All Time Great War Movies.

[Mrs. Five]

5 from a very long list

Hell Is for Heroes
Great Escape
Where eagles Dare
The Dam Busters
Das Boot

 

[miamilove]

My favourites are

The Great Escape
Black Hawk Down
Platoon

Spoiler

(cried buckets at the end when Elias died )

Saving Private Ryan
Schindlers List
Dirty Dozen
Full Metal Jacket

 

[Levon]

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I love Where Eagles Dare too ... can watch it any time it comes on

... that, and The Guns of Navarone ( Mr Stavros ... I like you )

 

[Babe!!1♥]

The Great Escape
Kelly's Heroes
Where Eagles Dare

They were/are my favourite three

 

[Vito Corleone]

The Great Escape
The Battle of Britain
Platoon
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
M*A*S*H
Full Metal Jacket

 

[Jose A]

Which ones were those?

 

[HELLO BOYS]

Havent' seen that in years. Great movie.

My favs would have to be -

Das Boot.
Letters From Iwo Jima.
Apocalypse Now.
Downfall.

 

[rose grl:)]

most of those shown on itv,channel 4 and channel 5 and the like,i'm sure you've seen them over the last 50 years.

Films in which the established actors don't die, and survive everything throughout the war,no really reality there.

 

[Please Help Me!]

1. Kelly's Heroes.
2. Too Late The Hero.
3. The Great Escape.
4. Where Eagles Dare.
5. Full Metal Jacket.

 

[Renesmee .Ox]

Sorry, I can't recall any like that.

 

[Schmitty]

and let's not forget

Schindlers List

 

[" Alice got to me..."]

Brilliant movie , it was so great to actually see a Hollywood movie which didn't glamourize war or seek to attach pre-existing labels to the characters or use overdramatic music. Just a good raw war film without any gimmicks.

 

[linedancer563]

Saving private Ryan and Black Hawk Down are worth a mention

 

[jk8rumrr]

Other than those:

Soldier of Orange (Paul Verhoeven). 1977. Voted 2nd best Dutch film ever in 1999 (Verhoeven's Turkish Delight came 1st).

No Man's Land (Danis Tanovic). 2001 winner of best foreign film Oscar.

Strayed (Andre Techine). 2003.

Battle for Haditha (Nick Broomfield). 2007.

 

[Tiffster]

A couple of my favourites which haven't been mentioned yet are....

Salvador
Jacob's Ladder

 

[Ask me..]

My other half is a war film fan his choices are
Das Boot
Stalingrad
633 Squadran
Battle of Britain
Kellys Heroes
Saving Private Ryan
Schindlers List
Dirty Dozen
Battle of the Bulge
A Bridge Too Far
Bridge on the River Kwai
Also i know that these are not films but he also loved Band of Brothers and also Tour of Duty which was about the Veitnam war.My Choices are Gettysburg
Glory
Henry V(Both Versions)
Cant think of more at the moment my mind has gone blank if i do think of more will post!!

 

[First Born of Suckels]

How about 'Casualties of War', if only for the supurb performance of Sean Penn and the incredibly moving music score.

 

[High Roller]

Can't believe no-one's mentioned The Deer Hunter yet, but I guess it's not necessarily classed as a war movie, more of an anti-war one ... and one of the most powerful drama ever made.

 

[Vicente]

I agree with most of the films mentioned,but i would like to add these,

Assembly ( Chinese)
Cross of iron
Enemy at the gates.

 

[Wasabi MiLK]

For realism - Saving private ryan

For action - Black Hawk down

For late night viewing - Apocolypse now

For pride - Dam busters, great escape, zulu & battle of britain.

General - Platoon & Full metal jacket

I also liked the Thin red line as I feel it's very powerful although it's a lot more peotic than most war films.

There are a few Asian ones out that look very good, can't think of the name but has anyone seen them? I think ones based on the Korean war and another on China communism etc.