War Movies

TerrorFirmer

I'm looking for any recommendations for good war movies, regardless of when it was made.

I own Saving Private Ryan, Hamburger Hill, Cross of Iron, Where Eagles Dare, We Were Soldiers, Das Boot, Platoon, When Trumpets Fade, Windtalkers, Navy Seals, Zulu, The Longest Day and a fair few other ones.

I am most interested in ground based war movies - not as much interested in war movies with a naval or aerial central theme....

Any recommendations welcome!

If ANYONE says Pearl harbour I will slice your throat....thanks

memphis

GI Jane!!!!

landser

Paths of Glory by Stanley Kubrick. concerns the court martial of 3 french soldiers during the Great War

Europa Europa, a French film about a young jew in the Wehrmacht and SS during the war

L'Halle des Invalides, French film about disfigured French troops during the Great War

Stalingrad.. German film, very hard to get in original German.

Ice Cold in Alex.. Brit film made in late 40's.. backdrop is N. Africa campaign made famous by Carlsberg ad... i.e. worth waiting for

could go on for ages here...

memphis

landser wrote:

could go on for ages here...

Please continue. GI Jane is a load of crap but was the only movie that sprung to mind that wasn't on the main posters list.

Goodshape

You forgot to mention Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now for some reason.

I assume it was forgetfulness rather than ignorance.

Optikus

Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now and Tigerland are among my favourites.

Optikus

Goodshape wrote:

You forgot to mention Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now for some reason.

I assume it was forgetfulness rather than ignorance.

Ya got there just before me!!

delly

Black Hawk Down.

The rest that i could recommend are mostly naval.

TerrorFirmer

Yes, I have that movie Stalingrad on DVD, as far as I am aware it is a German version with subtitles.....fantastic movie.

As for the others, thanks for the list....will check some of them out!

landser

check out The Desert Fox also. James Mason plays an excellent Ernst Rommel. and if you haven't seen Downfall yet, go and see it!

BolBill

The Thin Red Line - beautiful War movie if there is such a thing.

Agree with Ice Cold In Alex, great flick.

Retr0gamer

Not on DVD yet but Downfall is a fantastic film about the last few days in Hitlers bunker in Berlin.

Etain

Enemy At the Gates. Attack and Retreat(Italian)

Etain

I forgot The Dirty Dozen.

Karl Hungus

Although I was going to instantly shout "CROSS OF IRON!" but saw that you already had it in your list...

Instead, you can try The Big Red One, starring Lee Marvin and Mark Hamill. Quite good indeed.

A very under-rated classic that you should see is John Boorman's Hell In The Pacific, which again stars Lee Marvin and the legendary Toshiro Mifune. Interesting trivia is that both actors served during WWII, and probably serves the magnificent preformances.

KdjaCL

Band of Brothers box set.

A Bridge too Far
Michael Caine/Connery and tonnes of others in it too, movie about Operation Market Garden/Pegasus name escapes me atm.

Guns of Navarone

The Bridge on the River Kwai
Bridge over Kwai not actual name it also escapes me atm.

The Bridge at Remegen

Some odd ones a Polish lad sent me over quite good.
"Air force" (43, Hawks)
"The Cranes Are Flying" (57, Kalatozov)
"The Young Lions" (58, Dymytryk)
"Anzio" (68, Dymytryk)


Will edit after footy with names.




kdjac

TerrorFirmer

Thanks for all these suggestions!

I actually own or have watched most of whats already been mentioned, but I will definately look into

Hell in the Pacific
No Retreat
The Desert Fox
Europa Europa

Thanks everyone! And I got "downfall" recently, but not gotten around to watching it.....heard great things.

Thanks for all the suggestions.....much appreciated

case n basket

Stalag 17. It's a POW movie but it's terrific.

Zaph

I know you're not as interested in air/naval films, but one you should definitely have is "Tora! Tora! Tora!", the only film about Pearl Harbour worth watching.

Second the earlier suggestion of the "Band of Brothers" boxset, it's superb. And I can't believe "The Great Escape" hasn't been mentioned. I know it's a POW movie, but it's a great POW movie!

juno75

Kellys Heros!!

I know every one seen it a thousand times but you gotta love Donald Sutherland in it and the paint firing tanks

The Longest day -AKA the longest movie, great though.

Attack - heavy film, something about it, Jack Palance is a tad physco...

Guns of Naverone? Lots of gay sub plot in that one BTW

Catch 22 - Aireal, not as bad a version of the book as peeps say, still a good movie -tbh the book would be hard to film coherantly I reckon.

PATTON - Fine movie, George C Scott is patton man!!

I love WWII films......

nadir

Hell In The Pacific
yeah its great, definately get that , if you havn't seen it

also no one mentioned Lepa sela lepo gore
aka pretty village pretty flame.
excellent indeed

also missed Gallipoli , and a few others whose names elude me atm.

Playboy

Bridge on the River Kwai

BANZAI_RUNNER

Von Ryans Express eventhough its a POW movie
The password is Courage, another POW movie but quite good
Glory. eventhough it is the american civil war

Karl Hungus

Actually, a war film everyone should see is Grave Of The Fireflies. It's downright ****ing heart-wrenching.

whatalanger

"Force 10 From Navarone", the sequel to Guns of Navarone starring Harrison Ford. Not the best war film but i'd watch naything

nadir

Karl Hungus wrote:

Actually, a war film everyone should see is Grave Of The Fireflies. It's downright ****ing heart-wrenching.

ordered it off play earlier

Sangre

Top Gun!!

Deer Hunter?

kaimera

hamburger hill.

mycroft

Sangre wrote:

Top Gun!!

Wow, war is hell.

Incidently, the big red one Sam Fuller's opus is been re released with an additional hour of material.

Pigman II

A Midnight Clear - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102443/

case n basket

mycroft wrote:

Wow, war is hell.

Damn right

Goose!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

TerrorFirmer

A midnight clear - terrible movie.

aka pretty village pretty flame.

Excellent movie, saw it years ago. Really want to get it on DVD now.

mycroft

case n basket wrote:

Damn right

Goose!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

I never knew war needed so much hair gel or so much gay inneudo.

aka pretty village pretty flame.

Thought it was good not great. Very harrowing, but very specific to the former yugoslavian conflict. Also thought the US journalist grated, and seemed to be put in there to give the film a broader appeal.

I'll say this again;

The Big Red One

One of the best war films ever made is being re released with a restored 60 minutes.

Fuller was a f*cking auteur and its about time he was recognised. 16yo he goes to work as a print devil in a NY paper in the 10s. Crime reporter as a teenager, pulp fiction novelist. At the outbreak of WW2 he signed up (ten years older than the average infantry man) fought in france and italy and north africa, helped liberate a concentration camp (some footage he shot with the wind up camera his mum sent him is iconic) then in this thirties turned director of some brillant B movies (shock corridor and park row) and a lot of bad ones. Fuller made the big red one but had it cut to shreds. Anyone with a B movie sensibility should be salivating for this.

TerrorFirmer

re released with a restored 60 minutes

The Big Red One has aged terribly, even worse then other war movies I think....the beach scene - god awful

But 60 extra minutes....sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet

mycroft

MobileInfantry wrote:

The Big Red One has aged terribly, even worse then other war movies I think....the beach scene - god awful

But 60 extra minutes....sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet

Have to admit it's been years since I've seen it