Thread: Best War movie

Patton. Not even close.

Eric

Patton might also be my favorite too......

Lawrence of Arabia is not chopped liver.

also....

Bridge Over The River Kwai

Apocalypse Now

So many. Battle of the Bulge (1965) I saw it with my dad and uncle back then. , others :
Tora tora tora (1970)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Dunkirk (2017)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
Patton (1970)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Schindler's List (1993)
The Great Escape (1963)
Midway (1976)

Just so many more

All Quiet on the Western Front

the best years of our lives (1946)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) - IMDb

honorable mention: the razor's edge (1946 & 1984)
The Razor'''s Edge (1984) - IMDb
The Razor'''s Edge (1946) - IMDb

if non-cinema format is included: band of brothers (2001)
Band of Brothers (TV Mini Series 2001) - IMDb

Originally Posted by CPP

So many. Battle of the Bulge (1965) I saw it with my dad and uncle back then. , others :
Tora tora tora (1970)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Dunkirk (2017)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
Patton (1970)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Schindler's List (1993)
The Great Escape (1963)
Midway (1976)

Just so many more

agreed 100%, far too many great ones !

Among ...

• Saving Private Ryan
• 1917
• The Thin Red Line
• Black Hawk Down
• Platoon
• The Hurt Locker
• Hacksaw Ridge
• The Killing Fields
• The Deer Hunter
• Flags of our Fathers & Letters from Iwo Jima
• The Great Escape
• Das Boot
• Paths of Glory
• Zero Dark Thirty
• 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Some of them already mentioned and others ...
• Dunkirk
• Apocalypse Now Redux
• We were Soldiers
• American Sniper
• Full Metal Jacket
• Hamburger Hill
• Patton
• The Guns of Navarone
• Schindler's List
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Tora! Tora! Tora!
• Casualties of War
• Glory
• Born on the Fourth of July
• Unbroken
• Lawrence of Arabia
• War Horse
• Fury
• Lone Survivor
• The Patriot
• Heaven & Earth
• The Longest Day

My favorite? Life is Beautiful

Originally Posted by ACHiPo

Agree with the previous posts, but want to add “The Longest Day”

Oh yes forgot about 'The Longest Day' (1962) .

OK, I waited patiently to see if anyone else would name it, on my top 3 list for sure......... William Holden

Stalag 17

filmed the year I was born, I guess that's why it was one of my favorites, LOL !

PS - and to think MASH hasn't been named yet, no war movie has ever spawned a longer running TV series. Can you name the two from the movie that made it to the TV series ?

Originally Posted by puroagave

heart wrenching. I'd put 'Salvador' in the same genre of civil war dramas.

It is ('The Killing Fields').

* Revisiting war movies from memory is quite an emotional ride.
War is not fun, killing other human beings is not civilized, exploiting other human beings is despicable, using other human beings is like enslaving them physically or psychologically or both, and it's not good form. War sucks, hatred sucks, violence sucks, human exploitation sucks, racism sucks, corruption sucks, power by evil sucks, dictators suck.

Saving Private Ryan is one of the top best War movies. ...Apocalypse Now Redux also. Then all hell breaks loose with zillion of bullets, guns, blood and guts all over the movie sets...Black Hawk Down, 13 Soldiers, ...

** On another thread; Best Favorite Love story (Romance) movie ...

Gone with the Wind also ranks among the top epic war movies.

And Dr. Strangelove.

* Stanley Kubrick ranks among the top film directors when it comes to war movies.
...With a different take; Dr. Strangelove, Full Metal Jacket, Paths of Glory, Fear and Desire, Spartacus, Barry Lyndon.

** Kathryn Bigelow (James Cameron's ex-wife) also ranks high as a director of powerful war movies; The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty, K-19: The Widowmaker.

My favorite is probably Das Boot. In addition I enjoyed the first two of Spielberg's Trilogy "Band of Brothers" and "The Pacific" and have been looking forward to the third installment sometime called "Masters of the Air" or "The Mighty Eighth" currently in production which is about the air war in Europe.

Others have posted some excellent ones such as Saving Private Ryan, Midway (original), We Were Soldiers, Flags of our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima. There are a few that are great but hard to re-watch like Schindler's List and The Book Thief.

Funny but I never liked Patton.