The Greatest War movies

[Arkitect76]

Originally Posted by BillyJack

Add some Civil War movies to the list

Gettysburg
Gods and Generals
Gone With The Wind
Ride With The Devil
The Blue and The Grey (miniseries)
The North and the South (miniseries)
The Good, the Bad and The ugly
Major Dundee
The Colt
The Great Locomotive Chase
The Beguiled
How The West Was Won
Birth of a Nation
Glory
Dances With Wolves
The Outlaw Joey Wales
Love Me Tender (yes, the Elvis Presley film)
The General

awesome movies...the rest.... I havent seen yet

[Grand Bob]

Originally Posted by aiman04

Star Wars

Everyone's favorite!

[Illini007]

The only thing I would add that hasn't been included in the replies would be Tae Guk Gi (sp?). I really liked it.

[rkolinski]

This is a really broad subject but here is my list of some of my favorites:

Sophie Scholl
The Downfall of Berlin - Anonyma
The Red Badge of Courage
The Horse Soldiers
Andersonville
The Hunley
Cold Mountain (excellent BD)
Son of Morning Star
Drums Along the Mohawk
Zulu Dawn (since someone already mentioned ZULU and I own original movie memorabilia from both)
55 Days at Peking
The Killing Fields
The Sand Pebbles (again own movie memorabilia and excellent BD)
Jet Pilot
On the Beach (more movie memorabilia)
The Bedford Incident
Fail Safe (more movie memorabilia)
Beau Geste
Lion of the Desert
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Ivanhoe
Cromwell
Cast a Giant Shadow
Indochine
Dien Bien Phu
The Undefeated
Northwest Passage
The Last of the Mohicans
Alexander the Great (I own the movie poster & lobby card set)
The 300 Spartans
Courage Under Fire
Gunga Din
Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Persepolis (excellent BD)
Heartbreak Ridge
Battle Hymn
Battle Taxi
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Fixed Bayonets
The Hunters
MacArthur
Men of the Fighting Lady
Pork Chop Hill
The Four Feathers (all 3 versions but I have only seen the 1939 and 2002 versions)
Khartoum (more movie memorabilia)
Young Winston
Guns at Batasi
The Dogs of War
The Alamo (both the John Wayne and James Arness versions)
Damn the Defiant!
Captain Horatio Hornblower (recentlyh on TCM and was fantastic to watch)
Waterloo
The Duelists
Under Fire
Raid on Entebbe
The Last King of Scotland
The Battleship Potemkin
Dr Zhivago (excellent BD)
The Red and the White
Reds
Hotel Rwanda
Beyond the Gates
Salvador
Breaker Morant (really good movie available on BD)
The Children of Huang Shi
Ran
Shogun
Kagemusha
Barry Lyndon
Blood Diamond
El Cid (more movie memorabilia and fair BD)
Fall of the Roman Empire (fair BD)
The Warlords
Troy
Bat 21
The Siege of Firebase Gloria
The Buccaneer
Attila
Ben Hur (more movie memorabilia)
Spartacus (more movie memorabilia)
Cleopatra (more movie memorabilia)
Gladiator
Rob Roy
The African Queen
The Dawn Patrol
A Farewell to Arms
Gallipoli
Joyeux Noel
The Lighthorsemen
The Lost Battalion
The Trench
Wings
Zeppelin
For Whom the Bell Tolls
633 Squadron
Anzio
Ballad of a Soldier (excellent Russian film)
Beach Red
Battle of the River Plate
and Pursuit of the Graf Spee (I have this BD on order from Germany)
Heroes of Telemark
City of Life and Death - The Nanjing Massacre (ordered from Germany on BD)
The Big Red One
The Bridge at Remagen
The Dam Busters (excellent BD)
The Desert Fox
The Desert Rats
The Devil's Brigade
The Enemy Below (one of my favorites next to Das Boot)
Escape from Sobibor
The Fighting Sullivans
From Here to Eternity
The Guns of Navarone
Halls of Montezuma
Hell is for Heroes
The Heroes of Telemark
In Harm's Way
Katyn (excellent BD)
Memphis Belle
Midway
The Pianist
PT 109
Sink the Bismarck (more movie memorabilia)
Stalingrad
The Thin Red Line
The Train
The Tuskegee Airmen
Von Ryan's Express
Objective Burma
Bataan (another movie where I own the original 1943 movie poster)

[The_Basterd]

OMGSH... No one has said Barry Lyndon?

Please add Barry Lyndon to the list.

[rkolinski]

Originally Posted by The_Basterd

OMGSH... No one has said Barry Lyndon?

Please add Barry Lyndon to the list.

You are so correct SIR!

[blufellas]

Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)

[Duffy12]

Originally Posted by Grand Bob

Everyone's favorite!

Hey Bob, what about those 'War of the Ring' films that Peter Jackson made a while ago?

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[warrenoates61]

Originally Posted by Mahatma

Think you covered most of them there.Will like to add The Ogre,not strictly a warmovie,but set in wartime.Not as good as the book,but Malkovich almost always make a movie worth watching.It is good,but slightly rough round it's edges.

i gotta couple did anybody say paths of glory casualties of war how bout breaker morant baby blue marine wholl stop the rain or coming home

[Grand Bob]

Originally Posted by Duffy12

Hey Bob, what about those 'War of the Ring' films that Peter Jackson made a while ago?

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Let's get them into the list!

[rexvaliant]

Nice list, and here is my favorite war movie's so far,
Black Hawk Down
Full Metal Jacket
300
Troy
Saving the Privet Rayn
Enemy at the Gates
Behind the Enemy lines

[octagon]

Originally Posted by HotRats

84 Charlie Mopic. No budget Vietnam classic. The infantry seen up close without bombast or heroics, easily as good as Platoon and Saving Private Ryan, maybe even better

An excellent choice that should at least have a cult following but I can't remember the last time I even saw it mentioned.

Go Tell the Spartans is another really good Vietnam film that gets virtually no attention.

[alengrew]

The Deer Hunter
The Dirty Dozen
i have watched these movies many times.

[Marcus Wright]

one of the very best IMO with excellent A/V transfer.

Glory.

[JTStarkiller]

Originally Posted by koontz1973

Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith fit the thread better as Star Wars is set after the war

Umm, the Star Wars OT takes place during the Galactic Civil WAR.

[lDlisturb3d]

Black Hawk Down
Tears of the Sun
We Were Soldiers
SPR

[SpiderBaby]

Elem Klimov's Come And See.

Some quotes by critics:

"Come and See is widely regarded as the finest war film ever made, though possibly not by Great Escape fans."

"makes Apocalypse Now look lightweight"

Ranked #24 in Empire magazines "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010.

[mickyjulien]

I like your collection of the war movies.

- Troy
- Apocalypse Now
- Black Hawk Down
- The Patriot

[enaej1]

A Bridge Too Far
The Longest Day
Wild Geese
Assembly
....and can I add Star Wars?

[peter008]

dive bomber
flying tiger
from here to eternity
wing and a prayer
twelve o'clock high
a yank in the r.a.f.
run silent run deep
sands of iwo jima
is paris burning?
flying leathernecks
thirty seconds over tokyo
air force
hanover streets
crash dive
the war lover
d-day (the six of june)
battleground
von ryan's express
heaven knows mr. allison
captain corelli's mandolin
come see the paradise
defiance
valkyrie
flyboys