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.
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?!😯
@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.
@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.
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
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.
@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"
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