what's your favorite western or war movie?
 

The wife and kid are traveling for two weeks. I am building a list of dvd's to rent for undisturbed viewing.

What are your favorite westerns or war movies? I used to watch these every weekend as a kid and want to have some fun here. Here is a partial list of what I'm considering:

The Great Escape
The Guns of Navarone
Rio Bravo
The Magnificent Seven
Jeremiah Johnson
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
The Longest Day
Anzio
Patton
In Harm's Way

What else do you recommend?

Thanks,
-arvan

zoolander for sure

"The good, the bad and the ugly" and "Once Upona time in the West", "Shane", "Pale Rider", "High Plains Drifter" are great and the other two in the Leone man with no name trilogy and "Unforgiven" are good too.

"Great Escape", "Longest day", "Galipolli", "Zulu", "All quiet on the Western Front"....

Shit there are a lot of good films.....

Thin Red Line and Black Hawk Down for me. :)

Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Tombstone

Platoon
Saving Private Ryan

And "Apocalypse Now", "Dr Strangelove".....

Tombstone is one of my favs for western. Saving Private Ryan for favorite war movie.

The Searchers is the best!

Saving Private Ryan for me

War movie is definitely Saving Private Ryan and western would have to be Unforgiven

full metal jacket

once upon a time in the west should be mentioned I guess

that made me crack up hard....that movie is ridiculous...and I love it.

Great Movie :) Also The Outlaw Josey Wales

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My favourite war film is called "The Nuking of Mecca", but it hasn't been released yet. Not for another 10 years anyway.

Saving Private Ryan
Four Feathers

I'm assuming you're classifying it as a war movie. The confrontations between Zoolander and Hansel were epic. :1orglaugh

Lawrence of Arabia
Das Boot
Catch 22
Where Eagles Dare

Red Pony was alright in HS
Hamburger Hill with ClintEastwood was a good war movie :)

Three Kings.

Cloony; Walhburg; Ice Cube.

This thread cannot go any further without mentioning Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch".

some of his other westerns are incredible too:

"Ride the high country"
"Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid"

"Wild Bunch" set the standard though by which others are judged.

Just saw "The Proposition" and liked that - western with an aussie accent.

One Western I haven't seen mentioned is "Silverado" and that's definitely a great movie and worth checking out.

The good, the bad, and the ugly.

Saving Private Ryan :thumbsup

ooh Yung Guns & Tombstone

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hamburger hill

Out Law Josey Whales.

Platoon.

Just saw that the other day, pretty cool, especially after seeing the Kill Bill movies, the influence is very obvious.

Need to see the Good the Bad and the Ugly now.

My choices of best War Movie have been mentioned, (Patton & Longest Day)

As for western, no one has mentioned "the Duke's" academy award winning performance in "True Grit"????