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Best Movies that pay tribute on Memorial Day
05/25/2013 | 4everontheright

Posted on 05/25/2013 7:36:03 AM PDT by 4everontheRight

Folks, what are your favorite movies that pay deserved tribute to the men and women who serve us so bravely and boldly?


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: movies; vanity
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To: 4everontheRight

“With a Song in My Heart”

Mrs. Esopman


41 posted on 05/25/2013 10:09:11 AM PDT by esopman (Blessings on Freepers Everywhere and Their Most Intelligent Designer)
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To: bandleader
When she was sunk by the Japanese (battle for Guadalcanal), all five were lost.
Not quite. George survived the explosion and sinking, but later drowned or was eaten by a shark as he was swimming alongside a raft.
42 posted on 05/25/2013 10:23:24 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Paine in the Neck
Memorial Day originates with the Civil War. So here's a Civil War pic: The Red Badge of Courage. Bonus for starring Audie Murphy.

Agreed, but also add the one good thing that I credit Ted Turner for, the adaptation of "Killer Angels" into "Gettysburg." This July is the 150th Anniversary of this pivotal battle of the US Civil War.

Original name for Memorial Day is "Decoration Day" to decorate the graves of the Civil War fallen. It was one of the first spontaneous movements to be done in both the North and South after the war and in 1868 through the efforts of the Grand Army of the Republic, graves of both sides were decorated at Arlington!

43 posted on 05/25/2013 10:23:39 AM PDT by SES1066 (Government is NOT the reason for my existence but it is the road to our ruin!)
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To: 4everontheRight

Because it is Memorial Day:

Taking Chance. A modern movie but well made.

Band of Brothers is my all-time favorite mini series.

For older movies:

To Hell and Back
The Longest Day
In Harms Way


44 posted on 05/25/2013 10:24:57 AM PDT by OldMissileer
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To: Georgia Girl 2
“From Here To Eternity”
One of my all time top 5 movies ... and the book is better than the movie.
Same goes for another James Jone's book - The Thin Red Line. Waaaay better than the movie.
45 posted on 05/25/2013 10:28:46 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: 4everontheRight
I'll jump in. The pool seems warm.

I like, in no particular order

Midway
Tora, Tora, Tora
Blackhawk Down
Master and Commander, Far Side of the World (not a "military" classic per se, but a great movie that seems realistic)

Pretty much anything listed above (there are a few that I haven't seen)

46 posted on 05/25/2013 10:33:52 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Buck Off, Bronco Bama)
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To: SES1066
..."Gettysburg." This July is the 150th Anniversary of this pivotal battle of the US Civil War.

A few years ago my wife and I visited Gettysburg. We rode our bikes around the Seminary Ridge area. It was early on a Sunady and no one was around. I sat looking down from the High Water Mark across the field of Pickett's Charge. I have never been so moved, sitting there in the still of an early morning, with mist lying low against the trees below the field, contemplating the kind of men that participated in that horrific battle.

47 posted on 05/25/2013 10:34:00 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes everything. Bolshies' gonna bolsh.)
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To: Hardastarboard
Ahhh...Master & Commander, also a great one!

So many good films listed here. Memorial Day is one of my favorite "movie" holidays. That and Christmas. I love watching all the old movies played on TCM over Memorial weekend. I am grateful to them for still showing these great movies.
I rarely watch movies made recently because they just don't have the values in them that the movies from the 30's and 40's had. Many of those push the limits as well but you rarely see a current movie that does that have a gay leading character or some slime in it somehow. I watch these WW2 area films and sometimes I just want to cry...how far our country has deteriorated since. So sad to think how much the brave men and women who served gave up and how we have thrown it away!! Makes me sick
48 posted on 05/25/2013 1:56:26 PM PDT by 4everontheRight (And the story began with..."Once there was a great nation......")
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To: 4everontheRight
Patton and Saving Private Ryan are my two favorite military films that are connected to any degree with Memorial Day.I also love Breaker Morant and Das Boat but neither are connected of course.
49 posted on 05/25/2013 3:15:03 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Leno Was Right,They *Are* Undocumented Democrats!)
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To: chesty_puller

Hamburger Hill....a under-rated Vietnam war movie.
Battleground......very cool flick.
Gettysburg...for the person who can sit for 4 hrs and watch it.


50 posted on 05/26/2013 12:21:49 AM PDT by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: Yorlik803

The Boys of Company B


51 posted on 05/26/2013 7:30:56 AM PDT by chesty_puller (Viet Nam 1970-71 He who shed blood with me shall forever be my brother. Shak.)
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To: Yorlik803

That’s Company C.


52 posted on 05/26/2013 8:24:25 AM PDT by chesty_puller (Viet Nam 1970-71 He who shed blood with me shall forever be my brother. Shak.)
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To: chesty_puller

seen that one a long time ago.


53 posted on 05/27/2013 3:08:00 AM PDT by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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