Favourite War movie?

[Cybermat47]

Submarine simulator fans gravitate towards Das Boot:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfc_FgIpyLw

 

Flight Sim fans seem to gravitate towards The Blue Max or Battle of Britain, depending on which era interests them:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43zVRey2XEs

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcY2f4t98Ac

 

The Blue Max video is from my channel :D

 

What's your personal favourite war film?

 

My favourite is Das Boot, it captures the futility of war perfectly. I've got the 3 hour version :D

 

Although I love The Blue Max and Battle of Britain a lot too. They're brilliant films, and I adore the replica aircraft.

 

Another favourite of mine is Tora! Tora! Tora! It's the perfect Pearl Harbour movie. Not many people have seen it though, which is a shame.

Edited September 24, 2013 by Cybermat47

[Skoshi_Tiger]

The Cruel Sea, and the Dambusters for me!

 

Also after walking the track I think the modern film "Kokoda" captured the feeling of the environment of the battle ground fairly well.    

[Feathered_IV]

The Cruel Sea, and the Dambusters for me!

Me too.

[Lord_Haw-Haw]

Yes das Boot is good, but my favorite movie would be Stalingrad from 1993 by Joseph Vilsmair.

No wacky super heros, no glory boys, but a fair idea of the horror those who where there

went through.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulq0dg-Yx0o

Edited September 24, 2013 by Lord_Haw-Haw

[Fodder]

WWII films - Battle of Britain and Battle of Midway are my favourites. Memphis Belle is a bit cheesy but not bad.

WWI - Aces High is pretty good.

[NastyDog]

A bridge too far (many)

 

The movie of the paratroopers jump out over holland in the souht, the get the 2 brighes

Edited September 24, 2013 by NastyDog

[Bearcat]

In no order..

 

12 O'Clock High

Das Boot

Saving Private Ryan

We Were Soldiers

Letters From Iwo Jima

Flags of Our Fathers

Black Hawk Down

Paths of Glory

The Lost Battallion

From Here to Eternity

Dark Blue World

Battle of Britain

Inglorious Basterds

Glory

Downfall

Master and Commander

Tora Tora Tora

Empire of the Sun

The Caine Mutiny

The Black Book

Tuskegee Airmen

The Red Baron

My Way

 

.. and those are just off the top of my head... There were quite a few more foreign films I have see that were quite good I just cannot remember the name of them..

[Skoots]

Max Manus: Man of War is a pretty good flick.

[LordNeuro*Srb*]

Well defenetly das boot and and 3 and same houre version by must and same more wery nice and wery good movies

 

Stalingrad

 

Cross of iron

 

And same more worth watching

9 rota

Brestskaya krepost

 

[Uufflakke]

Several good ones have been mentioned already but I want to add:

 

-The Deer Hunter

 

-Apocolypse Now

 

-War and Peace (the 1966 Russian version), only for its impressive and massive battle scenes of Napoleon's Army in Russia.

[Corto]

"Thin Red Line"

 

Edited September 24, 2013 by Corto

[BFsSmurfy]

Downfall

[Klaue]

S! Cross of Iron  #1

[Matt]

Kellys Heroes, Thin Red Line, Stalingrad, Das Boot, Inglourious Basterds, Battle of Britain, Aces High, Full Metal Jacket, A bridge too Far, Band of Brothers, The Last of the Mohicans.

Edited September 24, 2013 by Matt

[Rjel]

Twelve O'clock High

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Gettysburg

Where Eagles Dare

The Bridges at Toko-Ri

The Guns of Navarone

Battleground

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

God is My Co-Pilot

The Longest Day

Pork Chop Hill

Tora,Tora,Tora

Command Decision

The Story of G.I. Joe

[Cybermat47]

The Red Baron

 

I'm not really a fan of that one. It completely misrepresents the Red Baron. Edited September 24, 2013 by Cybermat47

[Sokol1]

 

Sokol1

[Cybermat47]

Ok, now, please, PLEASE don't crucify me for this...

