I would add “Bridge over the river Kwai”
“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.