Favorite war movies
 

So, what are they?

Mine are:

Saving Private Ryan
Glory
Braveheart
The Bridge over River Kwai
The Great Escape
Schindlers List(I know, not quite war, but still)
The Three Kings(again, but on a personal level I have to admit it)
Empire of the Sun
Kelly's Heroes
The Dirty Dozen
Gallipoli
The Big Red One
Patton
The Longest Day
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Apocolypse Now
Hamburger Hill

I could go on, there are so many (my favorite genre) that I really like. But if I had to pick an absolute fave? Saving Private Ryan, of course.

BTW, I will be submitting a quiz for Ryan to Yoda later this week, if anyone cares.

You pretty much covered all the bases for favorite war movies. All of the ones I would have chosen, are on there. I did enjoy, Behind Enemy Lines. It had a few plot problems and it wasn't that accurate...but still, it had it's moments.
I also liked Black Hawk Down, although I'm not sur it's a "war movie" per se.
...and could we say, Traffic? For the war on drugs? ;D

:dizzy:

I make you dizzy?
:(

How about A Bug's Life?
Wasn't it Grasshoppers against the Ants?
I'm sorry...I'm just trying to get your attention.

Hi! I enjoy reading your posts and your contribution to the site has been a welcomed commodity!

:blush:

OOOhh...How 'bout...The Odd Couple, they were both dick's in their own ways! Am I right, huh? huh? ~gasp~ cough wheeze......

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1. Paths of Glory (1957 - Stanley Kubrick)
"If those sweethearts won't face German bullets, they'll take French ones!"

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2. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 - Lewis Milestone)
"You still think it's beautiful to die for your country? The first bombardment taught us better. When it comes to dying for country, it's better not to die at all."

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3. The Thin Red Line (1998 - Terry Malick)
"What difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?"

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4. NOBI 野火 - Fires on the Plain (1959 - Kon Ichikawa)
"Hey, are you dead?"

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5. Apocalypse Now (1979 - Francis Ford Coppola)
"'Never get out of the boat'. Absolutely Goddamn right. Unless you were going all the way. Kurtz got off the boat. He split from the whole fu*king program."

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6. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957 - David Lean)
"This is just a game, this war. You and Colonel Nicholson, you're two of a kind, crazy with courage. For what? How to die like a gentleman, how to die by the rules. When the only important thing is to live like a human being!"

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7. Das Boot (1981 - Wolfgang Petersen)
"We'll see. Maybe they're just lying in wait for us until we feel safe enough to surface? These guys aren't stupid. Continue silent running. We'll surface after dark. Then we'll see."

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8. The Grand Illusion (1937 - Jean Renoir)
"Frontiers are an illusion. Nature doesn't give a hoot."

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9. Full Metal Jacket (1987 - Stanley Kubrick)
"My thoughts drift back to erect-nipple wet dreams about Mary Jane Rottencrotch and the great Homecoming fu*k fantasy. I am so happy that I'm alive, in one piece, and short. I'm in a world of *****, yes. But I am alive. And I am not afraid."

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10. M*A*S*H (1970 - Robert Altman)
HOTLIPS: I wonder how such a degenerated person ever reached
a position of authority in the Army Medical Corps?!?
MULCAHY: He was drafted.

Well, you really did blow all the wind out of our sail, ya know? I mean...what's left to pick?

Oooooh...wait!
Naw, nevermind. I don't want to run this thread amuck. :)

Edit Just saw Holden's picks...sheesh, he had some I didn't think of. Bastard.

He's such a professional, isn't he? BTW, I figured out where he was getting his quotes for the quote game...now it's not fun anymore:(

A professional what? :randy:

I know. I've made that argument countless times...everybody yells me and I end up not playing. I feel your disdain.

OMG!!!! That was you in the park?!?!?!?!!?

LOL!

Oh, what a cracking Genre!

The Great Escape
The Dirty Dozen
Where Eagles Dare
The Longest Day
Kelly`s Heroes
Hell in the Pacific
Platoon
Three Kings
Saving Private Ryan
Das Boot

The War of the Roses :p

I was wondering who that guy I paid to have anonymous sex with me in the park was!


