Love, hate that movie... Shoot downs with better endings:
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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Audie was quite the real hero.
American Sniper
Saving Private Ryan
Apocalypse Now which is available for preorder in 4k
Midway was one of Universals Sensurround movies. Despite all our great new technology we ain’t gonna recreate the sensation of low frequency speakers set up in the theatre shaking you in your seat at appropriate times. I saw it with it and it was a different experience to the usual movie. The process died back in the 1970s never to return. It was a gimmick to be sure but was definitely different.
We’re going to finally get to see “The Day the Clown Cried” after June in 2024.
Apocalypse Now.
Love, hate that movie... Shoot downs with better endings:
Bridge Over the River Kwai is cinema art. More than just a war movie.
100 Thumbs up! ZULU!
Soldier of Orange (Soldaat van Oranje)
Sahara with Humphrey Bogart - my gramps loves that movie and I watch it with him several times.
I saw it that way too. The beginning with the B-25's cranking up, you felt you were right on the deck waiting to feel the wind. Never forget it.
How is it two people can copulate among other “sleeping” soldiers who don’t wake up? I mean they’re butt to butt with them.
Hell’s Angels
Aussies don’t like that guy - he was a murderer and duly shot for his crimes.
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Lawrence of Arabia
Lawrence
Lawrence of Arabia
He was an English guy
He came to fight the Turkish....(Beep Beep)
“Battle For Sevastopol”. The story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the highest scoring female sniper of WWII, with 309 confirmed kills. There are some movie liberties taken, but for the most part it sticks to history. It does a good job of showing how much Soviet civilians suffered during the war. And as it was produced by Ukranians, it pulls no punches about how the Soviet leadership spent their soldiers lives quite cheaply at times.
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Say what you want about the politics of it but Glory is a great flick. Those men charged that fort with no ammo in real life.
DasBoot was good.
Killing Fields really brought home what we were fighting against.
Stalingrad was a good flick too.
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