Best War Movies Ever

[alessandro]

The best ones for me are:

1) Das Boot - the director's Cut
2) The Deerhunter
3) Tora Tora Tora
4) Apocalypse Now
5) Platoon
6) Memphis Belle
7) Battle of Midway

"Saving Private Ryan" was good for the first 30 minutes the most
"U-571" a joke compare to the German Classic Das Boot.

[This message has been edited by alessandro (edited 08 March 2001).]

[KvHagedorn]

1) All Quiet on the Western Front
2) Patton
3) Hell in the Pacific
4) Bridge on the River Kwai
5) Das Boot
6) Saving Private Ryan
7) Lawrence of Arabia
8) Grand Illusion
9) Apocalypse Now
10) Kagemusha
11) Spartacus
12) Birth of a Nation
13) Zeppelin
14) Braveheart
15) Tora Tora Tora
16) The Enemy Below
17) The Great Escape
18) The Deer Hunter
19) The Patriot
20) The Blue Max
21) Battle of Britain
22) Midway

I might still play with the ordering here, but this is about right.

[SCompRacer]

FMJ didn't make the list?

[Chris B]

not to forget:

- Kelly´s Heroes
- The Dirty Dozen
- The Guns of Navarone
- Full Metal Jacket (the book´s better though)
- Cassualties of War
- The Thin Red Line (was pretty ok)

and offcourse Casablanca. I know... not a war movie in the traditional sense, but nevertheless it WAS set in WW2

[KvHagedorn]

FMJ didn't make my list. I only saw it once, though, and it seemed pointless, no story to be told at all.

[SCompRacer]

Oh, absolutely...

[Chris B]

Read the book instead, it´s much better than the movie. The movie is only about half of the book!

It´s called "Short timers", can´t remember the author.

[Schorsch]

Other movies to add to the list:

- Ran
- Paths Of Glory
- A Midnight Clear


The best version of "Das Boot" is certainly the full-length TV series (which has a total running time of about six hours if I remember correctly). With its long, depressing sequences between the action scenes, it brings out the scary atmosphere in the submarine even better than the shorter version that was shown in the cinemas.

BTW, "Full Metal Jacket" is a masterpiece in my opinion. But I guess as with every Kubrick movie, there are people who love it and there are people who hate it. (I am one of his fans - last weekend I saw the newly restored version of "2001" on a big screen and I was completely floored...)

[HedsSpaz]

Thin Red Line.

Oh I know, I'm probably going to take a lot of flack for saying that, but I thought it was a great movie. So excuse me if I like to watch the occassional movie that you have to actually THINK about.

Ian

[bongo]

Glad you mentioned Thin Red Line, Ian. Becasue it is easily one of the top 10, maybe top 5.

Amazing film. Very human.

[yepitsme]

Cross of Iron (Peckinpah)
Stalingrad (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0108211)
Das Boot tv-serie and d.cut
Tuntematon Sotilas (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0048752)

Slightly out of mainstream but good movies anyway.

[cjolley]

KvH,Good list!
I haven't seen all of them, but looks about right to me.
chuck

PS "Patton" is my wifes all-time favorite movie.
Mines "A Man For All Seasons"

[DuRaNgO]

"War of the Worlds".

[Jammrock]

I want to see 'Enemy at the Gates'!!!

It's a new movie about a real life story that took place at the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII. From what I take, the Germans are being held back by a Russian sniper and don't like it. So the Germans send in their best sniper to take him out. So the movie revolves around Russia and Germany's best snipers going at it.

Hell ya!

March 16th for the US release =)

Jammrock

[Schorsch]

Jammrock,

maybe you shouldn't expect too much from "Enemy At the Gates". It was shown at the opening of the Berlin Film Festival and the reviews were not that great. Most critics said that while the movie is brillant in technical terms, the storyline leaves a lot to be desired.
(but I'm probably going to see it anyway...