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The Best War Movies Ever Made (vote 'em up or down)
ranker.com ^ | 2019 | ranker.com

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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; TV/Movies
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Really a clickbait site. If you want to kill a few minutes, here ya go. I was surprised at how many I had seen. Saving Private Ryan is at #1 for now.
1 posted on 05/10/2019 6:45:10 PM PDT by dynachrome
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Pork Chop Hill


2 posted on 05/10/2019 6:46:37 PM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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They Were Expendable


3 posted on 05/10/2019 6:47:24 PM PDT by wetgundog (CNN is FAKE NEWS ...Just added NBC.)
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4 posted on 05/10/2019 6:48:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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“They Were Expendable”


5 posted on 05/10/2019 6:48:07 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
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Pork Chop Hill, Operation Market Garden and 12 O’clock High.

Realistic both in battle actions and soldier’s actions/emotions.


6 posted on 05/10/2019 6:48:11 PM PDT by 2banana (Were you)
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We Were Soldiers


7 posted on 05/10/2019 6:48:18 PM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON)
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020629/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1


8 posted on 05/10/2019 6:48:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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9 posted on 05/10/2019 6:50:07 PM PDT by Zeneta
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the longest day.. sink the bismark..


10 posted on 05/10/2019 6:51:11 PM PDT by rolling_stone (Hang em slowly don't boil the rope make it a little short...)
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84 Charlie Mopic

Most realistic Vietnam movie made...


11 posted on 05/10/2019 6:52:32 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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Why isn’t “To Hell and Back” in the top 10??

And where is “The Boys from Company C”??


12 posted on 05/10/2019 6:53:23 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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13 posted on 05/10/2019 6:54:57 PM PDT by amorphous
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Run silent, run deep.


14 posted on 05/10/2019 6:55:07 PM PDT by Fungi
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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.


15 posted on 05/10/2019 6:56:12 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Battle of Algiers. No other film comes close.


16 posted on 05/10/2019 6:56:25 PM PDT by Clemenza (Lurking)
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Best recent war movie I’ve seen is “Brest Fortress”


17 posted on 05/10/2019 6:56:29 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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18 posted on 05/10/2019 6:56:36 PM PDT by amorphous
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Great movie


19 posted on 05/10/2019 6:57:06 PM PDT by Zeneta
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Stalingrad. Of course.

The German or the Russian production? Funny thing is Thomas Kretschmann was in both of them.

20 posted on 05/10/2019 6:57:40 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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