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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The Sand Pebbles
Good One! With a young Rutger Hauer.
Black Hawk Down
Tora Tora Tora
“The Young Lions” with Marlon Brando.
“I think I don’t want to be on this motorcycle, anymore.”
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?
Slowly.
Hauer was also excellent in “Escape from Sobibor”
have you seen “the train”with burt lancaster?
Dawn Patrol wan’t on the list. Probably not well known any more.
“Liberation” is good too, fantastic depiction of the Battle of Kursk.
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.
Russian version out now. It's on my watch list.
You beat me to it.
“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.
Made to be a denigration of Patton.
Spectacular failure.
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.
I liked that one too, and started to list it. Glad someone did.
His last movie I understand. Never saw it.
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