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What in your opinion is the best war movie ever made?

Poll - Total Votes: 52
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The Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan
The Longest Day
Your choice please
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Hamburger hill..
Or tropical thunder
[i]Schindler's List[/i]...now I gotta go cry again...

Have to add [i]Stalag 17[/i] and [i]The Train[/i] (this latter with Paul Scofield) as brilliant B&W movies.

Just saw [i]1917[/i] & [i]The Monuments Men[/i]...two other great movies.
YoungDawg66 · 56-60, M
We Were Soldiers is a favorite of mine ...
YoungDawg66 · 56-60, M
There’s so many good ones ...
Success · 26-30, F
Hacksaw Ridge, Gettysburg, Braveheart, Kingdom of Heaven, Troy
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fun4us2b · M
@SW-User Too Funny -

Kelly's Hero's was solid, a spoof but still pretty good. The Great Escape was another good one, Guns of Navarone...
On this list though: The Longest Day, then Private Ryan.
beckyromero · 36-40, F
Of your choices, [i]The Longest Day[/i]. (you have it listed twice)

But my vote has to go to Casablanca.

It has one of my favorite movie scenes of all time.

For those that haven't seen it:

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM-E2H1ChJM]

That, plus:

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq0Nbr_WY1s]
fun4us2b · M
The Thin Red Line
CrustyDDingus · 36-40, M
Garbage pail kids.
MrsNesbitt · 56-60, F
The Great Escape.
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@MrsNesbitt agreed
@MrsNesbitt I second that.
Muskie78 · 61-69, M
Success · 26-30, F
@Muskie78 The original? The new one sucks.
WizardOfAahs · 46-50, M
Agree. So disappointing @Success
Harriet03 · 41-45, F
My sister's wedding video, takes some beating!!
Dlrannie · 31-35, F
@Harriet03 😂😂
FreeSpirit1 · 51-55, F
The Bridge on the River Kwai
@FreeSpirit1 another great one
beckyromero · 36-40, F
@FreeSpirit1 [quote]The Bridge on the River Kwai[/quote]

Do you know that the producers didn't want to use the lyrics that British soldiers actually sang to the Colonel Bogey March tune during the war?

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxX7TyY0toU]

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83bmsluWHZc]
Peaches · F
My choice would be "Schindler's List." 😔💔It was such a heart breaking look at what happened to the Jewish people! The holocaust was real, some try to claim it never happened?!😯
@Peaches That was a great one. It tore my heart out.
Peaches · F
@PhoenixPhail Mine too! 😢I cried my head off!!!
Byron8by7 · M
Breaker Morant (Australia, 1980)

Gallipoli (Australia, 1981)
Byron8by7 · M
@Dlrannie Thank you. The events in the film occurred in 1901 and 1902.
Dlrannie · 31-35, F
@Byron8by7 Fair point 🙂
bhatjc · 46-50, M
@Dlrannie @Byron8by7 War is ugly and beisdes it was in another country. Always go with the Fog of war
@dancingtongue A personal fave, watched it on Monday.
Dlrannie · 31-35, F
There are numerous good ones but two of my favourites are Lawrence of Arabia and Dasboot
@Dlrannie great choices.
dancingtongue · 80-89, M
@Dlrannie For some reason I don't think of Lawrence of Arabia as a war movie although it obviously is. I consider it the greatest movie of all time, so I guess it tops Patton for me.
@dancingtongue Love Patton.
Star Wars :p


Fine... Dr Strangelove lol
NankerPhelge · 61-69, M
@JustLikeGreta Sellers.
@NankerPhelge I know u love to find errors in spelling.
NankerPhelge · 61-69, M
@JustLikeGreta I wasn't even looking for errors, that one just stood out like a wishing well in the middle of a desert. I remember Peter Sellers when I was a kid and I always knew how to spell his name. Besides, would you like it if someone spelled your name wrong? (The fact that Peter Sellers is dead notwithstanding).
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All Quiet on the Western Front deserves a mention too.
Dlrannie · 31-35, F
@SW-User Very much an anti war war film if I remember correctly
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@Dlrannie Yes!! Best war films tend to be anti-war. :)
GoodoldBob · 61-69, M
Battle of the Bulge should at least be in the running not to mention Gettysburg and Gods and Generals
gurlwatcher22 · 61-69, M
The Great Escape
Carter's Army gets honorable mention.
bhatjc · 46-50, M
@gurlwatcher22 Great one
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The big red one
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@JustLikeGreta
It had Lee Marvin and Mark Hamil..
About the first infantry division in world war two
@SW-User OKay, always liked Lee Marvin. My Dad was in the infantry in WW2. I will look for that movie, thanks.
Thatsright · 61-69, M
@SW-User Written by a vet of the action depicted.
bhatjc · 46-50, M
What about kelly's hero's or where eagles dare
None of the above.The Battle of Britain
melbeacher · 56-60, M
Bridge on the River Kwi
@melbeacher Great movie.
melbeacher · 56-60, M
@JustLikeGreta I agree !
sometimeslonelytoo · 51-55, M
Apocalypse Now, in my opinion.
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Guns of Navarone was good also.
SPR was pretty horrifically accurate. if that is the gauge.
i notice Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now did not make your list, enemy at the gates. gettysburg, big red 1, the battle of midway, havent see dunkirk yet
@SatyrService Too many to list all of them.
Dlrannie · 31-35, F
@GrayGhost 👍
therighttothink50 · 56-60, M
Saving Private Ryan, Stalag 17, Bataan, The Fighting 69th, Bridge On The River Kwai, Uncertain Glory, Glory.
therighttothink50 · 56-60, M
@JustLikeGreta How can I forget Pride of the marines, but it really is more than a war movie, it's a chick flick :)
@therighttothink50 haha as is Operation Petticoat.....pink submarine and all.
4thdimensiondream · 61-69, M
@JustLikeGreta “ Dont go in the ocean there are women eating sharks in there” loved Tony C!
NankerPhelge · 61-69, M
Carry On England.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEqutnRpuCg]
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braveheart21 · 61-69, M
Longest day...

