3 greatest war movies

[Sgt Mickey]

Band of Brothers
Apocalypse Now
Saving Private Ryan

 

[sonofanarchy]

1.Rambo I
2.Rambo II
3.Rambo III

 

[JessicaR]

3. Apocalypse Now
2. Patton
1. Saving Private Ryan

Full Metal jacket replacing # 1 for me.

 

[DeaverTex]

Nobody's thinking about "We were Soldiers" in this? Maybe I liked it because it was "my" army, though. And because I've served with many of the characters in it. Not the real people, but with others who were pretty much exactly the same personalities. Particularly the battalion CSM!

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Nobody's thinking about "We were Soldiers" in this? Maybe I liked it because it was "my" army, though. And because I've served with many of the characters in it. Not the real people, but with others who were pretty much exactly the same personalities. Particularly the battalion CSM!

I thought of that, Glory, and Hamburger Hill. But, he only let us have 3

 

[low-key]

But, he only let us have 3

yep, and Im the boss of this thread

 

[Zooshoveller]

Saving Private Ryan

Empire of the Sun

300

 

[LBIJim]

Deer Hunter
Saving Private Ryan
Tora! Tora! Tora!

 

[Jafar30]

Saving Private Ryan
Patton
Lone Survivor

 

[SamRoc]

Well i hope this counts "The Best years of our Lives" its what happens when soldiers come home from war. My favorite film ever.

 

[Domo]

All Quiet on the Western Front

 

[pigletliz]

Well i hope this counts "The Best years of our Lives" its what happens when soldiers come home from war. My favorite film ever.

 

[dakcp2001]

1. Glory
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Cold Mountain ( lol I know, but I love that movie)

 

[Patch'sD]

Saving Private Ryan
Patton
Midway
Heaven Knows Mr Allison
In Harms Way
Dawn Patrol
The Fighting Seabees
All Quiet on The Western Front

Thank God for TCM

 

[Unas]

Catch 22
Zulu
Gallipoli

 

[DaretoDis]

The Longest Day

Von Ryan's Express

Das Boot

 

[Domo]

I second Das Boot and Zulu.

U571 is a good movie, but a bit offensive. It almost got banned over here, because the British sailors who retrieved the Enigma Machine were cast as Americans because it would play better in the cinema.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

I second Das Boot and Zulu.

U571 is a good movie, but a bit offensive. It almost got banned over here, because the British sailors who retrieved the Enigma Machine were cast as Americans because it would play better in the cinema.

Same goes for The Great Escape.

 

[LBIJim]

DW's choices:

Gone With the Wind
Pearl Harbor
"That one with Bon Jovi". (U-571)

 

[NotUrsula]

I'm assuming that the idea here is combat movies? My three best combat films would be:

Gallipoli
Das Boot (the German original)
Full Metal Jacket

The honorable mentions are too numerous to list (I majored in military history, with a minor in film studies), but I would second many of the ones previously mentioned (especially Zulu), and throw in a few more. Those would include The Thin Red Line, Letters from Iwo Jima, Paths of Glory, Grand Illusion, Kanal, Paisan, Ivan's Childhood, Kurosawa's Ran, The Battleship Potemkin, and Master and Commander. Also, I'd note a Brisish film made during WW2, and which was designed to be propaganda, but which is very compelling to watch nonetheless: Went the Day Well?