Your top ten war movies.

Priest · Oct 29, 2003

I am still new to this forum so forgive me if I have repeated a thread. So what are your top ten war movies? Well to start things off here is my list.

1. The Great Escape (the one with Steve McQueen)
2. Von Ryans Express
3. Mr. Roberts
4. The Caine Mutiny
5. The Bridge Over the River Kwai
6. A Bridge too Far
7, Patton
8. PT-109
9. Saving Private Ryan
10. Henry V

tigersqn · Oct 29, 2003

1. Patton
2. A Bridge Too Far
3. Saving Private Ryan
4. We Were Soldiers
5. The Devil's Brigade
6. The Longest Day
7. Midway
8. Tora! Tora! Tora!
9. Von Ryan's Express
10. Braveheart

nemo · Oct 29, 2003

In no particular order :

- Paths of glory (Kubrick)
- Full metal jacket (Kubrick)
- Cross of Iron (Peckinpah)
- Capitaine Conan (Tavernier)
- Das Boot (Petersen)
- Apocalypse now (Coppola)
- Saving private Ryan (Spielberg) [for its first half-hour]
- The thin red line (Malick)
- The longest day (Zanuck)
- Lawrence of Arabia (Lean)

nemo

LaPalice · Oct 29, 2003

Not in a particular order :
- Come And See (Requiem pour un massacre in French).
- Path of Glory (censured during a long period in France).
- L’armée des Ombres, The Shadow Armies in English (don't know the axact title in English), a French movie about the Resistance.
- The Dirty Dozen.
- Band of Brothers.
- Apocalypse Now.
- The Cow and the Prisoner (a French movie with Fernandel).
- Full Metal Jacket.
- Blackhawk down.
I would like to say Gettisburg but I haven’t watched it yet. I don’t despear.

LaPalice.

jlbetin · Oct 29, 2003

hé hé French invasion !!!!

Seriously

- Save private Ryan
- Captain Conan, one rare film about French fight in Orient Front in 1918-1920
- Das Boot, describe the true life in German Uboot
- Apocalyspe Now with a marvelous soundtrack of the Doors "This is the End"
- Path of Glory ( very sad, was censored 30 or 40 years in France)
-Stalingrad - > 2 films one by a german and the other with the fight of the 2 snipers
- Seven samouraï
- We were Soldiers, a very very good one I read the book too
- La Chambre des Officiers ( about broken face officiers in WW1)
- Tora Tora Tora
- Waterloo russian film by Cyril Koundarchouk
- Band of Brother
- Le Pantalon rouge TV film about the condition of French soldiers in 1915
- J'Accuse of Abel Gance a pamphlet film against war, made in end 30's when noise of Boots was rising over europe
- Gladiator for the 1st 20mn when Roman Legions attacks the German
- La 217ème Section ( a lost french section in Jungle just after Dien bien Phu)
- Hamburger Hill ( not sure of title)

Choice made by my other French colleagues please me too

There are others films probably but they are out my memory at now

Der Wanderer

screamer · Oct 29, 2003

das boot
A bridge to far
saving private ryan
longest day
soldaat van oranje [soldier of orange, dutch movie about the resistance]
full methal jacket
cross of iron
band of brothers
lawrence of arabia
patton

in no particular order

Tim McBride · Oct 29, 2003

1.)Patton
Black Hawk Down
We Were Soliders
Tora Tora Tora
Gods & Generals
To Hell & Back
Das Boot
The Bridge Over the River Kwai
Gettysburg
10.)Saving Private Ryan

laszlo.nemedi · Oct 29, 2003

jlbetin said:
hé hé French invasion !!!!
...
- Hamburger Hill ( not sure of title)

...

Der Wanderer

Some Hungarian intervention...

Anyway Hamburger is allowed in USA, or we should call it Freedomer?

Good War Movies:

khmmm, I will come back when one is coming to my mind...

Black Moria · Oct 29, 2003

In no particular order:

Blackhawk Down
Siege of Firebase Gloria
Green Berets
Cross of Iron
Zulu
The Longest Day
We were Soldiers
Battle of Britain
Saving Private Ryan
Band of Brothers
Enemy at the Gates

MikeJ · Oct 29, 2003

I'll just add one no one else mentioned:

All Quiet on the Western Front (b/w)

jlbetin · Oct 29, 2003

MikeJ said:
I'll just add one no one else mentioned:

All Quiet on the Western Front (b/w)

Yes a marvellous film, from a Novell "Im Westen nichts Neues", of Erich Maria Remarque http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/RemarqueErichMaria

For French Reader -> A l'ouest rien de nouveau

I agree with you Mike

Der WanderLeser

Wolfe Tone · Oct 29, 2003

The Year of the French…just shown on TV, about General Humbert’s landing in Ireland to help us out in 1798.

