War Films - Any other amazing ones that I Havent seen?
 

At the moment I have been watching a lot of war films and they are moving me and I love watching them.

I have seen recently
saving private ryan
full metal jacket
we are soldiers
platoon



are there any other really good ones that I should watch?
What do you recommend I Should buy?

Apocolypse Now
Three Kings
Hamburger Hill

Apocolypse Now :-)

letters from Ivo Jima, flags of our fathers, were booth great and different:thumbsup

I remember I saw one called "When Trumphets fade"... I liked it.

Uboat: Hunt for red october

Don't bother with Jarhead.

Black Hawk Down
Band Of Brothers :thumbsup

I've heard deer hunter is crazy.. never seen it though

First Blood, Rambo, Rambo 3, The Deer Hunter, Canadian Bacon, War of the Roses, The War, Star Wars 4-6 (1-3 sucked major ass), Glory, Gone With The Wind.

Joyeux Noel

And of course ... 300!

You can't list "We were soldiers" under "amazing movies" :) That movie is one of worst movies I have ever seen. My favorite part is when that Vietnam soldier runs at Mel Gibson and like 10 other guys with his fucking bayonet! And Mel pulls his M16 from his hip and shoots the guy between the eyes with one shot :) End every American is dying like a hero while Vietnamese are dying like idiots. Only an American idiot like Splum could like this movie?
?A bridge too far? is a good movie (and historically accurate) and ?Der Untergang? but it?s not really a ?war movie?. ?Das Boot? is good if you like naval warfare and ?The Deer Hunter? is good if you liked ?Platoon?. Unfortunately there are not that many real war movies that are any good.

Hamburger hills is pretty old, but it was good back in the days when i was little and watching it ;)

Band of Brothers series for sure...

Also Enemy at the Gates

Watch Battle Royale. :-)

A classic. One of the best of all times, IMO.

Directed by Michael Cimino, with De Niro, Meryl Streep, John Savage.

One of my favorites was Patton

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Here are some of my favorites:

Thin Red Line
Enemy At The Gates
U-571

Saving Private Ryan is a great movie, love watching that one. Would Schindler's List be a war movie?

Braveheart...

depends
 

Are we talking war movies or prison/escape movies in war.

If both, I recommend

Prison/escape in war
Stalag 17
The Great Escape

They are old but very good.

Pure war movies:

Zulu
Zulu Dawn

Great flicks.

Band Of Brothers, Black Hawk Down, Enemy at the Gates, all very good

Twelve O'Clock High is a 1949 film about the United States Army Air Forces crews who flew daylight bombing missions against Germany and occupied France during World War II.

It starred Gregory Peck as Brigadier General Frank Savage.

The film won Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Dean Jagger) and Best Sound, Recording. It was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Gregory Peck) and Best Picture.

We watched this in college in my first Management class in college. I'm still not sure what lesson I learned but I do remember the film was much better than I expected. Also it's in black and white.

Is it out on DVD yet? I missed this one..

Lots of good ones. And dont let other people tell you what is good . Decide for yourself

Thanks i was going to move onto that one next as ive seen that posted around alot.
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Watched it already, wouldnt class it is a great war film
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oky doky
thanks, but star wars?! come on, i want good war films, not scifi

300, ive also heard good things about this

Well i actully enjoyed that movie, and I did like the bit with the man charging at him with his bayonet. even though a little bit unlikley i would still class it as a great war film
hmm im really after ww1,ww2, vietnam and gulf
hmm great stuff there, I was after war films but heard great things about the great escape. I will have a little look at some of them.
Cheers man, something I will definitley purchase. gregory peck = great actor
Thanks sosa.

Well I need people to give me ideas, so i can decide if i like them or not

But thanks alot people. GFY to the rescue yet again :)

I found the opposite. I thought it was the first blockbuster to portray the NVA in a dignified manner. Past greats show Ho Chi Minhs boys as a bunch of screaming, crazed lunatics. This was the Tora Tora Tora of Nam movies in my opinion, the first to show the Japanese/Vietnamese in a neutral light.

