Pork Chop Hill, Operation Market Garden and 12 O’clock High.
Realistic both in battle actions and soldier’s actions/emotions.
It’s very surprising you were the only one who mentioned “12 O’Clock High.” I’m glad you included it.
That’s one of my all-time favorites. It is such an amazing study of men performing under the most intense pressure imaginable at a sure-death job and the characteristics of leadership. Watching Brigadier General Frank Savage break under the unrelenting pressure is still shocking.
I remember first watching it in my late 20s as my career was developing and marveling at true leadership at all costs.
You nominated “Operation Market Garden.” Was that a film? I see two films about Operation Market Garden:
1. the 1946 film “Theirs Is the Glory”
2. “A Bridge Too Far”, the 1977 film based on the 1974 book of the same name by Cornelius Ryan.
Did you mean one of these?