Apocalypse Now, the most surrealistic, realistic war movie I have ever seen. Movie making at it's best.

I know that it's not a war film so much, but Schindler's List in terms of time and place and such.

I haven't seen Apocalypse Now yet, God knows I've tried. Hopefully I'll get it for my birthday.

Which is coming shortly by the way!

If you get it, try to get Hearts of Darkness also. It's the making of Apocolypse Now. A good chance to see genius at work, awsome documentry.

So I've heard. I'd very much like to take a look; what with my psion for filmmaking and all. It's pparently one of the greatest making of documentaries of all time.

--my top 4--

1--> balckhawk down
2-->platoon
3-->behind enemy lines
4-->saving provate ryan

The Patriot
Saving Private Ryan
and im not sure if this one counts but Braveheart

Here's a bunch in no particular order:

1999 THREE KINGS [DAVID O. RUSSELL]
1998 WHEN TRUMPETS FADE [JOHN IRVIN]
1998 SAVING PRIVATE RYAN [STEVEN SPIELBERG]
1993 SCHINDLER'S LIST [STEVEN SPIELBERG]
1990 THE HUNT FOR THE RED OCTOBER [JOHN MATIERNAN]
1990 JACOB'S LADDER [ADRIAN LYNE]
1989 CAUSALTIES OF WAR [BRAIN DE PALMA]
1987 FULL METAL JACKET [STANLEY KUBRICK]
1987 HOPE AND GLORY [JOHN BOORMAN]
1987 EMPIRE OF THE SUN [STEVEN SPIELBERG]
1987 HAMBURGER HILL [JOHN IRVIN]
1986 SALVADOR [OLIVER STONE]
1981 DAS BOOT [WOLFGANG PETERSAN]
1981 GALLIPOLI [PETER WEIR]
1980 THE BIG RED ONE [SAM FULLER]
1979 1941 [STEVEN SPIELBERG]
1979 APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX [FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA]
1979 HANOVER STREET [PETER HYAMS]
1978 THE DEER HUNTER [MICHAEL CIMINO]
1977 SOLDIER OF ORANGE [PAUL VERHOEVEN]
1977 THE DUELLIST [RIDLEY SCOTT]
1977 CROSS OF IRON [SAM PECKINPAH]
1975 BARRY LYNDON [STANLEY KUBRICK]
1974 THE ODESSA FILE [RONALD NEAME]
1972 AGUIRRE THE WRATH OF GOD [WERNER HERZOG]
1970 M*A*S*H [ROBERT ALTMAN]
1970 CATCH-22 [MIKE NICHOLS]
1970 PATTON [FRANKLIN J. SCHAFFNER]
1970 KELLY'S HEROES [BRAIN G. HUTTON]
1968 HELL IN THE PACIFIC [JOHN BOORMAN]
1968 WHERE EAGLES DARE [BRIAN G. HUTTON]
1968 THE BRIDGE AT REMAGEN [JOHN GUILLERMIN]
1967 THE DIRTY DOZEN [ROBERT ALDRICH]
1965 THE BEDFORD INCIDENT [JAMES B. HARRIS]
1964 THE TRAIN [JOHN FRANKENHEIMER]
1964 ZULU [CY ENDFIELD]
1964 DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I STOPPED WORRYING AND LEARNED
TO LOVE THE BOMB [STANLEY KUBRICK]
1963 THE GREAT ESCAPE [JOHN STURGES]
1962 HELL IS FOR HEROES [DON SIEGEL]
1962 LAWRANCE OF ARABIA [DAVID LEAN]
1961 THE GUNS OF NAVARONE [J. LEE THOMPSON]
1957 BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI [DAVID LEAN]
1955 MISTER ROBERTS [JOHN FORD & MERVYN LEROY]
1954 THE CAINE MUTINY [EDWARD DMYTRYK]
1953 BATTLE CIRCUS [RICHARD BROOKS]
1946 NOTORIOUS [ALFRED HITCHCOCK]
1946 THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES [WILLIAM WYLER]
1944 LIFEBOAT [ALFRED HITCHCOCK]
1944 A CANTERBURY TALE [MICHAEL POWELL & EMILE PRESSBURGER]
1942 SABOTEUR [ALFRED HITCHCOCK]
1941 49TH PARALLEL [POWELL & PRESSBERGER]
1930 ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERNFRONT [LEWIS MILESTONE]
1929 WINGS [WILLIAM WELLMAN]

My favorites:

M.A.S.H.
Saving Private Ryan
Platoon
Born on the Fourth of July
Three Kings
Star Wars (it's got WAR right in the title!!!)

