favor" for them. (or they'll send him back home to the Nazis)
He has to sabotage a freighter full of valuable rubber so that the Brits can salvage it.
Yul Brynner is the captain.... Another very dark and quirky film.
 
In no real order here are a few of my favorites...

The Green Berets (Pop took me to see this when I was 9 much to my mother's dismay)
We Were Soldiers
Schindler's List
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
The Great Escape
Letters from Iwo Jima
Stalag 17
The Alamo
Gardens of Stone

my all time favorite.... The Wind and the Lion
 
I really like "The War" series recently done by PBS. I think there are 6 videos and very well done.

I also really like Band of Brothers. Wonderful movies!
 
Good thread! I love a good war movie. I thought I'd seen them all but I see a few titles here that I haven't!! Time to go to the video store!!
Good on 'ya's!!!!


In no particular order;

Band of Brothers ***
We Were Soldiers
Saving Ryan's Privates *
BlackHawk Down
Zulu ***
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) *
The African Queen
The Bedford Incident *
Stalag 17
The Pianist*
The Thin Red Line
The Hunt for Red October
Das Boot **
The Big Red One
The Lost Battalion **
Ken Burns The Civil War ***
Gods and Generals (Civil War)
Gettysburg*
Andersonville**
North and South
Catch-22
The Patriot
Sergeant York **
U-571
Behind Enemy Lines
All Quiet on the Western Front**
Braveheart
Letters from Iwo Jima
MASH (1970)
Downfall (2005)*
Paths of Glory
Full Metal Jacket
Midway
Battle of Britain
Memphis Belle
Enemy at the Gates **
Patton

SO many good ones!

* Exceptional
** Wicked good!
*** Don't miss it!!
 
Not too many of you liked Gettysburg ?

In no order

Waterloo
U571
Gettysburg
Saving P. Ryan ( who doesn't like that one :p )
Glory
Platoon
F.M.J.
Zulu Dawn
300!!



Also I love classic battle scenes in what may not be considered true war films. i.e.
The battle scenes in Troy were top notch , and Patriot and Gladiator.

I really wish someone would remake Waterloo , I think with today's technology it could be more realistic.
 
Band of Brothers (mini-series, so I'm cheating)
Zulu
Waterloo (staring Rod Steiger as Napoleon and Chistopher Plummer as Wellington - many of the cast of Zulu are in it - actually filmed at the battleground).

If anyone could find Waterloo on DVD I'd be eternally greatful!!!!!
 
I forgot to include the first War Movie I saw on the bigscreen.
MIDWAY
My dad took me to see it when I was pretty young.I don't remember what year it was,but the memory of that giant screen & the high-tec audio system is burned in my mind.I remember when the enemy planes were flying in,the sound was so intense my bell bottoms were flapping:D...probably got some hearing damage that afternoon;)
 
my all time favorite.... The Wind and the Lion
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That' s an incredible movie, and very interesting choice for Razulu. I watched it with my father,it was on TV I think on Saturday.
 
rebeltf said:
300!!
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:-) I remember seeing a preview of 300 in the cinema and five words popped into my head: ‘I Must See This Movie’

There probably was an exclamation mark in there as well but I couldn’t hear myself thinking because of all the Spartan shouting.

To the guys who listed Full Metal Jacket and Dr. Strangelove, great picks. I love both films. I’m a big Kubrick fan. I guess even Spartacus and Barry Lyndon might be considered war movies. Spartacus may not be one of his great films (studio interference) but it still contains so many memorable scenes.

Rafael
 
I've seen "Letters from Iwo Jima" mentioned but no "Flags of our Fathers"? Which I enjoyed.

Some of my favorites are:
Patton
Full Metal Jacket
We Were Soldiers
Memphis Belle
Saving Private Ryan
The Patriot

Also, a TV movie - The Lost Battalion "Fact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lines in the Argonne Forest in October 1918 France during the closing weeks of World War I." IMBD This movie caught one rare morning when the baby and wife were sleeping in late. It inspired me to learn more about WWI.

But, my favorite was the mini-series Band Of Brothers.... Amazing. I now own an M1 Carbine, a 1911 and a K-BAR (I know a trench knife would be more fitting for Europe).

tjg
 
I've seen "Letters from Iwo Jima" mentioned but no "Flags of our Fathers"? Which I enjoyed.
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I thought they were both good, but Letters from Iwo Jima was the better of the two. While the inside story of the famous wartime propaganda photograph was interesting, it wasn't nearly as intense as the Japanese soldiers' story.
 
Thats a hard one ... there are so many.

Lets just say:
- We Were Soldiers
- Saving Private Ryan
- Full Metal Jacket
- Das Boot
- The Longest Day
- Platoon
- ...

I could go on forever I guess.

peter
 
Glad someone mentioned Waterloo. I saw that as a young lad when it was in the theaters. I also saw Zeppelin with Michael York. Pretty good. Downfall is a must see movie. Everyone in it is great, but the gal who played Frau Goebbels was just amazing!!!!! Most of the great have been mentioned, so I will thow out a couple of more obscure ones that haven't made the list.

Paths Of Glory.
Go Tell The Spartans.
Boys From Company C.
I'm not sure if The Enemy Below had been mentioned.
All Quiet On The Western Front........the orginal...one of the greatest of all time.
Mephisto
Charge Of The Light Brigade
 
An excellent movie from an obscure war:
Breaker Morant (South African Boer war)

I don't think I saw "To Hell And Back" on the list.
 
Strangelove is one of my favorite movies, but classifying it as a "war" movie might be a bit of a stretch... Sure, it's about war, but is about as darkly-comedic an anti-war film as might be imagined.

I agree on Tora! Tora! Tora!, a wonderful recreation of the events; almost a documentary.

Another I just recalled; (being an old air warfare fan and WWII flight sim addict) The Battle Of Britain. Well done. "What do you need to defeat the RAF?" demands Goering.
"Spitfires!" says Hartmann. (I think it was Hartmann, anyway)
 
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