[sonofatpatcher2]

Here are my favorites:

Korean War:

1. Pork Chop Hill (1959) Greg Peck's best war film as Lt. Joe Clemons.
2. The Hunters (1958) Robert Mitchum as "The Ice Man" fighter pilot Major Cleve Saville. Great air combat photography.
3. Battle Circus (1953) Better than MASH.
4. The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1955)
5. Battle Hymn (1957)
6. The Glory Brigade (1953) Victor Mature & Lee Marvin as the infamous Corporal Bowman of M*A*S*H announcment fame.
7. Men of the Fighting Lady (1954)

Honorable Mention:
Fix Baynets (1951)
Submarine Command (1952)
This Is Korea! (1951) John Ford Documentry
Battle Zone (1952)
One Minute to Zero (1952)
MASH (1970)

Service Comedies:

1. I Was a Male War Bride (1949) That title plus Cary Grant 'in drag' makes this a must see.
2. Hallelujah Trail, The (1965) The Very Best Indian War Comedy ever made with Burt Lancaster as Col. Thaddeus Gearhart, Lee Remick as Temperance Leaguer Cora Templeton Massingale and Brian Keith as that "Good Republican" whiskey seller Frank Wallingham. Added delights are Jim Hutton's laid back Capt. Paul Slater and Martin Landau masterful comic turn as Chief Walks-Stooped-Over.
3. Operation Petticoat (1959)
4. The Americanization of Emily (1964)
5. Comrade X (1940) Clark Gable and the most beautiful woman ever in film, Hedy Lamarr, star in this view of Stalin's Russia just after his pact with Hitler. The tank chase is a special effects wonder in this pre-computer era.
6. Mister Roberts (1955)
7. To Be or Not to Be (1942) Jack Benny takes on the Nazis.
8. Cabaret (1972)

Honorable Mention:
The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962)
The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961)
Operation Mad Ball (1957)
Up Front (1951) & Back at the Front (1952) Based on Bill Mauldin's famed W.W.II cartoons: Lowbrow G.I.s Willie and Joe.
The Private War of Major Benson (1955)
Not with My Wife, You Don't! (1966)
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious (1965)

Vietnam War:

I dismiss Apocalypse Now (1979), Platoon (1986) & Casualties of War (1989) as the Hollywood Left's version of the war. However I rank Robert Duvall acting in Acrocofshinola the best thing in it...
1. We Were Soldiers (2002)
2. Green Berets, The (1968)
3. Go Tell the Spartans (1978) Burt Lancaster & Craig Wasson as American military advisors in Vietnam prior to the major U.S. involvement.
4. The Boys in Company C (1978)
5. A Rumour of War (1980)
6. Fly Away Home (1981) (TV)
7. The Quiet American (1958) - I like Audie Murphy's version much better than 2002 version, but the Michael Caine film is more faithful to the book.
8. Lost Command (1966) Tony Quinn leads French Foreign Legion Paras from IndoChina to Algeria.

Cold War:
1. Seven Days in May (1964)
2. On the Beach (1959) Greg Peck as. Cmdr. Dwight Lionel Towers, the last Captain of the USS Sawfish.
3. Fail-Safe (1964)
4. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)- I know this is a comedy, but I put it here...
5. A Gathering of Eagles (1963) Excellent Rock Hudson-Rod Taylor story on the B-52s of Strategic Air Command.
6. Ice Station Zebra (1968)
7. Jet Pilot (1957)
8. The Dogs of War (1981)
9. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965)
10. North by Northwest (1959)

Honorable Mentions:
Blood Alley (1955)
Big Jim McLain (1952)
Satan Never Sleeps (1962)
Sergeant Ryker (1968)
The Chairman (1969)
Telefon (1977)
Soldier of Fortune (1955)

War Bios:
MacArthur (1977) Greg Peck as Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Stalin (1992) (TV) Robert Duvall as Josef Stalin
"Ike - The War years" (1979) (mini) Robert Duvall as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Ike: Countdown to D-Day (2004) (TV) Tom Selleck delivers a strong performance as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower during the months and days leading up to the 1944 D-Day invasion, when, as Supreme Allied Commander, he oversaw the historic assault.
Patton (1970) & Last Days of Patton, The (1986) (TV) George C. Scott as Old Blood & Guts and Karl Malden as Gen. Omar Bradley
"Mussolini: The Untold Story" (1985) (mini) As a liberal, Scott decided to be fair, so he played Benito Mussolini.
The Desert Fox (1951) James Mason as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
To Hell and Back (1955) Audie Murphey's Bio.

