I'm turning into a war movie junkie who's looking for recommendations

[Intelsucks]

There must be a ton of great ones that I haven't yet bought or seen before. I especially like the ones involving special ops missions or small teams of special forces. These are the ones I own now:


TORA! TORA! TORA!
Patton
Saving Private Ryan
The Thin Red Line
Enemy At The Gates
Black Hawk Down
Apocalypse Now
Behind Enemy Lines
Hamburger Hill
Tigerland
We Were Soldiers
Pearl Harbor
The Hunt For Red October
Platoon
Tears Of The Sun
Full Metal Jacket
Band Of Brothers (HBO Series)


That's right off the top of my head, so I think I left out about a half dozen or so. I would just go look, but I'm not at home right now.


Can you help a junkie find his next fix? Thanks in advance.

[gator_in_Ontario]

1. The Big Red One

About WWII. From the 80's I think.

[Intelsucks]

2. I'll be writing these down. thanks!

n/t:hi:

[mitchum]

30. That's the one I was going to recommend

Samuel Fuller's masterpiece

[CanuckAmok]

3. Boys in Company "C"

The Big Red One
Go Tell the Spartans
No Man's Land (which I can't watch)
Hope and Glory
Jacob's Ladder (not really a war movie...)
The Deer Hunter
Galipoli

[CanuckAmok]

4. Grey Lady Down

...

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

40. Add Johnny Got His Gun

the book is better than the movie but the movie is still pretty good.

[K8-EEE]

5. Grand Illusion

Was a great war movie....a silent.

Hey if you're up for a current run check out "Master and Commander, The Far Side Of The World," with Russell Crowe...I found it really interesting and am not into war movies much.

They sure put a lot of reasearch into the are of those battle ships (sails and strategy and all that.) Lots of period details and gruesome fighting stuff (along with the requisite amputaton scene with the early 19th century surgical tools...GADS!)

[CanuckAmok]

9. Sidebar: want to be creeped-out?

My Highschool summer job was to be an 1812 British Infantryman at a National Historic Park. The park was a complete restoration of a fort, on the original site. During my tenure, some repairs needed near the surgeon's quarters required the ground be dug up, and the workmen discovered a pit with about 200 arm and leg bones in it, some still with leather boots on. The Park curator/archaeologist managed to do some research to identify the remains by uniform and location, and concluded that the limbs had been amputated all with the same blade, over a period of just a few hours, following the Battle of Queenston Heights (between British and American Armies).

Surgeons during the 1812 and Napoleonic Wars were judged based on their speed, not so much their accuracy. A good surgeon could completely amputate and tar (to cauterize) a leg in about 30 seconds.

[TheMightyFavog]

6. The Sands of Iwo Jima

Even though it does star one of the people that the freepers fucking worship.

[ochazuke]

15. Marion?

n/t

[MASSAFRA]

7. More

Midway
Dirty Dozen
Kelly's Heroes
Battle of the Bulge
Guns of Navorone
Where Eagles Dare

[DS1]

22. IN HERE!!! (the rest of you should be ashamed of yourselves)

WHERE EAGLES DARE!!!!

[jpgray]

8. Zulu! (1964)

Fairly cheesy on some of the battle shots, but a nice movie--having 4,000 extras and shooting on location probably helped.

[ConcernedCanuk]

10. Invasion, USA - with Richard Lynch and Chuck Norris

.
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The concept of the movie is believable,

pertinent,

and disturbing - - cuz


It's Possible !

[CanuckAmok]

11. I can't believe nobody's mentioned "Lawrence of Arabia"!

David Lean's 1961 masterpiece.

[solinvictus]

24. It's a great movie

As is "The Bridge on the River Kwai".

[Foswia]

27. I agree [nt]

[WillyT]

