Our paper listed some other good ones that are being rereleased:
Stalag 17
No Man an Island
The Naked and the Dead
The Enemy Below
Desert Fox
Compare these classics to later revisionist anti-war films such as:
Deer Hunter (Vietnam)
Platoon (Vietnam)
Apocolypse Now (Vietnam)
The Thin Red Line (Guadalcanal)
Three Kings (Iraq I)
Did not read the thread -- but the one about the Sullivan's from when I was a kid was my favorite. I don't go to anything today, so can't say about any of the recent ones.
You're generally correct about the other four, but there's no way you could characterize "The Deer Hunter" as an "antiwar" film.
It was a film about the sheer determination of Americans, the strength and endurance of the human spirit, and the persistent bond between male friends.
If you just take the scenes with the returning Marine and Christopher Walken in the military hospital and focus on them, then I guess you could characterize it as an antiwar picture.
However, that is not the essence of the film. The core of "The Deer Hunter" can be found in DeNiro's and Walken's resistance to their NVA captors, and the closing scene, which takes place after Walken's funeral.