Top 25 War Movies of all time

Post by **A Gunslinger** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:32 pm

300 will certainly need to be added!

Post by **dlbpharmd** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:42 pm

A Gunslinger wrote:300 will certainly need to be added!

Meh, I disagree.

Post by **taraswizard** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:11 pm

Das Boot was a German film, not American. IIRC, when I first was the movie in a theater there were subtitles. Wasn't the movie nominated and won an Oscar for best foreign film?

Post by **Cagliostro** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:04 pm

Couldn't agree more about Gallipoli.

What about Lord of the Rings?

Post by **Mistress Cathy** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:57 pm

I also did not see The Caine Mutiny which was one that I always loved.

Post by **Elfgirl** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 3:58 am

Noticed that "Enemy at the Gate" didn't make the list...pity, cos it was a beauty!

Blackhawk Down? Memphis Belle? English Patient? Empire of the Sun? Good Morning Vietnam? Star Wars?

Post by **dlbpharmd** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:51 am

Elfgirl wrote:Noticed that "Enemy at the Gate" didn't make the list...pity, cos it was a beauty!

Blackhawk Down? ....

You're right about those two being great, although (at least by my definition of war movies) I don't think Enemy qualifies (it is a great movie, though!) Blackhawk Down definitely belongs on the list.

Post by **Cail** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 11:30 am

Yeah, I agree with those two as well.

Post by **stonemaybe** » Sat May 19, 2007 10:51 pm

Kelly's Heroes.

Possibly the best film of all time, never mind best war film.

Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:15 pm

1) Shindler's List
2) Apocalypse Now
3) Braveheart
4) Glory
5) Platoon
6) Saving Private Ryan
7) Letters from Iwo Jima

Full Metal Jacket
9) Gettysburg
10) Patton

HM) Downfall
OR) A Thin Red Line

Post by **The Dreaming** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 4:02 am

Platoon and Apocalypse now are two of the most overrated war movies of all time IMHO. (Just left the overrated movies thread... lol) I would definately have put the Lean movies a lot higher. There is also a huge focus on 20th century wars. What about Braveheart? Spartacus? (historical epic is a different genre I guess)

Post by **finn** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 4:42 am

Someone chucked in Gettysburg, well done nice to know war is not confined to the 20th century, so what about Waterloo, Zulu, the first Hornblower movie with Gregory Peck, War and Peace, Doctor chivago? Then there's Star Wars, the various wars with the Klingons and Borg, War of the worlds...... and of course in the 20th century, Battle of Britain.

Post by **taraswizard** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 12:14 am

(I'm throwing bomb in middle of room and running away to watch the chaos) Best War movie: Grave of the Fireflies.

Post by **lorin** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 3:08 am

Merry Christmas. Mr. Lawrence with David Bowie and Tom Conti about Japanese prison camps in WW2. Loved that movie. Very graphic.

www.imdb.com/title/tt0085933/

Post by **robrod** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:38 pm

i wholeheartedly second

Band of Brothers

Post by **Loredoctor** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 8:55 pm

robrod wrote:i wholeheartedly second

Band of Brothers

You might be interested to know that one of the writers visits here.

Post by **Warmark** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:51 pm

Loremaster wrote:
robrod wrote:i wholeheartedly second

Band of Brothers
You might be interested to know that one of the writers visits here.

Really? Who is that? Its easily my favourite program.

Post by **danlo** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:27 pm

Screenwriter John Orloff -I believe he was part of a group interested in optioning TCTC. See the serious (stickied) movie threads in that forum. He doesn't come here all that much, but he does come here.

Post by **Loredoctor** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 10:15 am

I have to watch Where Eagles Dare again. I need my Richard Burton fix, and that movie is nothing short of brilliant.

Wed Jul 29, 2009 2:10 am

dlbpharmd wrote:25. The Pianist, 2002
24. Seargeant York, 1941
23. Stalag 17, 1953
22. The Thin Red Line, 1998
21. The African Queen, 1951.
20. M*A*S*H*, 1970
19. Downfall, 2005
18. Patton, 1970
17. All quiet on the western front, 1930
16. Letters from Iwo Jima, 2006
15. Three Kings, 1999
14. The Longest Day, 1962
13. Glory, 1989
12. The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957
11. The Deer Hunter, 1978
10. Braveheart, 1995
9. Lawrence of Arabia, 1962
8. The Great Escape, 1963
7. Paths of Glory, 1957
6. Das Boot, 1981
5. Full Metal Jacket, 1987
4. Schindler's List, 1993
3. Saving Private Ryan, 1999
2. Platoon, 1986
1. Apocalypse Now, 1979

Source: AOL Moviefone
Discuss!

on the top 10
- Just watched Platoon again last week...still an amazing film, love it.
- Schindler isn't a war film.
- Never seen Das Boot or Paths of Glory, though they're on my 'next2watch' list.
- I like Braveheart far more than SPR though SPR is a very good film with truly iconic scenes

on the rest
- Would move Glory up a little
- I never understood TRL, just pointless nonsense, though acted, edited and scored really well
- Would move Iwa Jima up
- Three Kings? wth? good film, not even remotely close to this calibur...

Decent list, overall.

My 3 Worst War Movies that had Solid Budgets and Marketing or were Over-hyped and Over-rated:

1- Wind Talkers
2- Tears of the Sun
3- Thin Red Line

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Top 25 War Movies of all time

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