Top 8 War Movies/War time movies

Saints and Soldiers
[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us-0akvhbFE"]YouTube - Saints and Soldiers trailer[/URL]

Susi said:

And Sam im really disapointed to your list. It have just a funny movies, where is your seriousness.

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Thats what the classics are all about man. Your not meant to take them seriously. Kelly's Heroes is one of my favourites just because it is so fun to watch.

Films need to be entertaining, if I want to learn about the horrors of war or specific details I can watch a documentary or read a book.

(World at War series on boxset ftw!)

dextronaut said:

inglorious basterds was really bad..

the best ww2 movies for me:

1-the longest day

2-thin red line

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Absolutely NOT. Christoph Waltz made Inglorious one of the best movies I've seen in a while. Stunningly amazing actor. Lol.

Saints and Soldiers is a good one idd
I like Band of Brothers to.

All quiet on the Western Front All Quiet On The Western Front# The film on Ytube

we forgot "the bridge"

from 1959, its a classic and for his time very realistic

YouTube - Die Brücke/The bridge 1959 conflict scene2

Supprised no one mentioned SPR... but i do like everyone added lesser known movies.

Memphis Belle

A U.S. bomber plane's crew is ordered to hit a heavily defended German city. Capt. Dearborn (Matthew Modine) leads his men into battle while their commander and a public relations officer (John Lithgow) anxiously await the squad's return. Amid friction between the captain and his co-pilot (Tate Donovan), a scandal erupts when it's learned that a medical officer has been dishonest. Based on the real-life World War II plane's final mission.


Rescue Dawn
Guy makes a plan to get out of a prison camp in Vitnam.

Behind Enemy Lines

K-19: The Widowmaker

Red Dawn
Made up story about a USSR invasion or the US. Kinda Corny but they use good garrila tatics... for high school kids.


If you can tell I like Netflix.

Edit: found some more

Flame and Citron

Based on actual events, this exciting drama tells the story of World War II Danish Resistance fighters Flame (Thure Lindhardt) and Citron (Mads Mikkelsen). Taking orders from Resistance leader Aksel Winther (Peter Mygind), the two systematically assassinate Danish collaborators and Nazi officers. But they are far from heroic in their personal lives, and filmmaker Ole Christian Madsen explores the serious flaws of these complex men.

The Lost Battalion


It began on October 2nd, 1918, when the men of the U.S. Army's 77th Division, 308th Battalion were surrounded by German troops in the Argonne Forest. Without food, water or reserve ammunition, cut off from supply and communication lines, they managed to hold off the enemy until they were finally rescued.

1. All quiet on the Western Front
2. Stalingrad
3. Der Untergang (The Downfall)
4. Das Boot
5. The Bridge (GET BACK TO THE KINDERGARTEN!)
6. Brotherhood (that Korean movie)
7. The Fallen
8. Winter War
9. 08/15 (way not as good as the books but still an absolute classic!)
10. Arnhem

of the recent war movies i really enjoyed EAtG .
I know you're all laughing at me.
I don't care.
It looked great, was a decent enough story and the James horner soundtrack was top.

dogbadger said:

of the recent war movies i really enjoyed EAtG .
I know you're all laughing at me.
I don't care.
It looked great, was a decent enough story and the James horner soundtrack was top.

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Don't worry, Enemy at the Gates is what got me into the Eastern Front

Anyway, I tend to love old war movies, some of which have been mentioned here. Corny and patriotic, yes, but they have this charm about them.

Here you go.YouTube - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence trailer

meh listthread than


1. Come and see ... no way around it. If there is a "Ostfront" movie its this one. Not because of the "action scenes" or anything. I can understand why it was the directors last movie he ever made. ( Maybe that russian series *allways forget the name of* should be here too)

2. Stalingrad

3. Good Morning Vietnam...just pretend i overlooked that we only talk ww2 movies here. ( actualy..do we ? )

4. Full Metal Jacket

5.Das Boot ( the series ) The movie everyone knows is only like 1/6th of the series. I remeber it runs in germany as TV series around christmas, when i was younger.

6. Der Untergang

7. Die Br

husbert said:

we forgot "the bridge"

from 1959, its a classic and for his time very realistic

YouTube - Die Brücke/The bridge 1959 conflict scene2

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Hmm - looks like they borrowed the tanks from CoD:WaW.

Neat clip, though.

Volodnikov said:

Don't worry, Enemy at the Gates is what got me into the Eastern Front

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ahh - for me that would be the aforementioned cross of iron which, despite being into the war and all that, i watched primarily because it was a peckinpah movie.

reminds me i should watch it again, must be 15 years since i last did.

The problem with James Horner is that he uses the same score for every movie he does.

Bluehawk said:

The problem with James Horner is that he uses the same score for every movie he does.

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Yeah- close your eyes and it could well be 'Krull'

Bluehawk said:

The problem with James Horner is that he uses the same score for every movie he does.

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He is a twat. Honestly I like Rachmaninov as much as the next man but I don't need to hear the ****ing four note motif from his first symphony in every bloody film he scores as the "bad guy theme"

My favourite war movie, hell, one of my all time faves, is Enemy At The Gates.

With Jude Law and Rachel Weisz, it is a movie about snipers. And being a Crossbow enthusiast on KF, and a sniper on, other, games, i find it quite the epic. It illustrates, at least a little, what Russian snipers did to take back Stalingrad. It also stars a hero of the Soviet Union, Vassili Zaitsev.

Great movie.

I didnt like Saints and Soldiers because of the combination of Religion with War.. Being a flaming atheist, I am immidiatly biased against it.
The Fall was defiently one of my favourates!
I cant add anything new to what has already been said expect recommending Waltz with Bashir again, if anything.. just the style is incredible
[YouTube - Waltz with Bashir
YouTube - I Bombed Bierut-With English Subtitle