I hate to bring this up, but for every “best war movie” list there is probably a corresponding “worse war movie” list and I have to nominate “The Fighting Seebees” for some place on that list. I do that because my dad was a Seebee and landed on Iwo Jima on the third day. Ninety percent of the unit he was attached to were killed or wounded in a night attack by the Japanese. The movie portrayal of the Seebees was pathetic and not the honor I was hoping they would get and deserved.
That being said, “Letters from Iwo Jima” was a great film.
Lets add “Pearl Harbor” to that list. Casting Alec Baldwin as Doolittle was a travesty and having two fighter pilots fly B25s off an aircraft carrier was beyond ridiculous.
Instead watch “Tora Tora Tora” and “Thirty Seconds over Tokyo.”