Top 10 (or more) War Movies-List your favorites

[Joewisc]

Had a lot of responses to favorite Westerns so let's do war movies. Here are some of mine, not necessarily in order:

1. Saving Private Ryan (the opening sequence was amazing)
2. Inglorious Basterds (The nazi, Col. Landa made this film).
3. Braveheart (Mel's best)
4. The Pianist (harrowing and moving)
5. The Deer Hunter (OK, maybe the Russian roulette scene never really happened in real life but who can forget it?)
6. Dr. Strangelove (Tour de force by Peter Sellers and Sterling Hayden as the wacko general; and then there's Bat Guano shooting the Coke machine) Notice my avatar, General Buck Turgidson hears the news about the "Doomsday Bomb"
7. Enemy at the Gates (snipers duel it out)
8. From Here to Eternity (Lancaster was always one of my favorite actors)
9. The Bridge on the River Kwai (Alec Guinness shines)
10. Sergeant York (Gary Cooper is the man)

Probably left out a lot more. Your turns.

 

[Harrison]

The Longest Day
A Bridge To Far
Tora Tora Tora

 

[Black_Sheep]

Saving Private Ryan
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
We Were Soldiers
The Longest Day
Apocalypse Now
The Hurt Locker
Windtalkers
Battle of the Bulge
Kelly's Heroes

 

[LedFowl]

They Were Expendable
Twelve O'Clock High
Sink the Bismark
Sand Pebbles
Lawrence of Arabia

 

[Marshwheeling]

Mr. Roberts

 

[Straightshooter2]

Again in no order:
The Longest Day
Sands of Iwo Jima
Stalag 17
The Bridges at Toko Ri
The Enemy Below
In Harms Way
The Flying Tigers
M.A.S.H.
Full Metal Jacket
The Green Berets
We Were Soldiers
Tora Tora Tora (My squadron C.O. flew an A6M in the movie and had a Japanese Battle Flag patch on his flight jacket.)
Platoon
The next two are not actually war movies as such but much of them revolves around the War of the Northern Aggression.
Gone With The Wind
Shenandoah


You did say 10 or more.

How could I forget "Bridge On The River Kwai."

CW

 

[Roadtrash]

Add to all the others is not a movie but a mini series or whatever:

Band of Brothers

 

[Dennis The B]

In no particular order -
In Harm's Way
Saving Private Ryan
Das Boot
We Were Soldiers
Tora! Tora! Tora!
The Enemy Below
All Quiet On The Western Front (1930 version)
Stalag 17
The Longest Day
Twelve o'Clock High
Master And Commander, The Far Side of The World
(Sorry, couldn't keep it to just ten)

 

[semperfi71]

1. Bataan
2. Sands of Iwo Jima
3. Wake Island
4. Back to Bataan
5. They Were Expendable
6. The one with Steve McQueen where he carries a M3 Sub-gun and dives into the pillbox with the satchel explosives.
7. The Flying Tigers
8. The Sand Pebbles
9. From Here to Eternity
10. In Harms Way
11. The Great Escape
12. Saving Private Ryan
13. The one where the U.S. Army has landed in Africa and moves inland to ultimately a farmhouse and has to cross a tall grass field to take it. Made in the early 1950s.
14. Guadalcanal Diary
15. The Flying Leathernecks
16. Flags of Our Fathers
17. Letters From Home
18. The Longest Day
19. Lawrence of Arabia
20. The one where Teddy Roosevelt sends in the Marines to save Candice Bergman from Sean Connery. Done by John Miluis I think.

There's now way anybody truly has only "ten" favorite war movies!!

 

[ogilvyspecial]

"Go Tell The Spartans" (Burt Lancaster) is right up near the top of my short list.

A close friend did multiple tours in Vietnam (5th Special Forces) and said that the
above movie was about as accurate a depiction of what it was like for him as any movie you
were likely to see. Based on that, the only thing that comes to mind is the acronym, snafu.

 

[rdcl]

(1)Band Of Brothers (series)
(2)Das Boot
(3)Saving Private Ryan
(4)The Bridges At Toko-Ri
(5)The Longest Day
(6)Go Tell The Spartans
(7)The Red Badge Of Courage (original)
(8)Gettysburg
(9)Sgt. York
(10)Air Force

.....as a side note...."Band Of Brothers" is with out a doubt the very best multi-part series ever committed to television IMHO regardless of genre. While not technically a "movie".....it deserves mention.


