Favourite War Film

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by BoiseBlade

Of the past classics …

The Sea Hawk … old swashbuckler

Good call. Made in 1940 and the Spanish Armada/Battle of Britain parallels are clear as day.

Other nominations:

Casablanca
The Cruel Sea

[young knobby]

For me it has to be Das Boot, Conspiracy is also on my list

[John Beaman]

For good accuracy: Tora, Tora, Tora and Band Of Brothers. Also, The Horse Soldiers as it is based on an actual US Civil War Raid.

Worst accuracy: The Patriot with Mel Gibson. Only two things in the movie are accurate: There was an American Revolutionary War and there was (is) a city of Charleston, SC. The rest of the movie is garbage: Braveheart set in the US. Second worst accuracy: Troy. War lasting 3 weeks instead of 10 years, Troy the size of a major modern city....etc. However, it did not matter as my wife said (about the accuracy), "I don't care, I got to see Brad Pitt naked". Hollywood wins!

[Bandlaw Charlie]

Gee,
that's a hard one....I reckon the "Bridge Too Far" is top notch..I especially love the bit where Sean Connery knocks off a German through some poor Dutchman's kitchen window...that actually happened...

Can you believe that Sean was not the directors first choice to play General Roy Urquart??...Roger Moore was......and he would have been a flop at the job.....didn't even look like him.....


Oh and "Bomberboy"....looks like no one's ignoring your posts now, are they ??....

Thank your lucky stars you're not married to my Wife...she ignores me all the time!!!

[Juha]

Hello
Kelly’s Heroes
Stanley Kubrick: Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Edvin Laine: Tuntematon Sotilas ("Unknown Soldier") (1955)
Parikka: Talvisota, the original film
Mark Robson: The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954 )
Zulu
Battle of Britain
Ashquit: The Way to the Stars (1946)
Das Boot
Sam Peckinpah: Iron Cross
The flight of Intruder
Tora-Tora-Tora
Blue Max

A couple which I couldn’t watch very long when shown in TV
U-571
Pearl Harbor

I didn’t like Rukajärven tie because of the numerous tactical mistakes in the film.

Juha

[Brian Bines]

The War Lover
Twelve O'Clock High
Flying Leathernecks
Angels One Five
Cross of Iron
All Quiet on the Western Front
Night of the Generals
Stalingrad
Flying Tigers
Catch 22

Oh! and the first Star Wars films

[Nick Beale]

BBC2 has The Dam Busters on tonight, preceded by a documentary about the raid.

[Six Nifty .50s]

Worthy of honorable mention:

Glory
The Dawn Patrol
Flyboys
Paths of Glory
O.S.S.
A Walk in the Sun
They Were Expendable
Objective BURMA!
The Sands of Iwo jima
Fighter Squadron
Stalag 17
The Train
The Longest Day
633 Squadron
The Eagle Has Landed
Go Tell The Spartans
Bravo Two Zero

[CortoM]

1. Das Boot
2. Band of Brothers
3. Tora Tora Tora
4. Thin red line

[JohnnyB]

1. Saving Private Ryan
2. Full Metal Jacket
3. Hamburger Hill
4. Platoon
5. Stalingrad
6. Tora Tora Tora !

7. Memphis Belle

8. Das Boot

9. Die Brücke