No mention of the classic-Pork Chop Hill?
No mention of “Patton”? George was right, all glory is fleeting.
Midway.
All Quiet on the Western Front.
The Longest Day.
Patton.
The Sands of Iwo Jima.
Pearl Harbor.
The Alamo. (John Wayne version)
Last of the Mohicans.
Saving Private Ryan.
The Green Berets.
A squad of the 101st Airborne Division copes with being trapped in the besieged city of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge.
No foreshadowing of victory in Twelve O’clock High? It STARTS as flashback. Other then that, excellent war movie. They actually used it in OCS in the Air Force to stimulate discussion of leadership qualities and strategies.
I’ll never forget the day I first saw Twelve O’lock High: June 27, 1950. A classmate and I, recent (unemployed) engineering grads, had spent the morning looking unsuccessfully for any kind of job, went to the afternoon movie. Afterward we hit the streets where the newspaper extra was out, “Truman Orders Troops to Korea”. We looked at each other and agreed that our immediate employment was assured. I guess I have seen the movie a dozen times since and I still rank it number one also.
I would put Zulu in the Top 5.
No mention of “We Were Soldiers”? IMO, that was a very good war movie - of course, I have a personal connection to that story, so I may be a bit biased towards it, but still...
Patton
MacArthur
To Hell and Back
The Great Escape
Battle of Britain
Bridge on the River Kwai
Sargent York
The Man Who Never Was
Guns of Navarone
Dambusters
Stalag 17
The Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan
Midway
Force 10 from Navarone
A Bridge Too Far
Where Eagles Dare
Battle of the Bulge
Bridges at Toko Ri
We Were Soldiers
And for TV Specials:
The Winds of War
Bank of Brothers
A Bridge Too Far is a great, great movie.
Very interesting list. I would add The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, my favorite Cold War movie. The moral ambiguity of the decadent West arched out to the extreme, Burton on the Berlin Wall, not sure which way to jump. The greatest actor to never win an Oscar.
For contemporary, I wonder what Briggs would make of Tears of the Sun? I thought it was a good portrayal of our modern day special ops guys—what they do and how they do it.
There is also an old black and white silent movie,,, I wish I could remember the name. It was about the the air war in WWI. Just absolutely incredible air shots even by today’s standards! The story is so so ,, little cheesy,, but the effects are so great. You are in the cockpits of these air aces and it is as though you are really there. They literally were risking their lives making this movie.
What, no “Full Metal Jacket”. C’mon, how many of you Marines were laughing at the memories of boot camp?
U-571./Just Asking - seoul62........
The recruit was told to remain motionless but he slapped a mosquito. Jack Webb makes them all
search through the sand to find that damn dead mosquito. I only saw it once on tv and don't
remember if they found it.
They Were Expendible
Saving Private Ryan
Sink the Bismark
and one of my favorites even though I don’t care for Robin William’s liberalness ...
Good Morning, VietNam