Your top 5 war movies

Saving Private Ryan
The Longest Day
Blackhawk Down
We Were Soldiers
Kelly's Heroes

 

Black Hawk Down
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
We were soldiers
Saving Private Ryan

 

BlackHawk Down
A Bridge to Far
Saving Pvt Ryan
The Great Escape
12 O'Clock High (both the movie and the TV series)

 

Glory
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Dirty Dozen
Saving Pvt. Ryan

 

I'm going to nominate one and only one here in honor of my dad.

Platoon

He was a Marine in Vietnam, was the epitomy of a tough guy and I never saw him cry but once.

That one time that I saw him cry was when he took me to see the movie Platoon.

The stories he shared with me that night were pretty wild. He had never talked about the war until that night and never did again in any depth.

 

Platoon
Saving Private Ryan
Black Hawk Down
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Patton

 

The Longest Day (I actually could have named this five times. It's that good. If you haven't seen it, run to the video store and get it. I'll wait.)
Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Midway

 

I'm going to name just two that are rather unknown in the US but well worth picking up on DVD if available:

- Das Boot (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082096/)

- The Bridge/Die Brücke (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052654/)

I especially recommend "Das Boot" - in my most humble opinion the best anti-war movie out there. Simply devastating.

 

Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Saving Private Ryan
When We Were Soldiers
Behind Enemy Lines (only due to the action)

 

Gettysburg
Gods and Generals
Black Hawk Down
We Were Soldiers
Troy

 

Addendum ... Glory

 

Glory is one of my all time fav. movies.

 

That scene at the end with the boys choir. Goosebumps. It's in Mrs. Z's top five.

 

The camp fire scene is my favorite as well as when Denzel has the flag.

 

Glory is definitely a great movie. I cant really stand Ferris Bueller and thought him being in it might ruin it for me, but it worked.

 

as long as there is no one for him to run over drunk in his car he's fine. Unless he can run over someone on a horse.....

 

Glory
We Were Soldiers
Saving Private Ryan
Band of Brothers (not a movie but I'm throwing it in anyway, sue me)
Full Metal Jacket

 

Glory is indeed a wonderful movie... among war movies or just in general. Denzel and Morgan Freeman together? awesome.

i live about 5 minutes from Morris Island, where that battle at the end of the movie took place. it is only accessible by boat.

developer Bobby Ginn bought it awhile back, and deeded ownership of it to the state of South Carolina for 1/4th what he paid for it, after initially wanting to build on it.

the ocean has claimed most of Morris Island now, including the fortifications and Union camp (the South abandoned it soon after the battle that the movie climaxed in.

if the tide is right and you can handle thigh deep mud, you can pretty much walk from Morris Island over to Fort Sumter now, the bombardment of which began the War Between the States.

i used to have the newspaper clippings from when they found the remains of some of the soldiers from the 54th Massachussetts regiment, which Denzel and company portrayed. they were buried in graves on the beach seperate from the white Union soldiers, and were sent to Mass. to be re-interred. the graves were found on Folly Beach, where i spend alot of time in the summer.

 

sorry accidental double post

 

nope

...and nope.

 

This is the week of lists I see, anyway here's mine.

1. Apocalypse Now
2. Full Metal Jacket
3. Saving Private Ryan
4. Enemy At The Gates
5. Tigerland

 

well in that case Doc you can take the tour boat over to Fort Sumter and see it from a short distance.

 

Good film. Not well known but worth a watch.

 

Well, not really a movie, But Band of Brothers was awesome.

 

Apocalypse Now
Saving Private Ryan
We were Soldiers
The Big Red One
Black hawk Down

 

A Bridge Too Far
Sahara
Red Badge of Courage
Apocalypse Now
The Dirty Dozen

Alternate - Kelly's Heros

 

The Big Red One Was a very good one also.

The Longest Day was just on!

 

Those two...as well as The Guns of Navarrone, Bridge on the River Kwai, and Midway all get honorable mention.
I had trouble narrowing it down to 5... as I could have easily listed 15-20.

 

I still say Band of Brothers, but that was really a mini series.

I can't wait for the Mini Series on the Iraq that is coming up in July on HBO, it looks great.
http://www.hbo.com/events/generationkill/

 

Glory is my favorite war movie

 

1. Platoon Leader
2. Apocalypse Now
3. Saving Private Ryan
4. Guns Of Navarrone
5A. The Great Escape

5B. Platoon

 

Das Boot is definitely one of the all time greats

 

i liked the civil war trilogy too. what was the thrid movie? gods and generals was great though

 

- Saving Private Ryan
- Bridge on the River Kwai
- Downfall
- Patton
- All Quiet on the Western Front

Not sure if these qualify, but they bear mention: Schindler's List, Braveheart and The Deer Hunter

 

Ahh...my brother, I love your your flavor!

Never gonna purge that CSA from my veins.

Forgot to add my movies
Patton
Gods and Generals
Gettysburg
Saving Private Ryan
The Patriot
The Longest Day
Dirty Dozen
Full Metal Jacket
Battle of the Bulge

 

Dirty Dozen
Platoon
Bridge by the river Kwai (sp)
Sure I have a few more but I drew a blank.

 

Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Hamburger hill
Saving Private Ryan
Black Hawk Down

 

we were soldiers

and i know it dont really count but 300 was awesome!

 

The Longest Day
Force 10 From Navarone
Midway
Sahara
The Dirty Dozen