100 Greatest War Film -- What is your favorite war movie?

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Channel 4 brings you the results of the 100 Greatest War Films of all time, as voted for you.

1. Saving Private Ryan, 1998 The first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan is a visual assault, acclaimed as one of cinema's most accurate realisations of warfare. Capt John Miller (Tom Hanks) is among the US troops storming Omaha Beach on D-Day. Thereafter, you follow this everyman soldier on a humanitarian military mission to rescue the surviving brother of three soldiers killed in the same week. Spielberg crafts a shocking and moving illustration of the Second World War.

2. Apocalypse Now, 1979 Francis Ford Coppola's epic hallucination of the Vietnam War, in which Martin Sheen journeys through Vietnam and Cambodia to terminate a flipped-out renegade US colonel played by Marlon Brando. The shoot was notoriously troubled, but the result is a war movie unlike any other: a spectacular opera, a straightforward plot blown up by rampant imagination, and a deft comment on America's Vietnam folly.

[wildcatf4f3]

how could we forget TEAM AMERICA!!!

[Cannoneer No. 4]

[FOG724]

LOL!

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Starship Troopers the novel by Robert A. Heinlein is one of the best military books every written past, present or future!

Starship Troopers the movie was a POS compared to the novel... However, I did pay to see it and it was like reading a comic book/video game version.

If I won a $100 million lottery, I'd spend every penny making a version following Bob Heinlein's novel!

[The_Reader_David]

Ah, another man with good taste!

I, too, put Zulu at the top of any list of war movies.

(Never saw Pork Chop Hill, now I'll have to check it out.)

[Beowulf]

Has anyone formatted this list from 1 to 100 so that it can be viewed in one pass?

[Holicheese]

But would you still put Denise Richards in it?
You could find her a role as a pole dancer or something.

[Loud Mime]

Somebody, I think it was Tony Snow, got Condoleezza Rice to confirm that Bush has said something like "we're going to find out who did this and kick their ass."

Anybody know about this?

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Re: You've thought about this a lot, haven't you?

I must admit I have, but the actually compiling of the list took about an hour or so to get all the year of release correct...

[FOG724]

sounds like a book worth reading, thanks.

[Bender2]

Re: dang, that's quite a list, captain.

Well, I first appreciate the promotion, my dear!

Compiling the list was not too hard once...

I got to my Free Republic Command Post.

[Beowulf]

78. Breaker Morant, 1980

"Edward Woodward stars in this Oscar-nominated Aussie courtroom drama set in the Boer War. Based on a true story, it's a rousing anti-war polemic from the director of Driving Miss Daisy, Bruce Beresford. British Lieutenant Harry 'Breaker' Morant (Edward Woodward) is among a group of soldiers scapegoated for the shooting of a German missionary, committed under orders. Given just a single day to mount their defence, the fate of Morant and his men is sealed before the trial even begins. Woodward gives a dignified performance as the professional soldier caught up in this mess and, the film suggests, his loyalty to the Establishment makes him as much a victim as everyone else involved in the war."

[FOG724]

My favorite scene was when they said that the war turned when the Recruiter guy got a brain. Cracks me up every time.

[EveningStar]

Never saw Bravefart. Agree on Patton and The Caine Mutiny.

[Nexus6]

What was the picture where Kirk Douglas and a bunch of poor enlisted men, I think French, were being executed for the errors of their commander?

[FOG724]

Oh you should see Braveheart, if only for the scene where they turn and moon the opposing army.

[Mr. Mojo]

Paths of Glory (Kubrick)

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Not sure where Channel 4 is...

Between channels 3 and 5?

[Richard Kimball]

Absolutely agree. I give three optional reading assignments to my fire cadets for extra credit. The books are, The Right Stuff, The Caine Mutiny, and Starship Troopers. Each of them has a core that I think is very important for anyone considering a fire service career.

I can always tell if a cadet saw the movie on Starship Troopers or Caine Mutiny, and is trying to snow me. On The Right Stuff, it's pretty tricky to tell.

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Re: Yes, my pardons. I am talking about Channel 4's.

Good thing he apologized. I was ready to go medieval on his hinney!

Right.....