Top 3 war movies??

[cactuskooler]

The Longest Day

The Battle of Britain

The Great Escape

[Shuffler]

In harms way

Patton

Midway

[tokenjo]

S. P. R

12 o clock high

Where Eagles Dare

tokenjo

[ink]

To hell and back

uncommon valor

Rambo    J/K

we were soldiers 

The last Samaria ( I know not a modern "war" movie but a war movie non the less)

saving private Ryan, was also awesome

the Patriot (Mels)


 

[flight17]

not in any order...

*pearl harbor (origional movie)
*midway
*behind enemy lines

*Star wars 
*old star Trek's 
*The Mummy (all three)

[Kazaa]

S.P.R, nothing else matters. O.K, maybe Black Hawk Down.

[Changeup]

1) Midway

2) Full Metal Jacket

3) War Lover - (Steve McQueen's greatest role as a bomber pilot)

Runner ups
Platoon, The Hurt Locker, 300 (even though it isn't historically accurate), Tears of the Sun (not advertised but based on a true set of event's...trust me on this one), and Blackhawk Down

V/r
Changeup

[Dadsguns]

The Bridge on the River Kwai
Band of Brothers
The Longest Day


Here is the Top Rated 100 best
1. Apocalypse Now - (1979, Francis Ford Coppola, V) (Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, M. Brando)
  2. All Quiet on the Western Front - (1930, Lewis Milestone, WWI) (Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim)
  3. Saving Private Ryan - (1998, Steven Spielberg, WWII) (Tom Hanks, Edward Burns)
  4. Schindler's List - (1993, Steven Spielberg, WWII) (Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley)
  5. Platoon - (1986, Oliver Stone, V) (Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen)
  6. The Bridge on the River Kwai - (1957, David Lean, WWII) (Alec Guinness, William Holden)
  7. Patton - (1970, Franklin J. Schaffner, WWII) (George C. Scott, Karl Malden)
  8. The Dirty Dozen - (1967, Robert Aldrich, WWII) (Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas)
  9. The Longest Day - (1962,Ken Annakin, WWII) (John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum)
10. From Here to Eternity - (1953, Fred Zinnemann, WWII) (Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift)
11. Sergeant York - (1941, Howard Hawks, WWI) (Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan)
12. The Great Escape - (1963, John Sturges, WWII) (Steve McQueen, James Garner)
13. Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein, Odessa revolt-1905) (Alexander Antonov)
14. Das Boot - (1981, W. Ger. Wolfgang Peterson, WWII) (Jurgen Procnow)
15. The Deer Hunter - (1978, Michael Cimino, V) (Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep)
16. Full Metal Jacket - (1987, Stanley Kubrick, V) (Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin)
17. Letters From Iwo Jima - (2006, Clint Eastwood, WWII) (Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya)
18. A Bridge Too Far - (1977, Richard Attenborough, WWII) (Dirk Bogarde, Michael Caine)
19. The Guns of Navarone - (1961, J. Lee Thompson, WWII) (Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn)
20. Open City - (1945, Roberto Rossellini, WWII) (Vito Annicchiarico, Nando Bruno)
21. Midway - (1976, Jack Smight, WWII) (Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, Toshiro Mifune)
22. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo - (1944, Mervyn LeRoy, WWII) (Van Johnson, Robert Walker)
23. The Thin Red Line - (1998, Terrence Malick, WWII) (Sean Penn, Nick Nolte)
24. Tora! Tora! Tora! - (1970, Richard Fleischer, WWII) (Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten)
25. Black Hawk Down - (2001, Ridley Scott, Somalia) (Ewan McGregor, Josh Hartnett)
26. Stalag 17 - (1953, Billy Wilder, WWII) (William Holden, Otto Preminger)
27. Battle of Britain - (1969, Guy Hamilton, WWII) (Michael Caine, R. Shaw, Laurence Olivier)
28. The Story of G.I. Joe - (1945, William Wellman, WWII) (Robert Mitchum, Burgess Meredith)
29. The Desert Fox - (1951, Henry Hathaway, WWII) (James Mason, Richard Boone)
30. Paths Of Glory - (1957, Stanley Kubrick, WWI) (Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker)
31. Wings - (1927, William Wellman, WWI) (Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Gary Cooper)
32. Battleground - (1949, William Wellman, WWII) (Van Johnson, Ricardo Montalban)
33. In Harm's Way - (1965, Otto Preminger, WWII) (John Wayne, Kirk Douglas)
34. MacArthur - (1977, Joseph Sargent, WWII, K) (Gregory Peck, Ed Flanders)
35. Pork Chop Hill - (1959, Lewis Milestone, Korea) (Gregory Peck, George Peppard)
36. The Big Parade - (1925, King Vidor, WWI) (John Gilbert, Renée Adorée)
37. Where Eagles Dare - (1969, Brian G. Hutton, WWII) (Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood)
38. The Desert Rats - (1953, Robert Wise, WWII) (Richard Burton, James Mason)
39. Battle of the Bulge - (1965, Ken Annakin, WWII) (Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw)
40. The Blue Max - (1966, John Guillermin, WWI) (George Peppard, James Mason)
41. The Caine Mutiny - (1954, Edward Dmytryk, WWII) (Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer)
42. The Train - (1965, John Frankenheimer, WWII) (Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield)