Umm...can't think of too many more. I'm actually more of a fan of anti-war movies, like M.A.S.H., Three Kings, or the recent No Man's Land (if you don't mind subtitles, this movie is very funny and extremely pointed).

All Quiet on The Western Front
Apocalypse now
Patton


others im sure but those stand out in my mind

heart of darkness is amazing. its really scary whenmartin sheen has a heart attack. they didnt thell the producers though as they were scared they would pull the plug in the film. i was given tigerland the other day by my boss, havnt had time to watch ot yet. anyone seen it?

Hey SB, have you seen an Australian film called The Charge of the Light Horse Brigade ?
The film recounts the successful charge of the Australian Light Horse Brigade against the Palestinian village of Bersheeba (heavily fortified by Turks) on 31 October, 1917.
It's IMHO, the best cavalry charge ever filmed. If you haven't seen it, rent it!

:p

Do you mean The Charge of the Light Brigade, recounting the British involvement against Russians at the Battle of Balaclava on the 25th of October 1854, which led to The Crimean War?

There are two major versions of The Charge of the Light Brigade, the battle made famous throughout generations by Alfred Lord Tenneson's poem. The 1936 version was directed by Michael Curtiz (Casablanca, Yankee Doodle Dandy) and starred Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. The second version was released in 1968, directed by Tony Richardson (Tom Jones, Ned Kelly) and starred Trevor Howard, John Gielgud and Vanessa Redgrave. The '68 movie is obviously more realistic in many ways - though both use a love story as a throyugh-line to the narrative and both alter History somewhat. But I've always preferred the '36 flick, even though it is dated as far as style and melodrama. But both are good films for what they are, and both stage brilliant recrations of the bloody battle as a finale.

I haven't seen it LS, no.
But I know all about such charges. Studied them and such.

No, I don't. Damnit, my title is off but the subject is correct. The film recounts the successful charge of the Australian Light Horse Brigade against the Palestinian village of Bersheeba (heavily fortified by Turks) on 31 October, 1917. I know it's not Gallipoli, thought I had the title right but obviously...It's an Australian film made in the 80s, no big star in it. The movie was pretty boring, till the end when they yelled, "CHARGE!!!".

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Gallipoli -What a great film-My favourite WW1 movie. :yup:

"What are your legs?..."Springs...Steel springs"
"What are they gonna do?"...."They`re gonna hurl me down the track"
"How fast can you run?"..."As fast as a leopard"
"How fast are you gonna run?"..."As fast as a Leopard!"
"Well lets see you do it!"

Oh, OK, you're talking about The Lighthorsemen (1987). You scrambled the two titles together, as I'm sure is evident now.


Peter Weir's Gallipoli is a terrific flick, though obviously not my favorite World War I movie ever (see Paths of Glory, All Quiet on the Western Front and Grand Illusion). It didn't make my top ten, but it'd be in my top twenty.

Thank You!!! That's what I was trying to remember. :yup: I haven't seen it in many a moon.

mine are:

saving private ryan
we were soldiers
three kings
the guns of navarone
platoon
full metal jacket
apocalypse now
schindler's list
tora!tora!tora!
the bridge on the river kwai
the great escape
the dirty dozen

1. Full Metal Jacket
2. Platoon
3. Braveheart
4. Ran
5. Saving Private Ryan
6. Apocalypse Now
7. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
8. Where Eagles Dare
9. The Train
10. Lawrence of Arabia
11. Tora! Tora! Tora!
12. Gallipoli
13. Glory
14. We Were Soldiers
15. Three Kings
16. Schindler's List
17. Kagemusha
18. The Throne of Blood (aka Kumonosu jo, aka Macbeth)
19. Patton
20. The Big Red One
21. The Burmese Harp
22. Paths of Glory
23. Das Boot

Whew! Big list, and those are just the ones I like or love!

