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Best war movies
08/05/2022

Posted on 08/05/2022 6:51:05 PM PDT by Az Joe

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To: Varsity Flight

8. Best Years of Our Lives


221 posted on 08/05/2022 10:12:04 PM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18)
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To: Az Joe

Glory, Gettysburg, Spartacus come to mind.


222 posted on 08/05/2022 10:39:04 PM PDT by Hootowl
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To: SisterK

The Beguiled.


223 posted on 08/05/2022 10:46:25 PM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Az Joe

I loved “The Great Escape”, but for a straight up war movie I liked “Waterloo” (1970, Rod Steiger). That one shows how to do a CGI free battle scene.


224 posted on 08/05/2022 10:50:58 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (What was 35% of the Rep. Party is now 85%. And it’s too late to turn back—Mac Stipanovich )
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To: crz

If “Father Goose” is a war movie, so is “Swiss Family Robinson”.


225 posted on 08/05/2022 10:53:01 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (What was 35% of the Rep. Party is now 85%. And it’s too late to turn back—Mac Stipanovich )
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To: Az Joe

One of the first, if not THE first on your list should be “We Were Soldiers”. Best friend of my father-in-law was a scout sniper in Vietnam. He said, without any hesitation, that THAT movie was as close to the real thing as any movie has ever been.


226 posted on 08/05/2022 10:55:09 PM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: CatHerd

Posted this to the first post, but coming from a man I considered a friend and was my father-in-law’s best friend from his teenage years (scout sniper in Vietnam) that “We Were Soldiers” was as close to the real thing as any movie has ever been.


227 posted on 08/05/2022 10:58:22 PM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: The Duke

Would never consider myself an aerospace buff but I’ve had the opportunity to get up close with the B-2, an F-35 and an SR-71. SR-71 hits me in the feels way more than the others.


228 posted on 08/05/2022 11:05:11 PM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: Az Joe

Waterloo Bridge (1940)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033238/


229 posted on 08/05/2022 11:05:24 PM PDT by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people. )
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To: Cecily

The Deer Hunter, was an absolutely masturbatory POS with so many glaring factual errors in it obvious to anyone who’s been around the block just once that it does not merit a place on any list of BEST. Special Forces soldiers with the 101st Airborne? Making Staff Sargent on your first tour? It’s all nonsense!!!

A despicable film!


230 posted on 08/05/2022 11:06:08 PM PDT by TigerHawk (The Raised Middle Finger in the Clenched Fist of the World!)
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To: dmzTahoe

Run Silent, Run Deep

Cast included Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster and Jack Warden

LET’S NOT FORGET WWII NAVY DON RICKLES!


231 posted on 08/05/2022 11:09:45 PM PDT by TigerHawk (The Raised Middle Finger in the Clenched Fist of the World!)
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To: crz

Come and See.

GRIM, GRUESOME, AND GREAT! EXTRAORDINARY FILM.


232 posted on 08/05/2022 11:12:35 PM PDT by TigerHawk (The Raised Middle Finger in the Clenched Fist of the World!)
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To: Cecily

Black Hawk Down

Excellent film (somewhat flawed, but aren’t we all?).


233 posted on 08/05/2022 11:16:47 PM PDT by TigerHawk (The Raised Middle Finger in the Clenched Fist of the World!)
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To: bagster

And the movie ends, of course, with “In the Navy” -


234 posted on 08/05/2022 11:17:00 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: Spacetrucker; ALOHA RONNIE

Freeper Aloha Ronnie was More’s radioman.

Haven’t heard from Ronnie in a while. Best wishes to him.

Never forget!


235 posted on 08/05/2022 11:22:25 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Savage Beast

#1 of all time:
All Quiet on the Western Front
Lew Ayers
1930

In a class all its own!

_____________________________________________________________

YES.
PATHS OF GLORY HAS SOMEWHAT THE SAME TEXTURE, BUT ONLY SOMEWHAT.


236 posted on 08/05/2022 11:23:25 PM PDT by TigerHawk (The Raised Middle Finger in the Clenched Fist of the World!)
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To: Az Joe

Last of Mohegans, Glory, Last Samurai


237 posted on 08/05/2022 11:27:13 PM PDT by ZULU (HOOVER, FREEH, MUELLER, COMEY, WRAY, SUCCESSION OF STATISTS)
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To: bort

The Great Raid w James Franco

I met a guy who was there (NOT KNEW), Col ARTHUR “BULL” SIMONS. He was also the man who planned and led the Special Forces raid on SON TAY, in ‘71. Good Man.


238 posted on 08/05/2022 11:34:09 PM PDT by TigerHawk (The Raised Middle Finger in the Clenched Fist of the World!)
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To: toddausauras

Sahara (1943)

Great film. Said to be Bogart’s favorite of all he did.


239 posted on 08/05/2022 11:38:15 PM PDT by TigerHawk (The Raised Middle Finger in the Clenched Fist of the World!)
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To: combat_boots

I happened to see Three Kiings.

Yeah, it wasn’t bad.


240 posted on 08/06/2022 12:18:57 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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