Some Mothers Son,… about the Hunger Strikers in the North.

Michael Collins, about the Irish Terr… sorry Guerrilla leader who fought the British.

The Blue Max, forgotten WWI film about German Air Aces.

Waterloo, Rod Steiger as the man himself. Also my cousins Uncle (Dan O’Herlihy) plays Marshal Ney.

Dr. Zhivago…never run after Blondes on Trams, bad for the heart you see.

War and Peace. Audrey Hepburn plays Natasha. Great book too.

Das Boot….8 hour version….the best ever.

Saving Private Ryan….for the action sequences…..anyway Ryan’s a good Irish name!

Spartacus…always fight back brothers!

The Charge of the Light Brigade….Captain Nolan points in the wrong direction and sends the 600 to their doom…another good Irish name!

Glory….Battery Wagner must be taken Boys.

Lawrence of Arabia, Irish born Peter O’Toole plays the flawed hero.

Zulu, ….Welsh troops defend Rorkes Drift against African fanatics….the power of the Martini-Henry!

Paths Of Glory…they should have shown this in 1914!

Plenty of other goods pictures out there too.

PS This is more than 10 so you'll have to pick 10 out of this lot.

Brevet · Oct 30, 2003

In order:
Pork ChopHill
Zulu
Das Boot
Ulzana’s Raid
The Last of the Mohicans (1992 version)
Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Paths of Glory
Gettysburg (I love the line about “fighting for our rats”; it kills me every time)
:TRUCE:

Tzar · Oct 30, 2003

Rather than listing 10, I'll list the war movies who have moved me the most:

WWII:

-The Dirty Dozen
-A Bridge Too Far
-Schindler's List

Vietnam:

-Full Metal Jacket
-We Were Soldiers

Modern:

-Black Hawk Down

On top of that, the best war scene I have ever watched is the first 30 minutes of Saving Private Ryan. I was blown away and it made me forever admirative of the brave soldiers who landed into such hell.

nemo · Oct 30, 2003

Tzar said:
On top of that, the best war scene I have ever watched is the first 30 minutes of Saving Private Ryan. I was blown away and it made me forever admirative of the brave soldiers who landed into such hell.

Yes indeed; I do not know of any other war movie filmed in such a way or even approaching the effect produced by this first half-hour. Purely and simply rivets you to your armchair and leaves you stunned.

nemo

ER_Chaser · Oct 30, 2003

tigersqn said:
1. Patton
2. A Bridge Too Far
3. Saving Private Ryan
4. We Were Soldiers
5. The Devil's Brigade
6. The Longest Day
7. Midway
8. Tora! Tora! Tora!
9. Von Ryan's Express
10. Braveheart

I like all these (but not necessarily agree upon the order

)
... however... Braveheart ... a war movie? I thought it was more like a drama... :bandit:

tigersqn · Oct 30, 2003

ER_Chaser said:
I like all these (but not necessarily agree upon the order )
... however... Braveheart ... a war movie? I thought it was more like a drama... :bandit:

Maybe. But it has decent battle scenes anyway.

KG_RangerBooBoo · Oct 30, 2003

Here are my ten in no particular order.
1. Stalag 17
2. 12 O'clock High
3. Gettysburg
4. Zulu
5. Das Boot
6. Mister Roberts
7. Caine Mutiny
8. Saving Private Ryan
9. Blackhawk Down
10. The Alamo

I see several of these are mentioned quite a bit but I have a few favorites that haven't been mentioned before.

LaPalice · Oct 30, 2003

I don’t know if it can be considered as a war movie, but I like Hogan’s Heroes too, if it is the exact title, with Colonel Klink, Schultze…

LaPalice.

Kraut · Oct 31, 2003

most good movies were already mentioned, here are some that are still missing:

Die Brücke
Talvisota (Winter War)
When Trumpets Fade
Band of Brothers
Stalingrad
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Killing Fields

Your top ten war movies.

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