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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: stodd on September 27, 2009, 02:52:38 PM
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Well the Title says it all, what are your top 3 favorite War movies? No specific time period, im just interested to hear em all.
My personal list would be,
1. We Were Soldiers.
2. Black Hawk Down.
3. Midway.
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1.Midway
2.Wing and a prayer
3.Flying leathernecks
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1. Saving Private Ryan
2. The Thin Red Line
3. We Were Soldiers
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1. The Longest Day
2. Patton
3. Platoon
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longest day
ike; prelude to dday
in harm's way
patton
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1 Kelly's heroes
2 saving private ryan
3 Full metal jacket
waiting for someone to suggest pearl harbour coz ben afleck is so "awesome"
and btw an officer and a gentleman is not a war movie
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Saving Private Ryan
The Longest Day
Blackhawk Down
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Zulu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrZbUS0MaY4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrZbUS0MaY4)
Waterloo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vlcuvrM1po (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vlcuvrM1po)
Platoon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYZQIApXvuA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYZQIApXvuA)
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3.Hamburger Hill
2. Apocalypse Now
1. Das Boot :aok
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saving pvt ryan
Midway
Battle of Britain.
mentionables. run silent run deep, flying leathernecks, etc, always like the war movies of 50s and 60s.
The Big Red One
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The longest day
Patton
Deer Hunter
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-Band of Brothers
(tied for second?)
-Black Hawk Down
#1-Tae Guk GI
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1. Letters from Iwo Jima. ( I liked seeing the war from the eyes of the "average" Japanese soldier, and the fact that although they were labled "fanatical", that (many) of these men were not much different from our boys over there fighting, Wives, familys, hopes, dreams and fears.)
2. Midway ( Just because.... I mean....Its Midway!! )
3. Battle of Britian
Honorable mentions * The longest Day, Gallipolli (sp) Zulu, and Most any Richard Burton WWII movie.
Great post :salute
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Tora Tora Tora
Midway
Patton
too many to really limit top 3
Saving Private Ryan
Battle of the Bulge
Sands of Iwo Jima
Battle of Britian
MacArthur
In Harms Way
many more
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Battle of Britain
Black Hawk Down
A Brigde Too Far
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The Longest Day
The Battle of Britain
The Great Escape
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In harms way
Patton
Midway
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S. P. R
12 o clock high
Where Eagles Dare
tokenjo
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To hell and back :aok
uncommon valor
Rambo :rofl J/K
we were soldiers :aok
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)
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not in any order...
*pearl harbor (origional movie)
*midway
*behind enemy lines
*Star wars :D
*old star Trek's :D
*The Mummy (all three) :D
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S.P.R, nothing else matters. O.K, maybe Black Hawk Down.
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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
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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)
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To hell and back :aok
uncommon valor
Rambo :rofl J/K
we were soldiers :aok
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. :aok
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.
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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
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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
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1) The Enemy Below
View Trailer Here http://classicwarmovies.com/video-trailers/enemy-below-video.html
(http://classicwarmovies.com/posters_ww2/enemy-below-poster_1.jpg)
2) A Bridge Too Far
View Trailer Here http://classicwarmovies.com/video-trailers/bridge-video.html
(http://classicwarmovies.com/posters_ww2/bridge-too-far-poster_1.jpg)
3) 1941
View Trailer Here http://classicwarmovies.com/video-trailers/1941-video.html
(http://classicwarmovies.com/posters_ww2/1941-poster_1.jpg)
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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)
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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.
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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.
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Midway
Tora Tora Tora
Down Periscope
(http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj83/Frazz_y/45128_snapshot20090920111520_122_51.jpg)
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1. Band of Brothers (I know it was a mini series)
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Patton or the Longest day
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Battle of Britain
12 O'Clock high
Platoon
And a huge host of others .
Nutte :salute
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1. Last of the Mohegan
2. Saving Prv. Ryan
3. Gods and Generals
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1. Longest Day
2. Apocalypse Now
3. Saving Private Ryan
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SERIOUSLY?
NOBODY????
EDIT: kudos to PopsGuns..didn't see it at first.
(http://carol_fus.tripod.com/Bridge_Over_River_Kwai.jpg)
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1. Full Metal Jacket
2. Enemy at the Gates
3. The Outlaw Josie Wales
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1.) The Alamo (Dennis, Billy bob)u(The Alamo is my favorite battle of all time, been into it since the 5th grade)
2.) Battle of Britain
3.) Saving Private Ryan
Also.. Gettysburg, Gods and Generals, Enemy at the Gates, Patton, A bridge too far.
With all of this WWII talk, when i see gettysburg, the alamo, and gods and generals its nice to see some fresh blood
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So many I could name...
Black Hawk Down
We were Soldiers
Saving Private Ryan
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I didnt remember Band Of Brothers
1)BoB
2)BoB
3)BoB
(#2 is Battle of britain)
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Down Periscope
Man, Lauren Holly had some great torpedoes, didn't she?
1) Gettysburg - Especially the music. It may be one of the most perfect purely instrumental scores I've ever heard, there's absolutely no choir (this was before EVERYONE started to use chorale in their scores) but there's times where the voicing and orchestration is just so PERFECT that it sounds like voices.
