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The Best War Movies Ever Made (vote 'em up or down)
ranker.com ^ | 2019 | ranker.com

Posted on 05/10/2019 6:45:10 PM PDT by dynachrome

This list ranks the best movies about war, battles, and military conflicts. These films recreate some of the most significant events in world history from a variety of perspectives and with a variety of purposes and intentions. Some top war films attempt to recreate as realistically as possible the events they depict, either from an omniscient perspective permitted by historical study or from the point of view of the soldiers and civilians involved in the conflict itself. Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down, for example, was both praised in its time and heavily criticized for bringing a "you are there" sense of realism - and little outside or cultural perspective - to a recreation of the Battle of Mogadishu. The best war movies of all time differ widely in their handling of the subject matter, but they all strike a chord with viewers now and in the time when they came out.

Some of the greatest war films use war as a backdrop to look at larger issues - such as man's inhumanity to man or the crippling impact of post-traumatic stress - or just as a meditation on war itself. Still other films like Glory and Band of Brothers examine the personal drama of a few individuals, and mine it for larger insights about the meaning of war and the impact that violence has on individual human lives.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: movies; vote; warmovies
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To: dynachrome

The Sand Pebbles


101 posted on 05/10/2019 7:50:48 PM PDT by aomagrat (Brains have been washed. Wheels have been greased. Fear has been mongered.)
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To: PAR35
Soldier of Orange (Soldaat van Oranje)

Good One! With a young Rutger Hauer.

102 posted on 05/10/2019 7:50:58 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dynachrome

Black Hawk Down
Tora Tora Tora


103 posted on 05/10/2019 7:52:26 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....)
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To: dynachrome

“The Young Lions” with Marlon Brando.

“I think I don’t want to be on this motorcycle, anymore.”


104 posted on 05/10/2019 7:52:30 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: dfwgator

You can buy it on 4k in digital on amazon. Amazing.

Peter O’Toole was great in everything he did. Does Troy qualify as a war movie?


105 posted on 05/10/2019 7:52:38 PM PDT by marajade (Skywalker)
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To: SkyDancer

Slowly.


106 posted on 05/10/2019 7:52:39 PM PDT by amorphous
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To: PAR35

Hauer was also excellent in “Escape from Sobibor”


107 posted on 05/10/2019 7:53:29 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dynachrome

have you seen “the train”with burt lancaster?


108 posted on 05/10/2019 7:54:30 PM PDT by rolling_stone (Hang em slowly don't boil the rope make it a little short...)
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To: freedumb2003

Dawn Patrol wan’t on the list. Probably not well known any more.


109 posted on 05/10/2019 7:55:00 PM PDT by dynachrome (Build the wall, deport them all.)
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To: SkyDancer
My favorite Bogart movie.


110 posted on 05/10/2019 7:55:49 PM PDT by amorphous
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To: Celtic Conservative

“Liberation” is good too, fantastic depiction of the Battle of Kursk.


111 posted on 05/10/2019 7:57:13 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dynachrome

Many I could think of, but it would be hard to pin down.

Honestly, just for being one of the few that bothers with the subject, “War Horse”. What an insight into the various aspects and horrors of WWI.


112 posted on 05/10/2019 7:57:26 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: dfwgator
“Escape from Sobibor”

Russian version out now. It's on my watch list.

113 posted on 05/10/2019 7:58:15 PM PDT by amorphous
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To: amorphous

You beat me to it.


114 posted on 05/10/2019 7:58:39 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: amorphous

“Midway” would have been one of the great war movies of all time had they not inserted a soap opera subplot.


115 posted on 05/10/2019 7:59:01 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill
“Midway” would have been one of the great war movies of all time had they not inserted a soap opera subplot.

That's what Hollywood does.

116 posted on 05/10/2019 7:59:36 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Zeneta

Made to be a denigration of Patton.

Spectacular failure.


117 posted on 05/10/2019 7:59:47 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: dynachrome

The Best Years of Our Lives

Harold Russell, amazing!
And many others.

For his role as Parrish, Russell won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1947. Earlier in the ceremony, he was awarded an honorary Oscar for “bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans.” The special award had been created because the Board of Governors very much wanted to salute Russell, a non-professional actor, but assumed he had little chance for a competitive win. It was the only time in Oscar history that the Academy has awarded two Oscars for the same performance.

Upon completion of the film, Wyler told Russell to return to school since there “weren’t many roles for actors without hands.” Russell returned to Boston University and graduated with a business degree in 1949.


118 posted on 05/10/2019 8:00:12 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!")
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To: the OlLine Rebel
“War Horse”

I liked that one too, and started to list it. Glad someone did.


119 posted on 05/10/2019 8:01:01 PM PDT by amorphous
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To: amorphous

His last movie I understand. Never saw it.


120 posted on 05/10/2019 8:01:02 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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