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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Glory is another I’ve seen again and again.
Forgot that one. Yep, that movie is a great one.
Lots of great war movies posted here, most all the epics have been mentioned.
I will add one that I have not seen posted.
Lone Survivor.
That firefight was great, and I was impressed at the attention to detail. Never once was any of our guys on full auto. Well aimed semi auto for the whole fight. Also magazine changes were timed out about right, as well as total number of rounds they carried. Just a well done firefight imho.
So, Soldier of Orange, Glory, Sand Pebbles. Patton.
Operation Petticoat
Father Goose
And all those other ones mentioned.
A master list would be useful.
I have always loved “In Harm’s Way”, almost completely for the opening scene that takes place the night before the attack, the party at the Officer’s Club wearing their service dress whites with the high collars.
I grew up a Navy Brat, my dad was an officer, and I saw a few of those types of parties as a kid when we were in Subic and Yokosuka during the Sixties.
There was something...completely sentimental and somehow authentic-feeling about that scene that it nearly made my heart ache for a lost time.
I remember one as a kid in Japan where I had to go down and get my dad for some issue and he was in his whites, my mom all dolled up, all the other officers and their wives, and there were those multi-colored japanese lanterns all above with big band music playing...it was a very special memory.
LOL, I can’t even remember what it was that made me go over, maybe my two older brothers were having one of their death-match fights and I thought they were gonna kill each other. They had a few of those...
Poor bastards have had war pushed on them often enough, even from within when the commies took over.
Hard to believe neither A Walk in the Sun or The Story of GI Joe made their list of almost 500 flix.
I consider Platton and Apocolyse Now rather cartoonish productions.
GMAFB, what moron voted for that?
I thought Oskar Werner’s portrayal as a German spy for the US was amazing in it’s realism. Filming in 1949-50 in Germany was a first.
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/72701/Decision-Before-Dawn/articles.html
A Midnight Clear 1992 with Gary Sinise.
Not really a war movie but
Swing Kids 1993
171 posts and although I might have missed it, no one chose
“Gettysburg” 1993
Honorable mention to “Das Boot” 1981 in the original German w/subtitles. There was just something about the stridency of the voices in German that was not accomplished in the dubbed version.
Where are the Martians when we need them to blow up Congress.
Where are the Martians when we need them to blow up Congress.
Blue Max.
Not sure how Breaker Morant got missed
Hamburger Hill.
Pork Chop Hill.
Gung Ho.
Air Force.
Siege of Firebase Gloria.
To Hell and Back.
Das Boot.
The Enemy Below.
In Harms Way.
Tora, Tora, Tora
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