War Movies

[rayjay]

The Odd Angry Shot - Aussie platoon in veitnam

Full Metal Jacket

Kelly's Hero's

Pebble Beach

 

[OH25shooter]

My favorite (newer) war era flicks:

WWl = The Lost Battalion

WWll = Band of Brother's, Saving Private Ryan, Das Boot, Enemy at the Gates, Tora-Tora-Tora, U-571, The Great Escape, When Trumpets Fade, Pearl Harbor.

VietNam = Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Tigerland, Southern Comfort.

 

[M2HMGHB]

Retreat Hell portrayed during Korea was about the Marine withdrawl at the Chosin Resevoir(sp?)(if I remember correctly that is, misplaced my copy on VHS :banghead: ) Also the movie Breakthrough was pretty good. There are a lot of other's that I've seen but cant remember the names of them.

Scott

 

[Swamprabbit]

For me, I really don't want to see Sgt. York remade. Gary Cooper actually spent time with Alvin York and gave them film a flavor of the times. I can live with the '03 vs. 1917 thing as well as the fact that Cooper used a luger rather than a 1911 in his famous stopping of a charging squad of Germans. To me, some things are best left as is. I also can't see any other person other than Walter Brennan doing the preacher.

Think of this, how would you like seeing a remake of the file with Alec Baldwin playing Alvin York and Martin Sheen the preacher? I am sure that they could find a way to weave something about Iraq (probably with a scene where York is visited by spirits, during a native American ritual, warning about overuse of American power in Iraq).

With that said, "The Lost Battalion" was a really good flick along with many others already listed.

 

[Mad Man]

For me, I really don't want to see Sgt. York remade. Gary Cooper actually spent time with Alvin York and gave them film a flavor of the times. I can live with the '03 vs. 1917 thing as well as the fact that Cooper used a luger rather than a 1911 in his famous stopping of a charging squad of Germans. To me, some things are best left as is.

I would think that if those details are important, digital film technology could take care of the weapons without having to remake the entire film.

Of course, if Steven Spielberg were in charge of the project, he would probably have Sgt. York charging the Germans with a radio in his hand.

 

[hops]

I'm not even certain that Hollyweird could legally remake Sgt. York. In order to make the original movie, Sgt. York as he authorized the movie, stipulated that , only Gary Cooper could assume the movie role of Sgt. York. No Gary Cooper, no movie.

 

[Nathanael_Greene]

The Longest Day

Battleground (which my Dad said was required viewing when he was training with the 101st during the Korean War)

Destination Tokyo (Cary Grant's other WWII submarine movie)

Air Force (the prototypical WWII Hollywood propaganda movie, starring the incomparable John Garfield)

Captain Horatio Hornblower

Lifeboat (sort of a war movie, anyway)

Stalingrad (a German production; maybe the most depressing war movie ever)

Victory Through Air Power (a Disney animated film)

Star Wars (well...it's got "war" in the title, doesn't it?)

That'll do for a start...

 

[OEF_VET]

Don't forget THe Bridge Over the River Kwai. One helluva good movie.

Also, Attack Force Z, about Australian Commandoes during WW2 was good, but I don't believe it's available on VHS or DVD. I remember seeing it on TBS quite a bit when I was a kid though.

Pork Chop Hill was a good Korean War movie.

Go For Broke, about the 442nd RCT in WW2 was good.

 

[MrKandiyohi]

Another, not so great, Korean War film is called The Glory Brigade. Its a B&W starring Victor Mature about a US group, along with a Greek unit, going on a reconnoissance mission behind enemy lines.

Pork Chop Hill is a great Korean War film and a great war film in general.

 

[Johnpl]

"The War Lover" starring Steve McQueen...the 8th Air Force in WWII.
"Twelve O'Clock High" starring Gregory Peck...ditto the above.

 

[tyme]

I don't find battle scenes that fascinating - not a military history nerd.

But if anything involving a war counts, Henry V and Empire of the Sun are my favorites.

 

[Silver Bullet]

Enemy at the Gates
Also a great sniper movie.

 

[rayra]

Real easy to take a shot at Spielberg's revisionism of E.T. - but he was also a Co-Producer of 'Band of Brothers' so your glib put down really doesn't hold up so well.

M2HMGHB, 'Retreat Hell' thanks. Took a look on Amazon, yike$.

 

[Ant Mod]

if you look overseas you will find some great war flicks

There is an independant movie about the Bosnian/Serbian war. Its about two opposition soldiers that fall into the same trench and must survive together. It also shows how ridiculous and useless the UN is (obviously a great point and the best I have ever seen in a movie.) Blockbuster carries it under the foreign film section. Its a great movie.

 

[BowStreetRunner]

ive heard of that one
ill have to check it out ant mod

 

[Correia]

Siege of Firebase Gloria. A must watch movie for anybody who likes R. Lee Ermey.

Lost Brigade was great.

I really enjoyed Black Hawk Down.

To Hell and Back was pretty amazing considering that Audie Murphy played himself, and that it was not really exagerated from the true story!

Savior with Dennis Quaid is a little known movie about Bosnia. Possibly one of the bleakest movies you can watch. Very depressing, but well done.

 

[OEF_VET]

Ant Mod and BSR,

The title of that movie is No Man's Land , and it's a great movie. The absolute hatred between the ethnic groups in the Balkans is unbelievable and they movie does a good job of portraying it.

 

[CMichael]

I loved the "Great Escape"

 

[MuzzleBlast]

VietNam = Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Tigerland, Southern Comfort

Is there more than one movie called "Southern Comfort?" The one I remember seeing was about a Louisiana national guard unit running afoul of a bunch of Cajuns.

 

[MuzzleBlast]

Why are we so captivated by war movies? The good ones always alternate between harrowing, horrifying and deeply tragic, and occasionally electrifying and exilarating.
I guess I just answered my own question. War movies are a lot more engaging than your average romantic comedy.

My picks, in addition to the lists above:
Patton
Apocalypse Now ("Never get out of the f*ing boat. Absolutely GD right.")
Gods and Generals
Gettysburg (fast-forward through the Gen. Lee soliloquy)
All those John Wayne movies
Zulu Dawn

 

[Viking6]

"Retreat Hell" was pretty good. I remember seeing it when I was a teen. Frank Lovejoy played the Marine commander , would that have been Smith? Great scene when the Chicoms burst into the CP and he blated with his M-1 carbine. I did a battle study on Fox Hill over twenty years ago. That would make a great movie. IIRC,Fox Company, either 1st or 5th Regiment, held a hill with a lot of Corsair support for several days allowing the rest of the Marines to get out of a valley and on the road to Hamnung. Every officer, I believe, was wounded. The Chicoms attacked in the middle of the night and they fought them off and continued fighting for daysunti they joined the "attack in another direction". One PFC (Carrera or something from New Jersey) was firing his Garand while a wounded Marine was passing him loaded rifles. At one point, he swats a grenade like a baseball. When the fighting subsided, he realized he had been fighting all night in either zero 0r subzero weather in his socks. I beleive he received the CMH. Zulu Dawn was good; the quartermaster officer or whatever had everyone with their requisition form in a queue while the Zulus were overrunning the column. I had also read that they couldn't open the ammo boxes because they lacked a tool to open the brass banding material (I purposely didn't say brass bands).