12. In Harm's Way --- Directed by Otto Preminger

Cast List
John Wayne ... Capt./RAdm. Rockwell Torrey
Kirk Douglas ... Cmdr./Capt. Paul Eddington, Adm. Torrey's Chief of Staff
Patricia Neal ... Lt. Maggie Haynes, RN
Tom Tryon ... Lt. (j.g.)/Lt. Cmdr. William 'Mac' McConnell
Paula Prentiss ... Bev McConnel
Brandon De Wilde ... Ens./Lt. (j.g.) Jeremiah 'Jere' Torrey
Jill Haworth ... Ens. Annalee Dorne, RN
Dana Andrews ... Adm. 'Blackjack' Broderick
Stanley Holloway ... Clayton Canfil, Australian Coastwatcher
Burgess Meredith ... Cmdr. Egan Powell (Intelligence Officer)
Franchot Tone ... Adm. Husband E. Kimmel
Patrick O'Neal ... Cmdr. Neal Owynn
Slim Pickens ... Bosun's Mate Chief Culpepper, USS Cassiday
James Mitchum ... Ens. Griggs
George Kennedy ... Col. Gregory
Bruce Cabot ... Quartermaster Quoddy, USS Cassiday
Barbara Bouchet ... Liz Eddington
Tod Andrews ... Capt. Tuthill
Larry Hagman ... Lt. (j.g.) Cline
Stewart Moss ... Ens. Balch
Richard LePore ... Lt. (j.g.) Tom Agar
Chet Stratton ... Ship's doctor
Soo Yong ... Tearful Woman
Dort Clark ... Boston
Phil Mattingly ... PT Boat Skipper
Henry Fonda ... CINCPAC II (Adm. Chester W. Nimitz)
Christopher George ... Sailor
Jerry Goldsmith ... Piano Player
Christian Haren
Don McCurry ... Extra
Hugh O'Brian ... U.S. Army Air Corps Major, Liz Eddington's Lover
Carroll O'Connor ... Commander Burke
Yankee Chang ... Mortuary Clerk


One of THE BEST !!!

My old man fought in the South Pacific in WWII and was buds with the author of the book this movie is made from. (Same title, great read.)

:hi:

[Paladin]

57. Good Call----"In Harms Way" Is Wildly Underrated

I'd say that "In Harms Way" and "Red River" are far and away my favorite John Wayne flicks.

[ochazuke]

13. Admiral Yamamoto (1968, Toho)

It's a Japanese movie with Toshiro Mifune in the title role. I don't know if there's a version dubbed or with subtitles.

Japanese Title: Rengokantaishireichoukan Yamamoto Isoroku

(Mifune was set to reprise his role of Yamamoto in Tora! Tora! Tora!, but when director Akira Kurosawa was dismissed from the project, so was Mifune -- they were like a set pair. Mifune appeared in MIDWAY as Yamamoto, while other Japanese roles were filled by the usual gang of Japanese-American actors.)

It's a tragic story because Yamamoto knew America well. He knew the Japanese militarists (mostly Army guys) were leading the country into ruin, and that in a drawn-out war, America would win. Thus: his high-risk plans for Pearl Harbor and Midway. (He was a gambler, by the way.)

Also tragic is the fact that his statement that Japan wouldn't have the luxury of just destroying the American fleet, but would have to take the war to Washington, was misinterpreted by our intellegence guys (Do I hear a historical echo here?) to mean that he was a hard-line rightist advocating the invasion of America.

[Kamika]

14. Guns of navarone?

Theres a sequel aswell

And bridge on the river Kwai

[MrBenchley]

16. The sequel is on cable right now

"Force Ten from Navarone" starring Harrison Ford as a child.

[HawkerHurricane]

18. Guns of Navarone sequel...

was the not as good 'Force 10 from Navarone'. An ok plot with strange things added like...
American Rangers
Black American soldier added at the last minute (sneaks aboard a secret mission to avoid a unjust arrest)
And Harrison Ford.

If I may recomend...

Midway
Kelly's Heroes
The Longest Day (starring everyone in Hollywood and John Wayne)
A Bridge To Far
Stalag 17
Das Boot
Sink the Bismark (not for the battle scenes, but rather the drama of the war room)
The Bedford Incident
Run Silent, Run Deep
They Were Expendable

[jus_the_facts]

17. Bridge Over The River Kwai and Dr. Strangelove.......

....William Holden and Alec Guiness in Bridge Over The River Kwai is an awesome WWII tale IMHO....and ya gotta have the best comedy war movie too...DR. STRANGELOVE!! :)

on edit....Platoon Leader...A Midnight Clear...Heartbreak Ridge....Crimson Tide....Midway....Battle Of The Bulge....off the top of my head!

[Kellanved]

19. "Stalingrad"

From the makers of "Das Boot" (another recommendation ;-)).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108211/


Maybe "Cross of Iron" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074695/ )
and "The Bridge" (50s movie - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052654/ ) .

All of those are rather Anti-War movies than war movies, but as you liked "Enemy at the Gates", another War Movie produced in Germany, I guess they would be worth a try.

[Forkboy]

39. Stalingrad for sure

best war movie ever...and the most depressing.

