Top 5 Best War Movies?

[PH3AR]

I was wonderring what do u guys think the top 5 war movies ever r!

heres mine...

1.Saving Private Ryan
2.Band of Brothers
3.Full Metal Jacket
4.Black Hawk Down
5.Windtalkers


there r alot of great older movies and foreign movies but i think technology of movies today helped war movies

[AKORIS]

off the top of my head and in no order--

PATTON
SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
A BRIDGE TOO FAR
BLACK HAWK DOWN
THE GREAT ESCAPE

[Rob71]

Downfall
Patton
The Bridge On The River Kwai
Lawrence Of Arabia
Das Boot

[tommyboy81]

Saving Private Ryan
Apocalypse Now Redux
Full Metal Jacket
Letters of Iwo Jima
The Pianist

Love Lawrence of Arabia

Band of Brothers for TV and overall.

[Cadrian]

Sorry I couldn't do five..... Their are way to many in one of my favorite Genres.


All Quiet on the Western Front (The 1930's Verison) Amazing what they did for this movie even back in the day.
Band of Brothers (10 hours of just epic war)
Come and See (Russian Movie, damn the Russians had it bad in WWII.)
Saving Private Ryan (Needless to say)
Tae Guk Gi - The Brotherhood of War (Korean Saving Private Ryan)
Stalingrad ( Shows WWII From German perspective)
Enemy At the Gates (I don't know why it doesn't get credit, I thought it was great)
Savior (Bosnian War, its decent)
Cold Mountain (Bad Accents, but a great Civil War movie that keeps my Attention)
Gallipoli (WWI, Shows how stupid WWI Tactics were)
Empire of the Sun ( Steven Speilberg and Christian Bale, plus its epic from a childs view)
A Very Long engagement(French, it captures WWI better then most)
Hamburger Hill- (Brutal, need nothing else to say)
Platoon (Another needless)
Hotel Rwanda (African War)
Downfall
Legends of the Fall (Not really a war movie, but love the scene)
Schindler's List (Not Really a War Film, but shows a side of war)
Apocalypse Now (Ummm Ya)
The Big Red One
Full Metal Jacket (If it wasnt for the first half I would hate this movie)
Saints and Soldiers (Shows how to make a War film on a Budget)
Bullet in the Head (John Woo, This is so much better then that crappy Windtalkers, its not about war so much as the people stuck in it)
Letters of Iwo Jima (Forgot this one, but Havent seen a film that showed this side that well before)

[Rob J in WNY]

Originally Posted by tommyboy81

Apocalypse Now Redux

Glad this version of the film is mentioned, because even though the extra footage makes an already long film much longer, it adds amazing dimension to the story.

Hopefully it will come out on Blu soon enough (with the Redux version), as I lent my DVD of this to a buddy months ago and may need to ask for it back.

[dvd_mazter]

I haven't seen many war films in my life but so I can only really do a top three list:

1. Black Hawk Down
2. The Pianist
3. Saving Private Ryan

[sfmarine]

Platoon
Patton
FMJ
Saving Private Ryan
Sands Of Iwo Jima

(Band Of Brothers) <Series

[borninusa]

Platoon
Band of Brothers
Apocalypse Now
Schindlers List
The Bridge On The River Kwai

[Blu Angel]

1- Band of Brothers
2- Saving Private Ryan
3- Black Hawk Down
4- Letters Of Iwo Jima
5- Pearl Harbor

[Sloan78]

1. Saving Private Ryan
2. B.O.B.
3. Full Metal Jacket
4. The Dirty Dozen
5. A Bridge Over River Kwai

[blue comet]

Not neccessarily in this order:

Band of Brothers
Saving Private Ryan
Patton
Apocalypse Now
Wing and a Prayer

[Barry18025]

Band of Brothers
Boys in Company C
Tae Guk Gi - The Brotherhood of War
Platoon
Saving Private Ryan

[MrFilmFanatic]

Band Of Brothers
Full Metal Jacket
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
Apocalypse Now

[Johnny Vinyl]

The Killing Fields - an amazing film that I hope will get the Bu-ray treatment very soon.

