I have two favorites:
Patton. I never seem to get tired of watching Patton.
Midway. Not the new one. The one made in 1976 with lots
of footage from the actual battle.
What are your favorites?

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Midway; yeah the “real” one.
Apocalypse Now.
We Were Soldiers.

…. May be more, those were first to come to mind ….

If I had to pick one, it would be “To Hell and Back”. What other war movie starred the actual hero? It was also one of my Mom’s favorites and I remember watching it for the first time with her. I kind of think she had a thing for Mr. Murphy
Also my first toy weapon I can remember getting for Christmas was a Thompson in the configuration that was common during WWII. Played a lot of “cowboys and Indians” with it. Not exactly “period correct”

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I have a long list.

My grandson, Logan (13) likes 1917, Pearl Harbor, Hacksaw Ridge, We Were Soldiers and the newer Midway. He has watched Saving Private Ryan 12 times. I am glad that he is so interested in them as his level of military history is far past that of his peers.

The kid's learning.

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Oldies like:
All Quiet On The Western Front
Dawn Patrol
A Walk in the Sun
They Were Expendable
Casablanca
Sahara
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
A Guy Named Joe
The Story of G.I. Joe
Action in the North Atlantic
A Wing and a Prayer
The Best Years of Our Lives
12 O’Clock High
Destination Tokyo
Battleground
Pride of the Marines
Bataan
So Proudly We Hail
In Which We Serve
The Way Ahead
The Gift Horse
Malta

The some newer ones like:
Zulu
The Dirty Dozen
The Great Escape
Sands of Iwo Jima
Guns of Navanron
The Train
The Enemy Below
Pork Chop Hill
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Longest Day
A Bridge Too Far
The Eagle Has Landed
Midway (1976)
Tora! tora! Tora!

The some really new ones like:
Gettysburg
Glory
Hamburger Hill
We Were Young Once
Saving Private Ryan
Full Metal Jacket

There are many more but the list does gets shorter

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Great Escape... few others even come close. Great Escape was directed by John Sturges, certainly the best "action" director ever. Musical score was by Elmer Bernstein, perhaps the foremost in his business at the time. The cast was pretty much unmatched by the cast of other war movies. There is excellence in every aspect in this film, including the story.

How could I have forgot that one!? Thanks, added it to my list.

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Going with
Saving Private Ryan.

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"Band of Brothers", though it's maybe not technically a 'movie'. My wife and I watch it in its entirety at least once a year.

Too many, akin to Fordson's list, but do not forget Burt Lancaster's "Go Tell the Spartans".

In no particular order ...
All Quiet On The Western Front
A Walk in the Sun
Sahara
The Best Years of Our Lives
Bataan
Malta
The Great Escape
Guns of Navanron
Force 10 rom Navaron
The Longest Day
A Bridge Too Far
Saving Private Ryan
The Thin Red Line

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Battleground 1949.

Too many favorites to name them all, but In Harm's Way certainly is near the top of the list. A little known, but very good one is Hell In The Pacific. It only has two people in the entire film, Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune.

In addition to Band Of Brothers, there is the companion film, The Pacific, and of course, Saving Private Ryan

All quiet on the western front,
Hells angels,
Hacksaw ridge,
1917,
From here to eternity,
Pork chop hill,
Passhendaele,
Fury,
American sniper,
Zero dark thirty,
War horse,
Das boot,
Sgt york,
Master and commander,
The dirty dozen,
Glory,
The killing fields,
The guns of navarone,
Inglorious *******s,
Twelve o'clock high,
Three kings,
Deer hunter,
Full metal jacket,
Stalag 17,
The hurt locker,
Apocalypse now.

Sergeant York

Too many to list off the top of my head.

Two older standouts:
Cross of Iron
Blackhawk Down

A very recent new favorite:
Greyhound

To numerous to list.

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Battleground
Saving Private Ryan
Platoon
Fury
Patton
Stalag 17
12 o’clock high
Memphis Belle
Sargent York
Blackhawk down
M*A*S*H
Run Silent Run Deep
Midway (old )
30 seconds over Tokyo
Bridge over the river Kwai
Heart Break Ridge
Sands of Iwo Jima
The Longest Day
The Dirty Dozen
The Bridges of Toko Rai

Twelve O'clock High
Battleground
They Were Expendable
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

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Another older favorite I don’t see on any of the lists yet:

Enemy at the Gates

The Enemy Below 1957...Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens

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The Story of G.I. Joe, 1945

Hmmm...in no particular order...and thinking a little outside the box in what constitutes a "war movie"...(some are more comedy than war film)...