[HEyHEY]

20. Devil's brigade!

Great flick!

[reprehensor]

21. Kelly's Heroes (n/t)

[Beaker]

23. A Bridge Too Far, The Longest Day, The Guns of Navarone

[Foswia]

25. Dirty Dozen, We were solders, and Force 10 from Navarone. [nt]

[bubblesby2002]

26. Mr. Roberts

and Das Boot. Das Boot should be watched in the original German version with subtitles. So claustrophobic. And Mr. Roberts is pretty funny - Henry Fonda, Jack Lemon, James Cagney.

[ThoughtCriminal]

28. Strategic Air Command

With Jimmy Stewart - if only for great shots of B-36's

For an extra special experience, watch it as a double feature with Dr. Strangelove or Fail Safe.

[LastKnight]

29. a bridge too far, the great escape... two of my favorites NT

[mitchum]

31. Go Tell The Spartans

[lucidmadman]

32. DOGS OF WAR

John Irvin directed based on the Frederick Forsythe novel. Under rated IMO. A how-to guide for taking over a country. Mercenary stuff, not regular army. Read the novel too. Good people in it: Walken, Berenger. Came and went at the theater pretty quick. The cut they show on TV is not the movie; pretty abridged. If it's special ops you want then this may do it for you.

[lpbk2713]

33. The Bridge at Remagen, Von Ryan's Express, Enemy at the Gates

Just a few off the top of my head.

[slackdude]

34. The Longest Day

Which also very well might be the longest movie.

[mouse7]

35. "Cross of Iron" and "All Quiet on the Western Front"

"Cross of Iron" is excellent.

EMI (1977)
Produced by Wolf Hartwig
Screenplay by Julius Epstein, Walter Kelley, & James Hamilton from the novel The Willing Flesh by Willi Heinrich
Starring: James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner
It's too bad that this is not one of Peckinpah's better remembered films. Despite problems with funding during production, the director managed to produce an epic war film that is brilliantly cynical and original. Orson Welles even went on record as saying that this was the best anti-war film he had ever viewed.

The story follows the trevails of a German infantry troop on the Russian front during the closing weeks of World War II. The troop's brave commander, Sgt. Steiner (Coburn), becomes locked in a battle of wills with a aristocratic yet cowardly superior officer (Schell) who wishes to gain the Cross of Iron medal for himself by any means necessary. The final segment of the film features a thrilling exodus across the countryside by Steiner and his men after they have been cut-off behind enemy lines.

As expected, the action scenes are superbly executed. It's great to see the master of battle scenes produce another series of violent episodes in the vein of the shootouts from The Wild Bunch.

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/1912/cross.html

Also... I prefer the book All Quiet on the Western Front (E.M Remarque), but if you're not into that, see the movie.

[opiate69]

36. Kubrick's "Paths of Glory"...

Great film....http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050825/

[maveric]

37. Stalingrad, The Great Escape, Das Boot,

The Guns of Navarone, Casualities of War

[YellowRubberDuckie]

59. Casualties of War was a good one...

Made me cry...Those poor guys...
Duckie

[Redneck Socialist]

38. Here are a couple of links you might find useful

http://www.geocities.com/warmoviedatabase/emovie.htm

http://www.geocities.com/warmoviedatabase/mvietnam.html

Catch 22, Das Boot, and Gettysburg are all good. Two of my favorites are Empire of the Sun and A Midnight Clear. The latter is one of the best ever made IMHO.

[lpbk2713]

41. Hell in the Pacific (Lee Marvin)

Not so much a war movie as it is a character study. Interesting.

[LiviaOlivia]

42. Three Kings

Clooney and Markie Mark.

[Kickin_Donkey]

43. Not a war movie strictly speaking ...

Sand Pebbles. Steve McQueen

[Gore1FL]

44. Gettysburg is cool

Though they "Hollywooded" some finer points of the battle of Little Round Top -- at least when ompared to J.L. Chamberlain's official report -- it was an accurate account at the "macro" level. It also leaves out a lot -- like the Rebel assault on the Union Right on July 2nd, and Jeb's Stuarts failed Cavalry charge on the 3rd.

Nonetheless, it does an excellent job of really bringing out the people and personalities, and the personal struggles and tragedies of those who fought there.

[Nile]

45. McHale's Navy

Hee, hee.

[NoPasaran]

46. A few more

Glory
The Lighthorsemen
Stalag 17
The Blue Max

[marigold20]

47. Das Boot

A great movie. I saw it with subtitles but I believe it's available now in English, if you'd like.

