Best War Movies of All Time

[FLaKKeY]

Gallipoli
Beersheba
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Saving Private Ryan
Midway
U-571
Das Boot (the boat)
Raid on Rommel
Force 10 from Navarone
Guns of Navarone
Battle of the Buldge....(where was jenny craig)
Zulu
Band of Brothers (not a movie, but long enough to be classified as one, better then most too)
El Alamein

these are just some that i could think of.. add more.. lets see how many we can get..

[WanderingNomad]

I liked

Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
Black Hawk Down
Bridge on the River Kwai
Thin Red Line
Das Boot

[Salty Dog]

band of brothers...even thought it is a mini series...but it's like a really really long movie if you watch them all after one another. :P

[Loco]

Paths of Glory.
Objective Burma.

[Gordon]

U-571

Is that some kind of sick joke .... shouldn't that be with the worst war movies ever .... ;)

[ShotOver]

Breaker Morant

"They were executed under rule 303 sir!"
"Shoot straight you bastards, don't make a mess of it"

:D

[Beowulf]

A Bridge Too Far


http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=a+bridge+too+far/v=2/l=IVS/*-http://www.musicweb.uk.net/film/june99/Bridge.jpg

[Gringo]

band of brothers...even thought it is a mini series...but it's like a really really long movie if you watch them all after one another. :P

Wasn't Das Boot a mini series?

Flakkey, this should be in the Off-topic forum. I'm not getting on at yer, just so you don't make the same mistake twice. ;)

[UkrainianAmerican]

Whats up with band of brother. When I watches random parts of it on HBO, I hardly saw any action.
Whats so good about it?

[mack pl]

Whats up with band of brother. When I watches random parts of it on HBO, I hardly saw any action.
Whats so good about it?Its about US soldiers ;)

[Jack Mehoff]

Saving Private Ryan
Band of Brothers
Rambo 2,3

[HELEX]

U-571

That is one of the worst Films I've ever seen.... :roll:

[UkrainianAmerican]

Whats up with band of brother. When I watches random parts of it on HBO, I hardly saw any action.
Whats so good about it?Its about US soldiers ;)
Yeah, but looking at them checking their equipment can get boring after a while.

[RoBBo]

i'd have to say platoon or maybe the odd angry shot.

[catdat]

Additional and highly recommended:

All Quiet on the Western Front (arguably the best All time)
The Dirty Dozen
The Blue Max
Kelly's Heroes
We were Soldiers
The War Lover
Catch 22
The Longest Day
The Great Escape
The Big Red One
Go Tell The Spartans
The Green Berets
Tora! Tora! Tora! (much better than Pearl Harbor)
M*A*S*H
Pork Chop Hill
The Manchurian Candidate (on my top ten list)
The Sand Pebbles (McQueen's best acting probably)
A Walk in the Sun
Halls of Montezuma (very similiar to Saving Pvt Ryan in style but 1950ish)
Where Eagles Dare (How can someone list force 10 from Navarrone and forget this?)
The Young Lions

I got more but now I need a break

catdat

[mack pl]

Whats up with band of brother. When I watches random parts of it on HBO, I hardly saw any action.
Whats so good about it?Its about US soldiers ;)
Yeah, but looking at them checking their equipment can get boring after a while.Well, if someone is WW II fanatic, its not boring for him ;)

[Gringo]

List of war films I liked that I've seen so far:

Saving Private Ryan (only the first 20 minutes though)
Gallipoli
All Quiet On The Western Front
A Bridge Too Far
The Thin Red Line
The Longest Day
Kelly's Heroes (just good fun)
M*A*S*H
Where Eagles Dare (keeps me on the edge of my seat)
Apocalypse Now
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Zulu
Guns of Naverone
Das Boot
Tigerland
The Deer Hunter (just added)
Lawrence of Arabia (just added)

Films that are ok:
We Were Soldiers (I'm not sure on this, I'll have to borrow it from my Dad again)
Black Hawk Down (if it can be classed as a war film)
The Green Berets (I found it a bit propagana-ish, John Wayne was very anti-communist)

I didn't like:
U571
Saving Private Ryan (the rest of the film)
The Patriot
Windtalkers (just added)

that's all I can think of at the moment

[catdat]

Achtung Baby!

