All Time Great War Movies.

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Was watching Von Ryan's Express on Saturday Night. What a classic movie with all the false back drops.

I really like Where Eages Dare ( Calling Danny Boy ) and The Great Escape.


What are yours?
 
Kelly's Heroes.

Such a great film. Love Donald Sutherland in it.

"Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change? "
 
Mine:

The Dam Busters
A Bridge Too Far
Saving Private Ryan
Full Metal Jacket
The Battle Of Britain
Ice Cold In Alex
The Cruel Sea
Battle Of The River Plate
The Great Escape

Also - Star Ship Troopers (Future War) and Band Of Brothers (TV Mini Series)
 
Chronologically(and British except where mentioned):

Went the Day Well
Theirs Is The Glory
The Gift Horse
The Cruel Sea
The Dam Busters
The Cockleshell Heroes
The Colditz Story
The Man Who Never Was
Attack! (American)
Kanal (Polish)
Bridge on the River Kwai
Ill Met By Moonlight
Carve Her Name With Pride
The Camp on Blood Island
Run Silent Run Deep (American)
Pork Chop Hill (American)
The Guns of Navarone
Zulu
The Hill
Battle of Algiers (French)
Tobruk
Beach Red (American)
Play Dirty
Too Late the Hero
Operation Daybreak
The Eagle Has Landed
A Bridge Too Far
Cross of Iron
Breaker Morant (Australian)
Das Boot (German)
Stalingrad (German)
Glory (US)
Gettysburg (US)
When Trumpets Fade (US)
The Lost Battalion (US)

I would also mention A Matter of Life and Death and The Best Years of Our Lives, although they are war dramas or dramas with a war setting.
 
Love that film and never tire of it :D

Dambusters
Battle of Britain
Apocalypse Now
Platoon
Das Boot (seen few versions, got full length but still not watched:o)
Zulu
Great Escape
Bridge on the River Kwai
Reach for the Sky
Full Metal Jacket

Few others but gone blank.
 
I'm sure if the movie industry got together they could remake some of the old classics? I know War in the real world has moved on, but we need a 4 hour war movie made again.:D
 
The Pianist followed by Schindler's List is a great way to watch two of my favorite war movies. I always recommend people watch them together in that order if they have never seen them.

Great Escape- A great ride and fun to grow up with.
Saving Private Ryan- Fantastic effects and a very good story
Full Metal jacket- A masterpiece, especially the basic training portion in the beginning of the movie. Fantastic cinematography
Schindler's List- Shockingly graphic and fantastic story and cinematography. Another masterpiece.
The Pianist- Not as polished, shocking, or moving as Schindler's List and maybe would have had a better effect if done in black and white also. Still, an excellent war movie. Favorite parts being towarRAB the end when he is on his own trying to survive in the rubble.
 
Here are a few that have been missed.

"come and see" [russian] this for me is better than every war movie in existence,i've watched it about five times so far,and will probably watch again a few more times.

"Talvisota" also known as the winter war [finland] this is one of the best known Finnish movies,and is shown all the time in finland,again another very powerfull war movie.Its about the small finnish army facing the relentless assault from soviet forces during world war 2.

"Escape from sobibor" i only saw this recently,but it's many years old now,this for me was as powerfull to watch as schindlers list,there is some similarities in both films.

"Katyn" [polish] this is about the russian genocide during world war 2 of unarmed Polish soldiers.The germans got the blame initially for the genocide.

"Days of glory" [french] a recent film about muslim men fighting to the end on behalf of France in world war 2.
Quote "After seeing this film, French President Jacques Chirac agreed to restore veterans' pensions to the North Africans who fought alongside French troops during the war".

"Savior" about attrocities in bosnia, i don't know which country made this film,it's an oliver stone film,and the director is serbian.

Personally i'm not very keen on most of the war films made from 1950 to around 1970,the sort where american and britian rarely lose a soldier in battle,yet wipe out thousanRAB of opposing troops,these are too unrealistic for me.
 
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