[ReveBM]

Thanks for your help. Also, as an aside, does anyone know of any movies that portray businessmen and the capitalist system in a positive light?

[poweqi]

Band of Brothers... it's so non-Hollywood that it seems real.

[Clintons Are White Trash]

Saving Private Ryan made the sacrifice and death of my two great uncles real to me. Growing up they had always been two pictures on my great grandmother's wall but that movie brought them to life for me.

The other is not a movie, but the documentary "The Lost Fleet of Guadalcanal" - my great uncle was on the USS Quincy and died in that battle.

[poweqi]

Hell in the Pacific... Lee Marvin is great, can't remember the other guys name.

[Mr Ducklips]

"Tell It To The Spartans", or something similar to that title. Best Vietnam War movie I've seen. I bet someone can confirm the correct title.

[weef]

The Great Escape

[mwyounce]

Are there any good films (from a Freeper point of view) on World War I?

Sergeant York

[ken5050]

If you can find them:

30 Seconds over Tokyo
A Walk in the Sun ( my personal favorite)
Bridges at Toko-Ri
Purple Heart

[Non-Sequitur]

The Longest Day.
Zulu.
The Red Badge of Courage - though the book is better
There was one released by HBO last year but I can't remember the name. It was about combat in the Hurtgen Forrest in 1944.

[greydog]

FULL METAL JACKET

[Goblins]

All quiet on the western front

Any of the versions.

[DugwayDuke]

I am reminded of an old WWII movie "Manila Calling". A group of civilians right after the fall of Corregidor take possession of a radio station which they use to send a call for assistance in waging guerilla war against the Japanese. The Japanese surround them and inflict all sorts of vicious actions in an attempt to retake the station before it can be repaired and the call sent out. The station finally goes on the air just as the Japanese launch their final assualt. By the end of the speech calling for assistance one is ready to march to the enlistment hall to sign up to fight the Japs. Tremendously stirring movie.

[jamaksin]

12 O'Clock High ... can be viewed from many prespectives ... leadership, decision-making, sacrifice, technology, ... direct accountability, ... battle fatigue, ... achieving strategic "goals" through supporting tactical/operational operations, ... , etc.

Oh, good acting too!

[RJCogburn]

True Grit

Courage, loyalty, determination, justice, individualism.

[Chapita]

Casablanca and From Here To Eternity are still my two best favorites! I quit watching movies years ago when they started the 'unreal' special effects!

The figments of today's imaginations have changed a lot.

[Quix]

THE LONGEST DAY

VICTORY AT SEA

THE RED DAWN

[uncbob]

No Contest The movie was completely accurate and not Holywooded up because the adviser was there And it was unique in that the main character was played by himself Probably never happen again TO HELL AND BACK with AUDIE MURPHY

[Cincinatus]

Hell is for Heroes -- Directed by Don Siegel (of "Dirty Harry" fame), starring Steve McQueen, Nick Adams, James Coburn, and Bob Newhart (no kidding!). A true, low-budget classic.

The 300 Spartans -- The seige of Thermopylae, 480 BC, where a small group of Spartans held out against the entire Persian army for over a week. The beginning of the defense of the West. A great movie about this key event.

The Alamo -- The Duke's flawed, but still wonderful, epic of the siege that still makes the Eyes of Texas shine.

The Enemy Below -- Robert Mitchum and Kurt Jurgens play cat-and-mouse with US Destroyer and German U-boat in the South Atlantic during WW II. THE definitive submarine movie; "Das Boot" can't hold a candle to it.

Stalag 17 -- the best POW movie, and also the first. Funny, moving, and tragic in turns. Served as inspiration for "Hogan's Heroes", God help us....

The Longest Day -- superior to "Private Ryan" in nearly all aspects. The definitive Hollywood statement on D-Day.

They Died With Their Boots On -- Want to understand Custer? This is the one -- forget those idiotic, revisionist sixties movies.

Zulu -- The defense of Rourke's Drift, 1879. 100 British regulars against 5000 screaming Zulu warriors. Does it get any better than this movie? I think not.

Paths of Glory -- the entire Great War experience, summed up in 89 incredible minutes. Brilliant.

[Huck]

Mr. Roberts

Where Eagles Dare

[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.

[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.