I like to try to watch a good war movie on this day each year. What are some of your favorites. I think my all time is a series not just a movie. It's Band of Brothers.

Bb

Band of Brothers, Saving Private Ryan, Platoon...in no particular order.

Saving Private Ryan is outstanding

Yep. I liked Fury too.

Platoon or Full metal jacket.. Pacific is good one as well..

Forrest Gump

Brave heart

I love We were Soldiers, Hacksaw Ridge

Patton & We Were Soldiers

The Great Escape
Dirty Dozen

Siege at Firebase Gloria

Great escape

Kelly's Heroes

Ryan. Do find, however, the submarine movies capable extreme intensity without the use of a single word of dialogue.

Das Boot.

Master and Commander is pretty good, too, as is Zulu.

Blackhawk Down, Saving Pvt. Ryan, Band of Brothers.


mike r

I like the old WWII Pacific naval battle movies, like "Midway" and "Pearl Harbor," but I'll watch any of them. Especially the ones I've never seen.

Dont like war movies.

Star Wars

Nightmares?

Sargeant York

I'll stop whatever I'm doing to watch it if its on TV

I also like Sahara with Humphrey Bogart.

Stagecoach

Attack with Jack Palance, Eddie Albert, and Buddy Ebson. 12 Oclock High, with Gregory Peck.

L.W.

Austin Powers
Cold War

Kelly's Heroes.

Gunny Highway

People can't eat cotton.

I always liked the Sand Pebbles. Navy gunboat in China during the Boxer Rebellion. Steve McQueen and Candace Bergen when she was only 19 years old.

Patton, we were soldiers, hacksaw ridge, Blackhawk down, saving. Pvt ryan

Big fan of these two oldies:

Battleground (1950)
The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)

Sand Pebbles is set in an interesting era... My great Uncle was in the US navy deployment in china in that time frame, I wish I knew enough about history to ask him more about it before he passed on.

as to war movies

the "best" movie about the Iraq war is "Saving Private Perez".... here's the trailer, I'll save you the trouble of googling for it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JkJ2HCgiOg
might be better over beer on May 5th than today tho....

Poole

Longest Day,
Patton,
13 Hours

Some great ones mentiond here

No one has said Tora Tora Tora yet. First movie I saw after we moved back to the USA, first drive in movie ever. Pretty sure we saw Patton that same summer. OTOH I'm thinking I saw The Battle of Britain movie right before wee came over.

....and I'm gonna throw in Last of the Mohicans; hey the French and Indian War was a war too.

Saving Private Ryan
The Green Berets
The Patriot

Platoon and Hell is for Heroes

Apocalypse Now rates

My picks exactly with Zulu added.

A Bridge Too Far. Will make you hate the British.

Murphy's War.

The Longest Day.

I watched the Green Berets for the first time the other day,, and it was an exellent show, John Wayne was great.

A Walk in the Sun

Not in order....


Kelly's heros
Guns of navrone 1and 2
Where eagles dare
Midway...the old version
Toro toro toro

Good ones !

The 2001 version of Pearl Harbor is not bad. Especially if you like old airplanes.

Two more great ones!

Starship Troopers

Just dont like watching killing and dying.


We Were Soldiers is probably my favorite.

I cant watch it now though. Not in front of people anyway.


I've gotten emotional in my old age.

We Were Soldiers is a POS movie.

I can’t believe anybody liked it.

Why didn't you like it?

I only ask on account of your Expert Status on all things Cinema.

Midway.
The old one.

In Harm's Way

Mel Gibson in the Revolutionary war movie is much better

The Patriot

Thats a fine movie.

I dont get near as cry babyish watching it.

Band of Brothers is definitely #1
American Sniper #2
Blackhawk Down #3

Kaywoodie was an extra in that one in the battle scenes.

I like to think the movie was based on one of his past lives.

I remember thinking The Big Red One was good when I was I like, Twelve.

Das Boot is timeless and worth watching again and again.

Wild Bunch prob doesn’t qualify but it has the best extended combat scene ever. Of any of them. Gratuitous.

One I really enjoyed is the recent remake of the Russian film “The Mornings Here Are Quite”.

Silent war flick......THE GENERAL....starring buster keeton

Memphis Belle and the 60’s film Battle of Britain. Not a war movie but of that period Darkest Hour, story of Winston Churchill in WW2.

Nick

Tora, Tora, Tora.

Cross of Iron, also worth watching.

Nick

Used to like em when younger.
Last war movie i watched was Fury and it was decent.

But war movies, horror movies.....most movies.....i just find depressing.

I dont want to support Hollywood either.

