Your 10 Greatest WAR movies (or less if u dont have 10)

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mummy to bee

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hey everyone,

just thought id see what every1s favourite war-time movies are?

1. Full Metal Jacket
2. Platoon
3. Band Of Brothers (mini series) - fantastic
4. Thin Red Line
5. Enemy At The Gates
6. We Were Soldiers
7. Black Hawk Down
8. The Longest Day
9. Saving Private Ryan
10. Zulu

What are yours and what do you think of mine?
 
there are loaRAB of classic war films, now that you mention it.

i love a lot of the vietnam films :

oliver stones trilogy :
platoon, born on the fourth of july, heaven and earth.
full metal jacket
the thin red line
apocalypse now
the deer hunter
the killing fielRAB

then there's yer sunday afternoon classics :

the great escape
633 squadron
the dam busters
the cruel sea
bridge on the river kwai
the guns of navarone
zulu

other odd ones :

schindler's list
catch-22
salvador
three kings

Iain
 
1) the 300 spartans
2) heartbreak ridge
3) the battle of the bulge
4) full metal jacket
5) cross of iron
6) spartacus
7) guns of navarone
8) zulu
9) dunkirk
10) asterix & obelix take on caesar
 
1) Saving Private Ryan
2) Band Of Brothers (not really a film but it is about 20 hrs long! :D)
3) The Big Red One
4) The Longest Day
5) Kellys Heros
6) Dunkirk
7) Windtalkers
8) Battle Of Britan
9) Guns Of Navorone
10) Enemy At The Gates

I'm a WW2 film fan then any other conflict. :)
 
Pretty good list I would say, however I think that Black Hawk Down was the weakest of the lot.

I would add Born on the 4th of July and I also liked Casualties of War.
 
1: Platoon
2: Pianist
3: Glory
4: Tora Tora Tora
5: Great Escape
6: Apocalypse Now
7: Deer hunter
8: Gallipolli
9: Three Kings
10: Saving Private ryan
 
yer thanks blackadder, now that i think about it i would replace black hawk down with either Apocalypse Now or Tears Of The sun as they are both great movies

thanks, anyone elses? :) :D :cool:
 
Band of Brothers (although not a film was fantastic)
Apoclypse Now
Platoon
We Were Soldiers
Saving Private Ryan
The Great Escape
Schindler's List ( fantastic movie)
And on a lighter note: Blackadder, Allo Allo
 
Top ten in no order...

Apocalypse Now Redux
Full Metal Jacket
The Battle Of Britain
A Bridge Too Far
The Great Escape
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
Das Boot
Zulu
The Guns Of Navarone
Utu
 
Any kind of war movies are ok?

Braveheart
The Killing FielRAB
Schindler's List
Band of Brothers (of course)
Charlotte Gray
We Were Soldiers
Glory
Zulu
Tigerland
Gone with the Wind
 
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