Twelve O'Clock High

Where Eagles Dare

The Guns of Navarone

Patton

They Were Expendable

Bataan

Sergeant York

Run Silent, Run Deep

Operation Petticoat

Stalag 17

The Dogs of War

The Band of Brothers mini-series

PT-109

Mister Roberts

The Caine Mutiny

Casablanca

Das Boot

The Enemy Below

The Bedford Incident

Full Metal Jacket

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

The Train

From Here To Eternity

The Dirty Dozen

M*A*S*H

one of my favorite "Kelly's Hero's"

Casablanca, and anything with the Duke in it

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"Heaven knows, Mr. Allison", with Robert Mitchum.

Guess being a US Military historian and collector sort of ruins just about anything hollywood puts out. Band of Brothers seems to be the best with little hollywood garbage thrown in.
Kelly’s Hero’s is my favorite too, look at all the big names in it. Like “ **** Game” ( Don Rickles)says, “ make a Deal, Deal”, LOL

I have seen “ Hell is for Heroes” only one time. The many stations from DIREC TV never air it anymore. Lotta good character actors in it.
Look up the title … Using IMDB .
The premise & basic story line is based on the 95th Infantry and their struggle to get through France “ Lorraine Campaign “. Ultimately to win the siege battle of Metz & Fort Durant.
95th was my Dad’s outfit
( Welcome to Germany ; Thanks go to the 95th)

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The Dirty Dozen
Kelly's Hero
Sand Pebbles
Where Eagles Dare
Twelve O'Clock High
Battle of the Bulge

If you watch a movie and look for mistakes then the movie becomes something of a bust or laughable. An example is "TOP GUN". When we first watched it we picked it apart. Why you ask? Well, we were operating off a carrier at the time, just watching the deck and flying scenes, we picked out numerous things that were wrong. But when you don't look at those it is a pretty entertaining movie.

Also add in the movie "The Bridges at Toko-Ri" with William Holden.

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"Enemy at the Gates"
"Platoon"
"Patton"
"Apocalypse Now"

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Go tell the Spartans. Early Viet Nam war flick with Burt Lancaster.

A lot of really good movies listed above. When I saw the OP, the first one that popped into my mind was "Run Silent, Run Deep".

Nobody has mentioned Downfall.

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Platoon and Das Boot top the list for me. Not exactly rah rah glory films but absolutely fantastic movies.

My all time favorite: Never so Few. The rest

The Enemy Below
Patton
The Sandpebbles. fantastic soundtrack
To Hell and Back
Midway. The original

Big red one,
Lee Marvin and a bunch of kids

1. Rough Riders. Probably the only movie we'll ever see on the War of 1898.
2. Attack and Retreat/Italiani Brave Gente. Makes you really feel for those poor slobs on the Eastern Front.

Had forgotten about "Rough Riders". Very good! It seems that almost every war picture put out by Turner Pictures was good.

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Without a doubt my favorite is Rough Riders.

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Von Ryan's Express, not sure it's my favorite but the producer has my name. He also did Bridges of Toco Ri. That was pretty good too.

Bridges at Toko Ri was a good one; I think it would easily make my top ten war movie list if I had a list. Von Ryan's Express probably would not, but it was still a pretty decent war film.

I’m surprised only one other person mentioned In Harm’s Way. I’ve seen that movie a number of times and always enjoyed it.

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I read the book, Von Ryan's Express when I was a teenager, several years before I got to see the film. The book was really good, but I was disappointed with the film after seeing it; there were many changes made that I felt were either unnecessary for the story line or ruined it altogether. In the book, Major Oriani, the Italian officer who helped Ryan and the others escape, was the real Italian bad guy, and the Commandant of the camp, Col. Battaglia, was the one sympathetic to the prisoners. Another change was the arrangement of the prison train; the film had the command car at the back of the train and the guards on top of the cars facing forward. The book has the command car behind the engine tender and the guards facing the rear of the train, which makes infinitely more sense to guard against soldiers dropping from under the cars, plus keeps the guards' backs to the wind as the train moved forward. Quite a few other changes like that, and Colonel Ryan doesn't get killed in the book. I also didn't care for Frank Sinatra as Von Ryan, or Trevor Howard as Major Fincham.

Lawrence of Arabia

As a kid, I read the book before I saw the movie. Not the normal war movie, but good.

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Missed two, bridge on the river Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia

Empire Strikes Back
Attack of the Clones
Rise of Skywalker

Our perspectives on movies are very different and that's as it should be. In my opinion only, many of the films listed in this thread aren't excellent war films, but are "pretty good and worth watching - once". "Von Ryan's Express" is a good example.

Additionally, with regard to facts...historical inaccuracy doesn't bother me. Some are quite critical of a lack of correctness but they'll continue to watch a film even after they're aware it contains historical flaws. I don't expect a factual account in something intended as entertainment. The true story might not be nearly as good as the fictionalized version. I'll read a dull history book if I want facts.