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I went through all that myself, when deciding wether or not to watch it on cable. I hated “U571” for recasting the Brits role as an American one.

I have to suspend reality in The Great Escape, but it’s still a GREAT MOVIE.

And you forgot Billy Connely as Cruise’s Sergeant Major.

[JoeProBono]

[Stonewall Jackson]

My favorite war movie in recent years was The Great Raid about the liberation of the Cabanatuan Prison Camp in WW2, but they had to go and add a love story which never existed to appear to a broader audience.

Honorable mention goes to HBO's Taking Chance, which chronicles Marine Lt. Colonel Michael Strobl's journey as he escorts the remains of PFC Chance Phelps, who'd been killed in Iraq, from Dover Airbase to his home in Dubois, Wyoming. While it is technically not a "war movie", it is a wonderful film (although I do recommend having a box of tissues on standby) that shows ordinary Americans honoring one of their fallen sons.