10 best war films--ever!

[dfmacliam]

We Were Soldiers
Full Metal Jacket
Bridge over River Kwai
Platoon
Letters from Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima
Apocalypse Now
The Deer Hunter
Gettysburg
The Big Red One
Saving Private Ryan
One Mans Hero
Last of the Mohicans
Braveheart
The Patriot

[DWFII]

In no particular order...

Glory
Patton
Band of Brothers
Platoon
Lawrence of Arabia
The English Patient
Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan
Apocalypse Now
Bridge on the River Kwai
Gone with the Wind

And one other, kind of post war, which I forgot...Cold Mountain

Now how about the ten best war novels ...?

[Peter C.]

The man who never was.

The guns at Batasi. (For Richard Attenboroughs incredible performance as an RSM)




How about "The mouse that roared". One of the few films where the US lost.



Peter

[KFCarter]

How about "The mouse that roared". One of the few films where the US lost.



Peter

Wow, I had forgotten about that movie...and the Duchy of Grand Fenwick!! One of Peter Sellers' funniest!!

[sdc]

Two of my favourites: The Longest Day and Kelly's Heroes.

[Bigkahuna]

Cockleshell Heros, She wore a yellow ribbon (Indian Wars), Fort Apache, The Horse Soldiers.

[macwilkin]

1. Breaker Morant
2. Tunes of Glory
3. The Sand Pebbles
4. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
5. Guns at Batasi
6. Paths of Glory
7. The Lighthorsemen
8. Rough Riders
9. The Odd Angry Shot
10. Mister Roberts

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

South Pacific.








What?

Regards,
Rex.

Wit, thy name is Rex!

[Rogerson785]

Although it is not particularly a war movie, but Legends of the Fall has some great WWI scenes.

[vmac3205]

can we count mini-series?
Band of brothers
Winds of War / War and Rememberance (if you are fast and good, you can see Captmac playing 16 different sailors in W&R. Any time a sailor comes out of a hatch, that's him, and he's the guy with the bosun's pipe.