Abq TOP 5 FAVORITE WAR MOVIES

What is your top 5 favorite war flicks?


Here are mine:

The Great Escape (1963)
Bridge Over The River Kwai (1957)
Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Full Metal Jacket(1987)
Force Ten From Navarone (1978)

 

Mine are

Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Saving Private Ryan
The Patriot
Glory
(but I love almost every war movie ever made. Except The Thin Red Line)

 

Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
Saving Private Ryan
The Great Escape
The Battle of Midway

I have to agree with Matt...I love war movies, except for the Thin Red Line

 

Platoon
Braveheart
The Patriot
MASH
Apocolypse Now

 

The Battle of Britian
GLory
We were soldiers
Blackhawk Down
Saving Private Ryan

Honorable mentions:

Full Metal Jacket
A bridge too far
Band of Brothers (I'm not sure if this is considered a movie though)
The Longest day
The Hunters (Robert Mitchum....got to remeber the poor guys who died in Korea, seems like no one else has huh?)
Gods and Generals (almost cried in that one)

 

And here are my next 5

Saving Private Ryan

Cross Of Iron

The Inglorious Bastards

All's Quiet On The Western Front

Das Boot

 

Jess, have you seen the Stalingrad movie that was made from the producers of Das Boot? I was wondering how good it was.

 

I do not think so....lets find it and have a movie night! Peter...can you help out?

 

Next five for me

Braveheart
Big Red one
A bridge too far
Dirty Dozen
Where Eagles Dare (also a great Iron Maiden song)

 

Awesome...I can find it, Hastings has it.

 

next five for me:

Green Berets

Pearl Harbor (only! and I mean ONLY for the harbor scene, I fast forward thru all the other crap but the harbor scene made me cry for over an hour)

Memphis Belle - I love that movie, should be in my top 5 actually

Schindlers List (is this considered a war movie?)

Horotio Hornblower

 

Crap! I forgot The Green Berets and Memphis Belle! Ok...top 100 War films then!

 

I love Memphis Belle

Braveheart
Das Boot
Hunt for Red October (...it was during the cold war, does that count??)
The Guns of Navarrone (Gregory Peck is the man)

 

12 O'Clock High

Hells Angels

Shaaka Zulu

The Longest Day

now my next fav, I have no idea what the title is but its a Korean film about 2 soliders standing guard on either side of border from N& S Korea and the friendship they create, its modern and since Korea is still in a state of war it counts I am thinking. But its one of the most incredible movies I have ever seen. Also, one line hit really well on what other countries think of the US.

 

billy zane is in it... gotta love billy zane!

 

Life is all about Billy Zane

 

Black Hawk Down

The Thin Red Line

Three Kings

Tears of the Sun

Four Feathers

 

wow! cyndi's yours is the first list where I have only seen 1 of the movies

oh another great war movie: Lawrence of Arabia...

question - was All Quiet on the Western Front ever made into a film? Its my fav war book

 

There were 2 versions of the book produced...The first came out in 1930. The 2nd one was a made for TV version in 1979 starring Richard Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence and Ian Holm (Go Bilbo!)

 

yeah, i'm usually just a little off from everyone else....

...except maybe matt - who probably owns Four Feathers also

 

awesome, I will see if I can find it on DVD

 

Wow, Cyndi, you are the first person I know who liked The Thin Red Line.

 

You know it baby!!!! Heath Ledger is a hunk!

 

Gallipoli with Mel Gibson is another awesome war flick....anyone ever see it?

 

No, never heard of it...what war is it?