Breaker Morant is one of the best military courtroom dramas I have ever watched. Its interesting because its about the rules of war where regular soldiers are fighting insurgents.
Gallipoli is one of Peter Wiers best movies.
The Odd Angry Shot About Australian soldiers in Vietnam.
Breaker Morant is one of the best military courtroom dramas I have ever watched. Its interesting because its about the rules of war where regular soldiers are fighting insurgents.Gallipoli is one of Peter Wiers best movies.
The Odd Angry Shot About Australian soldiers in Vietnam.
I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for the movie Glory.
Braveheart
Saving Private Ryan
We Were Soldiers
Where Eagles Dare
The Pianist
Das Boot
Schindler's List
Enemy at the Gates
Black Hawk Down
Sergeant York
I'll toss in The Great Escape, The Dirty Dozen, Full Metal Jacket and The Bridge on the River Kwai for starters.
There are some great olde tymey war movies as well.
Alexander Nevsky
Battleship Potamkin (sp?)
All quiet on the western front
But yeah, Das Boot is probably the "best" in my opinion. That director also made Stalingrad, which is a great movie, but damn depressing!
EDIT: Apocalypse now, Platoon, and The thin red line are also great ones.
Oh yeah, and don't forget Rambo III where he goes to Afghanistan and fights FOR the Taliban!
Some of these has been mentioned...in no particular order..
1) Gettysburg
2) Glory
3) The Longest Day
4) Kelly's Heroes
5) The Great Escape
6) Saving Private Ryan
7) Catch-22
8) Menphis Belle(I think that is the name of the movies...it is about the bomber crew that reached that magic number of missions)
9) Full Metal Jacket
10) Good Morning Vietnam
11) Tears of the Sun
Just off the top of my head will add more later.
Ran
Human Condition
Throne of Blood
Dr. Strangelove
Full Metal Jacket
Paths of Glory
Apocalypse Now
Come and See
Inglourious Basterds
Army of Shadows
The General lol
Underground no
Some great ones mentioned already
Das Boot, Gallipoli, Inglorious
but in the vein of The General
Im going with The Marty Feldman directed verson of Beau Geste
Pan's Labyrinth
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Carry on up the Khyber
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All quiet on the western front
But yeah, Das Boot is probably the "best" in my opinion. That director also made Stalingrad, which is a great movie, but damn depressing!
Stalingrad must be truly suicidal if you didn't consider All Quiet on the Western Front and Das Boot "damn depressing."
Also I would call Apocalypse Now a fantasy set during the Vietnam War, rather than a war movie. Calling Apocalypse Now a war movie would be like saying Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a movie about WW2, or Season of the Witch is a movie about the Crusades.
I second Breaker Morant... truly great movie. I will also throw in Guns of the Navarone and Lawrence of Arabia.
The Longest Day, A Bridge to Far, Patton, We Were Soilders Then, Saving Private Ryan, Bridge on the River Kwai, Gods and Generals, Gettyburg, Battleground, Steel Helmut, Battle of the Bulge, Bridge at Remagen, Kellys Heros, The Great Escape, Where Eagles Dare, 9TH Company (set in Afaganistan during the Russia time period) Black Hawk Down. Have most of these!
War's bad mmmkay...don't go to war mmmkay...
Charge of the Light Brigade
Das Boot, both versions
The Train
Jacob the Liar
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Band of Brothers
Star Wars I, II & III
Agree with some of the above.
Must add:
Oh What a Lovely War! A musical. And devastating.
Restrepo. Rip director and war photographer Tim Hetherington was killed last Wednesday in the besieged city of Misrata while covering battles
Letters from Iwo Jima and its slightly less stellar companion piece, Flags of our Fathers
La 317ème Section The French war in Vietnam, and a superbly honest movie.
Tora Tora Tora! A dated, but magnificent product of Japanese and American co-operation.
Come and See Probably the heaviest movie I have ever endured, despite its senseless surrealism.
The Battle of Algiers An unqualified masterpiece.
Cross of Iron. A German perspective.
The Hurt Locker Best American movie of the last few years, in my opinion.
The Grand Illusion
Fires Were Started
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Battle of the River Plate
The Dam Busters
Kanal
Fires on the Plain
The Great Escape
The Battle of Algiers
War and Peace (the 1967 Sergi Bondarchuk version)
The Longest Day
Army of Shadows
The Battle of Britain
Apocalypse Now
Whilst Apocalypse Now is certainly a fantasy, so are most of the films listed in this thread.
My personal fav is 1942.
Glory and Saving Private Ryan, although the latter moreso for the action scenes.
Reading this threrad I have to say there are alot of good war movies.
But yeah, Das Boot is probably the "best" in my opinion. That director also made Stalingrad, which is a great movie, but damn depressing!
They're actually different directors, (Wolfgang Petersen vs. Joseph Vilsmaier), but the same production teams. They're also both great.
