Not on the list. Band of Brothers mini series.
I have watched it more times that I can count.
I am surprised neither of Clint Eastwood’s movies about Iwo Jima made the list. Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of our Fathers.
Those Eastwood films were masterpieces.
Also for the Pacific a 1944 Japanese film “Colonel Kato’s Falcon Squadron”. As an aviation themed true story, it blows away any Hollywood film of that era. Special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya who co-created Godzilla.
And “Wake Island” is very good, and if you read Major Devereaux’s postwar book, it turned out to be very accurate considering the paucity of knowledge when made. Tora Tora Tora, Run Silent Run Deep, Jimmy Cagney as Halsey in the Gallant Hours. Wing and a Prayer about our carrier man in the Pacific. Bogart in Sahara.
Russia made “Ballad of a Soldier” that was amazing.
And the Brits made some very good films. Sink the Bismark, 633 Squadron, and Dam Busters was gut wrenching, true, and and the ending laid out the brutal reality of what it meant to be in Bomber Command, Bridge over the River Kwai.
The list of better films is endless.
I think the veterans of the war movies depicted probably vote based on their personal experiences. I was surprised not to see Band of Brothers also.
As an Air Assault Veteran of the Vietnam era, I found ‘We were Soldiers’ to be the movie most realistic, depicting jungle warfare and training just how I remembered it in 1968. I am a war movie junky of many years and all the films in this list have been great. I think the guys that lived the battles on film which are fewer and fewer every year have their favorites. But, ‘We were Soldiers’ gets my vote for pretty well living a real life version.