43. Back to Bataan - (1944, Edward Dmytryk, WWII) (John Wayne, Anthony Quinn)
44. Many Wars Ago (aka Uomini Contro) - (1970, Francesco Rosi, WWI) (Mark Frechette, Alain Cuny)
45. Guadalcanal Diary - (1943, Lewis Seiler, WWII) (Preston Foster, Anthony Quinn)
46. The Big Red One - (1980, Samuel Fuller, WWII) (Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine)
47. Sink the Bismarck - (1960, Lewis Gilbert,WWII) (Kenneth More, Dana Wynter)
48. They Were Expendable - (1945, John Ford, WWII) (Robert Montgomery, John Wayne)
49. Closely Watched Trains - (1966, Czech., Jirí Menzel, WWII) (Vaclav Neckar, Jitka Bendova)
50. The Dawn Patrol - (1938, Edmund Goulding, WWI) (Errol Flynn, David Niven)
51. Sahara - (1943, Zoltan Korda, WWII) (Humphrey Bogart, Lloyd Bridges)
52. In Which We Serve - (1942, Noel Coward, David Lean, WWII) (Noel Coward, John Mills)
53. The Young Lions - (1958, Edward Dmytryk, WWII) (Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift)
54. Battle Cry - (1955, Raoul Walsh, WWII) (Van Heflin, James Whitmore, Anne Francis)
55. Flags of Our Fathers - (2006, Clint Eastwood, WWII) (Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford)
56. Soldier of Orange - (1978, Netherlands, Paul Verhoeven, WWII) (Rutger Hauer)
57. Halls of Montezuma - (1950, Lewis Milestone, WWII) (Richard Widmark, Karl Malden)
58. The Fighting Sullivans - (1944, Lloyd Bacon, WWII) (Thomas Mitchell, Ward Bond)
59. The Bridges at Toko-Ri - (1954, Mark Robson, K) (William Holden, Mickey Rooney)
60. Destination Tokyo - (1943, Delmer Daves, WWII) (Cary Grant, John Forsythe)
61. Kelly's Heroes - (1970, Brian G. Hutton, WWII) (Clint Eastwood, Donald Sutherland)
62. The Bridge at Remagen - (1969, John Guillermin, WWII) (George Segal, Robert Vaughn)
63. Sands of Iwo Jima - (1949, Allan Dwan, WWII) (John Wayne, John Agar)
64. To Hell and Back - (1955, Jesse Hibbs, WWII) (Audie Murphy, David Janssen)
65. The Lost Patrol - (1943, John Ford, WWI) (Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff)
66. Von Ryan's Express - (1965, Mark Robson, WWII) (Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard)
67. Wake Island - (1942, John Farrow, WWII) (Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey)
68. The Boys in Company C - (1977, Sidney J. Furie, V) (Stan Shaw, Andrew Stevens)
69. Objective, Burma! - (1945, Raoul Walsh, WWII) (Errol Flynn, Henry Hull)
70. Twelve O'Clock High - (1949, Henry King, WWII) (Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe)
71. Operation Pacific - (1951, George Waggner, WWII) (John Wayne, Patricia Neal)
72. Gallipoli - (1981, Australia, Peter Weir, WWI) (Mel Gibson, Mark Lee)
73. Flying Leathernecks - (1951, Nicholas Ray, WWII) (John Wayne, Robert Ryan)
74. Memphis Belle - (1990, Michael Caton-Jones, WWII) (Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz)
75. Run Silent, Run Deep - (1958, Robert Wise, WWII) (Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster)
76. The Tuskegee Airmen - (1995, Robert Markowitz, WWII) (Laurence Fishburne, Allen Payne)
77. Kanal - (1957, Andrzej Wajda, WWII) (Wienczyslaw Glinski)
78. Courage Under Fire - (1996, Edward Zwick, Iraq'91) (Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan)
79. The Sand Pebbles - (1966, Robert Wise, China uprising 1926) (Steve McQueen)
80. 633 Squadron - (1964, Walter Grauman, WWII) (Cliff Robertson, Harry Andrews)
81. Casualties of War - (1989, Brian De Palma, V) (Sean Penn, Michael J. Fox)
82. Cross of Iron - (1977, Sam Peckinpah, WWII) (James Coburn, James Mason)
83. Force 10 From Navarone - (1978, Guy Hamilton, WWII) (Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford)
84. Hell Is For Heroes - (1962, Don Siegel WWII) (Steve McQueen, James Coburn)
85. Too Late the Hero - (1969, Robert Aldrich, WWII) (Michael Caine, Denholm Elliott)
86. Merrill's Marauders - (1962, Samuel Fuller, WWII) (Jeff Chandler, Ty Hardin, Claude Akins)
87. Enemy at the Gates - (2001, Jean-Jacques Annaud WWII) (Joseph Fiennes, Ed Harris)
88. A Midnight Clear - (1992, Keith Gordon, WWII) (Ethan Hawke, Gary Sinise)
89. Dunkirk - (1958, Leslie Norman, WWII) (John Mills, Richard Attenborough)
90. The Green Berets - (1968, Ray Kellogg, V) (John Wayne, David Janssen)
91. The Story of Dr. Wassell - (1944, Cecil B. DeMille, WWII) (Gary Cooper, Laraine Day)
92. Three Kings - (1999, David O. Russell, Iraq'91) (George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg)
93. Operation Crossbow - (1965, Michael Anderson, WWII) (George Peppard, Sophia Loren)
94. The Naked and the Dead - (1958, Raoul Walsh, WWII) (Aldo Ray, Cliff Robertson)
95. Jarhead - (2005, Sam Mendes, Desert Storm) (Jamie Foxx, Jake Gyllenhaal)
96. King Rat - (1965, Bryan Forbes, WWII) (George Segal, Denholm Elliott)
97. Heartbreak Ridge - (1986, Clint Eastwood, Grenada) (Clint Eastwood, Mario Van Peebles)
98. Stalingrad - (1992, Joseph Vilsmaier, WWII) (Dominique Horwitz)
99. Torpedo Run - (1958, Joseph Pevney, WWII) (Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine)
100. A Walk in the Sun - (1945, Lewis Milestone, WWII) (Dana Andrews, Lloyd Bridges)