I think I'm missing a few but this is all I can think of right now...

Braveheart
Saving Private Ryan
Kelly's Heroes
The Big Red One
Tora! Tora! Tora!
The Bridge over River Kwai
Platoon
Patton
M*A*S*H
Apocalypse Now
The Patriot
We Were Soldiers
Black Hawk Down
The Killing Fields
The Dirty Dozen
The Three Kings
Full Metal Jacket
The Longest Day
Good Morning Viet Nam
Glory

My favorite WAR movies (WWI, II etc) are:

Saving Private Ryan
Full Metal Jacket
Black Hawk Down
We Were Soldiers
Pearl Harbor (I like this movie!)
Hamburger Hill
The Thin Red Line (had some cool moments)

Mine
 

not in any specific order

Full Metal Jacket
Enemy At The Gates
Apocalypse Now
Saving Private Ryan
Behind Enemy Lines
Black Hawk Down

Apocalypse Now was named the greatest film of the past 25 years by film-makers and critics in the UK…

Apocalyose Now
"I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream, it's my nightmare. Crawling, slipping along the edge of a straight razor and surviving....But we must kill them, we must incinerate them, pig after pig, cow after cow, village after village, army after army, and they call me an assassin. What do you call it when the assassins accuse the assassin? They lie. They lie and we have to be merciful for those who lie, for those nabobs. I hate them. I do hate them."





When you have found perfection, you need not look further. The only movies to approach the surrealistic beauty of this film are Full Metal Jacket and The Deer Hunter.

The Thin Red Line closely followed by Apocalypse Now!.

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high crimes- good movie!
:yup:

1. Braveheart
2. The Last Of The Mohicans
3. Glory
4. We Were Soldiers
6. By Dawns Early Light
7. Platoon
8. Red Dawn
9. The Bridge On The River Kwai
10. Full Metal Jacket (The First Half of it anyway...;) )

Platoon.They got Elias!

could some one give me a brief run down on The Guns of Navarrone[1961]? I have heard so much of this movie and keep forgetting to go and find it. I'm surprised it's not mentioned more frequently in this thread.

[At LS]: Also, yes. Gallipoli and The Lighthorseman are quite revered back in my home country. We seem to have an unhealthy infactuation with WWI(for historical reasons i'm sure you all won't want me to enlightened you on). I didn't particularily like The Lighthorseman that much even though i get it crammed down my throat regularily 'cos it was filmed in the same state i live in. As with Picnic At Hanging Rock, another local film i was sorely dissapointed by :D

Ahem..


FULL METAL JACKET
Apocolypse now
Paths of Glory
All quiet on the westernfront
Platoon
Bridge of the river Kwai
Saving Private Ryan
Hamburger Hill
Tiger Land
Black Hawk Down

A small group of Allied commandos are sent to destroy two massive guns blocking a narrow passage of the sea.

Worth checking out.

Strong performance by Anthony Quinn.

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The Guns of Navarone is a good adventure flick, concerning a small and elite band of experts going on a suicide mission behind enemy lines. It's the prototype for others like The Dirty Dozen, Where Eagles Dare, The Wild Geese and even The Great Escape, which basically took all the poetry and scale out of The Bridge on the River Kwai and reduced it to more mainstream action. The reason it isn't brought up in such a discussion very often is because it isn't a "serious" War picture, it's more shoot-em-up adventure and escapism. It's good for what it is, but it wouldn't likely be mentioned in the same breath as Paths of Glory or Apocalypse Now.