Some classics there. Nice.

Here's some great stuff you'll probably never hear of outside of this thread. Watch them and you'll feel better than the dudes that think Rambo is a good war movie :P


Downfall - (Hitlers last days) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363163/

Joyeux Noel (WW1 Christmas in the trenches, Germans, Scots and French) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424205/

Taegukgi hwinalrimyeo (Korean war movie, made in Korea. A little cheesy at times but a great 50's flavour and neat to see it all through a South Korean persepective) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386064/

JSA - (Another Korean film, no actual war scenes, about the border guards on the North and South of the DMZ. Pretty cool shit.) - http://www.beyondhollywood.com/?p=1181

Tigerland - (It's about soldiers training before being shipped off to Nam, Colin Farrel before he was on the A list) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0170691/

The Beast - (American made lower budget but good film about a Russian tank and its crew getting lost in Afghanistan during the Russian invasion.) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094716/

Days of Glory - (French film, moroccans fighting for France during WW2, a fresh story and perspective on the war. I havn't seen it yet but I hear its good) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0444182/


And I highly recommend any of the post war, pacific theatre technicolour movies if you're into WW2 authenticity. Theyre a little slower paced but rich in detail and really put you into that exoerience. And the war surplus available to Hollywood then made those movies seem so much more authentic. In Tora Tora Tora for example, they used hundreds of planes in single scenes. Now they use all that CGI trash like in Pearl Harbour. Makes the new films look like bubblegum.

Some More From the top of my head

Bridge on The River Kwai
The Great Escape
Memphis Belle
The Longest Day
Casablanca
The English Patient
Lawrence of Arabia
MacArthur
The Dessert Fox
and 500 more...

A movie to stay away from is Casualities of War http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097027/ It has to be one of the worst films ever made.

have you seen Brave Heart ? it's about highlanders

Gallipoli

Johnny Got His Gun

Hearts and Minds

Gandhi

Hotel Rwanda

Fail-Safe

Catch-22

The Killing Fields

The Execution of Private Slovik

M*A*S*H

Coming Home

Born on the 4th of July

The English Patient

Life is Beautiful

The Pianist

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Sorry to break it but "Paths Of Glory" it's one of the best (anti) war films...

I don?t know about that? Sure it?s better than Black Hawk Down where ?enemy? is portrayed as a bunch of monkeys but I wouldn?t say NVA is portrayed in a dignified manner in this movie. Of course, focus is on American soldiers but movies like that insult viewers intelligence in a way. Why would that guy charge 10 armed soldiers with a bayonet?

If you want to see a movie from the other point of view, you should see ?Valley of the Wolves: Iraq?. In this movie Americans are portrayed as cowards.

I really enjoy war movies but I wish somebody could make a great war movie and leave politics out. Actually ?Letters from Iwo Jima? comes close but I wouldn?t call it a great movie.

Good list but I wouldn't call any of them a war movie. They are all about war but I belive he is asking for a movies with more action. The Pianist, Life is Beautiful, Born on the 4th of July, Schindlers list... All good but more of a drama movies than war movies

Dr. Strangelove, Braveheart and Das Boot (the boat).

Empire of the Sun (Japanese in WWII)
Das Boot (submarine warfare from the German perspective)
Schindler's List (a side plot to the war, I guess)

The Deer Hunter was ok, but extremely slow moving and overly long in my opinion.

The Great Escape is a classic, of course.

All Quiet on the Western Front
Casablanca
Tora, Tora, Tora

Predator (just for fun)

The Dirty Dozen.....old school.

Thankyou very much everyone for contributing to this thead. I just ordered a tonne of them.

downfall
the longest day
platoon
full metal jacket

Are there any really great foreign WW2 movies with English subs? I think I recall someone saying there was one from Germany or Russia or something that was good, but I don't remember the name.

Das Boot.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082096/
Watch the Directors cut (3½ hours) or Uncut (5 hours)

Sam Peckinpah's "Cross of Iron"

Read my post above for a few