What's your favourite war movie?

[HowHigh]

Enemy at the Gates wasn't bad but I wasn't a fan of actors playing Russians with an English accent

 

[DB]

Gallipoli

 

[beave]

Enemy at the Gates wasn't bad but I wasn't a fan of actors playing Russians with an English accent

It took me a while to figure out what the f**k was going on in that movie........... My attention/brain was feeling the effects of a massive night out before though so I guess my ignorance could be slightly excused.

 

[Phil McGrawhan]

Kelly's heroes

 

[MSIH]

Band of Brothers ruined war movies for me. Class above.

 

[soc123_au]

Full Metal Jacket
Saving Private Ryan
Downfall
A Bridge too far
Battle of the Bulge
Enemy at the Gate
Apocalypse Now
The Lighthorsemen
Platoon
Hamburger Hill
Stalag 17
The longest Day

So many to choose from.

 

[Joker's Wild]

The Great Escape
Guns of Navarone
Battle of Brittan
The Dirty Dozen
The Big Red One

 

[Haffa]

Does Inglorious Basterds count because that was a classic

Odd Angry Shot, SPR and FMJ.

 

[Springs]

Schindler's List and Grave of the Fireflies. Nothing else comes close to these two.

 

[Fire]

My pleasure, let me know what you think when you get round to it.

No worries will do mate.

p.s. I forgot about Schindler's List. Quality film.

 

[HowHigh]

It took me a while to figure out what the f**k was going on in that movie........... My attention/brain was feeling the effects of a massive night out before though so I guess my ignorance could be slightly excused.

haha, think it took me a couple minutes but figured it out

Also The Bridge on the River Kwai isn't bad for a 1950s movie

 

[beave]

I was like 'what the f**k are the poms doing fighting in a russian unit?? And why is that yank a german officer???? What the f**k is going on? Have I been lied to this whole time? WHAT THE f**k IS GOING ON!!!!!!'

 

[herbert henry1908]

haha, think it took me a couple minutes but figured it out

Also The Bridge on the River Kwai isn't bad for a 1950s movie

It's bloody brilliant for any decade.


And some of the greatest films of all time are from the 50's

12 angry men ( IMO the finest film of all time )
North by northwest
The seventh seal
Vertigo
Strangers on a train
Rear window
Rashoman
The killing
The forbidden planet
Rebel without a cause
High noon
Ben hur
Sunset boulevard
On the waterfront ( contains the greatest performance ever IMO )
A streetcar named desire
Dial M for murder
Paths of glory
The searchers
The day the earth stood still
Wild strawberries
Touch of evil
The 400 blows
The night of the hunter
Stalag 17

The list goes on.


Outside of the 70s it's probably the greatest decade in cinema history.

 

[Different kind of Rabbit]

Dam busters
Guns of navarone
The longest day

Are a few classics. Best of the modern ones... Probably Saving Private Ryan.

 

[Fufu Andronez]

The Great Escape for me.

Hurt locker comes a close 2nd.

 

[veggiepatch1959]

Full Metal Jacket
Saving Private Ryan
Downfall
A Bridge too far
Battle of the Bulge
Enemy at the Gate
Apocalypse Now
The Lighthorsemen
Platoon
Hamburger Hill
Stalag 17
The longest Day

So many to choose from.

Excellent movie!

My fav is the most depressing "Threads". Centres around the build up to a northern hemisphere nuclear exchange and its result on the residents of Sheffield, England. Made on a shoestring budget, it was banned in the UK after a family of four committed suicide stating they didn't want to live through such an event.

I also liked "The Hurt Locker" and a totally brutal film called "Men Behind The Sun" where the Japanese use Chinese prisoners as guinea pigs in biological experiments.

 

[Silent Knight]

 

[Fire]

:lol: Stripes was quality.

 

[herbert henry1908]

Dam busters
Guns of navarone
The longest day

Are a few classics. Best of the modern ones... Probably Saving Private Ryan.

Totally forgot the Dam busters.


My dad introduced me to it as a kid , was instantly hooked.

Awesome movie.

 

[Mr Spock!]

Heap of foreign movies especially on the Eastern Front. European movies also have access to a lot of the real tanks as well. You won't see 1960s and 70s tanks in them.

Stalingrad

The Brest Fortress/ Fortress of War

Come and See

Downfall

My Way had more turns in it then an Apple turnover with Koreans fighting for Japs then Russians then Germans then getting captured by the US on D-Day. Amazing movie really.

Brotherhood of War great movie about the Korean War made by the guy who made My Way.

These movies were incredibly brutal without a yank in sight.

The Bridge (Die Brucke) was really good. But it was made by a German.

Of the Yank movies

Saving Private Ryan for the battle scenes but was typical US sentimentality and 10 guys take on hundreds of Germans and win is typical US fair. Actually I preferred a Bridge Too Far because I'm more into history.

When Trumpets Fade is the only movie I know of about the Hurtgen Forest where the US got their arses handed to them in a drawn out battle before the Battle of the Bulge. It's a neglected battle which the US generals would like to be kept forgotten.

Also Gettysburg and the series Anzacs.