It's Veteran's day, so...what are your favorite War films?

1. Full Metal Jacket
2. Apocalypse Now
3. Empire of The Sun
4. Paths of Glory
5. A Bridge Too Far
6. Saving Private Ryan
7. The Big Red 1
8. The Bridge on The River Kwai
9. The Thin Red Line
10. Letters From Iwo Jima
11. The Deer Hunter
12. The Blue Max
13. The Dirty Dozen
14. The Great Escape
15. Three Kings

A Few Good Men
A Bridge Too Far
Judgement at Nuremburg
Uncommon Valor
Red Dawn
The Once and Future King
The Big Lebowski



My daddy, who was a platoon leader in Nam told me that the most realistic movie about Vietnam he ever saw was Forrest Gump.

Ap Now, brah

Good list.

From Here to Eternity
Platoon
Rescue Dawn

WOLVERINES!!

Johnny Got His Gun
All Quiet On The Western Front
The Steel Helmet
The Ascent
Das Boot
The Battleship Potemkin
& a bunch of the ones you already listed.

my dad broke down and left the room even during Good Morning Vietnam. not just from Williams' acting.

starship troopers

GREAT war flick

this might be my favorite

I also like Swing Kids a lot. Not a movie a lot of people get excited about but I like it.

War movies are not my favorite genre at all, but some films are awesome enough to eclipse what I tend to find tedious.


these were what immediately came to mind. then as I thought about it a bit I'll take the time to add:

Dr. Stragelove, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
The Hurt Locker
Jarhead
300

inglourious basterds
grave of the fireflies
black hawk down
the guns of navarone
force 10 from navarone
ran

No Patton?

Also,

Cross of Iron
Battle of Britain
Glory

I rather enjoyed Sea of Sand but I'm kinda into the whole LRDG thing.

I'd say Saving Private Ryan is probably one of the worst movies of all time. Just dreadful on every level.

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Dr. Strangelove (can you consider that a war movie?)
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
The Grand Illusion

I always liked sub movies.

Run Silent Run Deep
Crimson Tide(cold war)
Gray Lady Down(not really a war movie)

Midway - I still remember seeing this in the theater. Pretty horrific on a large screen to a 7 year old.

edit: Oh shit how could I forget one of my favorites, M*A*S*H*

Definitely seen and like like most of what's been listed. Still need to see Thin Red Line.

Glory is fantastic.

I can understand being annoyed by some of the Speilberg-isms with Saving Private Ryan and the thin "let's get Ryan home propaganda" storyline but dreadful on every level?

That first 30 minute opening sequence is one of the best war sequences ever done IMO.

I was really into Glory in middle school when my parents and grandparents were taking me to a bunch of civil war spots.

Like Jaws, and most of his other watchable movies, I like the quiet parts better than the loud.

Dad says Hanks' part is perfect. Great Leadership.

<----- favorite movie, regardless of genre

Gettysburg--Not sure if this would appeal to people who don't go into it with a familiarity of the generals and events leading up to the battle. I'm a Civil War geek so I can watch this film a million times and see something new each time. I never saw the follow up, Gods and Generals, because it got such poor reviews.

All Quiet on the Western Front might be the top on my list.

I wouldn't call stuff like Kelly's Heroes or the Dirty Dozen or Stalag 17 war flicks, but they're always great. I guess the Great Escape would be in there as well.

The Green Berets
Where Eagles Dare
The Guns of Navarone
Hamburger Hill

I seem to remember liking Enemy at the Gates more than I should've

the great escape
bridge on the river kwai
hope and glory

Hope and glory is great. I meant to post it myself. Saw it when I was Like 8 and it stucK with me.

Good call on Kwai - so fucking British.

My father was a helicopter crew chief in Vietnam and says "Go Tell The Spartans" is the best and most realistic Vietnam movie he's ever seen.

Don't know that I've seen enough to offer much, beyond echoing love for "Dr. Strangelove" and saying that "The Thin Red Line" is a ponderous piece of shit.