Favorite war movies?

[kalboy]

The Lost Battalion ( 2001) is a pretty decent flick, Rick Schroeder is excellent as Major Charles Whittlesey

 

[bloodandgutsmurphy]

1) A Bridge Too Far
2) The Longest Day
3) Cross of Iron
and many more

 

[joe138]

A 2nd for A Bridge Too Far. It is well made and loaded with good acting/actors and accurate. It is also overlooked.

 

[KellyinAvon]

Band of Brothers gets my vote, even though it's not really a movie but a series. Also, Saving Private Ryan where that initial beach scene was breathtaking.

Some classic WWII movies, which I grew up watching with my father:

Tora! Tora! Tora!
The Great Escape
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Guns of Navarone

The scene where the ramp dropped and the MG42 took out everyone on the Higgins boat? That got to me.

 

[KellyinAvon]

Post #25 and nobody said PATTON??

 

[Dosproduction]

FULL METAL JACKET is great. Saving Private ryan was also a good one. Im going to have to go and watch some of these now. Enemy at the gates when they first get to Stalingrad and they give the mosin to one guy and the ammo to another. Great scene.

 

[KJQ6945]

A lot of the older movies I haven't seen in years. Before cable, there were always old war movies on channel 4 here in Indy. It's how I survived Sundays in the winter.

 

[Bennettjh]

Full Metal Jacket is my favorite.

I see We Were Soldiers on Netflix. It has Mel Gibson in it and came out in 2002. Is that the one that's listed several times in this thread or is there a different/older one?

 

[KJQ6945]

Full Metal Jacket is my favorite.

I see We Were Soldiers on Netflix. It has Mel Gibson in it and came out in 2002. Is that the one that's listed several times in this thread or is there a different/older one?

That's the one. If you've not seen it, I highly recomend it

 

[Who Dares Wins]

Band of Brothers
Saving Private Ryan
Black Hawk Down
Fury
Battle of Britain
633 Squadron
Das Boot
Apocalypse Now
The Longest Day
A Bridge Too Far
Midway
Tora, Tora, Tora
The Great Escape
Sinking the Bismarck
Bridge over the River Kwai
Galipoli
Bravo Two-Zero

 

[88GT]

If we're going old school, most of John Wayne's movies are at the very least good entertainment. Having seen them all, I feel qualified to comment as such.

 

[Redtbird]

If we're going old school, most of John Wayne's movies are at the very least good entertainment. Having seen them all, I feel qualified to comment as such.

I wholeheartedly agree. Well, except for "The Green Berets".

 

[Bennettjh]

That's the one. If you've not seen it, I highly recomend it

Ok good. Will do.

 

[The Bubba Effect]

Post #25 and nobody said PATTON??

Watched Patton with dad last night. Watched Band of Brothers with him last week. Watched Mash with him (most of it) tonight and have been working on Ken Burns' Civil War miniseries on and off.

 

[jimmythang]

The longest day
hamburger hill

 

[gregkl]

I wholeheartedly agree. Well, except for "The Green Berets".

Most thought "The Green Berets" was a great movie at the time. 40 years later, it's kinda cheesy.

 

[Mark-DuCo]

More documentaries than movies, but I like WWII in HD and Vietnam in HD on the History Channel.

 

[451_Detonics]

The Wind and the Lion...one of my favs...

Theodore Roosevelt: What do I want? I want respect! Respect for human life and respect for American property! And I'm going to send the Atlantic Squadron to Morocco to get that respect.

John Hay: That's illegal.
Theodore Roosevelt: Why spoil the beauty of the thing with legality?

 

[spec4]

How about Kelly's Heroes? Improbable but funny and gripping. (at least to me) If I had to pick one, IMO" Patton" wins.

 

[kalboy]

T.R fans also might like Rough Riders, it's a little cheesy in parts but it has a lot of familiar faces and is a rare treatment of the Spanish American War. R Lee Ermey as Salem Indiana born John Hay.