Movie Must see war movies?

[PP34]

Got a bit of time to watch movies and I love looking back at wars particularly WWI and WWII.


I've seen Saving Private Ryan and Platoon. What else should I be watching?

 

[Max Rockatansky]

Hamburger Hill is another good Vietnam War film. Starts off a bit slowly but has a big impact. Oh and you must see Full Metal Jacket - Stanley Kubrick at his finest.

Come and See is a harrowing Russian War film made in the 80s. Some pretty strange stuff in there and is unsettling and unpleasant to watch at times.

My favourite war film is the Thin Red Line. The first time I tried to watch it I gonged it after about 20 minutes. Went back later to give it another crack & loved it - seen it many times since.

 

[smiths]

MASH

 

[HARKER]

1. Apocalypse Now for me.
2. Thin Red Line next in line but I like Mallick.
3. Waltz with Bashir (It is animated though)

Stalag 17, The Pianist, Deerhunter, Downfall, Grave of the Fireflies are all good.

 

[rumply]

few off top of my head worth seeing

War Horse
Full Metal Jacket
Valkyrie
The Longest Day

 

[danger_to_walker]

Some great films mentioned above, a few others:

Das Boot
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Schindler's List
Paths of Glory
Joyeux Noel

 

[djrossie16]

Got a bit of time to watch movies and I love looking back at wars particularly WWI and WWII.


I've seen Saving Private Ryan and Platoon. What else should I be watching?

some very good recommendations here
Some to consider:
The Big Red One
Cross of Iron
Patton
Stalingrad
The Pianist
A Very Long Engagement
Defiance
Black Book
Soldier of Orange
Flame and Citron
Lawrence of Arabia
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Empire of the Sun
Army of Shadows
A Man Escaped
Female Agents

 

[RustyHawk]

WWI films based on Australian Army -
Gallipoli (1981) - (would be so much better if they re edited and cut out S Thornton - just detracts from a good story)
The Lighthorsemen (1987)
Beneath Hill 60 (2010)

* Breaker Morant - Boer War

WWII Air war movies
Memphis Belle (1990) - loosely based on a true story - but great idea of air combat over Germany
Tuskegee Airmen (1995 - Tv movie) but still very good about African American fighter pilots fighting racism as well as the Germans.
Battle of Britain (1969) Big budget movie of its time
Tora Tora Tora (1970) Big budget movie on the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour

WWII navel
The Cruel Sea (1953) * somebody on this forum loves this movie*
The Enemy Below (1957) - for some reason I like this even though they changed the ship from British to American. Stars Robert Mitcham and Curt Jurgens

WWII land
Cross of Iron (1977) mentioned above as well - war on the Russian front

Others
The Great Escape (1963) Steve McQueen at his best with great cast, based on a true story, The Big X and how escapes organised from German POW camps.

Kellys Heroes - Clint Eastwood - fun movie, plenty of fighting - war meets westerns.

Finally
City of Life & Death (2009) Chinese film about the rape of Nanking by the Japanese in 1936. Tough going but compelling

and
Life is Beautiful (1997) Roberto Benigni - about an Italian jew sent to a nazi concentration camp.

 

[CLUBMEDhurst]

+1 for Thin Red Line and Army of Shadows (love Pierre-Melville to death), Paths of Glory, Stalingrad and Apocalypse Now.

Would like to add

La Grand Illusion
Ride With the Devil

 

[CLUBMEDhurst]

Thanks Rusty, only watched City of Life and Death recently. As you described it, "tough but compelling"

 

[grizzlym]

Asgardian

This thread is made for you.

And I will reply to your PM shortly. Promise.

 

[NSWCROW]

No one's said " THE DIRTY DOZEN " yet ??

ENEMY AT THE GATES
VON RYAN'S EXPRESS

 

[Asgardian]

WWII navel
The Cruel Sea (1953) * somebody on this forum loves this movie*

That'd be me, my number 1 movie all time.

Asgardian

This thread is made for you.

Cheers Grizz, my latest collection quantity is 4,300 movies, about 1,500 are war / war related films.

I can give best of (in my opinion) war films in just about any category.

A few really good ones no-one has mentioned.

