My top 10 favorite war movies

#1 "The All-Time-Favorite" Platoon

#2 Saving Private Ryan

#3 Inglorious Bastards

#4 The Hurt Locker

#5 Full Metal Jacket

#6 Braveheart

#7 Three Kings

#8 Good Morning, Vietnam

#9 The Dirty Dozen

#10 The Pianist

Special shout-out to my favorite war TV Shows:

the big red one

platoon

full metal jacket

sands of iwo jima

das boot

saving private ryan

downfall

the dirty dozen

bridge over the river kwai

apocalypse now

1. Enemy at the Gates

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0215750/

2. Una Giornata Particolare (A Special Day)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076085/?ref_=nv_sr_1

3. Casablanca

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/?ref_=nv_sr_1

4. Der Untergang (Downfall)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363163/?ref_=nv_sr_1

5. Eye in the Sky

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2057392/?ref_=nv_sr_1

6. Das Boot

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082096/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

7. Семнадцать мгновений весны (Seventeen Moments of Spring)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069628/?ref_=nv_sr_1

8. Apocalypse Now

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/?ref_=nv_sr_2

9. La Vita è Bella (Life is Beautiful)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118799/?ref_=nv_sr_1

10. Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078875/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Honorable mentions (discarded for messing up history

Cross of Iron

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074695/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Kelly's Heroes

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065938/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Inglourious Basterds

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361748/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Guns of Navarone

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054953/?ref_=nv_sr_1

'Allo 'Allo

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086659/?ref_=nv_sr_1

1. The Unknown Soldier - in Finnish - Tuntematon Sotilas - the 1950s version.

2. Apocalypse now

3. Good Morning Vietnam

4. Jarhead

5. White Tiger linked

6. Saving Private Ryan

7. Talvisota 'the Winter War'

8. The Enemy at the Gates

9. Black Hawk Down

10. Gallipoli ( with Mel Gibson)

also Zulu, Bridge Too Far, Vietnam (Australian TV series), Glory (US Civil War, 1989)...

Perkele. Tulta munille!

I just hope documentaries count, they're basically movies.

1. Dr. Strangelove

2. Das Boot

3. Full Metal Jacket

4. Apocalypse Now

5. The World at War

6. World War II in Colour

7. Hitler's Bodyguard

8. Restrepo

9. Generation War (before any of you say it, no not Generation Kill)

10. The Wipers Times

Honourable Mentions:

Lord of the Rings trilogy

1. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

2. Star Wars VIII: The Last Jedi

3. Saving Private Ryan

4. Firefox

5. Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark (not sure if this counts as it takes place in peacetime)

6. Braveheart

7. Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back

8. The Interview (but only because it has the scene I dream of)

9. Star Wars Rebels: Zero Hour (TV movie)

10. Star Wars IV: A New Hope

injinji wrote:

1. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

2. Star Wars VIII: The Last Jedi

3. Saving Private Ryan

4. Firefox

5. Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark (not sure if this counts as it takes place in peacetime)

6. Braveheart

7. Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back

8. The Interview (but only because it has the scene I dream of)

9. Star Wars Rebels: Zero Hour (TV movie)

10. Star Wars IV: A New Hope

WiseOdin wrote:

Should star wars count? In not sure about this, lmao

Quasi-duck wrote:

WiseOdin wrote:

Should star wars count? In not sure about this, lmao

I was going to say it, but it is favourite war movies, and it is called Star *Wars* so I think it's okay. I did say LOTR as an honourable mention.

1. Red Cliff

2. Passchendaele

3. Captains of the Clouds(only because William Avery Bishop was involved)

4. The Wind Rises(Not sure if this counts but whatever)

5. Saving Private Ryan

6. The Red Baron

7. The Eternal Zero

8. Red Tails

9.The Lord Of The Rings, The Two Towers

10. Dunkirk

I forgot about Red Tails and Flyboys, at least the former should be on the list, the other is an honorable mention.

You missed the besterest one of all, A Bridge Too Far.

Saving Private Ryan

To Hell and Back

Midway

PT 109

Apocalypse Now

Platoon

Bridge on the River Kwai

MASH

Fury

We were Soldiers

StrangeTalent wrote:

You missed the besterest one of all, A Bridge Too Far.

injinji wrote:

Never seen it

You will note that @StrangeTalent's avatar is actor Sean Connery in the role of Maj. Gen. Roy Urquhart, the commanding officer of the British 1st Airborne Division, as portrayed in the movie.

Also, Band of Brothers is my favorite.

Another honorable mention is The Rat Patrol.

StrangeTalent wrote:

Also, Band of Brothers is my favorite.

Funny anecdote about the production of A Bridge Too Far . . . At the time Sean Connery (relatively fresh off playing James Bond in five movies from 1963 to 1971) was cast in A Bridge Too Far in 1976, Roy Urquhart was still living. Being the crusty old bastard that he was, Urquhart allowed that his daughters were excited to see Connery cast as their father, but he claimed not to know who Connery was before he accepted the role.

I was a kid when this movie was shot in my home town. I'm actually even IN this movie, being an extra when XXX corps enters Eindhoven and is slowed down by celebrating Dutch civilians. I'm one of the waving flags. Earned me 20 guilders which was quite a lot of money back then. I remember the whole cinema was more focused on recognizing Deventer streets than on the story, going, "that's the Assenstraat!" when para's were advancing into "Arnhem". It was such an exciting summer... cardboard houses being built around the bridge, the Leopard (pretending to be a Panther, shame shame!) destroying one of them, (there's about three hours between the house standing and the shot being fired and the next shot when the house has a big black hole in it, I waited for that). The Son bridge which was blown up was at the recreation lake where I used to surf... so many memories about that summer!

K.Rokossovski wrote:

I was a kid when this movie was shot in my home town. . . .