Need recommendations for good War movies
 

Been getting into war movies, so far I've got:

Saving Private Ryan
Band of Brothers
We were soldiers
Enemy at the Gates
Full Metal Jacket
Tai Guk Gi

I saw Apocalypse Now and didn't enjoy it.

Three Kings is excellent, if a bit more modern (about the Gulf War)
Black Hawk Down, also a modern war tale (Somalian conflict)
Glory (about Civil War) is also excellent
The Great Escape (WWII) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (also WWII)
Jacob's Ladder (kinda tangentially about Vietnam)
Paths of Glory (WWI)
Schindler's List (WWII)
Dead Presidents or Platoon (DP also dabbles in Vietnam)
Master & Commander (about naval wars of the 1800's)

There's a start ... :) Hope that helps!

Tears of the Sun
Behind Enemy Lines
List of Top War Titles http://www.imdb.com/chart/war

Midway
Memphis Belle - one of my all time favorites
Run Silent, Run Deep

DEFINITELY Black Hawk Down and Behind Enemy Lines, those'd fit right in with your movies.

Watch it again, but next time try the theatrical cut instead of the "Redux" cut.

Story of G.I. Joe
The Train
Patton
Stalag 17

Full Metal Jacket and Platoon are two of my favourite War films. I also really like The Killing Fields and Paths of Glory but they are a different type of war than the ones you listed.

THE BIG RED ONE. (But wait for the recent "reconstruction" to hit DVD.)

Bill C

Here is a list of some of my war favorites, I own every one of them.

War/Battles
Enemy at the Gates
Saving Private Ryan
The Longest Day
Zulu
Tae Guk Gi
Cross of Iron
Das Boot
The Bridge at Remagen
Hamburger Hill
Gettysburg
Black Hawk Down
A Bridge to Far
Band of Brothers


War Themed
The Guns of Navarone
The Eagle has landed
The Dirty Dozen
The Patriot
Joan of Arc
Force 10 from Navaronne
U571
Apocolyse Now
Patton
Braveheart
Three Kings
The Great Escape
Kelly's Heroes
Platoon
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Schindler's List
Sharpe TV Series
Horatio Hornblower TV Series


Some less well known and are highly recommeded
Stalingrad
The Bridge (Die Brucke)
The Winter War (Talvisota)
Stalingrad (Dogs, do you want to live forever?)
Lion of the Desert.....this is one of my absolute favorites
The Beast

Yo mama.

How about the nuclear variety: THE DAY AFTER.

Yea, that is one way overhyped movie. Coppola's wife filmed a documentary on the making of the movie which is, however, quite interesting. Unfortunately, it is not available on dvd.

A few other war movies I haven't seen listed above:

Twelve O'Clock High
Dr. Strangelove
Grave of the Fireflies

Johnny Got His Gun http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067277/

All Quiet on the Western Front

its probably the best anti-war movie ive seen.

How about these movies: War and Peace (very good story)
The Four Feathers,The Partiot (mel gibson) The Pianist (WWII),Lawrence of Arabia (The best film of the 60's for me) The Last Samurai, The Seven Samurai.....

"A Walk In The Sun", "The Best Years Of Our Lives", "Destination Tokyo", "Bataan","Empire Of The Sun",
"They Were Expendable", "Mister Roberts", "Hangmen Also Die" - all WW II...

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Here's one not been mentioned so far:

Savior

IMDB page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120070/

A fantastic film that really pulls no punches. Can't recommend this film enough. It's very grim and very moving.

The Thin Red Line
Black Hawk Down
All Quiet on the Western Front
Paths of Glory

Although it's already been mentioned, I got caught up watching <b>The Great Escape</b> on TCM the other night and was reminded how much I completely love this wonderful movie. While it's not a "battle" film, if you've never seen it, you owe it to yourself to do so.

das

Moving to "Movie Talk" forum.

- David Stein

Another vote for The Train. Paths of Glory, The Bridge on the River Kwai and The Dirty Dozen also top my list of recommendations.

Black Hawk Down
Master & Commander
Force 10 from Navarone
The Eagle has Landed
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Platoon
Apocalypse Now
The Deer Hunter

These are my favorites.

Well, all the war movies that came to my mind are already mentioned, but I'll throw "Gallipoli" in the fray as well.

Bitka na Neretvi (AKA The Battle of Neretva)

By the way, if anyone knows where I can find the uncut version or anything longer that the 106 min version please send me a private message.

If you were to ask me to name just one war movie to see, I'd say Platoon

Here are some classics and some oddly interesting ones
 

These are some great world war II flicks of the old school:

Guadalcanal Diary
Sands of Iwo Jima
Sink the Bismarck !
The Battle of Britain
Tora Tora Tora
Midway
Bomber Command
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Tobruk
Judgement at Nuremberg

Good old school Korean War Flick:
The Bridges at Toko-Ri

One new one I didnt see mentioned:
Windtalkers (get ready !)

OffBeat, but cool:
The Eagle has Landed
Zeppelin
The Blue Max
News from the Forest
The Man who Would be King
Henry the V (with Olivier)
Spartacus
The Warlord ( Heston and Boone 1968)
55 Days at Peking (cool-Boxer rebellion of 1901)
Ronin ( Akiro Kurasawa )
As You Can See, I'm a War flicks afficionado !

Not a war movie but set in a war and one of the best court room drama's ever filmed IMO, Breaker Morant.

Is Sahara available?

Nice picks.

Not a "serious" war movie and I haven't seen it in years, but I used to love watching Kelly's Heroes.

Looks like all the good ones have been previously mentioned, but here are the ones I've enjoyed:

All Quiet on the Western Front
Apocalypse Now
Band of Brothers
Battle of Algiers
Black Hawk Down
Braveheart
Das Boot
Dr. Strangelove
Enemy at the Gates
Full Metal Jacket
Henry V
Platoon
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
Spartacus
The Bottom Line
The Deer Hunter
The General
The Last of the Mohicans
The Pianist

Edit: Grave of the Fireflies (warning: this is the second saddest movie I've ever seen. I took a chance and watched it for the second time just earlier this week, and I bawled so hard. It's terribly heartbreaking, but nonetheless, a beautiful film. Probably not something you could stomach more than twice in a lifetime).

...since, as a mere boy (from ages 8 to 12) I was a 'guest' in a couple of Japanese internment camps (in what was then the Dutch East Indies, and is now Indonesia), I thought it might be a good idea to refer to the (very rare!) movies made on the subject:
"Three Came Home" (available on a plain Jane DVD)
"A Town Like Alice" (available on R2/UK DVD)
"Empire Of The Sun" - already mentioned above
"A Town Like Alice" - British/Australian mini-series
"Paradise Road" - an Australian fim
"Furyo" - a.k.a. "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence" - a Japanese/British/New Zealand film, probably the best of the bunch...

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Empire of the Sun, great choice, Hendrik!

Another great not-serious war movie, 1944 :)

...Yes...!...

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...oh... and "King Rat" is, too...!...

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some recomendations:

Blue Max (WWI planes, no computer graphics, real planes)
Iron Cross (WWII, the Russian front, good T-34 scenes on action)
A Bridge too far (WWII, far from the Holyoodesque typical film, the history of an allied loose!!)

Paths of Glory and The Great Escape are must-see war films!

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Clint mowing down Nazi with submachine gun, enough said. :)