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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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.
Destination Tokyo
Hell in the Pacific, Great flick, Lee Marvin, Toshiro Mifune.
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?
Ha! Yes. A Bridge Too Far...
“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
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
That’s the one, it goes by different names.
Virtually anything with Audie Murphy or John Wayne. Liked Das Boot.
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.
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.
Yeah, probably same one.
TORA was mentioned by someone. And I’d certainly put it before Midway.
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.
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.
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