CountVolcula's Top War Movies of All Time

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In no particular order and I'm leaving a lot out. These are just some of my favorites.

A Bridge Too Far
Battleground
Sgt. York
Platoon
Battle of the Bulge
The Longest Day
The Thin Red Line
Saving Private Ryan
Apocalypse Now
The Boys in Company C
The Seige of Firebase Gloria
The Four Feathers(original 1939 version)
Gunga Din
Hamburger Hill
Lion of the Desert
The Lost Command
BlackHawk Down
Sahara(with Humphrey Bogart)
Purple Hearts
Pork Chop Hill
Patton
The Big Red One
Dirty Dozen
Kelly's Heroes
The Red Badge of Courage
Bataan
The Young Lions
The Great Escape
Stalag 17
To Hell and Back
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Devils Brigade
Letters from Iwo Jima
The Green Berets
In Harms Way
 
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Great list and agreed, so many you can't list them all. I would say I personally didn't care for
The Thin Red Line or
Hamburger Hill.

I know it's not a movie, but I have to add, Band of Brothers.
 
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AllVols said:
Great list and agreed, so many you can't list them all. I would say I personally didn't care for
The Thin Red Line or
Hamburger Hill.

I know it's not a movie, but I have to add, Band of Brothers.
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Hamburger Hill was one of my favorites. One, because it was pretty much how the real battle went. Two, because my father was in the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam, so Im partial to movies concerning the Vietnam War.

My least favorite movie about Vietnam was We Were Soldiers. Historically, that movie was terrible, especially the ending. In the real battle, they didnt storm the hill and win the battle by catching the NVA off guard while drinking tea and eating rice.
 
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Red Ball Express
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Midway
Das Boot
Good Morning Vietnam
The Blue Max (the flight scenes are incredible)

The Guns of Navarone
Force 10 From Navarone
 
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Very little in the way of action and battle scenes, but Joyeux Noel is a very good movie.
 
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I've also heard that "A Midnight Clear" is a pretty good movie too.
 
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If you've never seen "Miracle at St. Anna", it is definitely worth a rental.
 
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CountVolcula said:
Hamburger Hill was one of my favorites. One, because it was pretty much how the real battle went. Two, because my father was in the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam, so Im partial to movies concerning the Vietnam War.

My least favorite movie about Vietnam was We Were Soldiers. Historically, that movie was terrible, especially the ending. In the real battle, they didnt storm the hill and win the battle by catching the NVA off guard while drinking tea and eating rice.
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I liked We Were Soldiers, though you are correct in that Mel Gibson is a master of butching history in th name of entertainment.
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CountVolcula said:
Yes, that was a great movie. It was a somewhat true account of Vasily Zaytsevs exploits at Stalingrad.
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I hated that movie. It had a turgid romance, terrible depiction of the events surrounding the Battle of Stalingrad (taking Soviet propaganda as truth) and, plus, I didn't know Cockney accents permeated the Red Army in the 40s. It's right there, as a movie, with U-571.


Stalingrad (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia is far better not only as an account of the Battle of Stalingrad and surrounding events... but overall as a film.
 
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