Greatest War Movies Ever Made

[Boom]

What do you guys believe are the best war movies out there? I'll start:

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) -- World War I
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) -- World War II
Apacolypse Now! (1979)-- Vietnam War
Das Boot (1981) -- World War II
Platoon (1986) -- Vietnam War
Full Metal Jacket (1987) -- Vietnam War
Schindler's List (1993) -- World War II
Saving Private Ryan (1998) -- World War II
Der Untergang, AKA Downfall (2004) -- World War II
Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) -- World War II

 

[CBGB]

Saving Private Ryan
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Dr. Strangelove

 

[rdh007]

The Longest Day
A Bridge Too Far

My personal favorite is probably Saving Private Ryan.

 

[Kurosawa]

Saving Private Ryan is my favorite.

I also like

Apocalypse Now
Hamburger Hill
Stalag 17
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
The Big Red One
M*A*S*H

Lots of others. I've always loved war movies and army comics as well.

 

[War Party]

Tae Guk Gi:The Brotherhood of War
The Hurt Locker (Yes, it's that good)

 

[Sawyer]

Saving Private Ryan
Platoon
MASH

Those are really the only ones. I'm not much of a fan of war films.

 

[Sundancer]

On top of what's already been said....


Three Kings





Within a few weeks , someone is going to put Inglorious Basterds.

 

[SPIDERMAN117]

Glory and Saving Private Ryan. Both Films are Fantastic.

 

[dark_b]

Saving Private Ryan.

only a director with a lot of talent can make a movie like that. it didnt only look good.it also sounded fantastic.

 

[Spider-Vader]

Saving Private Ryan
Full Metal Jacket
MASH
Glory

I don't count 'Schindler's List' as a war movie, it wasn't about the actual war. It was about what was going on "behind the scenes".

 

[Sarg92]

Saving Private Ryan.

It is an outstanding film on every single level. Spielberg created a real masterpiece!

 

[Bim]

The Longest Day
A Bridge Too Far

Love these two.

My dad loves war movies, so i grew up watching my fair share of them. Other faves:
- The Big Red One
- Saving Private Ryan
- Apocalypse Now
- Black Hawk Down
- Bridge on the River Kwai
- Platoon
- Schindler's List
- The Deer Hunter
- Empire of the Sun
- The Patriot
- Patton
- We Were Soldiers
- Where Eagles Dare
- Full Metal Jacket
- The Guns Of Navarone

Hmm can we call Ben-Hur, Gone with the Wind and Lawrence of Arabia war movies? if so, those too

 

[dark_b]

Saving Private Ryan.

It is an outstanding film on every single level. Spielberg created a real masterpiece!

yes.

if after this movie there was a guy who said that spielberg is overrated.....then he deserved a kick in the face

 

[Motown Marvel]

deer hunter is phenomenal and often over looked.

 

[Spider-Vader]

It's not a movie but the 'Band of Brothers' mini-series is phenomenal.

Hanks & Spielberg are making a follow-up to it next year about the war in the Pacific.

 

[Jake Cassidy]

Gallipoli

 

[batman11]

deer hunter is phenomenal and often over looked.

 

[Nightmare]

Casualties of War

 

[Evil Twin]

All Quiet on the Western Front
Renoir's The Grand illusion
Paths of Glory
Rome, Open City
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Lawrence of Arabia (I'm counting it.)
Army of Shadows
Patton
M.A.S.H.
The Big Red One
Das Boot
Glory
Black Hawk Down

 

[Dark Victory]

The Thin Red Line is a severly under-rated film
Wings
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Grand Illusion
Five Graves to Cairo
Night and Fog
Rome, Open City
Battleground
Sands of Iwo Jima
Twelve O'Clock High
The Desert Fox
From Here to Eternity
Stalag 17
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Paths of Glory
The Guns of Navarone
The Longest Day
The Greatest Escape
A Bridge Too Far
Von Ryan's Express
Where Eagles Dare
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Patton
The Deer Hunter
Apocalypse Now
Das Boot
The Killing Fields
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Good Morning, Vietnam!
Schindler's List
Saving Private Ryan
The Hurt Locker
Glory
Gone with the Wind
Cold Mountain
Waltz with Bashir
The Battle of Algiers
Dances with Wolves
Zulu
No Man's Land
Buffalo Soldiers
Dr. Strangelove
The Hunt for Red October
Kingdom of Heaven
Jarhead
Dr. Zhivago
Black Hawk Down
Born on the Fourth of July
Rescue Dawn
Gladiator
Ben Hur
Braveheart
Gallipoli
Joyex Noel
The Pianist
Downfall
Farenheit 9/11

Those are all the ones I can think of off the top of my head. To be honest, I can't remember if some of them were great.

 

[Doctor Jones]

You thought of those at the top of your head? How high did the top of it reach?

 

[french joker]

/thread

 

[Max J Power]

My top five would be Saving Private Ryan, Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, MASH, and Three Kings.

But there are many that I want to see but haven't--Apocalypse Now, Paths of Glory, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Thin Red Line, Glory, The Hurt Locker, Jarhead, Black Hawk Down, and others.

 

[Bunker]

My top 5: Saving Private Ryan, The Hurt Locker, Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, Paths of Glory.

 

[Dark Victory]

You thought of those at the top of your head? How high did the top of it reach?

Haha, when I was a kid I was obsessed with wars, from the Roman Republic/Empire to the modern day "War" on Terror in the Middle East. Seriously -- Stephen E. Ambrose and Ken Burns had nothing on me. I would rent at least every film that at least covered war topics twice.