Please add your favorite war movies to this thread

ReveBM ^ | February 23, 2002 | ReveBM

[ReveBM]

I'm trying to get some of the best war movies on DVD to show to my kids someday, when they are older. So far here's what I have in my collection:
Gladiator (OK - not technically a war movie)
Braveheart
Henry V (Kenneth Branagh version)
Glory
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Patton
Saving Private Ryan

Here are some ones I want to get when they come out on DVD:
Behind Enemy Lines (OK, I thought the ending was goofy but I thought it was good in capturing the atmosphere of Yugoslavia)
Black Hawk Down
We Were Soldiers

Can some people please add movies (preferrably ones currently out on DVD) to this thread, and why you think they are good?

I'm hoping that watching these movies will help teach my kids some of the following virtues:

1. Patriotism
2. Sacrifice
3. Bravery
...I missed a few I'm sure.

I'm also interested in getting films from different historical periods. Are there any good films (from a Freeper point of view) on World War I or the Korean War, particularly the Chosin Reservoir conflict?

Please note that I'm not interested in leftist, polemical "antiwar" war movies, though I don't mind movies that show war brutality, senselessnes or tragedy, provided that it's in a context appropriate to the conflict.

[Non-Sequitur]

Try this. Watch Zulu and pay attention to the Zulu war chants just prior to the final assault. The ones where the British soldiers sing 'March of the Men of Harlech' to drown them out. Then watch the opening battle scenes from Gladiator where the barbarian army does the same thing. I swear that they sound exactly alike.

[Huck]

Mr. Roberts

Where Eagles Dare

[ken5050]

How could we forget all the great John Ford movies.......She wore a yellow ribbon, Fort Apache, The Horse Soldiers,

also, do you remember "They were expendable"..the story of the PT boats in WW II?

[Huck]

Don't forget to show them some books, too. You know, those things with words in them instead of sound and pictures? Maybe Cicero or Epictetus or McCullough's John Adams. Plenty of good lessons about sacrifice and patriotism in there. But it'll take more than 90 minutes of passive participation.

[Chapita]

Ha! The Big Red One was one of the last movies I've gone to see. It was a good one!

[YaYa123]

You might want to include movies that tell the story of WW2, from the homefront.
"Mrs. Miniver" and "The Best Years of Our Lives" are two of the best.

[ken5050]

IMHO, Where Eagles Dare, was too over the top....by that time MacLean was writing for commerical success....of all his books, and they're all good reads for a rainy day, his first..HMS ULysses...which was never made into a film..was far and away his best......the LAST chapter, about 5 pages, can be read alone...

[An Old Man]

USMC MOVIES LIST

TITRE	ANNEE		REALISATEUR
Star spangled banner	1916
The Marienettes	1918			WWI
The unbeliever	1918			WWI
Devil dog Dawson	1921
Marines, d'abord ( Tell it to the Marines )	1926	MGM	HILL George	WWI
The fighting Marine	1926			WWI
Au service de la gloire ( What price of glory )	1926	Fox	WALSH Raoul	WWI
The three things	1927			WWI
Great mail diary	1927
Let it rain	1927
Moran of the Marines	1928
Devil dogs	1928
Flight	1929			Banana war
The leatherneck	1929			Chine
The cockeyed world	1929
The leathernecking	1930
Women of all nations	1931	Fox	WALSH Raoul
Marionettes	1934			WWI
The marine are coming	1934
Come on, Marines	1934
Devil dog of the air	1935	Warner	BACON Lloyd
The leathernecks have landed	1936
The singing marine	1937
The marine are here	1938
The marine fly hight	1940
Down in San Diego	1941	MGM	SINCLAIR Robert
La sentinelle du Pacific (Wake island )	1942	Paramount	FARROW John	WWII
Guadalcanal ( Guadalcanal diary )	1943	20th century Fox	SEILER Lewis	WWII
Bataan	1943	MGM	STARR Irving	WWII
Salute to the Marines	1943			WWII
Fighting devil dogs	1943
You can't fool a marine	1943
Larceny with music	1943
" Gun Ho "	1943	Universal	ENRIGHT Ray	WWII
The Marines come thru	1943
we are the Marines	1943
Hail the conquering hero (heros d'occasion )	1944	Paramount	STURGES Preston	WWII
Marine raiders	1944			WWII
Battle of the Marianas	1944			Docu.
Abroad with two yanks	1944			WWII
Alerte aux Marines ( The fighting Seabees )	1944	Republic	LUDWIG Edward	WWII
L'orgueil des Marines ( Pride of the Marines )	1945	Warner	DAVES Delmer	WWII
Till the end of the time	1946			WWII
No leave, no love	1946
Je suis un nègre ( Home the brave )	1949	Stanley Kramer	ROBSON Mark	WWII
Iwo Jima ( Sands of Iwo Jima )	1949	Republic	DWAN Allan	WWII
Okinawa	1950		MILESTONE Lewis	WWII
Sixth Marine division on Okinawa	1950			Docu.
Tripoli	1950			1800's
Hall of Montezuma	1950			WWII
With the Marines: Chosin to Hungnam	1951			Docu.
Lady Marines	1951
Les diables de Guadalcanal	1951		RAY Nicholas	WWII
Stars and stripes forever	1952
Battle zone	1952			Corée
Here come the Marines	1952
What price of glory (re-make )	1952			WWI
Le bataillon de l'enfer ( Retreat, Hell ! )	1952	Warner	LEWIS H. Joseph	Corée
Fighter attack	1953			WWII
South sea paradise	1953			WWII
Crazylegs	1953			WWII
China venture	1953			WWII
South sea woman (Les bagarreurs du pacifique )	1953	Warner	LUBIN Arthur
The Bob Mathias story	1954
Beachred ( Le sable etait rouge )	1954	Theodora product.	WILDE Cornel	WWII
Beachead	1954
Le cri de la victoire ( Battle cry )	1955	20th century Fox	WALSH Raoul	WWII
Hold back the night	1956			Corée
The proud and the the profane	1956	Paramount	SEATON Geoge	WWII
Until they sail	1957			WWII
The D.I. (the drill instructor )	1957
Dieu seul le sait ( Heaven knows Mrs. Allison )	1957	20th century Fox	HUSTON John	WWII
Tarawa tête de pont ( Tarawa beachhead )	1958		WENDKOS Paul	WWII
South pacific	1958	20th century Fox	LOGAN Joshua	WWII
Les Marines	1959		REICHENBACK F.
Battle flame (Les feux de la bataille )	1959	Allied artist	SPRINGSTEEN R.G.	Corée
Blood and steel	1959
Les Marines attaquent ( All the young men )	1960	Colombia	BARTLETT Hal	Corée
In love and war	1960			WWII
Saipan	1960		KARLSON Phil	WWII
Hell to eternity	1960
Marines let's go	1961	20th century Fox	WALSH Raoul	Corée
Outsider	1961	Universal	MANN Delbert	WWII
No man is an island ( L'aigle de Guam )	1962		MONKS John	WWII
A yank in Vietnam	1963			Viet nam
Les 55 jours de Pekin	1963		RAY Nicholas	1900
Le cri des Marines	1963		NICOL Alex
The brig	1964		MEKAS A
L'ile des braves ( None but the braves )	1965	Warner	SINATRA Frank	WWII
To the shores of hell	1965
Ambush bay ( La baie du guet-apens )	1966		WINSTON Ron	WWII