How can we all forget:

The Deer Hunter
Dr. Strangelove
Lawrence of Arabia
Ran (another on my top 10 list - can't beat Akiro)
Braveheart
Run Silent, Run Deep
Stalag 17
Little Big Man
Breaker Morant

Favorite Cheesey semi-war movie:
Ice Station Zebra

[Kenshin]

The longest Day
A bridge too far
PLatoon
Hamburger Hill
Apocalypse now


Starship troopers.. its a war movie right? :P

[intelligenzija]

Does someone know The Beast ?
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6302875153.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6302875153/002-9221414-3312852?v=glance

good B movie..

[ibstolidude]

HEAT
Last of the Mohicans
Army of Darkness
Jake Speed ( say somthin' I dare ya)
actually there are quite a few.

[ibstolidude]

Whats up with band of brother. When I watches random parts of it on HBO, I hardly saw any action.
Whats so good about it?Its about US soldiers ;)
or the fact that it is a 7 hours or so long and is based in first hand interviews with a cohort unit during ww2 from the units birth up to the end of the European campaign. Written by/interviewed by an excellant and well respected historian.

[Salty Dog]

Whats up with band of brother. When I watches random parts of it on HBO, I hardly saw any action.
Whats so good about it?Its about US soldiers ;)
or the fact that it is a 7 hours or so long and is based in first hand interviews with a cohort unit during ww2 from the units birth up to the end of the European campaign. Written by/interviewed by an excellant and well respected historian.

i think it's more around....10 or 11 hours. but you are correct.

[Kenshin]

Whats up with band of brother. When I watches random parts of it on HBO, I hardly saw any action.
Whats so good about it?Its about US soldiers ;)
or the fact that it is a 7 hours or so long and is based in first hand interviews with a cohort unit during ww2 from the units birth up to the end of the European campaign. Written by/interviewed by an excellant and well respected historian.

i think it's more around....10 or 11 hours. but you are correct.

Actually there were lots of actions/encounters/gunfights.. a bit brief I might say. I like flanking strategy in one of the episodes.

[mack pl]

Whats up with band of brother. When I watches random parts of it on HBO, I hardly saw any action.
Whats so good about it?Its about US soldiers ;)
or the fact that it is a 7 hours or so long and is based in first hand interviews with a cohort unit during ww2 from the units birth up to the end of the European campaign. Written by/interviewed by an excellant and well respected historian.Man, I know that, maybe my sarcasm wasnt the best on the world but who cares ;) I hope you dont ban me :roll: Regards :)

[sethen]

U-571

That is one of the worst Films I've ever seen.... :roll:

woot woot woot

[sethen]

Black Hawk Down
A Bridge Too Far
Full Metal Jacket
The Patriot
The Boys From Company B (R. Lee Ermey)
Band of Brothers
Saving Private Ryan

[ronin2172]

Platoon
Das Boot
Grave of the Fireflies (anime flick concerning the home front for the japanese during ww2)
All quiet on the Western Front
A Bridge Too Far
Bridge on the River Kwai (flawed from the reality standpoint , but the battle of wills between Alec Guiness and Sessue Hayakawa was great)
The Great Escape
Empire of the Sun

[Fintin]

the dear hunter
the killing fields
tiger land

[chauncy republicans]

Guns of the Navarone
Lawrence of Arabia

[Elmo]

Bridge on the River Kwai
Full Metal Jacket
Tuntematon sotilas (Laine's version)

[ANGRY KIWI]

Favorite Cheesey semi-war movie:
Ice Station Zebra

i almost got it on 8mm film but i dont have a projecter

[James]

ANZACz, starring Paul Hogan.

Gallipoli
That Stanley Kubrick film Paths of Glory? Can't remember the title now.

And U571, perhaps one of the greatest and most historically accurate films ever made about how the United States single handedly captured the Enigma machine from the Germans.

[Gringo]

And U571, perhaps one of the greatest and most historically accurate films ever made about how the United States single handedly captured the Enigma machine from the Germans.

What!? :lol:

It seem to me that everyone isn't listing War films anymore.

Since when has Heat been a war film, ibstolidude?

Nest thing u know people will be listing Gangster movies since they involve 'wars' against each other crime syndicate.

[James]

I'm glad you saw that as humor.

