A list of war movies

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Dadx4 said:
"The Blue Max" w/George Peppard - WWI movie cluttered with love affair and politics, but utterly beautiful flying sequences that were not computer generated - really flown by pilots in restored Camels and Triplanes.
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It's a fun movie, but tainted by the fact that the IDIOTS armed the entire German Imperial Army with SMLE's :D
 
I was kinda afraid to post some more of war movies, but seeing some others suggested, I'll toss in one more.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb , 'nuff said.
 
A Bridge Too Far
Sgt. York
Band of Brothers
Blackhawk Down
While not really a war movie but set in WWII---Casablanca
 
"The Best Years of Our Lives". It's not my favorite war movie—that would be Platoon, or Private Ryan—but this is one of the best ever made. My father served in the Pacific, my uncle in Europe. I'd like to think that this movie informed me about their culture and context in coming home, although they were part of the "never talk about it" generation." 1946. Pretty fresh. 7 academy awards. If you care about any aspect of war beyond the smell of napalm in the morning, this is a real must see flick. If it doesn't resonate with anyone who has been through major physical trauma, or who has a good imagination, your need to call your local coroner, 'cause you are probably flatlining.

AWARDS:

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Fredric March

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Harold Russell

Best Director
William Wyler

Best Film Editing
Daniel Mandell

Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Hugo Friedhofer

Best Picture
Samuel Goldwyn

Best Writing, Screenplay
Robert E. Sherwood

Nominated Oscar Best Sound, Recording
Gordon Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn SSD)

Honorary Award
Harold Russell
For bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans through his appearance in The Best Years of Our Lives.
 
The Wild Geese was just recently released on DVD, not really a war movie, but one of my favorites.

Jubei
 
Stalag 17, Bold And The Brave, Attack!, The Dirty Dozen,They Were Expendable, Wake Island, die Brücke , Hell Is For Heroes

There were also some excellent films made about the Korean War: Pork Chop Hill, Men In War,Prisoner Of War,Target Zero
 
They were expendable John Wayne and Pt Boats
Attack force z Mel Gibson surpressed greese guns
none but the brave
Devils brigade
the great escape
gardens of stone
the wild geese you just got to love the .38 and the grenade to balance out the coat.
Patrick
 
"The Bedford Incident". Richard Widmark, Sidney Portier, Martin Balsam, Wally Cox, Danno from Hawaii Five-O, that commie Donald Sutherland (1st movie role, bit part) and some German guy. Great Cold War Movie. So real, the U.S. Navy would not cooperate and they had to make it at Pinewood Studios in London, England. The supporting cast is all British as are the war ships.

"Battle of Britain". Has the most real WW II era aircraft of any movie ever made. Only the Stukas were models. No computer crap here, its the real deal. Gen. Adof Galland, Luftwaffe fighter ace was the technical advisor. During the shoot, on a whim, he took an ME 109 up for a joy ride. (actually it was a Spanish Air Force 109, yes Spain was still flying 109's in the later 1960's)
 
CraigJS said:
Seige of Firebase Gloria..
I work with an ex Marine that said R. Lee Ermy, as a real life DI was just like the role he played in SOFG. Give it a look see...
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And more famously as the DI in "Full Metal Jacket". Ermy was also a helicopter pilot in "Apocolypse Now".
 
All of the ones I thought of have been mentioned except "A Very Long Engagement". It is in French with English subtitles. The story is set in the trenches of WWI. It is the story of a french woman looking for her missing boyfriend right after the end of the war,all war scenes are flashbacks of the soldiers inerviewed by her. Jodie Foster has a small part in it.

CW
 
A couple that I haven't seen on the list yet:
Last of the Mochicans
Death before Dishonor
Heartbreak Ridge
To hell and Back
 
["The Best Years of Our Lives". It's not my favorite war movie—that would be Platoon, or Private Ryan—but this is one of the best ever made. My father served in the Pacific, my uncle in Europe. I'd like to think that this movie informed me about their culture and context in coming home, although they were part of the "never talk about it" generation." 1946. Pretty fresh. 7 academy awards. If you care about any aspect of war beyond the smell of napalm in the morning, this is a real must see flick. If it doesn't resonate with anyone who has been through major physical trauma, or who has a good imagination, your need to call your local coroner, 'cause you are probably flatlining.

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+1 for this one. A great movie!
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The DVD set "Space Above and Beyond" just came out. It a great Sci-fic war. It seems like it is based on WW2 and Nam USMC war stories. It also has Gunny Emery in the first episode playing the drill instructor. It is well written and has some interesting twist in the story lines
 
justsurvivingincalifornia said:
The DVD set "Space Above and Beyond" just came out. It a great Sci-fic war. It seems like it is based on WW2 and Nam USMC war stories. It also has Gunny Emery in the first episode playing the drill instructor. It is well written and has some interesting twist in the story lines
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Ditto that. It was a great but short-lived series based on the excellent series "Combat!" It's what the horrible abomination of a film "Starship Troopers" should have been. It owes much to "Aliens" but as the season evolved the show expanded beyond the "leathernecks in space" and moved into some very interesting conflicts involving racism, technology and the nature of the enemy. The plots were taken primarily from WWII events, with one episode mirroring Doolittle's raid on Japan and another referencing the Port Chicago dockyard explosion.

It took them a decade to get the DVD out, and from the reviews it appears to be the no-frills version with minimal special features and cheap double-sided DVD's. Even so it's absolutely worth getting for any war movie buff. Like "Firefly," it was one of the best TV shows nobody ever saw.
 
Von Richthofen and Brown, which, curiously, imdb.com lists as Red Baron. A WWI air combat film that is better than Blue Max, IMHO.

Deer Hunter (Viet Nam war)
Schindler's List (WWII)
 
Anzio
Apocolypse Now
A Bridge Too Far
American Guerrilla in the Phillipines
Air Force
The Angry Hills

Big Red 1
Beach Red
The Beast
Beachhead

Command Decision

Dr. Strangelove
The Dirty Dozen
The Devils Brigade
D-Day

The Enemy Below

From Here to Eternity
Full Metal Jacket
Force-10 from Navarone
Fighter Squadron
Flying Leathernecks
Fixed Bayonets

The Gallant Hours
Guns of Navarone
Guadalcanal Diary
Go for broke
The Great Escape
Gray Lady Down
G.I. Joe

In Harm's Way
Ice Station Zebra
In Love and War

Kelly's Heroes

The Longest Day
Lawrence of Arabia

The Mountain Road
Midway

The Naked and the Dead
Navy SEALS

Objective Burma
One Minute to Zero

Play Dirty
Pork Chop Hill
Patton
Platoon
The Patriot

Red Dawn
Run Silent, Run Deep

Up Periscope

Von Ryan's Express
The War Lover
Where Eagle's Dare
A Walk in the Sun
Windtalkers
We were Soldiers
The Wild Geese
 
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