Start of with a list of what I've seen.... Saving Private Ryan Blackhawk Down The Green Berets Platoon The Lost Battalion Gallipoli The Odd Angry Shot The Longest Day Glory When Trumpets Fade The Battle of the Bulge Stalingrad The Lost Command Full Metal Jacket Memphis Belle This is what I can think of so far.....
Platoon Born on the fourth of july Full metal Jacket Paths of Glory Glory Apacolypse now Saving Private Ryan The Longest Day The Big Red One The Thin red line Memphis Belle Enemy at the gates All is quiet on the western front Stalingrad We were soldiers Windtalkers Zulu Black hawk down Tears of the sun The Dirty Dozen Probably a lot more, but these are the ones I can think of right now.
A Midnight Clear is a good movie. A bunch of others to add: One Man's Hero We Were Soldiers A Bridge Too Far Raid On Entebbe (A TV movie that's hard to find)
Platoon Guadalcanal Diary Full Metal Jacket Paths of Glory Glory Apocalypse Now Saving Private Ryan The Longest Day The Big Red One The Thin Red Line Memphis Belle Enemy at the Gates Battleground We Were Soldiers The Devil's Brigade Hamburger Hill Black Hawk Down The Dirty Dozen Operation Burma Patton The Battle of the Bulge Kelly's Heroes The Lost Battalion Sands of Iwo Jima Gods and Generals The Red Badge of Courage Gettysburg Too Late the Hero U-571 That's just a short list. I'm sure there are many more. I'm absolutely fascinated by military history and love war movies. The best for me has to be "Saving Private Ryan" The Omaha Beach scene in it has to be the most visceral and traumatic battle scene in cinematic history. I remember hearing that many combat veterans who saw it had to seek counseling at VA hospitals afterwards because it was so realistic. "The Longest Day" and "Patton" also two of my top war movies. The scene in "The Longest Day" where Free French troops attack the town of Ouisterham is also very effective and compelling.
Run Silent, Run Deep 60 Seconds over Tokyo Destination: Tokyo The Fighting 69th Sands of Iwo Jima The Flying Leathernecks Wake Island Midway Guadalcanal Diary Tora, Tora, Tora Would movies like "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "The Great Escape", and "Von Ryan's Express" qualify for this thread?
One of my favorite war movies when I was a kid... The Fighting Sullivans It's based on a true story about five brothers all fighting together on a Navy ship in World War II. I think it was originally released as The Sullivans, but they added the "Fighting" before I saw it.
Saving Private Ryan Black Hawk Down Platoon Patton Tora, Tora, Tora Hamburger Hill The Longest Day Apoclyopse Now We Were Soldiers Dirty Dozen Glory Gettysburg Zulu Would Tigerland count as a war movie? I mean its about soldiers training for Vietnam...
No one here has mentioned the Soviet movie "Come and See," which is not only the most amazing war movie ever made, but one of the greatest movies ever made. See it and then watch Saving Private Ryan again, which will then seem like a cliched piece of Hollywood dreck.
Platoon Guadalcanal Diary The Desert Fox The Tuskeegee Airmen Full Metal Jacket Glory Apocalypse Now Saving Private Ryan The Longest Day Tigerland All's Quiet on the Western Front The Big Red One The Thin Red Line Memphis Belle Enemy at the Gates Siege of Firebase Gloria We Were Soldiers The Devil's Brigade Hamburger Hill Black Hawk Down Born of the 4th of July The Dirty Dozen Operation Burma Von Ryan's Express Force 10 from Navarone Patton The Battle of the Bulge Windtalkers Kelly's Heroes Tora, Tora, Tora Sands of Iwo Jima Uncommon Valor Gods and Generals The Red Badge of Courage Casualties of War Gettysburg U-571 Das Boot The Flight of the Intruder Midway A Midnight Clear The Green Berets Bat 21 Gardens of Stone Europa Europa Ran Savior Bridge over the River Kwai Where Eagles Dare The Guns of Navarone Catch-22 Battle of Britain The Walking Dead 84 Charlie Mopic The Patriot Then there are the movies that use wars as a backdrop like Empire of the Sun, Pearl Harbor, Behind Enemy Lines, The Last of the Mohicans, Good Morning Vietnam, Courage Under Fire, Breaker Morant, Three Kings and Shindler's List.
