Good military movie...

[WalkingDead]

Apocalypse Now and that German U-Boat film - Das... something

Flight of the Intruder
if you like flying, carrier landing & low-level bombing stuff.

 

[Rankor]

Air Force (BW)
Wake Island (BW)
Patton
The Big Red One
The Guns of Naverone
Bataan (BW)
Sands of Iwo Jima (BW)
Flying Tigers (BW)
Bridges at Toko-Ri
Midway
The Longest Day (BW)
Desperate Journey (BW)
Fighter Squadron
A Bridge Too Far
Dirty Dozen
Kelly's Heroes
Green Berets
Flight of the Intruder
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Casualties of War
Apocalypse Now
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Saving Private Ryan
Battle of Britain
Memphis Belle
Twelve O'Clock High (BW)
Glory
All Quiet on the Western Front (BW)
30 Seconds Over Tokyo (BW)
Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb *added*

 

[trenchfoot]

if you really want something different try "Go For Broke" starring Van Johnson.

 

[glenn1]

no one has mentioned "Lawrence of Arabia" yet either, so i'll throw that into the mix. One of the best movies ever made.

 

[Poolman]

The Bridge on the River Kwai - one of my favorites

 

[T2T III]

Just watched Rules of Engagement and U-571 over the past few evenings. These are quite good military movies.

 

[Ultima200]

There are ALOT of excellent black and white war movies from many years ago that are practicaly always on AMC (a channel). They aren't as violent as Saving Private Ryan, but they are still great.

 

[DABANSHEE]

Talk about a bunch of parochial Americans, look at Rankor's list. There's barely a foreign film mentioned.

Let alone arguably the best 4 war films ever -

David Lean & Noel Coward's 'In Which We Serve'
The Dam Busters
The Cruel Sea
Laurence Olivier's 'Henry V', need I say more.

Plus as I'm an Aussie here's a couple of classic Aussie war films.

Peter Weir's 'Gallipoli', not much to say except see it, its about Winston Churchills disastrous Dardenelles campaign.
Charles Chauvel's 'The 40000 Horsmen' about the last great succesful cavalry charge - The storming of the Turkish Fortress of Beersheba by the Australian Lighthorse During WWI. It was made in 1941, while Australian troops were besieged by the Akrika Korps at Tobruk, so its a bit of a propaganda peice. Another film about Beersheba 'The Lighthorsemen', made in 1987 is much more historically accurate & was filmed by the Acadamy Award winning Australian cinematographer Dean Semler (actually it was my dad who trained him, back in the 70's), plus has what the critics consider to be the best cinematic cavalry charge of modern filmaking.
Also I feel I should mention 'Odd Angry Shot', as I think its the only Aussie film about the 'diggers' in Vietnam.

I also feel I must mention another British film, James Clavell'S 'The Last Valley, starring Michael Caine & Omar Shariff, its just a fantastic, if little known film about the 30 years war.

Oh & we mustn't forget 'Das Boote'

That'l do for now.

 

[Pastore]

Wow, thought this thread would be dead this morning... Thanks for all the suggestions

 

[thereds]

Gandhi.

heh

 

[glenn1]

Dabanshee, I don't think it's that Americans are 'parochial' in our movie choices, it simply reflects the reality that the majority of films are produced in the U.S. I think it's good that you mentioned some non-US films, a lot of folks will think first of Hollywood films, perhaps passing by the 'foreign films' section and numerous good choices. That doesn't mean that Rankor didn't list some good films though

 

[Rankor]

I'll vouch for "The Dambusters".

Saw that a couple of times.

 

[DABANSHEE]

Actually Glenn's right, & there were a few foreign films in Rankor's list.

Pleas don't tell any one but to be perfectly honest I was trolling when I said that.

Another good 'Pommy' war classic, made during the war is 'One of Our Aircraft is Missing'.

 

[BCYL]

U-571... I think it's a great movie (although not entirely accurate)...

 

[DABANSHEE]

Yeh it was actually an Australian Sunderland Flying boat of RAF's Coastal Command, that took out U571. & it was a Royal Navy Corvette that captured the actually U-boat that gave the allies there first Kreigsmarine 'enigma' machine (the Kriegsmarine Enigma machines had an extra daisy wheel, which meant an extra 100000 thousand or something calculations to decode).

You can do worse than see 'The Battle of the River Plate', & 'Sink the Bismarck', if you want to see more or less factual films about the Atlantic war.

 

[Ranger X]

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