2) Saving Private Ryan
3) The Longest Day
Band of Brothers is really cheating because it's a miniseries, not a movie.
Honorable Mentions (in no particular order):
The Great Raid
Top Secret! (it's SORT of a war movie)
Glory
Operation Petticoat
Tora Tora Tora
Stripes
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Battle of Britain
Midway
Tora Tora Tora
(with special mention of 'Fail Safe' and 'Piece of Cake' - miniseries) Thanks for bringing it up I think I will go watch Moggy get vulched again.
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Battleground
All Quiet on the Western Front (the original version)
Kelly's Heros
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We were soldiers
Black Hawk Down
Saving Private Ryan
They all seem to be of the same branch of the military.....it has to be the best :devil
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I almost have all the top 100. :)
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In no particular order
Saving Private Ryan
The Big Red One
Das Boot
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What was the name of the Lee Marvin movie where he was stranded on a island with Jap pilot. They shot each other down and was trying to stay alive and the 2 became allies in order to survive? Very entertaining movie IMO.
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What was the name of the Lee Marvin movie where he was stranded on a island with Jap pilot. They shot each other down and was trying to stay alive and the 2 became allies in order to survive? Very entertaining movie IMO.
Hell in the Pacific (with Toshirō Mifune)
SPR
Battle of Britain
A Bridge too Far
Tronsky
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3 good Brit ones in no order:
Lawrence of Arabia
The Cruel Sea
Ice Cold in Alex
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Three best (IMO)
Gettysburg
Bridge Too Far
Glory
Honorable Mention- Battleground
Three worst (also IMO)
Gods and Generals (one of the WORST CW movies yet)
The Patriot (so inaccurate that I begin programs at the Fort with "Have you folks seen The Patriot? Ok, now forget everything you saw...")
Battle of the Bulge (Really? M-60s in an Alpine Tundra? And a climactic tank battle on the scale of Kursk? Really??)
Dishonorable Mention- Pearl Harbor ('nuff said)
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1.Cross of Iron
2.Saving Private Ryan
3.Where Eagles Dare
Honorable Mention...Stalag 17
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We were soldiers (I watched Col. Moore on the news)
The longest day
A bridge too far
Blackhawk Down was good too.
Does Band of Brothers count even though it's a mini-series?
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1. Bridge on the River Kwai
2. Patton
3. Platoon
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We were soldiers (I watched Col. Moore on the news)
The longest day
A bridge too far
Blackhawk Down was good too.
Does Band of Brothers count even though it's a mini-series?
You answered your question it isnt a movie :aok I consider Band of Brothers like Saving Private Ryan on steroids :D
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You answered your question it isnt a movie :aok I consider Band of Brothers like Saving Private Ryan on steroids :D
ROFL...you got me on that one Junky...it was billed as a "made for tv movie" then a mini series.
I totally forgot Saving Private Ryan on my list...except for that scumbag yellow corporal, the rest of the story was good.
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Kelly's Heroes
Battle of Britain
Apocalypse Now
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Hornblower; The wrong war
Hornblower; The fire ships
Master and commander
Damd the Defiant
The other Hornblower movies
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-Band of Brothers
(tied for second?)
-Black Hawk Down
#1-Tae Guk GI
Band of Brothers doesn't count as it's a mini-series and not a War Movie.
All the Best...
Jay
awDoc1
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1. 12 O'clock High
2. The War Lover
3. Battle of Britain
All the Best...
Jay
awDoc1
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1. Saving Private Ryan
2. The Thin Red Line
3. We Were Soldiers
The Thin Red Line? Where you on crack when you watched it? That has to be one of the crappiest war movies ever made. We Were Soldiers was a good action flick but they took way too many liberties with the story and painted a rather inaccute picture of the actual battle.
ack-ack
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Don't recall seeing it, if it was mentioned I apologize but has anyone ever seen "The Devil's Brigade' One of my personal favorites.
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Can't believe I didn't put Battleground in my top 3. Used to watch that everyday when I was a kid.
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Don't recall seeing it, if it was mentioned I apologize but has anyone ever seen "The Devil's Brigade' One of my personal favorites.
Yeah, decent for its time. The ending was kinda hokey and so was the "personal interactions" between some of the characters...otherwise decent movie.
The Thin Red Line? Where you on crack when you watched it? That has to be one of the crappiest war movies ever made.
Along with Boys from Company C... :rolleyes:
We Were Soldiers was a good action flick but they took way too many liberties with the story and painted a rather inaccute picture of the actual battle.
ack-ack
Had to shorten it up and get most of the good fighting in...gotta admit, since it centered mostly on Col Moore, they did a pretty good job pulling it off.
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Three best (IMO)
Gettysburg
Bridge Too Far
Glory
Honorable Mention- Battleground
Three worst (also IMO)
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The Patriot (so inaccurate that I begin programs at the Fort with "Have you folks seen The Patriot? Ok, now forget everything you saw...")...
I assume you are referring to mels?
I am smart enough to know that NO movie is 100% accurate heck most are WAY off, but that movie was GREAT one of the best.