Apocalypse Now - this film is sooooo different from anything that is truly has no competition.

Bridge On The River Kwai - a bit campy at times by today's standards, it is still a masterpeice in filmmaking.

Saving Private Ryan - a cinematic joy to watch and maybe one of the best ensemble casting showpieces.

The Great Escape - a true classic and my favourite Steve McQueen flick.

Those are my 5 choices.

John

[peter008]

a few of my favorite:

the sand pebbles
the battle of britain
a bridge too far
the longest day
battle of the bulge
patton
the dirty dozen
saving private ryan
the great escape
twelve o'clock high
band of brothers

[Drexyl666]

1. Saving Private Ryan
2. Tae Guk GI
3. Glory
4. Black Hawk Down
5. Platoon

[FIDDYPOP]

Full Metal Jacket
Saving Private Ryan
Platoon
Black Hawk Down
Tropic Thunder

[Twitch9]

Enemy at the gates
saving private ryan
Full metal jacket
Platoon
The deer hunter
Gone with the wind
Schindler's List

[Twitch9]

IMDB Top rated war movies of all time

Top Rated "War" Titles

Rank Rating Title Votes
1. 8.9 Schindler's List (1993) 221,005
2. 8.7 The Big Parade (1925) 1,662
3. 8.6 Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 66,313
4. 8.6 Apocalypse Now (1979) 142,928
5. 8.6 Paths of Glory (1957) 35,410
6. 8.5 Khuda Kay Liye (2007) 1,155
7. 8.5 The Pianist (2002) 100,794
8. 8.4 Saving Private Ryan (1998) 221,238
9. 8.4 Mihai Viteazul (1970) 2,090
10. 8.4 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 48,444
11. 8.4 Das Boot (1981) 58,710
12. 8.4 Der Untergang (2004) 61,448
13. 8.4 The Great Dictator (1940) 28,447
14. 8.3 The Great Escape (1963) 49,821
15. 8.3 Vita è bella, La (1997) 85,919
16. 8.3 Max Manus (2008) 1,719
17. 8.3 Guizi lai le (2000) 1,581
18. 8.3 Full Metal Jacket (1987) 120,451
19. 8.3 Hotel Rwanda (2004) 71,381
20. 8.3 The General (1927) 15,681
21. 8.3 Braveheart (1995) 199,057
22. 8.3 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) 1,002
23. 8.3 Hadashi no Gen (1983) 1,077
24. 8.3 Ran (1985) 27,983
25. 8.2 Biruma no tategoto (1956) 1,063
26. 8.2 Vals Im Bashir (2008) 4,740
27. 8.2 Beloe solntse pustyni (1970) 1,087
28. 8.2 Battaglia di Algeri, La (1966) 10,169
29. 8.2 Roma, città aperta (1945) 4,757
30. 8.2 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) 3,402
31. 8.2 The Deer Hunter (1978) 70,653
32. 8.2 Platoon (1986) 88,082
33. 8.2 Armée des ombres, L' (1969) 3,712
34. 8.2 Talvisota (1989) 3,050
35. 8.1 Stalag 17 (1953) 16,724
36. 8.1 Gone with the Wind (1939) 62,817
37. 8.1 The African Queen (1951) 28,125
38. 8.1 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 16,944
39. 8.1 Obchod na korze (1965) 2,800
40. 8.1 'Breaker' Morant (1980) 5,165
41. 8.1 Idi i smotri (1985) 7,318
42. 8.1 To Have and Have Not (1944) 10,439
43. 8.1 Hotaru no haka (1988) 25,685
44. 8.1 Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) 41,102
45. 8.1 The Caine Mutiny (1954) 8,941
46. 8.1 Kumonosu jô (1957) 10,174
47. 8.1 Taegukgi hwinalrimyeo (2004) 12,799
48. 8.1 Ivanovo detstvo (1962) 4,192
49. 8.0 Grande illusion, La (1937) 10,200
50. 8.0 Patton (1970) 32,127