Favorite War Movies.

[Jimmy(PA)]

Just wondering what everyone's favorite war movies are I like many but the most realisitic and best portrayed ones IMO are Downfall and Gettysburg. I like a lot of older ones but most of the 50-80's era ones tended to be cheesy and fake although entertaining. Downfalls a must for any WW2 buff, its the last days in Hitlers bunker and Berlin in April 45' based on a book by his last Secretary who died shortly before the film came out. But according to people who were there its perfect. The movies in German but American subscripts with great battle scenes and shows the chaos in Berlin as it realized it was about to be overran.

 

[pippinwhitepaws]

Das Boot

 

[jeff of pa]

The russians are coming, The russians are Coming .

Catch 22

Mash

Dr. Strangelove

 

[savant365]

We Were Soldiers

Mel Gibson

 

[Lowbatts]

Somehow Gettysburg just happens to come up big on history buffs/md'ers. Great movie.
Ofcourse anyone who doesn't like Gunney Hartmann in Full Metal Jacket is missing something.
Seargent Stryker (John Wayne) in Sands of Iwo Jima.
Veronica Lake in So Proudly We Hail.
Can I count Best Years Of Our Lives?
Das Boot rings in high also.
84 Charlie MoPic, very scary.

Ofcourse the more technical, historically accurate the film the better I like it. So I have to leave some films out of any decent listing. Just couldn't see those guys walking around and talknig fairly noisily as the squad in Saving Private Ryan while just off the beach a few days in the back country there. A couple old timers told me they mostly crawled through the first few weeks of that invasion.

Worst movies? Pearl Harbor, Talk about literary license with history. Same goes for U-571

 

[pippinwhitepaws]

kelly's heros...

 

[MEinWV]

Red Dawn

Gettysburg

Patton

Where Eagles Dare

 

[Trigger]

A bridge too far

 

[TheHarleyMan2]

kelly's heros...

I agree with Kelly's Heroes because of the GOLD!

But I vote for "Saving Private Ryan" definitely acurate on a specific acount and the special effects are amazing!
Dirt Dozen (the first one)
30 Seconds Over Tokyo
Memphis Belle
Sand Pebbles
Sands of Iwo Jima
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Sergeant York
Stalag 17
Patton
Three Kings, (because of the gold)
The Longest Day
The Great Escape
Braveheart
Apocalyps Now

There are many ore but these are MY FAVORITES!

 

[Blacksheep]

Band of brothers.
Kelly`s hero's
The dirty dozen
The Guns of Navarone (preferred the book over the movie though)
Von Ryan's Express
McHale's Navy (met E.B. at children s hospital, great guy )

There`s many more.....

 

[Blacksheep]

The Birdmen? Never seen it but googled the info, might have to check it out.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0066833/

Loved Apocalypse Now, the new version.

 

[SC_hunter]

I kinda liked "To Hell and Back" with Audie Murphy. Pretty good fellow and quite scrappy for his size.

 

[GL]

Saving Private Ryan of course.
The Band Of Brothers series was spectacular.
Full Metal Jacket(the first half...)

Most any WW2 themed movie from the 40s-early 60s I like.

 

[EDDE]

Das Boot

kelly's heros...

Bravo 2-0 is pretty good, British SAS left high and dry by the high command during desert storm those guys are some tough SOB's!
One guy walked to Syria with no water
Hell Is For Heroes Steve McQueen need i say more

 

[Johnnysan]

12 O'clock High
The Longest Day
On the Beach
The Best Years of Our Lives (yes, about adjusting after war)

 

[pippinwhitepaws]

no one said the great escape?

 

[Montana Jim]

Great Escape.

Kelly's Heros.


Although there are a lot of great ones, Band of Brothers is the best IMO.

 

[nova treasure]

My Favorites that i Own,

Gettysburg
Gods & Generals
Patriot with Mel Gibson
North and the South- mini series
Blue and the gray- mini series
Glory
Brave Heart
Alamo
Saving Private Ryan
We were Soldiers-Mel Gibson
Platoon

Nova Treasure

 

[TheHarleyMan2]

no one said the great escape?

I did, that is one GREAT MOVIE! I could watch it over and over again. I hate it during Veterans Day or Memorial Day when they show war movies. I mean how many times can they SHOW MIDWAY? Very rarely you get to find a channel that has some REAL good war movies, especially the old ones!

 

[ThTx]

Das Boot

The Great Escape

Where Eagles Dare (for some reason).