10 best war films--ever!

[JolyStNicholas]

Some one mentioned "Battle of the Bulge" Doesn't that go one here all the time?

[Mael Coluim]

My 2nd cousin Hugh Taylor was one of the many re-enactors in Gettysburg.

[wvpiper]

And I can't believe that no one added;
Operation Petticoat.

I was trying to come up with the name...
In no order:

Bridges of Toko Ri
The Caine Mutiny
The Green Berets
Full Metal Jacket
Bridge on River Kwai
Apocalypse Now - Redux
Fort Apache
In Harm's Way
Spartacus
The Horse Soldiers

Many of the others are good as well, hard to pick just 10

[LANCER1562]

How about these?

30 Seconds Over Tokyo
When Hell Was In Session
Midway
They Were Expendible (John Ford's tribute to crews of the PT boats)
The Guns Of Navarone
The Dirty Dozen
Sgt. York
God Is My Co-pilot
Enemy At The Gate
The Charge Of The Light Brigade

[thescot]

Full Metal Jacket (The best--5 stars!)
Sands of Iwo Jima
They Were Expendable
Back to Bataan
In Harm's Way (5 star)
(are you starting to see a trend here?)
We Were Soldiers, And Young
Brave Heart
Zulu
March or Die (kind of a war movie)
Casablanca (Best movie ever made. It was during the war and about the war, but not military.)

I never miss a chance to see any of these movies.

[thescot]

Oh. Lord. I left of:

Caine Muntiny
Winds of War
War and Remembrance

eWouk know how to write a book! He really set me up with old Queeg, then I wanted to kiss the guy by the time the defense attroney was through with all the young punks! If you don't know what this means, you REALLY need to see (or better yet, read) Caine Munity.

[McMurdo]

I really think 10 is not enough, there are so many great war pictures, thescot, my favourite film of all time is Casablanca, IMHO it's a perfect film, thanks for bringing it up, not sure why I forgot it.

[KFCarter]

I really think 10 is not enough, there are so many great war pictures, thescot, my favourite film of all time is Casablanca, IMHO it's a perfect film, thanks for bringing it up, not sure why I forgot it.

Often overlooked, but right up there with Casablanca, is "To Have and To Have Not"... it has the same "fringe of war" setting, but the on screen chemistry between Bogart and Bacall ... yikes!

The way Lauren Bacall delivered the line below, I'm amazed she didn't melt the camera lens:

You know you don't have to act with me, Steve. You don't have to say anything, and you don't have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and... blow.

[Riverkilt]

Made for TV ones:

Combat

Band of Brothers

Gettysburg


Flick ones:

Kelly's Heros....silly but good...

[McMurdo]

You know you don't have to act with me, Steve. You don't have to say anything, and you don't have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and... blow.

One of my favourite lines ever, it always gets me to this day, do you remember the old Warner Brothers cartoon with the wolf?