What are your favorite movies on Veteran's Day (Vanity)

11-11-2008 | Self

[oldleft]

I was just wondering, what are some of the favorite Freeper movies out there which honor American veterans?

Here's a quick list of a few of my favorites. I don't think you can go wrong watching any of these today.

- Saving Private Ryan

- Glory

- Midway

- We Were Soldiers

- Black Hawk Down

So what are your favorites?

[Kartographer]

The Patriot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZBtVBh9Ok0&feature=related

Memphis Belle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOLOVoO3k3g&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9efLsDpn3o

Saving Private Ryan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOatpR4mf_o

The Wind and the Lion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNQGFWLAcwE&feature=related

[hampdenkid]

The Fighting Leathernecks, Heartbreak Ridge

[KeyLargo]

[XenaLee]

The Fighting Sullivans.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It was on TCM. They’ll probably show it again. I’ve got the DVD also. Excellent movie.

[condi2008]

"We will stand and guard, though the angels sleep..."

*sob!*

Another of my favorites is "U-571".

[MHT]

Best Years of our Lives...the ultimate homecoming movie.

[KeyLargo]

[FlingWingFlyer]

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo up next on TCM.

[Reagan Man]

Lighten up. Its Veterans Day.

They’re patriotic efforts and besides, war propaganda was used by all sides.

[Pelagius of Asturias]

Have you noticed how some war movies made in the Forties and Fifties look clean and steril. Compare “Saving Private Ryan” with “To Hell and Back.” Audie Murphy’s movie should have been named “To Heck and Back.” Producers and Directors are getting it right.

[OldMissileer]

The Longest Day

In Harms Way

Band of Brothers

Dr Strangelove for the lighter side

The Bedford Incident

And a couple more:

1941 (to bust a gut laughing)
Strategic Air Command (I was raised in SAC and remain a SAC man)

[Pelagius of Asturias]

Since you mentioned “The Fighting Sullivans” I’ll mention “Since You Went Away.” Keep a box of Kleenex handy, maybe two.

[444Flyer]

The Guns of Navarone

12 O'clock High

The Fighting Seabees

(My Grandfather served as a Seabee in WWII.)

[Reagan Man]

So cussing and seeing a man ripped in half makes for a good movie.

Gotcha!

[KeyLargo]

[Kartographer]

I forgot We Were Soldiers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4iIn9FibVg&feature=related

[Pelagius of Asturias]

It makes an authentic movie. I remember a "Gunsmoke" episode when Matt carried a wounded cowboy up to Doc's office. The make up people put a spot of blood the size of a Mason Jar lid on the cowboy's shoulder. Doc told Matt that he might die from loss of blood.

[Pelagius of Asturias]

You father was a Seabee; my father was in the Signal Corps. The only Signal Corps movie that I know of is “Good Morning Viet Nam.” Golly!

[Reagan Man]

>>>>>>It makes an authentic movie.

That is a matter of opinion. There’s no accounting for taste. My Dad fought in the Battle of the Bulge and he thought the film "Battleground" was the most authentic war film he ever saw. Before the days of anything goes in movies, people read a lot more and used their imagination to fill in the blanks. Cussing is not fundamental.