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There are some good ones, and some crappy ones, on that list.
These are some of my favorites, in alphabetical order:
MOVIES:
The Alamo (John Wayne)
The African Queen
Apocalypse Now
The Big Red One
Black Hawk Down
A Bridge Too Far
Das Boot
The Devil’s Brigade
Dr. Strangelove
Four Feathers (1939)
Full Metal Jacket
The Great Raid
Henry V
Kelly’s Heroes
The Last of the Mohicans
Lawrence of Arabia
The Longest Day
The Man Who Would Be King
Patton
Sands of Iwo Jima
Saving Private Ryan
Thirteen Hours
Where Eagles Dare
The Young Lions
SHOWS:
Band of Brothers
The Pacific
Rome
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Nothing tops saving private Ryan ^^^This^^^
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A Bridge Too Far is my favorite, mainly because I first saw it while going thru Jump School. The producers went out of their way to get cast members who actually LOOKED like the actual people they were portraying, which was a nice touch.
Monty should have been sacked after that debacle.
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So many AWESOME ones to choose from, but I agree with earlybrd, Saving Private Ryan is hard to beat. It’s also hard to watch. P
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Empire of the Sun is a good one that gets overlooked a lot.
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Attack, staring Jack Palance and Eddie Albert. (They both were combat veterans of W II.)
It is an excellent movie.
L.W.
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Nothing tops saving private Ryan I saw it in a movie theater in Eagle River Alaska with my friend and his wife. When it ended, every person in the theatre was silent or sobbing. It was outstanding, I'll never forget it.
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"The Story of G.I.Joe", starring Robert Mitchum, and Burgess Meredith as Ernie Pyle.
Oldie but goodie.
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“Watch out, he’s got a wing!” Funniest movie ever made.
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Sands of Iwo Jima was, I think, 1964. You’re thinking of Flags of Our Fathers.
I was a little disappointed in the list. I love The Dirty Dozen, but I like movies that do their best to get the history right.
Maybe we need a line between action movies set in a war, and movies that are actually about a war.
A Bridge Too Far, The Longest Day, Midway (‘76), Tora Tora Tora, and many more that I’ll think of later.
One I wanna see, but ain’t had the chance yet, is Men of Valor, about the USS Indianapolis.
Defiance, with Daniel Craig is another. It’s about the Jews and the people in Belarus, caught between Hitler on one side and Stalin on the other.
As much as I love Casablanca, it doesn’t belong on the list, and neither does The Dirty Dozen.
Band of Brothers can’t be beat. If you follow the history, the story writes itself.
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Sands of Iwo Jima was, I think, 1964. You’re thinking of Flags of Our Fathers.
I was a little disappointed in the list. I love The Dirty Dozen, but I like movies that do their best to get the history right.
Maybe we need a line between action movies set in a war, and movies that are actually about a war.
A Bridge Too Far, The Longest Day, Midway (‘76), Tora Tora Tora, and many more that I’ll think of later.
One I wanna see, but ain’t had the chance yet, is Men of Valor, about the USS Indianapolis.
Defiance, with Daniel Craig is another. It’s about the Jews and the people in Belarus, caught between Hitler on one side and Stalin on the other.
As much as I love Casablanca, it doesn’t belong on the list, and neither does The Dirty Dozen.
Band of Brothers can’t be beat. If you follow the history, the story writes itself.
7mm Really good distinction. P
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Sands of Iwo Jima came out in 1949. Jim mentioned The WorldAt War documentary narrated by Laurence Olivier, it's outstanding.
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Nothing tops saving private Ryan I saw it in a movie theater in Eagle River Alaska with my friend and his wife. When it ended, every person in the theatre was silent or sobbing. It was outstanding, I'll never forget it. THATS THE BEST MODERN WW2 MOVIE FOR SURE
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Attack, staring Jack Palance and Eddie Albert. (They both were combat veterans of W II.)
It is an excellent movie.
L.W. I love that movie.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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I always enjoy watching "The Bridge at Remagen". It's one of those movies that if I see its on while flipping the channels I need to watch it.
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👍👍didn’t Clint Eastwood direct that No....before his time as a director. Eastwood directed "Letters from Iwo Jima", a Japanese perspective counterpart to "Flags of Our Fathers"
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Bridge over the River Kwai will have me whistling the tune for the rest of the day. 😀
First couple of times I watched Saving Private Ryan I don’t think I closed my mouth until it was halfway through….I was immersed in it. It’s a great movie. I was disappointed with the Thin Red Line. Enemy at the Gates was good.
Hacksaw Ridge and Midway are great movies.
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👍👍didn’t Clint Eastwood direct that Eastwood directed "Letters from Iwo Jima". Get off my Beach!
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