Spam my WAR Countdown ballot!...movie recommendations needed

Oh yeah, another fav of mine, it might make my ballot which is already getting crowded

I seen that for the first time when I watched all of John Wayne's films (sans the silent films). He has only a tiny bit role so if anyone is anti-Wayne it's safe to watch. I liked it as it was long enough to really give the feeling of the invasion force.

You know you get an up-vote from me for that one!

This is what I was thinking. I have a tentative watchlist, but I'm waiting to see the rule of eligibility before I start watching any war movies. (I'm still watching movies for the 2022 Awards thread anyway, so I'll start watching war movies when that thread is done.)

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I put together a very rough list of movies I'm considering using only movies under the "war" genre on IMDb. Once we determine eligibility rules I'll likely look at some others.


The Best Years of Our Lives
Jojo Rabbit
Inglourious Basterds
Apocalypse Now
Conspiracy
1917
Paths of Glory
The Book Thief
Ran
Patton
The General
The Killing Fields
To Be or Not to Be
Grand Illusion
Wings
They Shall Not Grow Old
Edge of Tomorrow
Hacksaw Ridge
Bridge of Spies
Darkest Hour
The Caine Mutiny
The Great Escape
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Imitation Game
Casablanca
Mister Roberts
Lifeboat
Dunkirk
Eye in the Sky
Mulan
Shadow in the Cloud
The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot
The Patriot
Lincoln
Father Goose
Little Women
The Longest Day
Behind Enemy Lines
Judgment at Nuremberg
The Guns of Navarone
The Great Dictator
Wonder Woman


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And a few I still need to watch or rewatch:


Australia
Catch-22
Crimson Tide
Glory
Shoah
To Have and Have Not
Twelve O'Clock High

Along those same lines:

"The Dirty Dozen"
"Catch - 22"
"Water" (1985)
"Kelly's Hereos"
"Good Morning Vietnam"
"More American Graffiti"
"JoJo Rabbit"
"1941"
"Air America"
"The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming"
"Slaughterhouse - 5"
"How I Won the War"
"The Wackiest Ship in the Army"
"Block - Heads"

Guess it's time to finally watch The Human Condition

Here are my recs, sorted by releasedate from old to new.

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Can't remember if you've seen it but Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels (1930) is pretty amazing and I'll be checking out Wings (1927) which I've been meaning to see.

I've seen Hell's Angels but it was so long ago that I might as well say I didn't see it. Will rewatch that one. Wings was my nom in the 1st Silent HoF, it was one of the first films I watched back when I was getting into movies.

Two more really solid war films that I seen but didn't recall their titles.

If I've seen "The Aviator", does that mean I've seen "Hell's Angels"? Let me go find my calipers...

@John-Connor thanks for all the war recs! You wouldn't happen to have them in text form would you? I'm keeping a list of all the recs I get here in a text file.

The General
All Quiet on the Western Front
Grand Illusion
Gone with the Wind
Casablanca
The Cruel Sea
The Caine Mutiny
A Man Escaped
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Cranes Are Flying
Paths of Glory
The Enemy Below
Run Silent, Run Deep
Spartacus
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
Judgment at Nuremberg
The Longest Day
Lawrence of Arabia
The Great Escape
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Fail Safe
The Train
The Hill
War and Peace
The Bedford Incident
Doctor Zhivago
The Battle of Algiers
The Dirty Dozen
Where Eagles Dare
Army of Shadows
Patton
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Waterloo
Barry Lyndon
A Bridge Too Far
Soldier of Orange
The Deer Hunter
Apocalypse Now
Kagemusha
Breaker Morant
Lion of the Desert
Escape to Victory
Gallipoli
Das Boot
First Blood
A Soldier's Story
Ran
Come and See
The Assault
When the Wind Blows
Platoon
Gardens of Stone
Full Metal Jacket
Empire of the Sun
Good Morning, Vietnam
Casualties of War
Glory
Born on the Fourth of July
The Hunt for Red October
The Last of the Mohicans
Gettysburg
Schindler's List
Underground
Crimson Tide
Braveheart
Saving Private Ryan
The Thin Red Line
Three Kings
U-571
Joint Security Area
Enemy at the Gates
Conspiracy
Black Hawk Down
We Were Soldiers
The Pianist
Windtalkers
K-19: The Widowmaker
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Hotel Rwanda
Downfall
Kingdom of Heaven
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Pan's Labyrinth
Black Book
Letters from Iwo Jima
Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
Waltz with Bashir
Johnny Mad Dog
Che: Part One
Che: Part Two
Red Cliff
Tropic Thunder
Winter in Wartime
Valkyrie
Red Cliff Part II
Inglourious Basterds
Dear John
The Way Back
War Horse
The Admiral: Roaring Currents
The Imitation Game
Beasts of No Nation
Anthropoid
Hacksaw Ridge
Allied
Dunkirk
Cold War
1917
All Quiet on the Western Front

Thanks John-Connor! That's quiet a nice list and gives me a lot of war films to watch before the countdown deadline. Seen some of course, but a lot I haven't seen and they look good.

These are high contenders for my ballot:All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front
Casablanca
The Cruel Sea
The Caine Mutiny
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Cranes Are Flying
The Enemy Below
Run Silent, Run Deep
Judgment at Nuremberg
The Longest Day
The Train
Patton
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Gallipoli
Das Boot
Platoon
Schindler's List
Saving Private Ryan
The Thin Red Line
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Downfall

Do you know where you can stream "Underground"

Underground (1995) can be streamed on Amazon prime.

^ Nice selection CR, still early to say of course but it looks like we'll have about 10-12 titles in common on our ballots.