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What Is Your Favourite War Movie(s)?

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Iron Woode said:
Since Remembrance Day (Veterans Day) is on Monday, I thought I would bring up this discussion topic.

In no particular order:

Patton - 1970
Sahara - 1943
Red Ball Express - 1952
Saving Private Ryan - 1998
Platoon - 1986

There are others that I enjoy like a few John Wayne movies.
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I can't say I enjoy a single John Wayne movie.

Hunt for Red October
The Battle of Algiers
Seven Samurai
 
Lots of fantastic movies referenced in this thread!

If I had to pick one personal favorite it would be:

Full Metal Jacket


Runners up: (in descending order)

Platoon
Deer Hunter
Das Boot
 
Best movie in which war is the focal point: Glory

Best movie in which war is the backdrop: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
 
Thin Red Line is my favourite movie of all time because it is not a war movie, but anti war, it's one of the few movies i will watch again and again, the older i get the more i hate the violence in our world and wish people would just get along

 
KMFJD said:
the older i get the more i hate the violence in our world and wish people would just get along
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Same here. These are my top two war films, which look at the cost to the people instead of glorifying the killing.
  • Threads (1984) - A young couple in Sheffield England (Ruth and Jimmy) find out they're having a baby right after the CIA topples the Iranian government via coup. The Soviets invade eastern Iran which causes the US to invade western Iran. We follow Ruth and Jimmy and their families plus the local leadership in Sheffield who have been given expanded wartime powers in a journey to the four minute warning and beyond. 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
  • Grave of the Fireflies (1988) - A 14 year-old boy Seita is left to raise his 4 year-old sister Setsuko after they escape (by the skin of his nuts) to a shelter during the 1945 firebombing of Kobe. But once they reach safety Seita finds out their mother didn't escape and has horrific burns all over her entire body, with no real chance of survival. Father was in the navy and is almost certainly dead. It's a struggle just to eat and death is around every corner. But Seita puts on a strong face, wanting to still give Setsuko a childhood, and does everything he can to make her smile while hiding the fact those are mommy's ashes he's carrying with him as his most important possession. Really enjoyed how this movie mirrored a lot of the struggles with poverty and starvation my grandmother, great uncle, and great grandmother dealt with in Aomori, Japan in a single parent household after my great grandfather was killed mining for the war effort. Also 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
I don't want to show the trailer for Threads since it gives too much away, but the trailer for Grave of the Fireflies is great.

 
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Saving Private Ryan
Black Hawk Down
Zero Dark Thirty - more the unseen and ugly parts of war vs brutal combat..I left the theater with a very uncomfortable feeling)


Dunkirk was a great movie with some epic scenes, but I don't think it hit quite like the three above.
I was also really impressed with Fury.
 
KMFJD said:
Thin Red Line is my favourite movie of all time because it is not a war movie, but anti war, it's one of the few movies i will watch again and again, the older i get the more i hate the violence in our world and wish people would just get along
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Thin Red Line is a masterpiece. Terrence Malick is a genius Director and the cinematography is amazing, so beautiful.

Empire of the Sun does not get enough love as a war movie, its another film I rewatch every few years and I should have had it on my original post from 2019 - below.

Jarhead is another war-movie that continues to suck me in with multiple rewatches.
Dr. Detroit said:
Bridge Over the River Kwai is my all time favorite
apocalypse Now
Dunkirk
Thin Red Line is a masterpiece
BlackHawk Down
Three Kings
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