Full Metal Jacket Glory Apocalypse Now Saving Private Ryan The Longest Day Tigerland All's Quiet on the Western Front The Big Red One The Thin Red Line Memphis Belle Enemy at the Gates We Were Soldiers The Devil's Brigade Hamburger Hill Black Hawk Down Born of the 4th of July Patton Windtalkers Tora, Tora, Tora Gods and Generals Casualties of War Gettysburg U-571 Midway Ran Shadow Warrior The Patriot Platoon Full Metal Jacket Raid On Entebbe Zulu Deathwatch(does this one count?) War & Peace
When I was an ROTC cadet, one of the officers made us all watch "Paths of Glory" one of the two Stanley Kubrick films that actually make sense.
I've seen probably 80% of those listed so far. Some that have been overlooked so far: Lawrence of Arabia The Battle of Algiers Charge of the Light Brigade (mult versions) Back to Bataan Braveheart 12 O'Clock High Land and Freedom Spartacus The Alamo (mult versions) Movies with war as a backdrop: M.A.S.H Hope and Glory Mrs. Miniver
I forgot how much i liked Empire of the Sun... i think i will go buy that this weekend... (amazing performance by a very young Christian Bale)
I'm just going to add a couple that I didn't see listed. No need in re-hashing everything. Stalag 17 Grand Illusion The Heroes of Telemark And two war related Hitchcock films Foreign Correspondent Saboteur
I think I have seen everyone of the films just mentioned. In my view, these are the films that are the most "realistic" in terms of picturing what it is like to be in combat, and what the life of a soldier was like. --Das Boot --Saving Private Ryan --Platoon --We Were Soldiers --Stalag 17 One of my favorite war movies I don't think was mentioned: The Enemy Below, starring Robert Mitchum as an American Destroyer escort captain and Kurt Jurgens as U boat captain. Basically the two men are trying to out fox and outmaneuver one another...and annhilate each others. This movie had so many great lines. Doctor: I wonder what that U-Boat captain is like, what kind of man he is... Captain Murrell: I don't want to know anything about the man I am about to destroy... ... Doctor: Well, in time we'll all get back to our own stuff again. The war will get swallowed up, and seem like it never happened. Captain Murrell: Yes, but it won't be the same as it was. We won't have that feeling of permanency that we had before. We've learned a hard truth. Doctor: How do you mean? Captain Murrell: That there's no end to misery and destruction. You cut the head off a snake, and it grows another one. You cut that one off, and you find another. You can't kill it, because it's something within ourselves. You can call it the enemy if you want to, but it's part of us; we're all men. ... And, at one point in the movie, as Mitchum has Jurgens bottled up and is methodically depth charging him, and we've seen one German sailor go berserk during these attacks in total panic. But over the destroyer's microphones comes the sound of the Germans singing. Jurgens has put on the sub's phonograph a record of a German drinking song and gets his crew to join in to distract them from what appears to be their imminent doom. Up above, the sonar officer pipes through to the bridge the crackling but unmistakable sounds of the singing. Lieutenant Ware: Geez, they're havin' a ball down there! Captain, I don't think your effort to break their morale is working. Captain Murrell: Oh, it's working all right. [Mitchum pauses...and that classic look comes over him]. I almost wish it wasn't.
Tarkovsky's My Name is Ivan Fuller's Steel Helmet, Fixed Bayonets, China Gate, and Verboten! Wajda's A Generation Godard's Les Carabiniers Hawks' Seargent York Ford's They Were Expendable Eisenstein's Potemkin