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Please add your favorite war movies to this thread
ReveBM ^ | February 23, 2002 | ReveBM

Posted on 02/23/2002 3:46:01 AM PST by 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.


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To: ken5050
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.
41 posted on 02/23/2002 4:25:16 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: ReveBM
Mr. Roberts

Where Eagles Dare

42 posted on 02/23/2002 4:25:22 AM PST by Huck
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To: Cincinatus
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?

43 posted on 02/23/2002 4:26:04 AM PST by ken5050
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To: ReveBM
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.
44 posted on 02/23/2002 4:27:25 AM PST by Huck
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To: Northern Yankee
Ha! The Big Red One was one of the last movies I've gone to see. It was a good one!
45 posted on 02/23/2002 4:27:48 AM PST by Chapita
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To: ReveBM
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.
46 posted on 02/23/2002 4:28:00 AM PST by YaYa123
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To: Huck
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...
47 posted on 02/23/2002 4:29:31 AM PST by ken5050
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To: Northern Yankee

USMC MOVIES LIST

John Wayne

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

48 posted on 02/23/2002 4:29:39 AM PST by An Old Man
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To: ReveBM
The Day of the Jackal
49 posted on 02/23/2002 4:30:25 AM PST by OldFriend
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To: ReveBM
Bridge over the river Quai (sp?)
50 posted on 02/23/2002 4:32:45 AM PST by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: Huck
I found some good lessons in the book, The Ugly American. These lessons were repeated in training sessions for SF and others!
51 posted on 02/23/2002 4:34:15 AM PST by Chapita
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To: ken5050
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."
52 posted on 02/23/2002 4:34:19 AM PST by Cincinatus
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To: YaYa123
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...

53 posted on 02/23/2002 4:34:30 AM PST by ken5050
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To: ReveBM
2 excellent Aussie movies exemplifying Duty - Honor - Country ... Gallipoli and Breaker Morant
54 posted on 02/23/2002 4:35:41 AM PST by fnord
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To: ken5050
Well, if were talking British war films then you have to add "The Immortal Battalion" with David Niven.
55 posted on 02/23/2002 4:36:51 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: fnord
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.

56 posted on 02/23/2002 4:38:59 AM PST by Cincinatus
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To: ReveBM
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

57 posted on 02/23/2002 4:39:56 AM PST by RaceBannon
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To: ReveBM
I rarely watch a movie over again but the one that I do in that vein is "The Bridge on the River Kwai".
58 posted on 02/23/2002 4:40:34 AM PST by riley1992
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To: ReveBM
I watch "Battlefield" every time it comes on.
59 posted on 02/23/2002 4:41:24 AM PST by Illbay
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To: ken5050
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?

60 posted on 02/23/2002 4:41:25 AM PST by Northern Yankee
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