Best War Films?

[ImSkeletor]

I am surprised Glory hasn't been mentioned. It is a great film set during the Civil war. It has Matthew Broderick and the main guy from the princess bride along with morgan Freemen

 

[Nannernade]

Black Hawk Down, I've seen it like three times and it's still great, plenty of action, emotion mmm... I kind of want to watch it now. >.<

 

[Kajt]

Best one I've seen so far is Talvisota [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talvisota_%28film%29].

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Generation Kill and Band of Brothers are both great war-centric miniseries.

For movies.....I don't know. Hurt Locker was pretty good.

 

[Bobbovski]

* Stalingrad
* Das boot
* A bridge too far
* Der untergang
Are my favorites I think.

I like German war movies because they usually don't show war as something glorious. Most war movies tries to show the horrors of war but no matter how grim the war seems the "good side" wins (at least in WW1/WW1 movies) in the end. So the soldier's sacrifice isn't in vain. But in German movies the soldiers recieve allot of shit and then in the end they have all died for nothing. And that gives you a better picture of what war is like I think.

 

[Shock and Awe]

3. Saving Private Ryan
2. Full Metal Jacket
1. Patton, though its closer to a character piece than a war movie.

 

[JRShield]

Pffff, where to start?

Saving Private Ryan
The longest day
The guns of Navarone
Force 10 from Navarone
Kelly's heroes
Schindlers List
The pianist
Stalingrad
Enemy at the gates
Cross of Iron
A bridge to far
Bridge over the river Kwai
Pearl Harbour (for the shot of the Japanese plane dropping that bom)
Flags of our fathers
Letters from Iwo Jima
Inglourious Bastards (or however you spell it)
Where the eagles dare
The Untergang
Valkyrie
The great Escape
Soldaat van Oranje (Yeah, dutch ww2 movie)
Zwartboek (also dutch)
Escape from Sobibor
The thin red line
Das boot

And I am sure I'm forgetting some great movies, but I don't have a list or something

Please say you did mean WW2 movies only, else I really have to open the registers...

 

[JRShield]

3. Saving Private Ryan
2. Full Metal Jacket
1. Patton, though its closer to a character piece than a war movie.

Patton, how could I forget that one!

 

[JRShield]

btw, does anybody now the name of the chinese movie about the occupation of, ehm, either Beijing or Shanghai. It's the movie with the good nazi ambassador.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Watch The Steel Helmet. Its just... its really powerful, cuase it was written by a WW2 vet. So its pretty good.

 

[Baron_Rouge]

Life is Beautiful, if it counts. Set during a war, although it's not really a war movie in the traditional sense, it's still massively powerful. Although for god's sake, get the Italian version with the English subtitles, rather than the English dub.

Also, Un Long Dimanche de Fiancailles is pretty awesome. I think it's called "a very long engagement" in English.

 

[The Amazing Tea Alligator]

Anybody else really liked All Quiet on the Western Front? Especially the ending,

Spoiler

in how trivial his death is?

 

[RUINER ACTUAL]

Black Hawk Down just pisses me off and makes me want to kill people.

I think the best war movie is the Generation Kill mini-series. You can learn a lot about the military, it has plenty of action, a great cast of characters, and its extremely funny.

 

[RUINER ACTUAL]

Pffff, where to start?

Saving Private Ryan
The longest day
The guns of Navarone
Force 10 from Navarone
Kelly's heroes
Schindlers List
The pianist
Stalingrad
Enemy at the gates
Cross of Iron
A bridge to far
Bridge over the river Kwai
Pearl Harbour (for the shot of the Japanese plane dropping that bom)
Flags of our fathers
Letters from Iwo Jima
Inglourious Bastards (or however you spell it)
Where the eagles dare
The Untergang
Valkyrie
The great Escape
Soldaat van Oranje (Yeah, dutch ww2 movie)
Zwartboek (also dutch)
Escape from Sobibor
The thin red line
Das boot

And I am sure I'm forgetting some great movies, but I don't have a list or something

Please say you did mean WW2 movies only, else I really have to open the registers...

No keep going. List the modern war movies. I need to add to my friends Netflix movies list

 

[Deadlock Radium]

The Wind That Shakes The Barley

Spoiler: Here's the trailers

You are the second person excluding myself I've seen ever that thinks that The Wind That Shakes The Barley is a good movie. The fact is that it is a GREAT movie. All of my class was "meh" after seeing it in an English class, after I saw it that time, I went online and bought that movie.

So, yeah, The Wind That Shakes The Barley is a very good choice.

 

[RamirezDoEverything]

I recently watched Letters From Iwo Jima which was great. Is there any more great war/military films? I've seen Black Hawk down and Saving Private Ryan. What about Enemy at the gates?

Oh. You have to pick up The HBO Mini Series "Generation Kill" It's about the war in Iraq. I loved it. It's a Good Choice.

I loved every bit of generation kill, ray was hilarious throughout the whole thing.

OT: The miniseries "pacific" was pretty powerful, and Saints and Soldiers is very unheard of, but is a great film.

 

[deckai]

Anybody else really liked All Quiet on the Western Front? Especially the ending,

Spoiler

in how trivial his death is?

Do you mean the 1930 version or the 1979 version? I only watched the 1930 version, but i guess the message stays the same. A very good movie and definitely the best WWI movie i know.

(just saw that a remake is planned for 2012)

 

[Burningsok]

Saving Private Ryan, my absolute favorite.

 

[teebeeohh]

full metal jacket, i am a kubrick fanboy (meaning i also love dr strangelove)
i also liked jarhead. and platoon. and i hate american WW2 movies, most of them focus too much on how awesome the us army is and forget that war is shit (unless used as a reason to shoot people in video games)

 

[Death_Korps_Kommissar]

There was one I saw about the french Foreign legion I think during WWII. But I can't, for the life of me, remember what it's called.