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To: blam; wardaddy; chookter; harpseal; SLB
The Beast
Hell in the Pacific
Merrills Marauders
Gettysburg
Das Boot
Blackhawk Down
They Were Expendable
And a old film I can't remember about the early days of WWII with Robert Taylor ...."Bataan" I believe it was.

Stay Safe !

126 posted on 10/11/2003 12:10:54 AM PDT by Squantos ("Ubi non accusator, ibi non judex.")
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To: Squantos; Lion Den Dan; Fred Mertz; sauropod; Jeff Head; Travis McGee; harpseal; chookter; pocat; ..
These are listed in order of preference. Several others come to mind, but ten is enough for now. I have also read the books some of these movies were based on. In some cases the book is better and some the movie is.

Gods and Generals
Gettysburg
Ben Hur
We Were Soldiers Once. . . . and Young
Patton
The Great Escape
Pearl Harbor
Tora, Tora, Tora
Kelly's Heroes
Cheyenne Autumn




139 posted on 10/11/2003 1:51:08 AM PDT by SLB ("We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us." C. S. Lewis)
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To: Squantos; Travis McGee
Thia is way hard.....too many things about different flicks..

Das Boot is in there for sure.

Some movies are about war but not war movies and some of those have been spectacular.

I like the Yugo movie with Dennis Quaid recently....at least it gave the Serbs a fair shake...Savior...not great but good.

The Duellist...a period flick in the Napoleanic Wars but not a war movie.

Henry V....not a war movie but the St Crispins Speech and Agincourt scenes are incredible.

I liked Tora Tora Tora better than Midway personally.

Speaking of which(Japs)...and Kurosawa war-epic is worth snagging if you don't mind sub-titles.

The Longest Day simply for the pagentry and cast.

Cross of Iron...Steiner bump!

Patriot/Braveheart....dramas in wars.

Blackhawk Down and We Were Soldiers/ gripping realism

The Wild Geese....what a cast...Roland The Thompson Gunner bump!

I loved Gods and Generals but it is a very long movie....the performance of the actor playing Stonewall Jackson is incredible.

I have never seen the old silent Napolean movie but I hear that it is a masterpiece of effort.

This is the impossible list...Zulu Dawn , Larry of Arabia....

I wish someone would do a proper film on Simon Bolivar...his back and forth treks across the Andes and GranColombia are epic enough for the big screen and have never been done.

I always liked Gregory Peck as Hornblower for old ship's war movies....the series last year was fun too.

There was an interesting movie a few years ago called Ride with the Devil about the Missouri guerrilla war....great horseback pistol scenes..

enough.
149 posted on 10/11/2003 8:54:43 AM PDT by wardaddy (I'm thinking.....)
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To: Squantos
Favorite military movies.

Guadalcanal Diary
Destination Burma (Merrills' Maurauders)
12 O'Clock High
Run silent Run Deep
They were Expendable
Battle Cry
Rough Riders
Action in the North Atlantic


I also like every movie you mentioned but those are my favorites.
168 posted on 10/11/2003 3:31:14 PM PDT by harpseal (stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
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