Russ

 

[Ghost_Soldier]

Saving Private Ryan
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
The Dirty Dozen
Missing in Action
We Were Soldiers
Black Hawk Down
Battle of the Bulge
Pork Chop Hill
Kelly's Heroes

 

[samwood]

Rough Riders
The Wind and the Lion
Band of Brothers
Lawrence of Arabia
Letters from Iwo Jima
Saving Private Ryan
Braveheart
Enemies at the Gate
Kingdom of Heaven
The Patriot
Apocalypse Now
Thin Red Line
Last of the Mohicans
Soldier of Orange

 

[breakingbad]

This is soooo hard, but here is the definitive list, in order, case closed:

ZULU - all else pale

THE HURT LOCKER - 2nd best ever, and not bec it was the most recent

and the rest:
THE GREAT ESCAPE
THE LONGEST DAY
PLATOON
APOCALYPSE NOW
THE DIRTY DOZEN
SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
FULL METAL JACKET
PATTON
honorable mention: GLORY

 

[carpriver]

Band of Brothers
Pacific
Red Tails

I don't watch Vietnam war movies.

Saving Private Ryan.

 

[steamloco76]

My list is not in order, nor complete.

The Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan
The Devil's Brigade
All Quite On The Western Front(the original)
We Were Soldiers
Enemy At The Gates
Zulu
Glory
The Big Red One
Hamburger Hill
The Battle of Britain (awesome aerial combat montage)
A Bridge Too Far
The Guns of Naverone
The Sands of Iwo Jima
Midway
TORA TORA TORA
Run Silent, Run Deep
Das Boot (Subtitle version PLEASE!!)
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Letters From Iwo Jima
Where Eagles Dare

 

[Texas Star]

1. Bataan
2. Sands of Iwo Jima
3. Wake Island
4. Back to Bataan
5. They Were Expendable
6. The one with Steve McQueen where he carries a M3 Sub-gun and dives into the pillbox with the satchel explosives.
7. The Flying Tigers
8. The Sand Pebbles
9. From Here to Eternity
10. In Harms Way
11. The Great Escape
12. Saving Private Ryan
13. The one where the U.S. Army has landed in Africa and moves inland to ultimately a farmhouse and has to cross a tall grass field to take it. Made in the early 1950s.
14. Guadalcanal Diary
15. The Flying Leathernecks
16. Flags of Our Fathers
17. Letters From Home
18. The Longest Day
19. Lawrence of Arabia
20. The one where Teddy Roosevelt sends in the Marines to save Candice Bergman from Sean Connery. Done by John Miluis I think.

There's now way anybody truly has only "ten" favorite war movies!!

"The Wind and the Lion"?


Did anyone mention, "Patton", "Battle of Britain", or "Midway"? "To Hell and Back", actually starring the real Audie Murphy, MH?

"Never So Few" is a favorite. Frank Sinatra, Steve McQueen and Peter Whatisname who was an in-law of the Kennedys. (Lawford?) They were OSS operatives in Burma who killed a bunch of Chinese bandits and set off a political crisis. I think Gina Lollabrigida was the dame, won by Sinatra.

 

[perrazi]

the candice bergen film is wind and the lion. best sean connery movie ever. guess i thought of her before the other people in the film. easy to do since she was one of the most gorgeous women in the world at that time and still is very pretty.

 

[gdnagle]

1. Bataan
2. Sands of Iwo Jima
3. Wake Island
4. Back to Bataan
5. They Were Expendable
6. The one with Steve McQueen where he carries a M3 Sub-gun and dives into the pillbox with the satchel explosives.
7. The Flying Tigers
8. The Sand Pebbles
9. From Here to Eternity
10. In Harms Way
11. The Great Escape
12. Saving Private Ryan
13. The one where the U.S. Army has landed in Africa and moves inland to ultimately a farmhouse and has to cross a tall grass field to take it. Made in the early 1950s.
14. Guadalcanal Diary
15. The Flying Leathernecks
16. Flags of Our Fathers
17. Letters From Home
18. The Longest Day
19. Lawrence of Arabia
20. The one where Teddy Roosevelt sends in the Marines to save Candice Bergman from Sean Connery. Done by John Miluis I think.

There's now way anybody truly has only "ten" favorite war movies!!

6 Is Hell Is for Heros
13 sounds like A Walk In The Sun - 1945 Plot Summary - In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to attempt to take a fortified farmhouse, as tension and casualties mount. They cross a grassey field. with Dana Andrews - a medic is killed by the beach by a German plane?

 

[jlrhiner]

Battleground
Enemy Below
And there was one where Alan Ladd played a Mormon Naval Officer. Great destroyer footage.