[mack pl]

Enigma-Rejewski, Różycki, Zygalski-few smart poles who broke this f*** code(spel) ;) Polish intelligence before WW II was quite good :)

[ronin2172]

LOL@ james Avater....been spending time with mustamoto? rofl

[Maverick77]

Platoon
Hamburger Hill
Braveheart
SPR

[Rantanplan]

http://victoryatseaonline.com/war/ww2/images/kelly-dvd.jpg

[FLaKKeY]

soz bout where i posted it..

lets recap

weve got all these great movies..

Saving Private Ryan (only the first 20 minutes though)
Gallipoli
All Quiet On The Western Front
A Bridge Too Far
The Thin Red Line
The Longest Day
Kelly's Heroes (just good fun) and Hogans Heroes..
M*A*S*H
Where Eagles Dare (keeps me on the edge of my seat)
Apocalypse Now
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Zulu
Guns of Naverone
Das Boot
Tigerland
The Deer Hunter (just added)
Lawrence of Arabia (just added)
El Alamein
Force 10 from Navarone
Enemy at the Gates... (bit of bs compared to that finnish dude)
Bridge over the River Kwai
A bridge too far
Tora Tora Tora!
Odd Angry Shot (the aussie view.. very good.. almost classified as a tax write off)

Tour of Duty - (not really a film.. but a great series, loved the music)


Films that are ok:

We Were Soldiers (I'm not sure on this, I'll have to borrow it from my Dad again)
Black Hawk Down (if it can be classed as a war film)
The Green Berets (I found it a bit propagana-ish, John Wayne was very anti-communist and John Wayne's corst was a bit tight.. and it was pretty lame...)
The Patriot
U571 - meh u guys dont really like it.. but if u look at it, its really factual..
Indiana Jones series - dam nazi's always just seem to pop up.. not really a war movie.. but still
MacArthur... (u'll be back.. but not to bomb china or russia)


I didn't like:
PEARL HARBOUR (wake me up when its over pls)
Windtalkers (just added)
Buffalo Soldiers

[Gringo]

U571 - meh u guys dont really like it.. but if u look at it, its really factual..


WHAT!? :lol: :backhand:

[Mark Sman]

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Caine Mutiny
Battle Of Britain
Run Silent Run Deep
Mr. Rodgers (Just fun)
King Rat
To Have and Have Not
Braveheart
Three Kings

[Gringo]

Is Dr Strangelove a war movie?

Just because it takes place in the Cold War doesn't exactly make it a war film. I could say that any films that r set from 1950 to 1990 could be war films since they take place during the Cold war.

[Mark Sman]

Is Dr Strangelove a war movie?

Seeing as SAC launches and delivers a nuclear strike on Russia. Yes.

There is also the assault on the airbase with the crazed base commander defending with a belt fed MG.

Most of the action takes place inside the War Room on an Airbase, or in a B-52 headed for a target in Russia.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0057012/
Peter Sellers
George C. Scott
Slim Pickens
James Earl Jones (bit part)

I would have to include Failsafe as well.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0058083/
Dom DeLuise (he he)

[Gringo]

Is Dr Strangelove a war movie?

Seeing as SAC launches and delivers a nuclear strike on Russia. Yes.

There is also the assault on the airbase with the crazed base commander defending with a belt fed MG.

Most of the action takes place inside the War Room on an Airbase, or in a B-52 headed for a target in Russia.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0057012/

I would have to include Failsafe as well.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0058083/

Oh yes I forgot the fighting in the War room.

"Gentlemen there's no fighting in here, this is a War Room!"

[Scottie]

I got LOADS!!:

Saving Private Ryan
All Quiet On The Western Front
A Bridge Too Far
The Thin Red Line
Kelly's Heroes
Where Eagles Dare
Das Boot
Tigerland
Enemy at the Gates
A bridge too far
We Were Soldiers
Black Hawk Down
Windtalkers
Battle of Britain

AND... THE BEST WAR FILM IN HISTORY!!!

CROSS OF IRON

http://www.brookhursthobbies.com/images/Videopics/cross%20of%20iron.jpg

[Gringo]

A Bridge too Far is mentioned twice in a few lists.

Can't blame yer, it's a good film.

