List Your Top 5 Favorite War Movies

[Hrochard]

Saving Private Ryan
Apocalypse Now
The Thin Red Line
Black Hawk Down
Braveheart

 

[Zigaronious]

Full Metal Jacket (I just saw it recently just cuz all of you talk about it so much)
Gladiator
Braveheart
Black Hawk Down (as i saw it, it was really intense, but looking back, it was a really good movie)
Saving Private Ryan

 

[Hammer]

Top 5:
Patton
Tora Tora Tora
Apocalypse Now
The Alamo
Enemy at the Gates

Honorable Mention:
The Delta Force (some good Chuck Norris terrorist killin )

 

[Zigaronious]

sorry, I forgot Glory. one of my person favs.

 

[Texmaster]

1. The Flying Misfits
2. Destination Tokyo
3. Von Ryan's Express
4. The Guns of Naverone
5. Run Silent Run Deep

Honorable Mention:
The Delta Force (some good Chuck Norris terrorist killin)

I second that!

 

[GasX]

Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
Gallipoli
Das Boot
Stalingrad

Man, there are a lot of kiddies posting nothing but recent movies here... And to the Star Wars fan boys, all I have to say is

I suggest going old school and checking out:

Bridge Over The River Kwai
Paths of Glory
Cross of Iron
The Great Escape
Tora Tora Tora
Run Silent, Run Deep
Dr. Strangelove
Patton
Lawrence of Arabia

You'll soon change your tune.


And to the person saying All Quiet On The Western Front sucked you probably saw the version with John Boy from the Waltons. Check out the original (1930).

 

[Nemesis77]

Not in any particular order:

The Winter War (finnish movie)
U-96 (AKA Das Boot)
Saving Private Ryan
Apocalypse Now (Redux)
The Unknown Soldier (the old B&W version. Also a finnish movie)
Full Metal Jacket
Zulu!

Maybe Cross of Iron, but I can't be sure since it's been a long time since I saw it (so I'm not sure that does it suck or not).

 

[shiner]

And to the person saying All Quiet On The Western Front sucked you probably saw the version with John Boy from the Waltons. Check out the original (1930).

Bingo! The original version is so much better. Really captures the mood of the book.

 

[Texmaster]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
Gallipoli
Das Boot
Stalingrad

Man, there are a lot of kiddies posting nothing but recent movies here... And to the Star Wars fan boys, all I have to say is

LOL

I suggest going old school and checking out:

Bridge Over The River Kwai
Paths of Glory
Cross of Iron
The Great Escape
Tora Tora Tora
Run Silent, Run Deep
Dr. Strangelove
Patton
Lawrence of Arabia

You'll soon change your tune.


And to the person saying All Quiet On The Western Front sucked you probably saw the version with John Boy from the Waltons. Check out the original (1930).

Amen to that!

 

[loup garou]

Apocalypse Now (Redux or Origninal Theatrical Release)
FMJ
Bridge Over the River Kwai
Platoon
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Sniper (just kidding )

 

[308nato]

1. To Hell and Back
2. Kelly's Heroes
3. Twelve O'clock High
4. Battleground
5. The Enemy Below

 

[Texmaster]

Originally posted by: 308nato
1. To Hell and Back
2. Kelly's Heroes
3. Twelve O'clock High

Forgot about those. Very nice.

 

[loup garou]

Oh man, I forgot about Kelly's Heroes as well. What a great one!

 

[CPA]

1. Braveheart
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Full Metal Jacket
4. Enemy at the Gates
5. Where Eagles Dare (older Clint Eastwood flick and the inspiration for Iron Maiden's song of the same name)


Honorable mention, though not a serious war flick:

Starship Troopers - Got to love the idea of Denise Richards putting her life on the line for her planet.

 

[UltraQuiet]

In Harm's Way
The Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan
The Bedford Incident
The Patriot

 

[Red Dawn]

My top 5 in no particular order

1) The Dirty Dozen (Telly Savalas as Maggot was classic)
2) Spartacus
3) Battle of the Bulge
4) The Big Red One
5) From Here to Eternity

 

[Texmaster]

Originally posted by: CPA
1. Braveheart
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Full Metal Jacket
4. Enemy at the Gates
5. Where Eagles Dare (older Clint Eastwood flick and the inspiration for Iron Maiden's song of the same name)


Honorable mention, though not a serious war flick:

Starship Troopers - Got to love the idea of Denise Richards putting her life on the line for her planet.

Where Eagles Dare. I'll make room for that one. Absoleutly the best ever.

 

[loup garou]

The Dirty Dozen

Dammit, why do I keep forgetting all the ones with Telly Savalas in em? Another great one. I know that's my father's favorite.

 

[FoBoT]

1. Tora Tora Tora
2. Full Metal Jacket
3. Das Boot
4. The Dirty Dozen
5. Patton

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: Texmaster

4. The Guns of Naverone
5. Run Silent Run Deep

oh, wow, i forgot about those two, both very excellent

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
My top 5 in no particular order

1) The Dirty Dozen
2) Spartacus
3) Battle of the Bulge
4) The Big Red One
5) From Here to Eternity

Red,

There are a lot of gay undertones in your list

 

[Nemesis77]

Originally posted by: Mwilding

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
My top 5 in no particular order

1) The Dirty Dozen
2) Spartacus
3) Battle of the Bulge
4) The Big Red One
5) From Here to Eternity

Red,

There are a lot of gay undertones in your list

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!

 

[StevenYoo]

In the Army Now - the one with Pauly Shore. what an awesome movie

 

[Michael1897]

platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Born on the 4th of July
Apocalypse now
Sniper

no order

 

[Parrotheader]

1) Patton
2) Das Boot
3) Midway
4) Bridge on the River Kwai
5) The Longest Day

Obviously I'm partial to WWII movies. And even though I loved it, I personally don't consider Schindler's List a true war film. It's sort of like the Best Years of our Lives, a fantastic film set during war time covering things directly related to the war, but not about the actual combat or participants at the time of battle. If you start adding those types, the list to choose from gets huge. In fact, Holocaust movies by themselves are a huge genre.