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The Best War Movies Ever Made (vote 'em up or down)
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Posted on 05/10/2019 6:45:10 PM PDT by dynachrome

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To: dynachrome

13 hours the secret soldiers of benghazi


221 posted on 05/11/2019 6:29:27 AM PDT by marajade (Skywalker)
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To: 2banana

It’s very surprising you were the only one who mentioned “12 O’Clock High.” I’m glad you included it.

That’s one of my all-time favorites. It is such an amazing study of men performing under the most intense pressure imaginable at a sure-death job and the characteristics of leadership. Watching Brigadier General Frank Savage break under the unrelenting pressure is still shocking.

I remember first watching it in my late 20s as my career was developing and marveling at true leadership at all costs.


222 posted on 05/11/2019 6:31:55 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: dynachrome

Destination Tokyo


223 posted on 05/11/2019 7:17:41 AM PDT by Grey182
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To: Darteaus94025

Hell in the Pacific, Great flick, Lee Marvin, Toshiro Mifune.


224 posted on 05/11/2019 7:17:54 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: 2banana

You nominated “Operation Market Garden.” Was that a film? I see two films about Operation Market Garden:
1. the 1946 film “Theirs Is the Glory”
2. “A Bridge Too Far”, the 1977 film based on the 1974 book of the same name by Cornelius Ryan.

Did you mean one of these?


225 posted on 05/11/2019 7:24:57 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Ha! Yes. A Bridge Too Far...


226 posted on 05/11/2019 7:37:41 AM PDT by 2banana (Were you)
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To: dynachrome
I liked Patton, Saving Private Ryan, and Platoon. But my favorite is when we had a chance to blow the Japanese Navy out of the water on December 6, 1941 in the movie The Final Countdown.


227 posted on 05/11/2019 7:52:18 AM PDT by Pappy Smear
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To: dfwgator; tet68

“Brest Fortress” and “Fortress Brest”

Do you guys mean “Fortress of War”?

It is the 2010 Russian movie about the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Soviet troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days.

Director: Aleksandr Kott
Writers: Aleksey Dudarev, Vladimir Eryomin
Stars: Aleksey Kopashov, Andrey Merzlikin, Pavel Derevyanko


228 posted on 05/11/2019 8:04:47 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Gay State Conservative

Patton
In Harm’s Way
Apocalypse Now
Doctor Strangelove
Catch-22
M.A.S.H.
The Hunt for Red October
Private Benjamin
The Last Time I Saw Archie
Saving Private Ryan
Das Boot


229 posted on 05/11/2019 8:33:21 AM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Grimmy
Last Stand of Fox Company
Have read the book at least three times over the last 10 years. A truly captivating story about some truly heroic Marines.

The Battle of Dai Do
I was with 1st 8" (SP) and we fired support for this operation. As fierce a battle as ever took place.
SF ...
230 posted on 05/11/2019 8:44:55 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That’s the one, it goes by different names.


231 posted on 05/11/2019 9:45:29 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Virtually anything with Audie Murphy or John Wayne. Liked Das Boot.


232 posted on 05/11/2019 10:10:13 AM PDT by grwcfl537
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I think it’s a shame that it took “The Pacific” to learn the story of Sgt. John Basilone.

He should have been a household name, like Audie Murphy IMHO.


233 posted on 05/11/2019 10:12:02 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: oh8eleven

You’d really like Give Me Tomorrow too. It’s centered on G Company, a component of Task Force Drysdale which was sent in to support the defenders of Hagaru-ri which were under attack by a division of Chinese infantry.

The Battle of the Causeway, Battle of Ice Hill and such. The fight to keep Toktong Pass open from the rear was just as fierce and desperate as the fight by Fox Company north of the pass.

The Miracle of Belleau Woods is written by the commander of the Marine brigade that fought at Belleau. It’s a personal history of the Corps from just after the US Civil War when he entered as a young man up through WW1. And as is so common in written accounts by senior USMC officers, there’s mention of acts by junior officers and lots of great acts and actions by his enlisted personnel whom he praises constantly.


234 posted on 05/11/2019 11:28:31 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Yeah, probably same one.


235 posted on 05/11/2019 11:50:20 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: dynachrome
Best realistic war movie. Operation Petticoat

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236 posted on 05/11/2019 12:39:13 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound
Zulu - Final Battle
237 posted on 05/11/2019 12:39:39 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Bull Snipe

TORA was mentioned by someone. And I’d certainly put it before Midway.


238 posted on 05/11/2019 12:54:32 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

If you want to include specific scenes of warfare, as opposed to the entire movie, then definitely Last of Mohicans Should be included.

I also recommend checking out THE BUCCANEER for an extremely effective surreal scene of the British attack on New Orleans.


239 posted on 05/11/2019 12:57:26 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: SkyDancer

It was an awkward scene. Like a similar one in Empire of the Sun. But you can be dead fast asleep and oblivious to everything around you.


240 posted on 05/11/2019 2:10:36 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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