 

I kinda like The Red Baron.

 

And Fortress is a great movie! The CGI looks like a game, sure, but the acting, and the fact that it remains interesting even though there are only two battle scenes at the beginning and end of the film, makes it a great film.

 

And the end credits are really funny in the last few seconds.

[=LD=Hethwill]

Tora! Tora! Tora! and Battle of Britain are the definite air combat WW2 movies. Midway is just okay, although the new japanese production Yamamoto movie has a great flair and the typical eastern way of looking at events which we overlook.

 

Blue Max is a must. Enough said. It has, in my opinion, the best aerial photography ever in history of cinema. Of course the classic WWI birds help a lot to the air choreographies.

 

Also being a musket era buffoon I must point out Revolution, the Killer Angels trilogy ( only 2 movies though ) with Gods & Generals and Gettysburg ( third movie is cancelled afaik ).

 

The Longest Day, black and white version still remains a very dear movie for me, watched the colour remaster but... didn't felt the same.

 

But yeah, too many good movies, especially late 80's and up to mid 90's. 

Edited October 8, 2013 by =LD=Hethwill

[Cybermat47]

the Killer Angels trilogy ( only 2 movies though ) with Gods & Generals and Gettysburg ( third movie is cancelled afaik ).

 

Awww... I really liked those two movies. It's a shame that they're not doing another.

[HeavyCavalrySgt]

I am a fan of Gallipolli.

 

It is interesting that 12 O'Clock High made so many peoples' lists.  When I wander around Nevada, if I find myself spending the night in Ely (say for the Octoberfest dinner / beer train)  I always stay at the Hotel Nevada, which used to be a stop over point for Hollywood stars.  I always ask for the Jimmy Stewart room, which really should be called the 12 O'Clock High room.

 

Not a movie, but I really like Band of Brothers.

Edited October 9, 2013 by HeavyCavalrySgt

[Mysticpuma]

Catch-22

 

Saving Private Ryan

 

Battle of Britain (just to see so many real WW2 aircraft in the air...and the Blu-Ray version is incredible for the transfer they made to disk!)

 

Schindler's List

 

Forrest Gump (tenuous but valid I feel)

 

Ice Cold in Alex

 

Sole Survivor - 1970's TV Movie based loosely only the story of "The Lady be Good"

Edited October 9, 2013 by Mysticpuma

[Mac_Messer]

Kelly`s Heroes

Memphis Belle

Das Boot

 

Those three I always watch with my dad.

[Schmittfeuer]

I'd have to go with Dark Blue World as it is, although I found Squadron 633 pretty entertaining too.

[6./ZG26_Emil]

All the old ones especially Battle of Britain, Bridge too Far and Longest Day.

 

Also Das Boot and Downfall

[Feathered_IV]

Grave of the Fireflies,  Although it's almost too painful to watch twice.

 

Plus:

 

Closely watched Trains

Millions like Us

 

Cos I'm such a softie 

[4S_Nero]

Well defenetly das boot and and 3 and same houre version by must and same more wery nice and wery good movies

 

Stalingrad

 

Cross of iron

 

And same more worth watching

9 rota

Brestskaya krepost

 

+

 

"Thin Red Line"

 

[TheNotoriousFNG]

Ok, now, please, PLEASE don't crucify me for this...

 

I kinda like The Red Baron.

 

And Fortress is a great movie! The CGI looks like a game, sure, but the acting, and the fact that it remains interesting even though there are only two battle scenes at the beginning and end of the film, makes it a great film.

 

And the end credits are really funny in the last few seconds.

 

HERETIC! Kidding aside, The Red Baron wasn't awful. Sure, it had a lot of things wrong with it but it wasn't that bad. Red Tails is the high on my list of worst war movies, especially given the budget and hype it had. I found it sad for all the wrong reasons...it did little justice to the story of the Tuskegee Airmen thanks to the poor writing, which left most viewers entirely detached from the characters (don't get me started on the dogfight sequences ).

