What Are Your Top Twenty War Movies?

[Terry Soloman]

1. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
2. Apocalypse Now (1979)
3. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
4. Platoon (1986)
5. Black Hawk Down (2001)
6. Das Boot (1981)
7. The Thin Red Line (1998)
8. Paths of Glory (1957)
9. Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
10. 1917 (2019)
11. Dunkirk (2017)
12. Patton (1970)
13. Gallipoli (1981)
14. We Were Soldiers (2002)
15. Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
16. The Deer Hunter (1978)
17. The Hurt Locker (2008)
18. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
19. Tears of The Sun (2003)
20. Black Book (2006)
21. Stalingrad (1993)
22. American Sniper (2014)
23. The Longest Day (1962)
24. The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
25. Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
26. Jarhead (2005)
27. The Patriot (2000)
28. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
29. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
30. Enemy at the Gates (2001)
31. Glory (1989)
32. The Great Escape (1963)
33. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
34. The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
35. Lone Survivor (2013)
36. Enemies at the Gates (2001)
37. The Green Berets (1968)
38. The Alamo (1960)
39. The Messenger (2009)
40. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)
41. 12 Strong (2018)
42. The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
43. The Pianist (2002)
44. Rescue Dawn (2006)
45. The Beast of War (1988)
46. A Bridge Too Far (1977)
47. Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
48. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
49. The Boys in Company C (1978)
50. Red Tails (2012)

 

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[Blackfoot58]

I’d say Heart Break Ridge and Pork Chop Hill would both be in my favorites.
Platoon
Bridge…River Kwai
Great Escape
Rambo II

There are so many.
Slightly off topic: Death Wish trilogy.
Not exactly a war movie, but one man’s personal war of revenge.

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

The news channel today.

 

[Peyton Manning]

You have enemy at the gates twice

How about Troy?

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Not on your list at all, but "Fury" would be in my top 10.

 

[TerryC]

Apocalypse Now my BEST. Not much actual killing but the psychological impact is strong.....I know. (killing people, saving animals) Last of the Mohicans next. The building music score is the whole movie. I've walked those paths up in Chimney Rock State Park, NC. The Full Metal Jacket boot camp scenes gave me the CHILLS! Ah, sweet memories! (R Lee Ermy is the chopper pilot in Apocalypse Now attack scene) The rest, any order. Hey Buddy! ╦╦ç

 

[DizzyDigger]

Apocalypse Now is a deep, deep movie, and Coppola did his best to maintain that feeling of anxiety all through the film. Sheen played his part perfectly, as did Brando.

We Were Soldiers
Tears of the Sun
Bridge on the River Kwai
The Enemy Below
U-571

 

[Terry Soloman]

Apocalypse Now my BEST. Not much actual killing but the psychological impact is strong.....I know. (killing people, saving animals) Last of the Mohicans next. The building music score is the whole movie. I've walked those paths up in Chimney Rock State Park, NC. The Full Metal Jacket boot camp scenes gave me the CHILLS! Ah, sweet memories! (R Lee Ermy is the chopper pilot in Apocalypse Now attack scene) The rest, any order. Hey Buddy! ╦╦ç

Having a beer for you right now TC!

 

[Grizz12]

Band of Brothers
The good, the Bad and the ugly
Josey Wales
To Hell and Back
Iwo Jima
Anything with Clint Eastwood or John Wayne

 

[Gene Mean]

I don't have a list like that but our go-to war movies are The Patriot, Last of the Mohicans, Glory, and Saving Private Ryan. When I went to see Saving Private Ryan in 1998 I was struck that in the theater were so many older veterans. It was all men, by themselves, lots of tears, especially during the opening D-day scene. It must have been therapeutic in some way for so many to want to see it and remember. I wouldn't know and regretfully I never asked my father about his experiences. Army 1939-1969. A lot going on in those 30 years.

 

[TerryC]

I don't have a list like that but our go-to war movies are The Patriot, Last of the Mohicans, Glory, and Saving Private Ryan. When I went to see Saving Private Ryan in 1998 I was struck that in the theater were so many older veterans. It was all men, by themselves, lots of tears, especially during the opening D-day scene. It must have been therapeutic in some way for so many to want to see it and remember. I wouldn't know and regretfully I never asked my father about his experiences. Army 1939-1969. A lot going on in those 30 years.

I can understand those guys that would not talk about their combat. My talking about it was (is still) my therapy. ╦╦ç

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Kind of surprised no one had said Midway, or The dirty dozen or Kelly's heroes.

 

[TerryC]

Apocalypse Now is a deep, deep movie, and Coppola did his best to maintain that feeling of anxiety all through the film. Sheen played his part perfectly, as did Brando.

We Were Soldiers
Tears of the Sun
Bridge on the River Kwai
The Enemy Below
U-571

Never confuse the size of your paycheck
With the size of your talent.
Marlon Brando

 

[TerryC]

Kind of surprised no one had said Midway, or The dirty dozen or Kelly's heroes.

Oddball (Donald Sutherland) had the best lines in Kelly's Heroes. ╦╦ç

 

[ArfieBoy]

Yes, Terry S and TerryC, some of all of those you guys mentioned. One of the most historically accurate ones I have seen is "Tora! Tora! Tora!." "We Were Soldier Once" is one of my top ones. I was with the First (Air) Cavalry Division from late '66 to late '67.

 

[TerryC]

Yes, Terry S and TerryC, some of all of those you guys mentioned. One of the most historically accurate ones I have seen is "Tora! Tora! Tora!." "We Were Soldier Once" is one of my top ones. I was with the First (Air) Cavalry Division from late '66 to late '67.

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
Yamamoto About the attack on Pearl Harbor

 

[bartholomewroberts]

Not strictly a 'war movie', but it is relevant as it occurred during the Second World War...'Schindlers List"

and also a move called 'Passchendaele'..most here would not have heard of it.. but it is about the Canadians

in WW1 at that battle

Micheal

 

[Crow]

Apocalypse Now my BEST. Not much actual killing but the psychological impact is strong.....I know. (killing people, saving animals) Last of the Mohicans next. The building music score is the whole movie. I've walked those paths up in Chimney Rock State Park, NC. The Full Metal Jacket boot camp scenes gave me the CHILLS! Ah, sweet memories! (R Lee Ermy is the chopper pilot in Apocalypse Now attack scene) The rest, any order. Hey Buddy! ╦╦ç

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning?

Kilgore the type of person ya know goes into war and not get scratch loving every minute of it.

I Have met some characters over the years pretty close his persona.

Crow

 

[TerryC]

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning?

Kilgore the type of person ya know goes into war and not get scratch loving every minute of it.

I Have met some characters over the years pretty close his persona.

Crow

When he's handing out "death cards", he says 4 of diamonds twice. Crazy deck of cards! ╦╦ç CHARLEY DON'T SURF!

 

[Oregon Viking]

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