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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My dad used to point to that scene and say “there I am.” He’s one of the soldiers marching in that scene shot at Fort Lewis in Washington state. He realized that there’s no way he can tell which one he is in the formation but he is one of them. He was in Audie Murphy’s former platoon at the time as Murphy was medically retired several years earlier due to war wounds. My father did get to meet Murphy as he was there for filming.
That’s awesome that you got to meet him, seems like a great guy, and he’s been in a lot of movies.
Tae Guk Gi.
“How close is the enemy to your position Murphy?”
“Hang on! I’ll let you talk to them!”
Hacksaw Ridge, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.
A few from Andrzej Wajda:
Kanal
Katyn
There ya go. Gary Cooper made a better Sergeant York than the real Alvin York his own self, almost.
In the greatest American war movie ever.
They Shall Not Grow Old.
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Wow! Audie was in a Korean war movie, forget the name, but one of the lead actors asked him, in the movie, after Audie’s wounded character volunteered for a suicide mission, “who do you think you are, Audie Murphy?” It was funny.
If you want a pretty off the wall Russian war movie, I watched one called “The Edge”. A guy wants to get an old train engine back in action. There are some flashbacks to the start of the war and some Germans who got caught by surprise while they were in Russia. Pretty weird, but I liked the old trains.
The Patriot
War Horse
Sands of Iwo Jima
Sgt York
To Hell and Back
Sgt. York is an awesome movie. Even more so when I first saw it as an 8 yo.
I know a lot here probably didn’t care for it when it came out, but I thought “The Thin Red Line” was a pretty good film.
LOL!
And then there is “Come and See”. It’s not for everyone. It will haunt you.
Depends on one’s age and experience.
“The Longest Day” is the best for pre-teens.
For older and more experienced there are several other choices.
Yeah, “Come and See”. Burning people alive. I saw that one long ago when youtube wasn’t so on top of copyright stuff.
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