Best War Movie from 1960s

[mbliss57]

1.Guns of Navaronne
2. In Harms Way
3 The Green Berets.
That's all I have for now I'm sure there are a lot more. I'm currently watching the Guns of Navarrone as it's storming outside here and they are being ship wrecked from the storm. Makes it authentic!


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[Dave_n]

I think that the Battle of Britain was in the 1960s where they had to rent the Spanish Air Force for "relatively accurate Me109s". Zulu might also have been in the 1960s. Dave_n

 

[Bastogne71]

Longest Day 1962
Zulu 1964
In Harms Way 1965
The Great Escape 1963
And the anti-war film Dr. Strangelove 1964

 

[Rudi]

There were a lot. The Great Escape was fantastic.

 

[barbsaurus]

Lawrence of Arabia and True Grit! (but it's not a war movie)

 

[Mule Packer]

Where Eagles Dare 1968

 

[Onomea]

The Bridge on the River Kwai is pretty good. Oops! Just looked it up. 1957. Withdrawn.

 

[tominboise]

Battle of the Bulge -1965
Patton - 1970

 

[vytoland]

Sink The Bismarck 1960

 

[Texas Star]

Tough call. Probably, Lawrence of Arabia or, Zulu or, Battle of Britain. I lean toward the last. I won a critical review award for covering it in my college newspaper, and it can't br recreated today with so many real aircraft.

Brilliant cast, too.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

In "Sink the Bismarck" the actor who plays the captain of the Prince of Wales was on the bridge at the time-and was badly wounded.
In "The Longest Day" the actor Richard Todd who portrays Major John Howard jumped into Normandy with the British 6th Airborne Division.

 

[Absalom]

"The Longest Day", by a long shot.

Having different directors from the primary four different nationalities involved in the actual events recreate their respective segments with well-known actors from those countries, speaking the language, subtitled as needed, was a brilliant concept and really set this apart.

 

[GRIZZLYBEAR]

To name a few off the top my head:

The Great Escape
Spartacus
The Dirty Dozen
The Sand Pebbles
In Harms Way
Shenandoah
PT 109

 

[sheepdawg]

Don't forget Fail Safe 1964.

 

[rockquarry]

There were several very good war films made in the 1960s. The single "best" would have to be "The Great Escape", as already mentioned by a couple of posters. What remains as the "best" after that movie seems pretty secondary by comparison.

Considering everything that makes a good film, including story, cast, musical score, direction, etc., no other production quite has it. Even if "The Great Escape" had lacked the lengthy and thrilling one-of-a-kind chase scene, it had an unmatched cast and music by the best in the business, Elmer Bernstein. And if all those credentials weren't sufficient to make it number one, the film was directed by the undisputed greatest of the action film makers, John Sturges.

 

[steveno]

The Devil's Brigade with William Holden

 

[Cdog]

Y'all have covered the first ones to jump to mind well!

These were the first few.

In Harms Way
Battle Of The Bulge
The Green Berets

Robert Shaw plays a great role in Bulge.

The Longest Day is an epic of its time.

I'll add Kelly's Heroes and The Dirty Dozen.

 

[quikdraw67]

Tough call. Probably, Lawrence of Arabia or, Zulu or, Battle of Britain. I lean toward the last. I won a critical review award for covering it in my college newspaper, and it can't br recreated today with so many real aircraft.

Brilliant cast, too.

Agreed. The ME-109's and HE-111 came from Spain. Much better than CGI fakes.

I haven't seen the movie in years, but IIRC the RAF fighter shown was only the Spitfire. I don't remember seeing any Hurricanes, even though they were more numerous than the Spitfire during the Battle of Britain.

 

[mbliss57]

I forgot about several / most of those mentioned. All very good. The Battle of the Bulge, (my uncle was wounded there). The Great Escape is my favorite and I did just watch it only a couple of months back. Lawerence of Arabia, and The Longest Day or also favorites of mine.
One of my all time favorites is A Bridge Too Far but that is a 1970s film.

 

[steveno]

I think that the Battle of the Bulge was one of the worst. especially the tank battle at the end. there isn't any sage brush in Belgium an Luxembourg for one thing