Best War Movies

[Jones518]

Saving Private Ryan
Band of Brothers (HBO Miniseries)
Platoon (Yeah, Oliver Stone's a bit overblown, but still good)
Galipoli
Battle of the Bulge
Memphis Belle
Full Metal Jacket (At least for the boot camp scene)
Apocalypse Now (Not very factual, but a great movie)
The Tuskegee Airmen
Bridge over the River Kwai

Sure there are some I am not thinking of at this moment, but there is a start.

J

[david johnson]

no claim that they are best, but i like-

das boot
dawn patrol
glory
patton

dj

[boringoldguy]

Sands of Iwo Jima
Cross of Iron
Enemy at the Gate

[Bobby Valentine]

Hey, I forgot to mention "Black Hawk Down." That was a pretty good movie in the war genre.

shalom,
Bobby Valentine
Milwaukee,WI

[Bobby Valentine]

Soapman you have some good ones there.  Glory is a classic movie.  I have not seen Enemy at the Gate but I did read the book -- epic of Stalingrad.  

Shalom,
Bobby Valentine
Milwaukee, WI

:noddingsmiley:
the four feathers
the patriot
braveheart
we were soldiers
a bridge too far
gettysburg
saving private ryan
black hawk down
enemy at the gates
the man who would be king
red dawn
das boot
u-571
forrest gump
hunt for red october
glory
memphis belle
thin red line
apocalypse now
full metal jacket
where eagles dare

i must say i'm thoroughly pleased that no one listed pearl harbor, windtalkers, or sum of all fears as a favorite... yikes!
    :puking:
josh  :itsraining:

(#2 on mine spurly) though mine aren't necessarily in order of favorite...
here's a site of movie theme songs... pretty neat... i think the entire gettysburg soundtrack is on it...
check it out at http://victoryatseaonline.com/war/gettymusic.html

:headphones: josh

[Jim Abb]

Ok here goes...like others I'm sure I'll forget some....in no order
Patton
MASH (anti-war should count too!)
Saving Private Ryan
Platoon (some Viet vet friends said this was the closest to actually catching the feeling)
Apocalypse Now
Glory
Gettysburg
The Alamo (John Wayne version)
Bridge Over the River Kwai
Braveheart
Mr. Roberts
Dawn Patrol (interesting WWI movie with anti-war themes made as WWII was rearing it's head)
The Bucaneer (Hollywoodized version of the Battle of New Orleans)
The Fighting 69th (Cagney in WWI)

[Son of a Preacher Man]

Well, we are in a war.  So what do you think are the best war movies of all time?

[marc]

Favorites:  Breaker Morant, Gallipoli, Apocolypse Now, Henry V (Kenneth Branagh version), Glory, The Great Escape, Bridge Over the River Kwai, The Dirty Dozen.

[Bobby Valentine]

I can't believe the Duke is not on any of these lists  :bangingheadagainstwall:

Here are war movie reviews from Milwaukee,

1) Sands of Iwo Jima
2) The Alamo
3) The Charge of the Light Brigade
4) Patton
5) Saving Private Ryan
6) We Were Soldiers
7) Midway
8) Good Morning Vietnam
9) Captain (Somebody) Mandolin (with Nicholas Cage)
10) Star Wars (hey no one said the war had to be on Earth!)

Shalom,
Bobby Valentine
Milwaukee, WI

P.S. Is it snowing in any OTHER part of the country??

[marc]

[!--QuoteBegin--][/span][table border=\"0\" align=\"center\" width=\"95%\" cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"1\"][tr][td]Quote (Bobby Valentine @ April 05 2003,1:12)[/td][/tr][tr][td id=\"QUOTE\"][!--QuoteEBegin--]I can't believe the Duke is not on any of these lists  :bangingheadagainstwall:

Here are war movie reviews from Milwaukee,

1) Sands of Iwo Jima
2) The Alamo
3) The Charge of the Light Brigade
4) Patton
5) Saving Private Ryan
6) We Were Soldiers
7) Midway
8) Good Morning Vietnam
9) Captain (Somebody) Mandolin (with Nicholas Cage)
10) Star Wars (hey no one said the war had to be on Earth!)

Shalom,
Bobby Valentine
Milwaukee, WI

P.S. Is it snowing in any OTHER part of the country??[/quote]
Talked to someone in Syracuse this morning suffering through an ice storm.  The power had been out for two days.

But it's spring here in the Mud River Valley.

[marc]

I wanted to add a couple.  First, without reservations, Ride With The Devil, Ang Lee's underrated, underseen Civil War movie about the Guerilla fighting in the west with Toby McGuire, Skeet Ulrich and (gasp) Jewell.  Second, with reservations, Gettysburg.  Let's just call it a favorite, since bad beards, Martin Sheen's accent and too much speechifying keep it from being as good as it could have been.

Haven't seen many of the recent movies being listed.

[Son of a Preacher Man]

Full Metal Jacket
Black Hawk Down
Glory
Braveheart
Good Morning Vietnam
The Best Years of our Lives
Saving Private Ryan
Enemy at the Gates
Dr. Strangelove
Legends of the Fall[/i]

They are in no particular order.  Marc, Ride with the Devil[/i] is just as you have said.  More people should see that film.

Many war films have two strikes against them.  Most of the WWII films were pure propaganda and it shows.  Also, the censorship issues prevented them from showing the true horror of war.  I guess that explains my choices, huh?  None of the ten I listed make war seem glamorous at all.

[boringoldguy]

A really good one, but you'll have to scour the video store to find it

Away All Boats

[spurly]

I can't believe no one has mentioned The Patriot yet.  It's got to be at the top of the list.

Kevin

the scene at the beginning of gladiator is pretty intense too...
crowe just got married, did ya know?

[brandt]

No one has menioned Star Ship Troopers?!?!?

Full Metal Jacket
Glory
The Patriot
Braveheart
Saving Private Ryan



Brandt