Great movie. More:
Blue Max
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Red Baron
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Fly Boys
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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Still didn’t wake anyone.
Apocalypse Now, We Were Soliders, Hamburger Hill, The Patriot, Patton, Enemy at the Gates, Flags of our Fathers, Sands of Iwo Jima, Fury, Thirteen Days,The Patriot, Brave Heart, Gladiator, Gettysburg, Glory, God’s and General’s, Field of Lost Shoes, Wicked Spring, The Crossing, American Sniper, Midway.
There are quite a few
Das boat
Cross of Iron
Some Russian movies
Waterloo (the USSR production)
Hurt Locker
We were Soldiers
Blackhawk down
The soap opera subplot was used to get women to see the film. Not sure if it worked but it was the start of the trend. I can see why they did it.
Good list.
I’ll second Zulu.
The most frightening thing about seeing Midway or Earthquake in Sensurround is that it was well over 40 years ago now. No one under 50 years ever experienced it unless they were very young perhaps.
The most frightening thing about seeing Midway or Earthquake in Sensurround is that it was well over 40 years ago now. No one under 50 years ever experienced it unless they were very young perhaps.
Great movie. More:
Blue Max
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Red Baron
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Fly Boys
Twelve O’clock High gets my vote. Quintessential Gregory Peck dealing with, or not, mounting casulties and a revolving door command structure. Read somewhere that the Eighth Air Force lost more men than the Marine Corp in WWll.
Never saw that last. The others were quite good.
Nice to see WWI stuff.
Well, nice to see anything outside WWII or CW stuff.
A veteran I knew said “Band of Brothers” was the most realistic WWII movie he ever saw. He was in the 82nd Airborne and was in the Normandy Invasion, Market Garden and Battle of the Bulge so he should know. “The Pacific” is equally as good and probably just as realistic.
“Battleground” and “They Were Expendable” are also fine films.
Let’s not forget the original, feature length war movie. A true breakthrough film. And more accurate history than you’ll find in most university history departments today:
Birth of a Nation.
Dealt with both conventional battles and asymmetrical warfare, all in one package.
A generation later, Gone With the Wind covered much the same ground.
Amen as to Midway. A bit of judicious snipping could turn it into a great film instead of a wanna be chick flick.
Dunkirk
Darkest Hour
The Train
Go Tell the Spartans
Castle Keep
All good war movies with Burt Lancaster.
Khartoum
The Buccaneer
The War Lord
The same with Charlton Heston
Bogart? No way. He made more. African Queen is kinda corny, but I like it. Have watched it half-a-dozen times.
There are a couple of recent WWI movies that are quite good.
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