your favorite war movie (2 Viewers)

[sammy719]

Hello All, If You Had To Pick Just One War Or Military Theme Movie To Keep In Your Collection Which Would It Be?? I Personally Love This One Called " A Midnight Clear" It"s Not A Private Ryan Or Band Of Brothers But It Is A Great Movie About A Small Group Of American Intelligence Soldiers Who Run Across A Small Nazi Camp And What They Go Through Together Without Giving Anything Away To Those That May Not Have Seen It. Please Lend Us Your Thoughts....sammy

 

[Captain]

I guess I'ld have to go with "Gods and Generals".

 

[GuruDave]

I think it has to be "Zulu."

Honorable mention to "Dr. Strangelove" and "Kelly's Heroes."

 

[GuruDave]

Here's a list of popular movies over the years, to jog your memory:

The Green Berets
The Hunt for Red October
Saving Private Ryan
The Duelists
Gallipoli
Alexander
Henry the V
A Bridge Too Far
Platoon
Downfall
The Thin Red Line
Red Badge of Courage (1951)
Cross of Iron
Zulu
The Man Who Would Be King
Paths of Glory
Big Red One
El Cid
Kelly's Heroes
Battleground
Stalag 17
A Midnight Clear
Tora Tora Tora
Blackhawk Down
The Wind and the Lion
Glory
The Dambusters
633 Squadron
The Heroes of Telemark
Full Metal Jacket
The Longest Day
The Great Escape
None But the Brave
Band of Brothers
Twelve O'clock High
Shenandoah
The War Lord
Waterloo
The Grand Illusion
Gettysburg
The Beast
Ran
Kagemusha
Das Boot
Apocalypse Now
Lawrence of Arabia
Dances with Wolves
In Harm's Way
Ice Station Zebra
The Sand Pebbles
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Men of the Fighting Lady
Fail-Safe
Patton
Son of the Morning Star
Heaven and Earth
The Wild Geese
The Patriot
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Braveheart
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Sea of Sand
The Cruel Sea
Battle of Britain
Breaker Morant
The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Soldier of Orange
The Small Back Room
Barry Lyndon
April Morning
Shogun
Northwest Passage
Up Periscope
Torpedo Run
War and Peace/Voyna i Mir
Utu
The Light Horsemen
The Winter War
Sgt. York
The Blue Max
Stalingrad
Decision Before Dawn
The Bridge
Pork Chop Hill
The Vikings
Rough Riders
Guns of Navarone
**** the Defiant
The Horse Soldiers
All the King's Men
Alamo
Doctor Strangelove
The Dirty Dozen
Battle of the Bulge
300 Spartans
Alexander the Great (Richard Burton)
Final Option/Who Dares Wins
Dogs of War
Khartoum
Kingdom of Heaven
Sink the Bismarck
The Grand Fleet
Port Arthur
Battle of the Japan Sea
The Last Samurai
Seven Samurai
Zulu Dawn
Hellcats of the Navy
Enemy at the Gates
Alexander Nevsky
The Alamo (John Wayne)
The Enemy Below
They Were Expendable
To Hell and Back
Sahara (1943)
Sands of Iwo Jima
84 Charlie Mopic
Master and Commander
Bataan
Red Dawn
The Dawn Patrol
The Caine Mutiny
Red Badge of Courage (1974)
Jarhead

 

[Peter Reuss]

Now THAT is a list!!

 

[Pierre]

Downfall, Sophie Scholl, Il Cielo Cade, Effroyables Jardins, Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles, Joyeux Noël, Cold Mountain, Indigènes, Lust and Caution, Geisha, Black Book, Apocalypto and, of course, Schindler's List.

Pierre.

 

[marco55]

Last of the Mohicans,Gettysburg and Glory

 

[Louis Badolato]

The Guns of Navarone or Twelve o'Clock High.

 

[OzDigger]

I have restricted my miniature collections to WWII (mostly) but I enjoy war movies from all eras so it's normal for me to watch a classic like 'Waterloo' then say 'The Beast/of War'.

I really love war movies and I have most of the dvds in GuruDave's list plus a few extras such as Kokoda. However, if restricted to just ONE movie I would pick 'The Lord of the Rings' as the acting, special effects and overall enjoyment is hard to beat.

 

[redhugh]

Battle of the bulge --great battle scenes

Other ones Battle of Algiers, Big Red One, Twelve O'Clock High, We were soldiers

recent ones I saw, a Korean one called Brotherhood of war was good, Cromwell enjoyable. New directors cut of Alexander ,made a huge difference to how the story plays out, worth rewatching, great film now! Miniseries Winds of war wasn't half bad either and Paths of Glory. Currently watching miniseries north and south, but haven't go to the war yet

I could go on....what the hell ...Black Hawk Down, Das Boot, First half of Full Metal Jacket, Tora Tora, Battle scenes in 300, Roman legions arriving in Spartacus and the opening battle sequence in Gladiator, and out in space has to be Starship Troopers.

 

[Peter Reuss]

Glory and Saving Private Ryan.

 

[jac28]

One Movie only?

The Adventures of Robin Hood starring Errol Flynn... hands down

 

[Tex]

not in any order:

The Wind and the Lion
Paths of Glory
The Sand Pebbles
Last of the Mohicans
Saving Private Ryan
Glory
Cold Mountain (to an extent)
12 o'clock high
Master and Commander

 

[Jim5615]

A Bridge Too Far, Gunga Din, and ZULU. Those are my all time favorite war movies. I Can't count the number of times I've watched these.

 

[Rob]

Battle of Britain
Saving Private Ryan
Zulu
Bridge to far
Battle of the Bulge
Waterloo
Went the day well
Dunkirk
Longest day
Tora tora tora

And so many others.

Rob

 

[Robert E. Lee]

Gettysburg for me gets first place with Last of the Mohicans in a close second

 

[Harrytheheid]

Battle of Britain
The Sand Pebbles
Guns of Naverone
Ice Cold in Alex
Where Eagles Dare
Band of Brothers
A Bridge Too Far
Charge of the Light Brigade
They Were Expendable
Dunkirk
The Long And The Short And The Tall
The Longest Day
Saints and Sinners
Apocalypse Now
The Bridges At Toko Ri
All Quiet on the Western Front
Cross of Iron
The Flying Tigers
The Big Red One
Last of the Mohicans

Vintage TV footage of the Scottish Cup Final 1973 when several thousands of Celtic and Rangers Football Fans invaded the pitch at Hampden Park, Glasgow, and got stuck into each other. Includes exciting and graphic shots of the Strathclyde Mounted Police (all 12 of them) charging the opposing assorted; knuckles-trailing-on-the-ground, religious bigots, half-wits, drunk people, etc. and cracking a few empty heids with their great big truncheons.

Especially entertaining viewing for your's truly seeing as I support Aberdeen Football Club. The sight of all these cavemen with six-inch ridges of bone on their foreheads serves to remind me why I no longer reside in Scotland.

 

[gk5717]

Saving Private Ryan, with Paths of Glory right behind.
Gary

 

[vandilay]

The Great Escape , would be my favourite I guess

 

[The Lt.]

I thought you all might find this interesting. In a poll asking The British Forces serving around the world to name their favorite war movies their first choice was Zulu followed by Saving Private Ryan and a Bridge to Far. It's amazing the the majority who cast their vote for now serving in Afghanistan weren't even born when the movie was made in 1967. My choices have been posted along with many others of the forum on an early thread of the top ten war movies of all times....The Lt.