Favourite war movie?

[D.a.L-UnteroffizierG]

i can remember these ones are quite good:

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
Paths of Glory (1957) - Stanley Kubrick
The Pianist (2002)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Triple Cross (1966) (good one, with romy schneider and gerd fr

 

[smokeythebear]

Apocalypse now & Das Boot are my favorites.

 

[Karabiner98k]

A Bridge Too Far, Black Hawk Down.

 

[Lt_Kettch]

Maybe the orginal poster can edit his thread with all the movies mention and a rating by the users? So I could make a check list which movies I should watch first .

 

[Malgoroth]

I'm surprised 'All Quiet on the Wester Front' didn't get more mentions. That movie is brutal and socially relevant even today. Probably the most impacting war movie of all time. I'm also a big fan of 'the Longest Day'.

But come on. The best war movie EVER is Star Wars.

 

[OneShot]

HBO Films "When Trumpets Fade" A film about the WWII battle between allies and axis which took place in the Hurtgen Forrest just prior to the start of the Battle of the Bulge. A little "dark" but worth a watch imo.

 

[SchutzeSepp]

"the pianist" is a verry good ww2 movie, not much known in usa i believe, but its an exellent movie. verry hard to watch but its a butifull story , and it contains some of the most realistic combat scenes ever seen by me.
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=IQOAQ5cbieE&mode=related&search=

i once saw a movie on german zdf channel, in german about a jewish boy who gets by accident enlisted in the ss, and who goes to war on the russian front. it had some amazing combat scenes and the story was verry original. dies someone know this movie? i would like to know the title.

 

[FaTaLeKe]

Watched Flags of our Fathers yesterday. Pretty good movie, although i would have liked to see it more as a continues war, instead of flashbacks and stuff. The battle scenes are ****ing intense. SPR/BOB intense.

Have you also seen letters from Iwo Jima, it is the movie seen from the side of the japanese

 

[Trendkill]

I just saw the move Winter War yesterday, I'd have to say that goes up there with my favourites.

 

[Riekki]

Hamburger hill is pretty nice, about americans trying to reach some hill ( :O ) in Vietnam, also Unknown soldier and Tora tora tora

 

[Coey]

i once saw a movie on german zdf channel, in german about a jewish boy who gets by accident enlisted in the ss, and who goes to war on the russian front. it had some amazing combat scenes and the story was verry original. dies someone know this movie? i would like to know the title.

I think that film is called Europa, Europa ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Europa )

Anyone seen the film Red Beach? It's surprisingly similiar to SPR in some parts.

Also, Soldier Of Orange is an awesome film. Doesn't have many combat scenes, but follows the lives of 5 (maybe 6) Dutch men during the occupation of the Netherlands. Very good film about a subject not usually shown.

 

[Reddog]

I just saw this Russian film called, 'The 9th Company' about a unit in Afghanistan. Was excellent.

 

[PUTZ]

Stalag 17.

o yes.

 

[sharpshooterklj]

Enemy at the Gates

Really though, I'd have to say my favorite war movies are Black Hawk Down, Letters from Iwo Jima, and the combined Band of Brothers series.

 

[RedGuardist]

Hamburger hill is pretty nice, about americans trying to reach some hill ( :O ) in Vietnam

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[Bolt]

Watchable, yes, but why tell that it was based on the true story?
"Only one survivor" and "people forgot about them" my ***. If you're intersted I can find and translate an article about what really happened there.

 

[Reddog]

Part of what I enjoyed so much about it was seeing Afghanistan through Russian eyes. Every other film I've seen about this conflict is some big, "lets kick dem sunns*****es commie bastards out of the 'stan!!!" propoganda wank.

The Beast is another fairly good movie about it too.

 

[Bolt]

You saw that movie from an anti-communist director's point of view; the guy was serving in the Army at that time, but thankfully to his father (big movie director), he wasn't sent to Afghan, instead he served in a cavalry unit at Mosfilm.
He also once said that he thinks that all volunteers who served there were stupid ("duraki").
I mean, he could make it without all this pathetic "OMG the Empire doesn't give a **** about its soldiers" crap, just like it was in RL - those soldiers weren't forgotten, their neighbours were fighting their way to help them all night and on the other day they went to fight without any rest, guys at that height had artillery support all the time, most of them survived, those, who died, received medals, some of them - even HSU..
In Russia many people see this film as another propaganda wank.

 

[Coey]

It does have some good scenes, like the explosive penis.

 

[Shadrach]

Some of my favourite movies on the war in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s;

Pretty Village, Pretty Flame:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Village,_Pretty_Flame

No Man's Land:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Man's_Land_(2001_film)

Both are full of dark satire about the war, 'Pretty Village' is basically a black comedy while No Mans Land is more serious but still with much humour.

Also, Grbavica, not really a 'war film' , more on the effects of war on lives, very moving;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grbavica_(film)