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What are Your Favorite War Movies?

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Originally posted by: j00fek
platoon
apocolyspe now
the great escape
gods and generals
gettysburg
full metal jacket
stalag 17
tears of the sun

and op band of brothers is a mini series 😛 🙂
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It might as well be a movie
 
Apocalypse Now
The Thin Red Line
Das Boot
Platoon
Saving Private Ryan
We Were Soldiers
The Last Samurai
 
I have all of these in my DVD collection

Old war flicks that are awesome:
Kellys Heros
A bridge too Far
The longest Day
Patton
Siege at Firebase Gloria
To Hell and Back
Where Eagles Dare
Von Ryan's Express
Force 10 from Navarone
The Devils Brigade
The Diry Dozen


Modern War Flicks that are awesome:

Band of Brothers
Saving Private Ryan
We Were Soldiers
Full Metal Jacket

 
Originally posted by: ultimatebob
Shame to you all for not Putting Patton on your top ten lists 🙂
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Did you know that George C. Scott won the Oscar for his role in Patton but refused the honor?
 
Patton, hands down, is my favorite war movie.

Empire of the Sun and Master and Commander are definitely up there on my list if you can count them as war movies.

also... does the Lord of the Rings series count? 😀
 
Gee, I have never seen this thread before...

prediction: the list will be dominated by movies < 10 years old...

Here's a few to go and track down that most of you whippersnapper's aint seen.

Stalingrad
Cross of Iron
Zulu
Gallipoli
Paths of Glory
Deer Hunter
Memphis Belle
The Lost Battalion
When Trumpets Fade
 
Das Boot
Saving Private Ryan
Band of Brothers
Schindler's List
Patton
Von Ryan's Express
Enemy at the Gates
Great Escape
The Sand Pebbles
Midway
Empire of the Sun
A Bridge Too Far
Bridge on the River Kwai
Galipoli
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Full Metal Jacket
Blackhawk Down
 
Invasion USA
Delta Force 2: The Columbian Connection
The Delta Force
Braddock: Missing In Action 3
Missing in Action 2: The Beginning
Missing in Action
Good Guys Wear Black

Note...these weren't really movies, but documentaries of a film crew following Chuck Norris around 😀
 
Band of Brothers had such a profound effect on me.
SPR for the raid on Normandy
FMJ
Tuskegee Airmen
Memphis Belle
The Big Red One
The Green Berets
Heartbreak Ridge (my guilty pleasure)
 
Lord of the Rings 1
Lord of the Rings 2
Lord of the Rings 3
Star Wars 1
Star Wars 2
Star Wars 3
Star Wars 4
Star Wars 5
Star Wars 6
We were Soldiers
Tora Tora Tora
Saving Private Ryan
Platoon
Patton
Gettysburg
Full Metal Jacket
Tears of the Sun
West Side Story
Mulan
Glory
The Last Samurai
Von Ryan's Express
Zulu!!
K-19 the Widowmaker
Braveheart
Troy
Black Hawk Down
Hunt For Red October
Master and Commander
The Empire of the Sun
The Great Escape.


My favorite Wars movies, in no particular order. Hopefully one day I will own all of these.
 
Lots of good movies named in this thread. Here are my favorites, in no particular order:

M*A*S*H - Robert Altman's best film IMO
Three Kings
A Very Long Engagement
The Thin Red Line
Saving Private Ryan
Band of Brothers
Paths of Glory
Apocalypse Now
Life is Beautiful
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
No Man's Land
The Deer Hunter
The Pianist
Bridge on the River Kwai
Grave of the Fireflies
The Fog of War
Starship Troopers (B movie guilty pleasure!)

Almost war movies:
Born on the Fourth of July
Snow Falling on Cedars
Casablanca
 
1. Band of Brothers - This needs no explanation
2. Enemy at the Gates - A great niche film in the war genre
3. Patton - A great epic in its own right.
4. We Were Soldiers - This one really gets to me
5. Black Hawk Down - A enligtening movie to say the least
6. Bridge Over The River Kwai - Dark but not unfairly anti-war picture of POW life under the Japanese
7. Tora! Tora! Tora! - Truly a classic, but it can be a bit draggy...
8. The Great Escape - Love that theme. Not as good as Kwai though.
9. Gettysburg - Great reenactments, acting, and of course, the history is incredible
10. Full Metal Jacket - Dark, but a classic
11. The Longest Day - good solid retelling of D-Day, but a bit optimistic about the realities of war.
12. Saving Private Ryan - One truly great scene, a bunch of 'meh'
13. Apocalypse Now - Same problem as SPR...rather, it was good, but only one scene was 'war movie' -- only on the list because of Killgore's attack on the beach.
14. Master and Commander - not really a 'true' war movie, but I'll lump it in.

I stole a bunch from PurdueRY's list, but it got out of hand. 😛
 
I am a Black Hawk Down addict, I had to buy the Deluxe 3 Disc DVD set when it came out because I wore out my VHS tape playing it so many times. I have re-read the book numerous times, love the soundtrack, and have written to some of the soldiers.
 
Originally posted by: F22 Raptor
I am a Black Hawk Down addict, I had to buy the Deluxe 3 Disc DVD set when it came out because I wore out my VHS tape playing it so many times. I have re-read the book numerous times, love the soundtrack, and have written to some of the soldiers.
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the original BHD DVD had a problem where the effects track was waaaay louder than the voice track, do you couldn't hear what they were saying...did they fix that in the deluxe release?
 
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