Favorite War Movies

[Kaiser of Arabia]

What are your favorite War movies, guys? Top 10s good.

1. Stalingrad
2. The Hunt for Red October
3. A Bridge too Far
4. We Were Soldiers
5. Gods and Generals
6. Das Boot (though I never saw all of it)
7. K-19 The Widowmaker
8. Saving Private Ryan (Just for the Omaha Beach scene)
9. War and Peace
10. Tora Tora Tora

[NagaoKagetora]

In no particular order

Tora Tora Tora
Full Metal Jacket
Saving Private Ryan
The Battle of Britain
Stalingrad
Cross Of Iron
The Longest Day
All Quiet on the Western Front
Ice Cold in Alex
Zulu

[yesdachi]

Star Wars
War of the Roses
War of the worlds
War Games
The War Wagon
The Dogs of War

[King Henry V]

Waterloo
The Battle of the Bulge
Paths of Glory
The Longest Day
War and Remembrance (not actually a film, more a 16 hour series, and that's only from 1941)
Patton: Lust for Glory
That's all I can remember now.

[Reverend Joe]

Apocalypse Now (even though it's more of an apocalyptic movie)
Saving Private Ryan
Stalingrad
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Thin Red Line
Kelly's Heroes (the Hippie's war movie)
The Big Red One (mainly because of Lee Marvin)

[Ser Clegane]

6. Das Boot (though I never saw all of it)

You should - and if possible try to see the much longer TV-cut - even better than the cinematic cut.

[Geoffrey S]

No Man's Land, Das Boot, Gallipoli, Saving Private Ryan, Der Untergang (not sure if that'd count though), Apocalypse Now, All Quiet on the Western Front, Black Hawk Down, Hot Shots!. In no particular order.

[PanzerJaeger]

Das Boot with Stalingrad a close second.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

I never saw All Quiet on the Western front, the book is probably my favorite book though.

[Taurus]

My favourites in no particular order

The Longest Day
We Were Soldiers
Battle of The Bulge
Kelly's Heroes
Saving Private Ryan
Band of Brothers (I know its a series but its is amazing! )

[Zalmoxis]

A good one I've seen recently is All Quiet On the Western Front.

[Fabolous]

My favorite is The Battle of the Bulge.

[Strike For The South]

PATTON thats all I need

[Reverend Joe]

I forgot about Gallipoli and No Man's Land. Both very good movies.

[Marcellus]

I don't believe no-one's mentioned The Dambusters yet.

[NagaoKagetora]

Battle of the Bulge?

I cant stand that film. M48's in greywash as panzers, M41's for Shermans... ugh. They started filming that thing in Belgium or somewhere then started to run out of funds and had to relocate filming to SPAIN as it was cheaper!!!! so halfway through you go from snowbound ardennes to mediterranean landscape. Throw in Telly Savalas and the asshatery is complete.

/rant off

[Alexanderofmacedon]

1. Alexander (duh)
2. Gladiator
3. Troy
4. Kingdom of Heaven (just because of genre)
5. Alexander ( )
6. Gladiator ( )
7. Troy ( )
8. Alexander ( )
9. Gladiator ( )
10. Troy ( )

[Alexanderofmacedon]

Ah, so what. It's still good. And there is this one battle scene

[dgfred]

Kelly's Heroes and Das Boot are my favorites .

But Full Metal Jacket, The Eagle has Landed, SPR, A Bridge Too Far,
Apocolypse Now, Platoon, Gladiator (?) and Zulu all have parts that
are etched in my memory .

[Steppe Merc]

Gods and Generals was excellent.
So was Apocalypse Now, and Saving Private Ryan.
But the best would be Master and Commander. Not my favorite period, but I'm not crazy about the movies of my favorite period.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

You should - and if possible try to see the much longer TV-cut - even better than the cinematic cut.

Ja, sehr gut.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Gods and Generals was excellent.
So was Apocalypse Now, and Saving Private Ryan.
But the best would be Master and Commander. Not my favorite period, but I'm not crazy about the movies of my favorite period.

Master and Commander was good, but I need one with Trafalgar or the Nile for a Nap Naval Movie

[Navaros]

Three Kings is by far the best war movie i have ever seen. i even made a thread about it in the Backroom not too long ago

[Aenlic]

In no particular order:

Apocalypse Now
Platoon
Lawrence of Arabia
Gallipoli
Breaker Morant (if you haven't seen this, drop what you're doing and go rent it - now!)
Das Boot
The Dogs of War
The Great Escape
The Big Red One
A Midnight Clear (another must see that most haven't)
The Longest Day
Hotel Rwanda
Le Roi de Ceour (great funny and tragic movie set in WWI)
Stalag 17
The Deer Hunter
Glory
Henry V (Branagh's version)
The Killing Fields
The Battleship Potemkin (probably the best propaganda film ever made)
Schindler's List

There's one the title of which I can't remember, but it's about these two soldiers stuck together during the Balkans War, a Serbian and a Croatian. Wonderful movie.

Oh, and a movie with Peter O' Toole as a murderous German general in WWII. Night of the Generals I think is the name of it?

Ok, crap. Now I can't stop! More are coming to me. I may spend all weekend in the video store looking for these.

The Bofors Gun with Nicol Williamson versus David Warner.

[Aurelian]

"Band of Brothers" for quality.
"Full Metal Jacket" for the dialogue... PRIVATE PYLE!
"Gallipoli" for pathos.
"Zulu" for the Zulus ("Zulu Dawn" also had Zulus, but not as good).

Oh, and they're really more adventure than war movies, but check out:

"The Wind and the Lion" (1975) for Sean Connery, a great Arab/German battle at the end, and Teddy Roosevelt.

"Ogniem i mieczem/With Fire & Sword" (1999) A Polish historical adventure movie with great Early Modern battle scenes, lots of swordplay, and a great siege. Hard to find, but everybody here would probably like it.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Waterloo
Full Metal Jacket
The boys in Company C
Hamburger Hill
Braveheart
Gettysburg
Guadacanal Diary

[Puzz3D]

Band of Brothers
Das Boot
Platoon
Paths of Glory
Westfront 1918
The Red and the White
When Trumpets Fade
Tae Guk Gi
Die Brucke
Saving Private Ryan
Alexander Nevsky
Gettysburg
All Quiet on the Western Front (1933)
The Big Red One (restored version)
A Walk in the Sun
Guadalcanal Diary
Sahara
The Alamo (2004)

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

Band of Brothers
Stalingrad
Enemy at the gate
Platoon
Casualties of War
Black Hawk Down
Zulu
Michael Collins
Last of the Mohicans

[Steppe Merc]

Damn. Hotel Rwanda was awesome. I forget the mention that one. Deffinetly movie of the year last year.

[econ21]

Best "historical" war movies:

(Band of Brothers if it were a movie)
Zulu
A bridge too far
Das Boot (probably fictional, but feels so authentic)
Black Hawk Down


Best "story" war movies:

Platoon
Apocalypse Now
Three Kings