Foreign Wars:
Khartoum (1966) Chuck heston as. Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon
Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951) Greg Peck as Capt. Horatio Hornblower
Zulu (1964)
You Can't Win 'Em All (1970) Tony Curtis & Charlie Bronson join a band of Turkish mercenaries in 1922.
The Wild Geese (1978) Great Mecernary film with Richard Burton as Col. Allen Faulkner
Dark of the Sun (1968) Action Mercernary yarn with Rod Taylor and Jim Brown fighting in the Congo.
The Man Who Captured Eichmann (1996) (TV)
Zulu Dawn (1979)
Raid on Entebbe (1977) (TV)
The Left Hand of God (1955)
Something of Value (1957) Rock Hudson & Sidney Poitier star as the Mau Mau uprisings begin in Kenya.
Guns at Batasi (1964)

Ok, my Best of All List - A Baker's Dozen:

1. Band of Brothers (TV) mini
2. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
3. Tie between We Were Soldiers (2002) & Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
4. Battleground (1949)
5. Casablanca (1942)
6. Battle Cry (1955)
7. They Were Expendable (1945)
8. Pork Chop Hill (1959)
9. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
10. The Great Santini (1979)
11. Wind and the Lion, The (1975)
12. The Patriot (2000)
13. Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) & Rio Grande (1950)

Ok, flame away! And tell me the ones I've missed...

[TheOldRepublic]

"The Big Red One"-Lee Marvin, Mark Hamil (Unless you got it in a previous list)

[Rummyfan]

Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) & Rio Grande (1950)

I can't argue with three of the best Westerns of all time, and three of John Ford's best. BATTLEGROUND is also one of my favorites.

[dts32041]

What no "Die Langest Tag", or Das Bootor AE's Horatio Hornblower, The Alamo, just wondering.

[dts32041]

What no Hell is for Heroes, or the Iron Cross, the Young Lions, They were Expendable, in Harms Way, Back to Bataan, Why we Fight?

Just asking.

[MozartLover]

The Young Lions

WWII, Brando, Clift, & Martin.............a great film.

[top of the world ma]

Korean War:

War Hunt

[Delta 21]

-The Wild Geese, Mr. Roberts, and Ice Station Zebra bumps!

[ExSoldier]

"The Battle of Britain" is on now on AMC.

Tora! Tora! Tora! was pretty good as a documentary.

I vaguely remember Porkchop Hill and The Bridges at Toko-Ri for the Korean War. I hope my just finished script and true story on the Korean War sells to Speilberg. His guys are interested and speaking to my agent.

[dts32041]

Sean Connery "The Hill"

[Ciexyz]

Paul Newman made a WW 2 comedy circa 1967. It wasn't a big success but I remember seeing it in the theater and enjoying it. I believe Sophia Loren was also in it.

"The Big Red One" with Lee Marvin and Mark Hamill (who had just made Star Wars), circa late 70's, was a great and most moving film. I won't give away the ending but it was quite emotional.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

The "Cross of Iron", starring James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, 1977

Although about a German unit on the Eastern Front in the last days of the war, it is still an excellent WW 2 war film.

Action? It is directed by Sam Peckinpah, nuff said.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

I certainly agree with the pick on Audie Murphy.

"To Hell and Back" Based on the life of one Audie Murphy, and starring Audie Murphy who is one of the most decorated American soldiers in history.

And by Kerry's standards the boy with a seventh grade education should have been elected president the minute he set foot back in America. Kerry would kill for such a record as the young baby faced Murphy accomplished. But the self effacing baby faced Murphy merely settled to become a b-grade movie star until his untimely death in a plane crash. One of Murphy's best was the civil war classic, but Audie was also Good in the "The Unforgiven" with Burt Lancaster.

Click the link for a great read of his bio, especially the part on his simple tombstone that he requested, this is the stuff real heroes are made of , not the phony crap Kerry represents.

http://www.movietreasures.com/main/Audie_Murphy/audie_murphy.html

[cinFLA]

7. The Quiet American (1958) - I like Audie Murphy's version much better than 2002 version, but the Michael Caine film is more faithful to the book.

The book was anti-American. Wasn't the 1958 film pro-American?

I seem to remember a lot of controversy obout the Caine Film and how the Vietnamese government gave the film 'its blessings'.

[Chi-townChief]

You're missing Korea's "The Steel Helmut" and Vietnam's "Hanoi Hilton."

[AppyPappy]

Heartbreak Ridge

[ExSoldier]

Since this is a Korea to present list you've not included the WWII films, but I always show "The Devils Brigade" to my 9th grade classes and right now "Where Eagles Dare" is on AMC which a total B$ film, but loads of fun.

Care to cook up a WWII list? Omit the bio's on your previous list of famous folks?

[tet68]

One that you won't see very often "With the Marines at Tarawa"filmed by Capt.Louis Hayward leading a unit of the combat photographers.
A lot of early color film, contains the only actual film of a live Japanese assault.

Later he asked "Howlin Mad" Smith how he liked it. Smith told him it was great, but recruiting was down by 20%!

[x1stcav]

You left out "A Walk in the Sun" about the 36th Texas Infantry in Italy in WWII.

Otherwise a decent list what withg the addition of "Steel Helmet" as another has suggested. What about "Enemy at the Gate"?

[yoe]

Some of the ones that get away are spoofs. The High Road to China with Selleck is one of those - the music is beautiful and the story (fairy tale) is delightful. Another is Eight Heads in a Duffle Bag, this is hilarious nonsense.

[SAMWolf]

"The Enemy Below" - Robert Mitchum and Kurt Jurgens in a DE vs U-Boat flick.

"The Bridge at Remagen"

"Red Dawn"

"Starship Troopers"