Battle of Britain

Sink the Bismark..

The heroes of Telemark

Where eagles dare..
beckyromero · 36-40, F
@braveheart21

Many things wrong with "Sink the Bismarck."

Admiral Lutjens wasn't an ardent Nazi, for one. In fact, he refused to give the Nazi salute. And in 1938 he was one of a mere handful of naval flag officers who protested in writing to the Commander-in-Chief of the navy, Admiral Raeder, of the anti-Jewish Kristallnacht pogroms.

The Bismarck didn't sink any British destoyers during those atatcks.

The Bismarck [i]did[/i] fire on HMS [i]Sheffield[/i], when the shadowing cruiser got in too close.

Captain Jonathan Shepard, the RN officer who planned the tracking down and destruction of the Bismarck (played by Kenneth More), is a fictional character.

There are plenty more errors in the film, both inaccuracies and omissions.

The cruisers [i]Norfolk[/i] and [i]Suffolk[/i], as well as the damaged battleship [i]Prince of Wales[/i], continued to shadow [i]Bismarck[/i] to the end. In fact, [i]Norfolk[/i] was brought into the final battle.

There's a lot that the film got right, too. And it certainly captured the determination of the British to track down and "Sink the Bismarck" in the aftermath of [i]Hood[/i]'s sinking.

It would be nice to see a remake that corrects the errors, portrays Lutjens correctly and includes a few things that weren't known at the time when the film was produced (such as that an American was in the Catalina - we were neutral at the time) and how the British had broken the German naval code.
melbeacher · 56-60, M
The Great Escape, Bridge on the River Kwi, Where Eagles Dare, Patton.
Byron8by7 · M
@melbeacher Great films, every one.
melbeacher · 56-60, M
@Byron8by7 Indeed. Classics
Byron8by7 · M
"Blackhawk Down" has been praised by many as the most realistic film depiction of military combat tactics.
WizardOfAahs · 46-50, M
Good one... forgot BHD@Byron8by7
Probably, "The Guns Of Navarone."
bhatjc · 46-50, M
@PhoenixPhail That was a wicked movie.
@bhatjc It was my father's favorite war movie. That's how I got acquainted with it.

Since I abhor war and the insanity therein, I really don't care to watch war movies. I'm more into good sci-fi, drama, romance and comedy.
bhatjc · 46-50, M
@PhoenixPhail All are good. I like the movie because,it was a comando style raide taking out a bigger force. They even made a another movie. "return to navarone"
braveheart21 · 61-69, M
A Bridge to far ..

The longest day ...

But my top one has to be

The Battle of Britain
JerseyGirl360 · 22-25, F
Is that you John Wayne, is this me?
@JerseyGirl360 lol. Its me John.
smileylovesgaming · 31-35, F
For got pearl harbor
bhatjc · 46-50, M
@smileylovesgaming Also a good one.
4thdimensiondream · 61-69, M
To Hell and Back.
eli1601 · 70-79, M
The Great Escape
That is hard for me to pick between Saving Private Ryan and Full Metal Jacket, the latter mainly because of the first half.
bowman81 · M
In Harms Way....simply because if was a fictional story that mirrored a battle my father fought in the Second WW.
@bowman81 Wow, how fascinating.
WizardOfAahs · 46-50, M
Easy... When Harry Met Sally...
4thdimensiondream · 61-69, M
@YoungDawg66 I remember nothing ....except the last scene! Won’t spoil it!
@WizardOfAahs not a war movie, though Harry and Sally do fight a lot.
WizardOfAahs · 46-50, M
Are you sure? What about the scene where Sally shoots the black hawk down and Harry is like... “I got skinnies on the roof”. And then Sally is like “All you Americans lead dull uninteresting lives”. @JustLikeGreta
Lackwittyname · 51-55, M
Apocalypse Now or The Deer Hunter, though that is more of a post war movie
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the longest day, saving private Ryan and the great escape all get my attention
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@Femmm good one.
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Les Carabiniers
@SW-User oh good one!
Gallipoli made me cry
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@SatyrService Gotta see that one sometime!!
@SW-User realy is a heartbreaking tale of noble men sent to death by ignoble lords. from Australia
2cool4school · 46-50, F
Coming Home
Hurt Locker
Blackhawk Down
braveheart21 · 61-69, M
Battle of Britain..

The Great Escape..

First of the Few

 
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