[jamawass]

My all time best are:

Enemy at the Gates

Saving private Ryan

Black Hawk Down

Guns of Navarone

Please list feature length movies only not series. Thanks

 

[PooperScooper]

Here's some: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...11#post4508211


larry

 

[jillbrazil]

Here's a few


Das Boot:I consider it one of the greatest films ever made period.

Full Metal Jacket

Apocalypse Now

Stalingrad

Paths Of Glory:damn! Kubrick knew how to make war films.

 

[FredProgGH]

Quote:

Originally posted by jillbrazil Here's a few Das Boot:I consider it one of the greatest films ever made period. Full Metal Jacket Apocalypse Now Stalingrad Paths Of Glory:damn! Kubrick knew how to make war films.

All great picks, and I'll add


The Big Red One

Great Escape (probably my favorite)

Patton


and

Kelly's Heros (hey, it's OK to lighten up once in a while!!)


I guess I'm more of a WWII film guy than a Vietnam film guy.

 

[rgrossman]

Oh What a Lovely War.

 

[FredProgGH]

Let's not forget The Mouse That Roared and Duck Soup- hey, they ARE war movies.

 

[deeann]

Glory

Great Escape

1941

Full Metal Jacket

Hamburger Hill

Platoon

 

[taxman48]

I second "Saving Pvt. Ryan" as the best, followed by "We Were Soldiers" and "Apocalypse Now". Best War Movie line: I love the smell of napalm in the morning.. anybody else have classic war lines?

 

[jillbrazil]

"Does this mean Ann Margaret's not coming?" Joker from FMJ.Fred,Kelly's Heroes ROCKS.Burning Bridges lost forevermore! How about Von Ryan's Express? Incessant showings on AMC have made me a fan.

 

[Mark Lareau]

Lots of great suggestions here. Two of my favorites not yet listed here are:


No Man's Land (dir. Danis Tanovic) - put this one on your netflix queue, you won't regret it.


The Thin Red Line (dir. Terence Malick) - 'nuff said.

 

[starlite]

Mark,


I was getting nervous not finding The Thin Red Line in anyone's list before I went all the way to the bottom of the page and found your posting. I agree that Saving Private Ryan is a good movie, which I believe came out in the same year as The Thin Red Line. However, I would put The Thin Red Line as a better war movie simply because of its true potrayal of human beings in a war. Ryan has a great story, but it's not something that will make you think differently about a war... Red Line does make you see war differently, IMHO...


I also second Das Boot... And if I may add one more, Tora Tora Tora... I'm a Korean, and you all know what kind of relationship we have with Japan... But, I have to admit that Tora is a great war movie. If it can move a Korean, it's got to be special...


Yun-Oh

 

[Sergei Esenin]

 Where Eagles Dare --Clint Eastwood, 1968.

 

[Tom Brennan]

All Quiet on the Western Front


The Great Escape


The Red Badge of Courage


They Were Expendable


Thin Red Line


The Red and The White


With Fire and Sword

 

[Tom Hilton]

When I saw this topic, I decided on the spot to come up with a top ten...I ended up with eleven. After compiling the list, I read the previous postings before adding this post to the thread---seems like my favorites are mostly "the usual suspects" (exceptions might be A BRIDGE TOO FAR, THE ENEMY BELOW, PORK CHOP HILL).


ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930)

BLACK HAWK DOWN (2001)

THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957)

A BRIDGE TOO FAR (1977)

THE ENEMY BELOW (1957)

THE GREAT ESCAPE (1963)

PATTON (1970)

PORK CHOP HILL (1959)

SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998)

THE THIN RED LINE (1998)

TORA! TORA! TORA! (1970)

 

[Aliens]

Quote:

Originally posted by starlite Ryan has a great story, but it's not something that will make you think differently about a war...

If that Omaha Beach invasion doesn't make you think differently about war, nothing will.

 

[Chris Gerhard]

Most of my favorites have already been mentioned but I would add The Best Years of Our Lives as a story about coming home after World War II.


Chris

 

[Bluesea]

Memphis Belle

A Walk In The Sun

Stalag 17

Murphy's War

Tuskegee Airman

To Hell And Back

Sgt York

The Patriot

Captain Hornblower

The Green Beret

M*A*S*H

Run Silent, Run Deep



and....The Dirty Dozen

 

[PROjackson]

Tea guk-ki

 

[SkyLite]

The good ones seem to have been named already....so I'll just add:


The War Of The Roses w/ Douglas and Turner


Ed

 

[jillbrazil]

How about Cross of Iron with James Coburn. Sam Peckinpah's only war movie.Would someone please release this in r1.The hen's tooth release is an abomination and I don't have a multi-region player.