[Scottie]

Just love the PPSH 41/42 ?
And the Russian T-34, love the soundtrack!
Anyone know where I can download the beginning Theme song, with the little kids singing? :)

[digrar]

Private Benjamin
Major Payne
Stripes
GI Jane
Army Inteligence
Hot Shots
In the Army now












:P

I've got ANZACs on dvd (good way to spend a wet weekend), Paul Hogan used to be a champion before Crocodile Dundee.
The odd angry shot is also very good, apart from some of the dodgy acting.

[Gringo]

Just love the PPSH 41/42 ?
And the Russian T-34, love the soundtrack!
Anyone know where I can download the beginning Theme song, with the little kids singing? :)

Kazaa

[Scottie]

Dont like kazzaa or what ever its called, use DC++ or emule, but i'll give it a try thanks

[Pad75]

La 317eme section by Pierre Schoendorffer.
This is the most brilliant war movie that I ever seen.

[Fintin]

nerds 3

[Rnagerrick]

Any good films depicting german infantry (from their side)? Battle of the Buldge, in my opinion, is a somewhat a good flick, but not quite up to full potontial. Windtalkers was awful.

[Fitzcarraldo]

The odd angry shot is also very good, apart from some of the dodgy acting.

This is the correct response.

Dodgy acting?

[Gringo]

Any good films depicting german infantry (from their side)? Battle of the Buldge, in my opinion, is a somewhat a good flick, but not quite up to full potontial. Windtalkers was awful.

All Quiet on The Western Front
Cross of Iron
Stalingrad

and that's about all I know.

[Aussie E]

BEST:

Breaker Morant

Notable:

Saving Private Ryan
Apocalypse Now
Gallipoli
*****sburg
No Mans Land
Zulu
Das Boot
Platoon
The Deer Hunter
Red Dawn
Black Hawk Down
1941
Odd Angry Shot
The Aussie movie about the Light Horseman (anybody?)
The Battle of Britain
The Bridge to Far
The Bridge on River Kwai
Any Friggin John Wayne war movie!

[Ratamacue]

Band of Brothers
Saving Private Ryan
Gallipoli
Glory
*****sburg
Black Hawk Down
Full Metal Jacket
Three Kings
The Lost Battalion

[MetalBoy]

The Iron Cross by Sam Peckinpah is pretty damned good.

[Scottie]

Any good films depicting german infantry (from their side)? Battle of the Buldge, in my opinion, is a somewhat a good flick, but not quite up to full potontial. Windtalkers was awful.

Just cant stop loving it!!!! I'm gonna have to watch it tomorrow on Friday! woot woot woot
Cross of Iron mate Buy it on DVD www.amazon.co.uk

Ty Gringo found the sound track, I love it! :)

[MolliG]

The Beast
Band of Brothers
Saving Private Ryan
Black Hawk Down
Full Metal Jacket
The Lost Battalion
Platoon
We Were Soldiers
Battle of Britain
Tears Of The Sun

:P

[Options465]

Apocalypse Now. It's a classic.

[Jani.R]

Talvisota (winter war) or Tuntematon sotilas (Unkwnown Soldier).

[Jeremiah]

has anyone seen the korean war movie Tae guk gi. I rented this movie a
few days ago, i thought it was one of the best foreign war movies i have seen.


http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006VL1J2.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[Brozozo]

I tried watching "Von Ryan's Express" recently and had to shut it off before I puked. Worst attempt at a war movie ever. Sinatra was such a ****head douchebag asshole **** **** ****tard. I would have shot him and taken my chances with the the war crimes tribunal then allow him to pollute the earth further. How does a middle aged guy become a "90 day wonder" Colonel in just a handful of years since the war started. And what's with the fakin half assed salutes? When he asked the Italian commandant if they don't salute senior officers in the Italian army I would have said "No, we drop kick them biatch!" BAM!

[BadKarma26]

Band of Brothers was more about the camaraderie and sacrifice the men shared more than action. It was more of a drama than an action flick. (a damn good one IMHO. My father and I watched it together)

[Werewolf01]

Zulu woot My favorite movie!
SPR
We Were Soldiers (The book is better)
Cross of Iron (The book is better)
A Bridge Too Far (The book is better)
The Longest Day (The book is better)
The Patriot
Last of the Mohicans (The book is better)
Enemy at the Gates (The book is better)
Battleground

[Legion]

Zulu woot My favorite movie!
SPR
We Were Soldiers (The book is better)
Cross of Iron (The book is better)
A Bridge Too Far (The book is better)
The Longest Day (The book is better)
The Patriot
Last of the Mohicans (The book is better)
Enemy at the Gates (The book is better)
Battleground

What about Zulu Dawn? That was a regular on late night broadcast TV (remember that?)for me as a kid.