So have not been to theatre in a long while. And dont watch em at home. I dislike most of what is touted these days as entertainment.

I watched the remake of Midway this afternoon

Its the second time I've watched it. I liked it.

we were men ....

Light horse men

One I've not seen mentioned yet and is one of my favorites is, Pork Chop Hill.





Another is, Bataan.

Aliens.

Game over, man.

L.W.

Battle Ground, The Tin Helmet, Sergeant York, Patton, 12 O'clock High..

I like all of em. I served with some of the boys depicted in Black Hawk Down. That one is tough for me to watch! Bridge on the River Kwai is a good one not mentioned yet!

Or "To Hell and Back"..

g

All Quiet on the Western Front is a classic.

The attack scene is one of the best examples of useless slaughter that I think has ever been filmed. Even with the overacting characteristic of early movies the futility and horror really hits home. The French attack and are mowed down in waves (the hands left on the wire is pretty grisly for that time frame), the Germans counterattack and in turn are also mowed down in waves, then the Germans have to leave the captured French lines to return to their own. At the end everyone is right back where they started except for a fresh pile of dead and wounded in No Man's Land.

Dunkirk is worth watching if you haven’t seen yet.

This, because the young whippersnappers need to see a move from when it was ok.to love the USA.

https://youtu.be/LckXeIlNXuw

This.

The Alamo.

Many great flicks. A few I like but aren't mentioned yet.

Stalag 17
Von Ryans Express
Enemy at the Gates
Pentagon Wars

The Bridges at Toko-ri

Patton, Where Eagles Dare. The Big Red One.

300

Do movies like Red Dawn and Rambo II count?

The Blue Max

We Were Soldiers Once was one of my favorite. Saving Private Ryan is a great one too.

I watched Midway the past 2 days and thought it was pretty good.
Enemy at the Gates. All Quiet on the Western Front.... and I’m sure there’s several more that I’m forgetting but the first 2 I mentioned are some of my favorites.

Hacksaw Ridge, Fury, Inglorious Bastetds, etc were good movies but I classify them in a different category than a true war movie.

The Lost Battalion, a WW1 story with Rick Schroeder was good too.

I always have a hard time pinning down favorites. One that I really like that never gets much attention is "A Midnight Clear".

Inglorious Basterds is great

American Sniper, and Lone Survivor.

I watch the original “Midway” anytime they show it on television, liked “Enemy at the Gates” and sorry ‘flave, I also really like “We Were Soldiers”! And one nobody mentioned, “Sink the Bismarck”.

Ilsa Shewolf of the SS. Diana Thorne has amazing breasts.

I forgot about Red Dawn! One of my favorites!

Good one Doc!

Too many newish war movies to count that are great.

Dunkirk really pissed me off. Historically correct or not, something like 400k troops retreating?! I call that an army. Where were the NCOs with spines? If half of those men would have turned around and collected 1 set of German ears it would have changed the war. Pathetic.

How about "the bug red one" for a golden oldie?

The original Red Dawn has always been a favorite of mine, and I agree with most of the others, but one that I have always really liked is "In Harms Way" with John Wayne and I believe Patricia Neil.

Gettysburg
Gods and Generals

Two that were maybe not as well done BUT touched a nerve were Bat 21 and Uncommon Valor (plus Tex Cobb was awesome)

Last of the Mohicans

Red dawn was one of my favorites as a kid too. We often talked about it while out camping and bow hunting. I had a pretty good group of friends that would make plans for the invasion. Over 30 years later and they all still know the places to meet in the woods. Although these days they may use them to hide from the commies that are already here.

Bb

I’ve been watching Tora Tora Tora clips on YouTube, marveling anew, those are all real aircraft being flown mere feet above the ground.

I still recall how everybody in the drive in cheered when those two P40’s got off of the ground.

Amazing. Ain’t shown in this clip, but I still recall the condensation contrails spinning off of the wingtips of that hard-turning P-40 in a dogfight with a Zero.

Lot of good titles mentioned.

There was a movie I saw many years ago , I believe it was called Stalingrad. I liked that one too

Nope, it was Cross of Iron with James Coburn. 1977.

Caddie Shack.

Memphis Bell and In Harms Way.

IMO war movies — particularly the battle scenes — is a genre that gained the most by computer-generated imagery. An analogy might be the artist who paints in an impressionistic manner because he doesn’t have the talent to paint realistically — to produce a painting that looks like a beautiful photograph, that looks real.

For me, then, “B of Brothers” (does a series count) and “Ryan” take the cake because of the gut-wrenching realism. It doesn’t mean there isn’t great acting or production in older war movies, but that they just didn’t have the technology to fixate you.