 

[stodd]

To hell and back

uncommon valor

Rambo    J/K

we were soldiers  

The last Samaria ( I know not a modern "war" movie but a war movie non the less)

saving private Ryan, was also awesome

the Patriot (Mels)


 

All those are great too.

Narrowing your choice down to the top three is extremely hard! I have tons of war movies on DVD and some older ones on VHS.

my runners up that almost made the list:
Zulu, Behind enemy lines, A bridge too far, In harms way, The Alamo.
 

[RipChord929]

Sands of Iwo Jima, Its the Duke, and he plays a Marine, WTF is not to like!!! "SADDLE UP"!!!

In Harms Way, GO NAVY!!! Rock Torey, the epitome of what every American Man should be!!!

Big Red One, Lee Marvin, Because he reminds me of ME!!!  If you didn't pull your duty on the
bangalore relay, I'd put a bullet in your skull too!!!! Without thinking twice!!!

RC

[1pLUs44]

Flags of our Fathers

We Were Soldiers

The Lost Battalion

Edit:

1st 10 min of Lost Battalion if you haven't seen it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8f771Yagps

[AKP]

1) The Enemy Below
View Trailer Here http://classicwarmovies.com/video-trailers/enemy-below-video.html


2) A Bridge Too Far
View Trailer Here http://classicwarmovies.com/video-trailers/bridge-video.html


3) 1941
View Trailer Here http://classicwarmovies.com/video-trailers/1941-video.html

[Fencer51]

Post 1970:

1.  Gettysburg

2.  Saving Private Ryan

3.  Master and Commander/Black Hawk Down

Honorable Mention: A Bridge Too Far

Pre 1970:

1.  Twelve O'Clock High
 
2.  Battle of Britain

3.  In Which We Serve

Honorable Mention: Battle of the River Plate (Pursuit of the Graf Spee)

[alskahawk]

 1. Saving Private Ryan
 2. Zulu
 3. Tie; The Enemy Below, Das boot, Sink the Bismark, Battle of Britain, Cross of Iron, Blue Max..Bunch of others.

[stodd]

Edit:

1st 10 min of Lost Battalion if you haven't seen it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8f771Yagps

Thanks, I hadnt seen that before.