Full Metal Jacket
Paths of Glory
Platoon
Saving Private Ryan
Black Hawk Down
The Pianist
Schindlers's List
Strangelove
BraveHeart

fav war movies
 

1. Saving Private Ryan
2. Black Hawk Down
3. Patton
4. The Longest Day
5. A Bridge Too Far
6. The Patriot
7. Full Metal Jacket
8. Platoon
9. Sands of Iwo Jima
10. Gettysberg
11. The Alamo (The Dukes Version)
not in any order
not to get off topic, but Tour of Duty was an awesome tv show!
I'm sorry if this makes a fiasco of the thread.
:(

My one favourite would have to be Apocalypse Now. It was like looking into a mirror and seeing a madman looking back at me.

the thin red line is great, and i really liked catch 22 - underrated movie, that. in a similar vein i quite liked the 70s adaptation of kurt vonnegut's 'slaughterhouse five'.

a recent favorite that i havent seen listed yet was 'the life and death of colonel blimp'.

for the 'war-action/adventure' type movies that holden mentioned, i'd go with sammo hung's 'eastern condors' with himself and yuen biao.

I agree
 

I tottaly agree with that statement

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Zulu
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Where eagles dare
Cromwell
Bridge of the river Kwai
Battle of britain
Excalibur
Great escape
Platoon
Hamburger hill
Alfred the Great

The greatest war story ever told: Lord of the Rings.

Ju Say War?
 

Hmm, I have only a few actually. Not necessarily ww2 or vietnam, but influential and great war pictures nonetheless.

Battle Of Britain
Full Metal Jacket
Casualties of War
Starship Troopers
Green Berets
Das Boot
Stalingrad
Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
Flesh and Blood
Guns Of Navarone
Enemy Mine
Sink the Bismarck

Stick a fork in me, I'm done.

Top 5 in order.

1.We Were Soldiers
2.Braveheart
3.Saving Private Ryan
4.the Green Berets
5.Hamburger Hill

I really enjoy the Band of Brothers series. As far movies go I would have to say FMJ, and Saving Pvt. Ryan.

While not really a war film (in terms of a real historical war), Red Dawn had a method to it's madness, as John Milius tried to create an alternate reality parallell to the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, and he was trying to show the audience what teens in Afghanistan may have gone through and went through at the time, and how they may have reacted, living in a world where a foreign oppressor tried to take over. Sort of a "what if" but applied to America.

Not the most realistic of films, because no kid in ther right mind would suddenly know how to use an RPG-7 or an Ak-47 or a good old fashioned semi-auto Russian SKS, but the reality hit home that in a situation like that, experience was the best teacher, because you get the test first and the lesson afterwards.

Band of Brothers hands down.

"We lucky few, we band of brothers. For he who today sheds his blood with me shall be my brother." -Carwood Lipton [During Interview]

I'm currently writing an essay on masculine and feminist constructs in this book. The book is so much better, i liked this version but it just doesnt convey the amazing spirituality of the book. Awsome read that i reccommend to anyone.

"And so we sit facing one another, Kat and I, - We don’t talk much, but we have a greater and more gentle consideration for eachother than I should think even lovers do. We are two human beings , two tiny sparks of life; outside there is just the night, and all around us, death. We are sitting right at the edge of all that, in danger but secure; our hearts are close to one another, time and place merge into one - the brightness and the shadows of our emotions come and go in the flickering light of the gentle fire. Before the war we wouldnt have had a single thought in common - and now here we are, sitting with a goose roasting in front of us, aware of our existence and so close to each other that we can't even talk about it."

Patton and Apocalypse Now

Most Definetley The Lord of the Rings The Return of the King. The battles were the Largest ever waged on Screen. My favorite is at the black gate. Its just amazing.
And if the Pianist is considered a war movie then that too, and the Patriot.

Lord of the Rings The Return of the King
Full Metal Jacket
Black Hawk Down
Band of Brothers(even though its not a movie it still was superb)

This post should have begun and ended with FUll Metal Jacket

Cross of Iron has to be my fav. WW2 film, Saving Private Ryan was amazing but Coburn in the role of Steiner was fantastic.

Waterloo and Sharpe are also quality depictions of the Napoleonic Wars




(Those who mentioned The Patriot...why?)

