OT: Favorite War Movies

[dragoon500ly]

So what are everyone's favorite war movies

My List would be:

All Quiet on the Western Front
Bridge Too Far
The Longest Day
Midway
Gettysburg
Guns of Navarone
Where Eagles Dare (cheesy but it has its moments)
Das Boot
Siege of Fire Base Gloria

[mikeo80]

Movie List

For me, my list goes like this.

Saving Private Ryan
Longest Day
Battle of the Bulge
Troy (Yeah, I know it is archaic weapons, but watching Achillies and the Myrmidons take the beach before Troy....WOW)
Terminator II (Great scenes of man vs machine PLUS watching LA bite the big one in Sarah Connor's dream)

There are more, but my mind is blank right now, again, still, yet

My $0.02 !

Mike

[Fusilier]

Mine...

Apocalypse Now
Cross of Iron
Stalingrad
Das Boot
Downfall
Thin Red Line

[dragoon500ly]

How could I forget...

To Hell and Back
Strike Force Z

[95th Rifleman]

A Bridge too far
Stalingrad (this is a MUST see) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalingrad_(film)
Das Boot
Zulu
Zulu Dawn
Spartacus Kirk Douglas, they don't make them like that anymore.
Lawrence of Arabia

[James Langham]

Neglected classics (and a few better known ones)

A few gems that are worth looking for:

* An Ungentlemanly Act - the Argentine Invasion of the Falklands - very dry sense of humour but very, very accurate.

* Went the Day well - Graham Greene's story of Germans impersonating British troops written and filmed in World War Two

* The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - Another film made in World War Two showing the death of the "gentleman" type of officer.

* Heartbreak Ridge - Lost track of the number of times I have nicked Clint Eastwood's line when training people on the AK.

* Dog Soldiers - British ARmy vs Werewolves in a horror (dark) comedy. If you want to roleplay a British character watch this. It has then squaddies to a T (and look for the brilliant homage to Zulu).

* 9th Company - the Soviet War in Afghanistan through Russian eyes.

* Top Gun - no plot but great soundtrack and great air to air sequences.

* Go Tell the Spartans - Green Beret advisers to the South Vietnamese.

* Who Dares Wins - cheesy film but some very interesting sequences by some special advisors.

* Contact - next to impossible to find dramatized film of a Parachute Rgt tour of Northern Ireland in the 1970s. No background music in a (successful) attempt to increase the realism.

* Raid on Entebbe - account of the Israeli raid on Uganda. Very accurate for the info available at the time.

* A Day in Iraq - an Australian film of a very hectic day in Iraq. A bit over the top and too many events but a few really nice sequences (in particular the first firefight).

* The Wild Geese - for Merc 2000 players - should teach you not to trust your employers. Just don't look at the cap badges worn on the wrong berets.

* Children of Men - the final battles in the refugee camps are straight out of Twilight 2000.

[Sith]

Where does one start

A bridge too far
Cross of Iron
Dirty Dozen
Saving Private Ryan
Hamburger Hill
The bridge on the river Kwai
Platoon
Where eagles dare
Stalingrad
Kelly's heros
Seven samurai
Breaker morant
Gettysburg

To name a few.

[pmulcahy11b]

Here's one that ends up on few lists: Go Tell the Spartans, about the US's early involvement in Vietnam.

[James Langham]

Here's one that ends up on few lists: Go Tell the Spartans, about the US's early involvement in Vietnam.

Beat you to it! :-)

[Matt Wiser]

Here's my list, in no particular order:

A Bridge Too Far

Kelly's Heroes

Midway

Tora!Tora!Tora!

Patton

Siege of Firebase Gloria

Red Dawn

The Hanoi Hilton

By Dawn's Early Light

Run Silent, Run Deep

Battle of Britain

Not movies, but they're among my favorites:

Band of Brothers

The Pacific

Tour of Duty

China Beach

[Targan]

Very much enjoyed many of those mentioned above. I won't repeat them. One that hasn't been mentioned so far is Gallipoli. A bit cheesy but great soundtrack and it's about AIF soldiers from right here in Western Australia. Also had some great lines by the recently deceased, great Australian actor Bill Hunter. For those who aren't aware, one of the two main characters the film follows is played by Mel Gibson. Oh Mel, what the hell happened to you He seems mad as a cut snake nowdays.

[Matt Wiser]

I'll add a few more:

We Were Soldiers

Raid on Entebbe

Operation Thunderbolt (the Israeli movie on Entebbe)

The Longest Day

The Enemy Below

Black Hawk Down

Gettysburg (and the prequel: Gods and Generals)

Enemy at the Gates

Windtalkers

The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory (made for TV, 1987; Lorne Greene's last peformance as Sam Houston, the late James Arness as Jim Bowie, Brian Keith as Crockett, and Alec Baldwin as Travis; Raoul Julia was Santa Anna)

The Great Raid: the story of the 6th Ranger Battalion's raid on the POW camp at Cabanatuan, the Philippines in Jan 1945.

[waiting4something]

predator
death before dishoner
delta force
invasion u.s.a.-chuck version
13th warrior
conan the barbarian-arnold version
rambo series of films
shooter
sniper
patriot games
porkchop hill
the dirty dozen

[TiggerCCW UK]

* Contact - next to impossible to find dramatized film of a Parachute Rgt tour of Northern Ireland in the 1970s. No background music in a (successful) attempt to increase the realism.

Is that based on Tony Clarke's book of the same name

[Rainbow Six]

Would agree with many of those already mentioned (and pleased to see the Wild Geese sneaking in).

One that I don't think has been mentioned so far is Taegukgi, a South Korean made film set during the Korean War. Highly recommended.