First to fight	1967
A face of war	1968		JONES S. Eugene	Docu.
Les Marines attaquent Okinawa	1971		KIHACHI Okamoto	WWII
Baby blue Marine	1976
The boys in compagny C	1978	Hong Kong	FURIE J. Sydney	Viet nam
Le retour ( Coming home )	1978	United Artists	ASHBY Hal	Viet nam
The great Santini	1979	Orion picture	CARLINO J. Lewis
Supercarrier	1980	Télévision		Actuel
Le maitre de guerre ( Heartbreak ridge )	1986			Grenade
Full metal jacket	1987		KUBRICK Stanley	Viet nam
Né un 4 juillet ( born on the fourth of july )	1989		STONE Oliver	Viet nam
Space: Above and beyong	1990	Télévision		Espace
JAG	1995	Télévision		Actuel
Navy log	1955-58	Télévision		Actuel
The Lieutenant	1963-64	Télévision		Actuel
Gomer pyle, USMC	1964-70	Télévision		Actuel
Black sheep squadron (Les têtes brûlées )	1976-78	Télévision		WWII
Major Dad	1989-91	Télévision		Actuel
Pensacola		Télévision
Windtalker	2001			WWII

  I hope you enjoy some of these as much a I did.

Semper Fi

[OldFriend]

The Day of the Jackal

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Bridge over the river Quai (sp?)

[Chapita]

I found some good lessons in the book, The Ugly American. These lessons were repeated in training sessions for SF and others!

[Cincinatus]

I didn't forget them. Although I greatly admire Ford, I'm not that much of a fan of his "cavalry trilogy", except for the absolutely brilliant Fort Apache, which would have been on my list, had I not included They Died With Their Boots On. IMHO, Col. Thursby (Henry Fonda) in "Fort Apache" is a thinnly veiled version of Custer, memorably portrayed by Errol Flynn in "Boots On."

[ken5050]

Right you are, YY...TBYOOL is great film....the scene, in the beginning,where they are flying over the field of thousands of mothballed airplanes is spectacular...The actor who played the double amputee just died last month, his obituary was in the Times...he lost his arms in a training accident..

Here's another for ya....."The Cruel Sea"..by Nicholas Monserrat....both the book and the movie....probably the finest depiction of the early stages of the Uboat war in the Atlantic.......and one of the best of the obviously "propaganda" films....."In Which We Serve"..starring and directed by Noel Coward...

[fnord]

2 excellent Aussie movies exemplifying Duty - Honor - Country ... Gallipoli and Breaker Morant

[Non-Sequitur]

Well, if were talking British war films then you have to add "The Immortal Battalion" with David Niven.

[Cincinatus]

Breaker Morant

You are absolutely right and I'm chagrined that I forgot that one! Also, for court-martial movies, you can't beat The Caine Mutiny for both portraying the pressures of combat and general atmosphere.

[RaceBannon]

Battle Cry!

Sands of Iwo Jima

Flying Leathernecks

Gung Ho!

Pork Chop Hill

Where Eagles Dare

One of our planes is missing (British)

Halls of Montezuma

[riley1992]

I rarely watch a movie over again but the one that I do in that vein is "The Bridge on the River Kwai".

[Illbay]

I watch "Battlefield" every time it comes on.

[Northern Yankee]

Yeah... he did dine on the head... (Dare I say two heads are better than one?...)

But he had it in the sack for a duration of the trip.

Wasn't Walter Brennan in that movie as well? And a young Henry Fonda?