IMO there have been many excellent war movies, for realism Saving Private Ryan, it portrays WW2 and especially the D-Day landings as they would of been, a gloomy and bloody day.
Full Metal Jacket was ok, but I thought it rather dragged along. Apocolypse Now, was fantastic - ending completely physcodelic and wierd. Still enjoyed it though.

There are many others, such classics like the "Longest Day" etc.

Full Metal Jacket
The deer hunter
LOTR
Braveheart

Lotr

tears of the sun and glory

The Great Escape is the best War movie of all time for me. Definitely plenty to choose from for great ones but I think this one just stands out from the rest for me.

Nice question though

Lawrence of Arabia
Paths of Glory
Platoon
The Thin Red Line
Stalingrad
To End All Wars
Apocalypse Now
Casualties of War
The Great Escape

Just a few.

My favorite war film is Apocalypse Now, hands down. Other than that, Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan were great films, definitely some of Spielberg's best work.

I'm sure a lot of people have said this already:

Saving Private Ryan

one of the best opening scenes in a film IMO -- the shock value ...

damn you....i was gonna mention those and look all smart..but i guess you beat me to it...some 3 years ago....
and i would also like to ad black hawn down and the thin red line...

Saving Private Ryan
The Pianist and Schindler's list (maybe not about the war itself, but the attrocities of thw war)

my top 5 fav war movies r:

1.saving private ryan
2.we were soldiers
3.behind enymy lines
4.enymy at the gates
5. the great escape

Full Metal Jacket is a great movie, one of my faves.. i don't like other war movies, i don't know why.

Sink The BismarK
Black Hawk Down
Zulu
The Great Escape
Midway
Lord of The Rings Trilogy
Braveheart
A Bridge Over The River Kwai
Last Of The Mohicans

My list may not be as comprehensive as some of the other postings ... so here is mine anyways:

Tora! Tora! Tora!
Great Escape
Stalag 17
Apocalypse Now
Platoon
Saving Private Ryan
Blackhawk Down
Bridge over the River Kwai

Just off the top of my head;
The Deer Hunter
Full Metal Jacket
Das Boat
Saving Private Ryan
Platoon
A Bridge too far
The Great Escape

And I just finished watching Come and See, and have posted a review on my Review Forum.

Oh, how could I forget the "Deer Hunter". I'd add that to my list too.

Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down, Thin Red Line, Platoon.

saving private ryan, black hawk down, hamburger hill, platoon, a bridge to far, band of the brothers, tora tora tora, and my allll time favorite Full metal jacket...

-platoon
-saving private ryan
-troy
-the patriot

The Patriot
Saving Private Ryan
Toys
Dune

Saving Private Ryan
The Great Escape
Jarhead
Full Metal Jacket
Black Hawk Down

The Thin Red Line
Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
M*A*S*H

Apocalypse Now
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
The Siege of Firebase Gloria
and, of course,
Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan, Full Metal Jacket, Apocalpse Now, and also I really liked Band of Brothers. I know it's a tv miniseries, but still my favorite look at ww2.

Because it's honest. We can agree that most of the "war" takes place within ourselves. But that is not to say that the physical violence is unnecessary. The film is very slow and takes it's time, it's not your typical war movie where everything is rushed along. Suffice to say it is not for everyone. But I find this film to be very poetic--much like all of Malick's films. Also, my favorite war movie of all-time. Terrence Malick is a legend.

nice answer:)

Not much love for Casualties of War...

Or Wings? The progenitor, baby!

I think Band of brothers it was more of a series but it was hell good.

Saving Private Ryan and Full Metal jacket were very good films. I still prefer SPR over FMJ though anyday.

Full metal jacket for me

[Schindlers List]if there can be only one

Everyone seems to be forgetting this masterpiece:

http://www.impawards.com/1987/poster...of_the_sun.jpg

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Braveheart is the perfect war movie. Saving Private Ryan and Gettysburg were also very well done IMO.

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Apocalypse Now hands down

Saving Private Ryan was indeed breathtaking tho

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My favorite war movie is the "The Patriot". It's one of the best film I've watched.

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Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket. Far more interesting than the very conventional Platoon.