Posted on 10/31/2017 8:52:29 AM PDT by w1n1
Whats your top 10 war movies that would make you binge watch all day? 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 that 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 Scotts 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 mans 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.
Finally, some war films particularly those made during the classic Hollywood era are simply adventure films with war providing a compelling setting and situation. The Great Escape, for example, remains a classic not because of its grand ideas about the nature of war, but because it is a ceaselessly entertaining spectacle. No matter what type of film, theres no denying that these are certainly the best war movies ever.
Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American epic drama war film set during the Invasion of Normandy in World War II. Directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat, the film is notable for its graphic and realistic portrayal of war, and for the intensity of its opening 27 minutes, which depict the Omaha Beach assault of June 6, 1944. It follows United States Army Rangers Captain John H. Miller and a squad as they search for a paratrooper, Private First Cl
Full Metal Jacket
Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 war film directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay by Kubrick, Michael Herr, and Gustav Hasford was based on Hasfords novel The Short-Timers. The film stars Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent DOnofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood, Arliss Howard, Kevyn Major Howard, and Ed ORoss, and its storyline follows a platoon of U.S. Marines through their training and the experiences of two of the platoons Marines..
Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic adventure war film set during the Vietnam War. Produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, and Robert Duvall. The film follows the central character, U.S. Army special operations officer Captain Benjamin L. Willard, of MACV-SOG, on a mission to kill the renegade and presumed insane U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel Walter E. Kurtz. The screenplay by John Milius and Coppola..
Platoon
Platoon is a 1986 American war film written and directed by Oliver Stone and starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe and Charlie Sheen. It is the first film of a trilogy of Vietnam War films by Stone. Stone wrote the story based upon his experiences as a U.S. infantryman in Vietnam to counter the vision of the war portrayed in John Waynes The Green Berets. It was the first Hollywood film to be written and directed by a veteran of the Vietnam War. See the rest of the top 10 war movies of all time list here. What's your favorite?
A Bridge Too Far was awesome.
Cigarette and all...
Platoon
We need to beat up whoever said that crap
Im going for Longest Day for the scope of it
Patton runner up
Lawrence of course
Small movies Duellist and Das Boot and that IRA Barley movie
Master and Commander
And of course Cross of Iron for Coburn
Battleground, it won an Oscar.
No one called your dad a liar. Vulgar language was not encouraged, Foul language was and is a Hollywood encouraged perversion. I knew many WW II vets and none of the had a foul mouth. I served from 55 to 65 Army and Navy and foul mouth was certainly not common.
The Sapphires
Cross of Iron by Sam Peckinpah, is the best. Zulu was pretty badass too!
I had the hots for Kathleen Turner
This will put a stop to that ailment...............
Top on my list is ...
“To Hell and Back” starring Audie Murphy.
This was perhaps the only movie where the where the real-life war hero (Audie Murphy) portrayed himself in the movie.
He’s not just some Hollywood star, AUDIE MURPHY WAS THE REAL DEAL - A LARGER THAN LIFE WAR HERO.
Awards: Congressional Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Stars (2), Bronze Stars (2), Purple Hearts (3), and several others.
Audie Murphy personally killed an estimated 240 German and Italian soldiers in WWII.
He was easily one of the deadliest warriors and greatest soldiers of all time.
If you get the chance, read the book of the same name that the movie was based on. The movie adheres very closely to the book, but the book has a lot more in it than made it to the screen.
Bridges at Toko Ri. William Holden, Grace Kelly, Mickey Rooney, and other great actors.
Where do we get such men? is the quote from the commander on board ship, when he learns of the fate of Harry Brubaker.
Concur..outstanding character study
I was in the Navy 61-65 and foul-mouthed was the order of the day. We’d even break words apart and stick a curse word in the middle. It took some time after getting out of the service to stop swearing unconsciously.
“Kwai” might have been the first of maybe 3 movies my
father took me to see and I wasn’t yet six years old.
Pop was a WWII paratrooper who fought against the
Japanese which is why he would have wanted to see it
even tho he was not keen on movie going. He never
missed a war movie or western on TV. “Kwai” stuck with
me through the years and I read the book, did book
reports on it in at least two elementary school grades.
Today, even tho I have the DVD I will watch it when
comes on TV. Maybe I could be called a cult follower
but, damn, it won best picture of 1957 if my recollection
is correct. It was more than a war movie in my book.
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
“If you get the chance, read the book of the same name”
12 O’clock High?
In Harm’s Way
As I said my father doesn’t cuss. But when you get into a war, you may be surprised. His stories stick in my mind. I went to an all boys school, umpired professional baseball, and worked in men’s prisons for 28 years. There was a lot of cussing and I’m not talking about the inmates.
Go Tell the Spartans, a little-known movie starring the great Burt Lancaster about the Vietnam War in the days when American soldiers were still “advisers.” Much better than that cartoon movie 300 (though there is a connection between the two films based on the title).
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