Démanty noci (aka Diamonds of the Night) (1964) a Czechoslovakian film
The Siege of Firebase Gloria (1989)
Kampen om tungtvannet (aka Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water) (1948) a Norwegian film
The Man Who Never Was (1956) a pommy film
Nihon no ichiban nagai hi (aka Japan's Longest Day) (1967) a Japanese film
Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
Le vieux fusil (aka Vengeance One by One) (1975) a French film
For Those in Peril (1944) a Pommy film
Ivanovo detstvo (aka My Name Is Ivan) (1962) a Russian film
The Great Dictator (1940) Chaplin's tour de force
Nebestí jezdci (aka Riders in the Sky) (1968) a Czechoslovakian film
Lifeboat (1944) another Hitchcock masterpiece
Shunpu den (aka Story of a Prostitute) (1965) a Japanese film
Sahara (1943)
Neskorenyy (aka The Undefeated) (2000) an Ukrainian film
La battaglia di Algeri (aka The Battle of Algiers) (1966) an Italian / Algerian film
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
Biruma no tategoto (aka The Burmese Harp) (1956) a Japanese film
El laberinto del fauno (aka Pan's Labyrinth) (2006) a Spanish film
Talvisota (aka The Winter War) (1989) a Finnish film
The Mad Parade (aka Forgotten Women) (1931)
Ah, yokaren (aka The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze) (1968) a Japanese film
Joyeux Noël (aka Merry Christmas) (2005) a French film
Women in Bondage (1943)
Voskhozhdeniye (aka The Ascent) (1977) a Russian film
The New Lot (1943) a Pommy film
The Steel Helmet (1951) a Samuel Fuller film
La ciociara (aka Two Women) (1960) an Italian film
The Killing Fields (1984)
Le quattro giornate di Napoli (aka The Four Days of Naples) (1962) an Italian film
Die letzte Brücke (aka The Last Bridge) (1954) a Yugoslavian film
Le chagrin et la pitié (aka The Sorrow and the Pity) (1969) a French doco
The Hill (1965) a Pommy film
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
Taegukgi hwinalrimyeo (aka Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War) (2004) a South Korean film
Foreign Correspondent (1940) another Hitchcock film
Western Approaches (1944) essentially a Pommy film
This Land Is Mine (1943)
Osvobozhdenie (aka Liberation) (1969) a Russian film
Nuit et brouillard (aka Night and Fog) (1955) a French doco
Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
Die Brücke (aka The Bridge) (1959) a German film
The War Game (1965) a Pommy film
Kontakt! (aka Contact) (1956) a Norwegian film
Menzies and Churchill at War (2008) an Aussie doco
Nobi (aka Fires on the Plain) (1959) a Japanese film
De aanslag (aka The Assault) (1986) a Dutch film
On Secret Service (aka Spy 77) (1933) a Pommy film
Paisà (aka Paisan) (1946) an Italian film
They Were Expendable (1945)
Lang ist der Weg (aka Long Is the Road) (1949) essentially a Jewish film
The Sand Pebbles (1966)
Kanal (aka Canal) (1957) a Polish film
A Town Like Alice (1956)
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
Air Force (1943)
A Matter of Life and Death (aka Stairway to Heaven) (1946) a Pommy film
Rendezvous 24 (1946)
The Guns of August (1964)
9 rota (aka 9th Company) (2005) a Finnish film
Sterne (aka Stars) (1959) a German film
The Blitz: London's Longest Night (2005)
Westfront 1918 (1930) a German film
The Rape of Europa (2006)
The Way Ahead (1944) a Pommy film
Tuntematon sotilas (aka The Unknown Soldier) (1955) a Finnish film

 

[Tigger Please!]

Inglorious Basterds

 

[Chris_6678]

Not a movie but the Band of Brothers Mini Series is very well done and have watched it 4 or 5 times and love it every time. The Pacific was all right but has nothing on Band of Brothers.

Someone mentioned Tigerland...hated it the first time i watched but have seen it a few times since and loved it more and more!

 

[hawkheart]

Surprised nobody's mentioned 'Where Eagles Dare'. Classic boys own adventure film starring Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton. Eastwood's character kills more people in this film than characters in the rest of his films put together. Soundtrack is a classic, too.

 

[little graham]

Must see for what?
There's various types of war movies.

I think Spielberg best effort was Munich



John Wayne did a few, made sense with being gay he would want his cast to be mostly men. His best? They were all the same really, some of the ones as u boat commander were good.



Out right honesty? You can't go past Oliver stones Trilogy.

 

[little graham]

This was very good.



I love this scene.

 

[Caesar]

All Quiet On The Western Front (1930) and Grave of the Fireflies are IMO quite comfortably the best war movies ever made.

On a slightly different note, Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb is probably my favourite war-related movie.

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room!"

 

[Dry Rot]

To add to those above

Harp of Burma
(Japanese film set around the end of WW2 - one of the saddest films you'll ever see) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049012/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

No Man's Land
Civil war in Yugoslavia with dark humour http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283509/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Dark Blue World
Very, very sad film about Czech flyers with the RAF http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244479/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Map of the Human Heart
Haunting film about a young Inuit boy who grows up, joins RAF Bomber Command and flies to Dresden http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104812/?ref_=nv_sr_3

Letters from Iwo Jima
Clint Eastwood's take on the Japanese side of the battle http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0498380/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_7

Gods and Monsters
Not a war film per se and not a film for the homophobic, but the creator of the original Frankenstein films got his inspiration from fighting on the Western Front in WW1 and the carnage he saw http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120684/?ref_=nv_sr_2

 

[Elixuh]

Battle of the Bulge

 

[Noobz0r]

A really good WW2 mini-series goes by the name of Piece of Cake. Follows a British Spitfire Squadron from the Phoney War up until the last days of the Battle of Britain. The first 2-3 episodes are slow as not much fighting happens (although it accurately portrays the attitudes of pilots at the time), but once the war heats up it gets much more exciting.

 

[rocker_oz33]

Some of the writers etc from the wire have made generation kill tv-series.

 

[CLUBMEDhurst]

Some of the writers etc from the wire have made generation kill tv-series.

Excellent series that it was

 

[brokey]

A Midnight Clear 1992
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102443/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
A very sad war film...had me almost in tears...

cheers

col