Platoon
Guns of Navarone
Bridge on the River Kwai
Force 10 from Navarone
Flight of the Intruder
Hamburger Hill
Blackhawk Down
Hell is for Heroes
Zulu
Blackhawk Down
We Were Soldiers
Kelly's Heroes
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@Talisein: I've wanted to see "O What A Lovely War" for the longest time, but have not been able to find any DVD of it in the USA. Maybe I haven't been looking in the right places?
No one mentioned Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory.
I also like Jean Renoir's La Grand Illusion. (Erich von Stroheim as a "Red Baron"-type ace!)
(I'm more into WWI than WWII, if you couldn't tell).
In the vein of Ohh S$%^ war movies
Johnny Got His Gun.
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My honor as a Qadiran partisan compells me to add Lawrence of Arabia to this list of venerable "moving image" tales. Truly it is worthy of Shazathared!
couple I liked not mentioned yet,
Green Berets
Run Silent, Run Deep.
Charge of the Light Brigaide
The Desert Fox
I would say Hunt For Red October as well; cold war movie should count.
and for hillarity; The Russians are Coming! hehe pretty funny; though I cant turn my R like they have it. And, I liked that spoof movie a few years back where canada invades the U.S or visa versa; I dont rememeber it well but thought it was really funny; I think it was Canadian Bacon.
Branagh's Shakespeare's Henry V.
Alatriste. This is unavailable in the US but is a superbly gritty and realistic picture of Reformation-era combat.
added alatriste on netflix- this looks awesome, I can't wait to see this.
Think I will throw in a few more classics that haven't been mentioned yet.
A Walk In the Sun, Bataan, Wake Island, Heaven Knows Mr Allison, In Harms Way, Zulu, Stalig 17, Fighting Tigers, Anzio, etc.
They're actually different directors, (Wolfgang Petersen vs. Joseph Vilsmaier), but the same production teams. They're also both great.But yeah, Das Boot is probably the "best" in my opinion. That director also made Stalingrad, which is a great movie, but damn depressing!
Opps! Just looked at the box, and you are correct! As depressing as Das Boot is, I think Stalingrad is worse.
Dr. Strangelove actually has a pretty good battle scene in it, and is some of the funniest commentary on war I've ever seen.
Das Boot
Gallipoli
On A Midnight Clear
Slaughterhouse 5
Gran Turino
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I can't believe I spaced on Zulu and Stalag 17!!! Great call on those two.
I tipped my hat to Zulu as well earlier on the thread.
:)
Zuxius - I thought Zulu Dawn was not bad but much preferred Zulu.
Same goes for the Battle of the Buldge, a good movie to be sure but not as good as say A Bridge Too Far or The Longest Day.
I just put the best of the best (IMO) on my list, otherwise I would hazard my list would be five times longer.
Can't believe I forgot these classics...
Lawrence of Arabia, Operation Burma, Tora Tora Tora, To Hell and Back, Victory (Yes I know its a Soccer movie, but its set during WW2), and Gung Ho.
I definately grew up watching too many war movies...
Apropos this thread, I was flipping through the bins of cheap DVDs at the local video store and found a copy of The Big Red One for $2.99!
I happily replaced my VHS tape for under three bucks (no sales tax in NH, live free or die!).
Keep buying Blurays, you suckers!
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the WorldI would love to see the BBC (or maybe HBO/Showtime) make a TV version of this as a mini series.
I think that there is a whole thread in War on TV.
Horatio Hornblower from the BBC is "like-ish" Master and Commander. I prefer Sharpe though.
I found that they have all of the episodes of the excellent mini series ANZACs on youtube for free. They are broken down into 10 10min parts per episode and there are 10 episodes.
Link to Part 1 of episode 1 of ANZACs . The first episode is a bit rough but it gets very good.
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I am glad to see someone mentioned my favorite war movie Zulu. The rest of my top ten are
2)Gettysburg
3)Kelly's Heroes
4)Star Wars: A New Hope
5)Navy SEALS
6)Blackhawk Down
7)Force 10 From Navarone
8)The Final Countdown
9)Lawrence of Arabia
10)The Dirty Dozen
8th Dwarf has linked some Aussie greats near and dear to my heart.
The movie that sat in my head as a kid:
Used to watch it all the time, got me hooked on the genre, and sat as an inspiration to sign the dotted line as an adult. Oh to wear those dashing WW2 uniforms. At least we still have good hats.
Also for something old skool:
Two splendid pieces of historical entertainment, not to be missed.
yeah, Stalag 17 is a true classic; good list Balfic
Think I will throw in a few more classics that haven't been mentioned yet.
A Walk In the Sun, Bataan, Wake Island, Heaven Knows Mr Allison, In Harms Way, Zulu, Stalig 17, Fighting Tigers, Anzio, etc.
hehe Duel of 7 Tigers for a little bit of mainland China warfare. hehe; Shogun is also a war movie in disguise.
I really also liked the Patriot