 

Battle of Britain is one of my favorite aviation films, the dogfight sequences are quite believable, IMO. I'd love to see that movie shown a little CGI love, as Dark Blue World seemed to have done to some of the sequences it used.

[Cybermat47]

Forrest Gump (tenuous but valid I feel)

 

Well, the war affects some of the main characters for the rest of the film, so I guess it counts

[steppenwolf]

 

Sokol1

This one does stick out in my mind...pretty sure they killed a cow. For me though, Breaker Morant says it all.

[Bf-110]

Well,here are the ones I liked the most:

 

Jarhead

Indigènes

9th Company (9 Rota)

The Brotherhood of War

No Man's Land (2001)

Platoon

[Jochen]

The Guns of Navarone and Stalingrad ... only memorable scenes.

Edited October 9, 2013 by Jochen

[Feathered_IV]

Check your PMs Feathered... BC

[Scarecrow]

Missing in Action

 

 

 

Greatest War movie, Greatest Historical accuracy, Greatest Chuck

[Picchio]

It's a series, but: Band of Brothers.

[Cybermat47]

Greatest Historical accuracy

It shows Chuck Norris being a PoW. Chuck Norrise cannot be contained. It's inaccurate.

[Cybermat47]

I saw Hitler: The Rise of Evil yesterday. Pretty entertaining, although it was somewhat inaccurate.

[MarcoRossolini]

Finest War Film ever made has to be Come and See. But for those of an Anime inclination Grave of the Fireflies is very powerful, even though doesn't quite deal with actual fighting.

 

Battle of Britain is pretty good...

 

If you're interested in epic films in the style of the Longest Day then a good one is the "Liberation" series, can't remember all the names off the top of my head but it's along the lines of: "the fiery bulge" and "the battle of Berlin". Basically it's a set of 5 (or maybe more...) Soviet films made in the early 70s detailing Soviet battles from Kursk to Berlin. Doesn't go too much into propaganda but I find it fascinating simply for the epic scale of the battle sequences which just makes it extraordinary. Some of it is a bit how you do historically but the detailing of the operations as well as of the Generals are pretty good...

 

If you're into propaganda films then "The Fall of Berlin" (1949) isn't too bad... if it's possible to get past the constant references to Stalin's brilliance.

 

Both those sets of Soviet films aren't ruly great, but they are an interesting change to your standard American dominated propagand... (ahem) war films.

 

A really good one is "the Brest Fortress" (2010 I think...) which is very, very good. But a problem with many Soviet (and post- Soviet) films are that they cannot stop portraying the German Soldiers as evil monsters... (apart from interestingly a scene in one of the "Liberation" films)

[Zmaj76]

well...germans have Stalingrad and Das boot....russian Idi i smotri (Come and see).....americans have Platoon, Apocalypse now, Black hawk down....Ofcourse there is more (some of them are listed in this topic) but these are the best o the best IMHO....

Edited October 22, 2013 by Tvrdi

[Lord_Haw-Haw]

 for those of an Anime inclination Grave of the Fireflies is very powerful, even though doesn't quite deal with actual fighting.

 

A really good one is "the Brest Fortress" (2010 I think...) which is very, very good. But a problem with many Soviet (and post- Soviet) films are that they cannot stop portraying the German Soldiers as evil monsters... (apart from interestingly a scene in one of the "Liberation" films)

Hmm thinking of anime, I would recommend the Cockpit-Series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jNpV-DAxBA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvrLjUck938

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1evYc7uEb_c

 

My grandfather from my mothers side, fell defending the fortress of Brest

Just got to be 24 years old, my mom has only very vague memories of him and some

pictures.

This is him in a officers uniform, although I have no idea what rank?