Posted on 05/10/2019 6:45:10 PM PDT by dynachrome
This list ranks the best movies about war, battles, and military conflicts. These films recreate some of the most significant events in world history from a variety of perspectives and with a variety of purposes and intentions. Some top war films attempt to recreate as realistically as possible the events they depict, either from an omniscient perspective permitted by historical study or from the point of view of the soldiers and civilians involved in the conflict itself. Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down, for example, was both praised in its time and heavily criticized for bringing a "you are there" sense of realism - and little outside or cultural perspective - to a recreation of the Battle of Mogadishu. The best war movies of all time differ widely in their handling of the subject matter, but they all strike a chord with viewers now and in the time when they came out.
Some of the greatest war films use war as a backdrop to look at larger issues - such as man's inhumanity to man or the crippling impact of post-traumatic stress - or just as a meditation on war itself. Still other films like Glory and Band of Brothers examine the personal drama of a few individuals, and mine it for larger insights about the meaning of war and the impact that violence has on individual human lives.
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Pork Chop Hill
They Were Expendable
“They Were Expendable”
Pork Chop Hill, Operation Market Garden and 12 O’clock High.
Realistic both in battle actions and soldier’s actions/emotions.
We Were Soldiers
the longest day.. sink the bismark..
84 Charlie Mopic
Most realistic Vietnam movie made...
Why isn’t “To Hell and Back” in the top 10??
And where is “The Boys from Company C”??
Run silent, run deep.
9th Platoon a Russian movie about Afghanistan.
Assembly...a Chinese production.
Fortress Brest...Russian productin
A lot more are great.
Alatriste. One of my favorites.
Stalingrad. Of course.
Dos Boat.
Battle of Algiers. No other film comes close.
Best recent war movie I’ve seen is “Brest Fortress”
Great movie
The German or the Russian production? Funny thing is Thomas Kretschmann was in both of them.
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