[Virus]

http://img62.photobucket.com/albums/v190/Viljuska/lepa-sela-lepo-gore-1b.jpg

That's a pretty crazy one, one of my favorite war movies.

Savior is good, pretty f'ed up though ;p
The Beast
Stalingrad
Bridge to Far
SPR is decent
Band of Brothers i thought was superb! /lick
Das Boot
Personnaly i liked We Were Soldiers quite a bit, i've been seeing that some people dont really like it, but i do /shrug

And Major Paine...wait what?

[TuNeRsHaRk]

Tears of The Sun
Black Hawk Down
Apocolypse Now "Redux"
Band of Brothers
Saving Private Ryan
In the army now- comedy

[Eat a bullet]

http://img62.photobucket.com/albums/v190/Viljuska/lepa-sela-lepo-gore-1b.jpg

That's a pretty crazy one, one of my favorite war movies.

Savior is good, pretty f'ed up though ;p
I just put Pretty Village, Pretty Flame in my netflix queue and i'm just about to watch Savior.

[Werewolf01]

Zulu woot My favorite movie!
SPR
We Were Soldiers (The book is better)
Cross of Iron (The book is better)
A Bridge Too Far (The book is better)
The Longest Day (The book is better)
The Patriot
Last of the Mohicans (The book is better)
Enemy at the Gates (The book is better)
Battleground

What about Zulu Dawn? That was a regular on late night broadcast TV (remember that?)for me as a kid.

I remember that! I also remember being lgued to the set watching Shaka Zulu, that was a great film/series as well.

[PhillyMobster]

EatABullet, I'm still laughing at that damn avatar... rofl

The best war film would have to be Breaker Morant. Brilliantly acted and directed, and about a war of which far too few films have been made.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080310/

Stalingrad wasn't the best war film I've ever seen, but as far as shock value goes, it has to be one of the most horrifying.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108211/

And who can forget Zulu. Gotta love those Martini-Henry MKIIs... :hug:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058777/

And last, but not least, Glory. Horner's score, and what may be Matthew Broderick's ONLY good performance, and lots of loud explosions all made this the best Civil War movie ever.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097441/

Of course, there are others, but these are just some of my favorites. ;)

[Erkeengel]

Best
Das boot
Come and see
Regeneration


Others
Stalingrad
When Trumpets fade

[wulfstan]

I have Stalingrad, but i have the stoopid version that is dubbed into English and has the worst acting ever.
I read an online review that said it sounds like 2 blokes do all the voices for the entire cast, and this is probably accurate. It's like this;

*Picture a German soldier mortally wounded in the rubble with his comrades*
Dubbed US voice over; Oh my, i seem to be dying, aaaaaggggh, tell my wife i love her.....
*all delivered in a deadpan flat emotionless voice*

The film would have been soooo much better if it was in German with subtitles, like Das Boot.

[janosik]

Talvisota - Winter war

[Aerosoul]

Black Hawk Down - My absolute favorite
We Were Soldiers
Kelly's Heroes
Saving Private Ryan
The Longest Day

[PhillyMobster]

I have Stalingrad, but i have the stoopid version that is dubbed into English and has the worst acting ever.
I read an online review that said it sounds like 2 blokes do all the voices for the entire cast, and this is probably accurate. It's like this;

*Picture a German soldier mortally wounded in the rubble with his comrades*
Dubbed US voice over; Oh my, i seem to be dying, aaaaaggggh, tell my wife i love her.....
*all delivered in a deadpan flat emotionless voice*

The film would have been soooo much better if it was in German with subtitles, like Das Boot.

I have the Lorber Home Video version available here in the US with subtitles. It also has an optional dubbed track, but it sucks, so I never use it. (Plus it helps me get in touch with my Prussian roots by listening to it in German. ;) )

[jon]

Why ain't I suprised that option465 dragged this thread back to the light...

but anyway, these are my favorites..

Apocalypse Now! Redux.
We were soldiers
Black Hawk Down