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I assume you are referring to mels?
I am smart enough to know that NO movie is 100% accurate heck most are WAY off, but that movie was GREAT one of the best.
About the only thing they got right in that movie was that the soldiers used flintlocks.
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The Thin Red Line? Where you on crack when you watched it? That has to be one of the crappiest war movies ever made. We Were Soldiers was a good action flick but they took way too many liberties with the story and painted a rather inaccute picture of the actual battle.
ack-ack
he said top 3 "war" movies, not factual.
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About the only thing they got right in that movie was that the soldiers used flintlocks.
don't look at it as a history lesson, it's a movie IE; entertaining.
besides I don't think they even said it was supposed to emulate a real part in history?
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About the only thing they got right in that movie was that the soldiers used flintlocks.
dont forget about guriella tactics!! :D
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dont forget about guriella tactics!! :D
Wasn't that the name to some hot south american porn actress? or did you mean guerilla? surely you didn't mean gorilla..
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Wasn't that the name to some hot south american porn actress? or did you mean guerilla? surely you didn't mean gorilla..
I meant whatever you want me to mean ;)
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The Thin Red Line? Where you on crack when you watched it? That has to be one of the crappiest war movies ever made. We Were Soldiers was a good action flick but they took way too many liberties with the story and painted a rather inaccute picture of the actual battle.
ack-ack
23. The Thin Red Line - (1998, Terrence Malick, WWII) (Sean Penn, Nick Nolte)
No crack involved, but apparently with 77 movies ranked lower than it on the top 100.... I can't be the only one that found it to be a good watch.
/shrug I liked it more for the cinematic style than the story itself.
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1.) Das Boot
2.) Glory
3.) Blackhawk Down
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1. Tora, Tora, Tora
2. Midway
3. Longest Day
4. We Were Soldiers (Officer and NCO Interaction)
5. Blackhawk Down (COL. Steele Hated it though)
6. Flying Leathernecks
7. Patton
8. 30 Seconds over Tokyo
cannot really limit myself to just three, there are so many epic films out there.
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Three of the greatest war movies ever made:
Stalingrad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZMHZBAUbqM
Dark Blue World: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zPgZoxdOGk
Der Untergang (Downfall): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp1RXmM1-60
You'll need to tolerate subtitles though.
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No one has "The Eagle has Landed" on their list....not even the top 100 list.
M. Caine
R. Duval
It's not the best; but it's decent.
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1. Tora Tora Tora
2. Reach For The Sky
3. A Bridge Too Far
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Wow.
Looking at that top 100 list .. I have seen all of them .. some multiple times.
For myself, the ones I enjoyed watching the most for various reasons..
1) Kelly's Heroes .. my Dad said he knew all those characters, especially the Sherman guys, he said that's what most were like :)
He was Fwd Radio Observer, Patton's 3rd ..landed D-Day+3 and was there till well after V E day, useda watch Sherman's take on Tigers,
..it always took 3 .. first two would get shot by the Tiger, 3rd would get close-in on it's 6 and destroy it. They defined bravery.
2) Battle of Britain .. just epic
3) Memphis Belle (the early one is more accurate, the late one is just cool to watch B-17's in action .. always been a B-17 nut)
As others have said .. just soo many others that are just as good.
-Frank aka GE
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Stripes
Hahaha love this scene :rofl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnIBk-0KLi0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnIBk-0KLi0)
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I haven't seen Catch 22 in a long time.
Gonna have to look that one up.
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The Killing Fields
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z1sj7gzpCk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z1sj7gzpCk)
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not sure if it was neccessarily a WW2 movie.......but one of my favorites........the original Flight Of The Phoenix.
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Lots of good ones listed so far. No one has mentioned these yet:
Joyeux Noel
The Deer Hunter
El Alamein
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The Thin Red Line? Where you on crack when you watched it? That has to be one of the crappiest war movies ever made.
C'mon now AKAK, no wrong answers here, its personal opinion, :)
Some great lists going here.
(Yikes Saving private Ryan sure is popular.)
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C'mon now AKAK, no wrong answers here, its personal opinion, :)
Some great lists going here.
(Yikes Saving private Ryan sure is popular.)
Yeah but it was really just about saving private Ryan's privates wasn't it? lol
All the Best...
Jay
awDoc1
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I almost forgot
Buck Privates
Buck privates come home and
In the army with martin and lewis !!!!
:x :x :x :x
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C'mon now AKAK, no wrong answers here, its personal opinion, :)
Some great lists going here.
(Yikes Saving private Ryan sure is popular.)
I would have to agree with AKAK, thin red line was terrible.
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looks like nobody has said it, but i did like Jarhead.
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1. Top Gun
2.Memphis Belle
3.Battle of Brittan
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1) My Cousin Vinny Great war of the sexes!!!!!!
2) Coming to America Great war of the generations between parents and children!!!!!!
3) Police Academy Great war on crime!!!!!!!!!
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Saving Private Ryan
Apocalypse Now (Directors Cut)
Das Boot
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Midway
Patton
The Beast (Russky tank in Afghanistan)
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air america