[BiggJawn]

48. You HAVE to see "Das Boot" and look at these others, too.

It's available in dubbed and a subtitled "Director's Cut" version on VHS. I haven't found it on DVD yet. Here's some others...

"Cross of Iron"
"12 O'clock High"
"The Battle of Britain"
"The Cruel Sea" (very good)
"The Enemy Below"
"Run Silent, Run Deep"

And all the other ones mentioned in this list, not a klinker in the bunch.

[DarkSim]

49. Tuntematon sotilas. (Finnish)

This is a great movie about how during World War 2, the small 500,000 man army of Finland held back the might of the Russian army in the south around the lake Lagoda.

The movie is in Black and White and spoken in old Finnish dialects (rest assured there are Enlish substitles) but it is non the less a great one to watch! :D

[UTUSN]

50. In the Non-"War" But Military Category, The Last Detail

It absolutely nails the atmosphere of being enlisted Navy. There's a classic scene with NICHOLSON trying to get beer with the bartender demanding I.D. for the prisoner and threatening to call the Shore Patrol: NICHOLSON yells, pulling his pistol from under the peacoat "I *AM* the f-ing Shore Patrol!!!"

Absolutely NOT the remake/spinoff "Chasers".

Other non-"war" with military atmospherics, of the mushy variety: Cinderella Liberty and An Officer & a Gentleman.

[NoPasaran]

51. Another non-war movie

But pretty much the only one that portrays the military brat experience is "Matinee". The one thing I found Hollywood about it was that the base quarters were carpeted.

[UTUSN]

71. Kick Just for the Kick of It n/t

[blindpig]

52. farewell to the king

Nick Nolte, WWII Pacific also
Flesh & Blood, Rutger Hauer, 14th cen Italy

[NoPasaran]

53. D'oh! How could I forget

Alexander Nevsky

[Squibbie]

54. Paths of Glory

Brilliant, seminal look at the politics of war. An early Stanley Kubrick masterpiece with Kirk Douglas.

[Paladin]

55. It Doesn't Get Any Better Than "Twelve O'Clock High"

There is a speech in the movie that Gregory Peck delivers to his hard-luck bomber squadron. He essentially tells them that they need to give up all hope of going home and assume that they are already dead to get past their fear. I get goosebumps just describing it.

Brilliant, brilliant movie. I just hope they don't ever do a freaking re-make with Ben Affleck or some other talentless boob.

[DAGDA56]

58. a good double feature would be "12 oçlock High"and...

The Dawn Patrol, with Errol Flynn, David Nivin and Basil Rathbone (from 1939, I think)...similar conflict of command but in an earlier war...and an earlier time of day, for that matter.

[HawkerHurricane]

64. 12 O'Clock High not a reference to time!

Picture that you are in a airplane, and need to report something to the crew...
Where is it? Imagine a clock face (non digital). 12 noon is straight ahead, 3 oclock is out to the right, 6 oclock straight back, and 9 oclock out to the left... High is above your plane, low is below.

German fighters attacking American bombers prefered to come in from straight ahead and above, at "12 O'Clock high!", where they had the best shot and the bombers had the fewest guns to shoot back with.

[GabysPoppy]

56. Two come to mind

Battle Cry

and

A Walk in the Sun

[Duckiesplaything]

60. I just watched

The Halls of Montezuma on AMC...it was pretty good. I've always been a war movie junkie.
My favorite would have to be the Green Beret's.

[plurality]

61. Red Dawn and Full Metal Jacket

Can't believe these haven't been mentioned yet.

[CanuckAmok]

62. "What is your major malfunction, Private Pyle?!"

n/t

[plurality]

66. My favorite was always...

"You climb obstacles like old people fuck!"

[Kamika]

63. doh I was gonna mention FULL METAL

I just thought that SOMEONE somewhere in some post hidden by the topic somewhere someone had mentioned it.

Joker is the best anti-hero ever

[plurality]

65. I knew it had to be that everyone else thought it had already been said

And that scumbag facist drill sargent makes me laugh like none other.

[SoCalDem]

67. The 25th Hour.....(the one with Anthony Quinn..circa 1968)

It's one of my all time faves.. It was made in Europe and unfortunately is rarely shown.. The book it's based on is excellent.. It really shows the absurdity of war, and is an excellent movie..

[CrownPrinceBandar]

68. The Sand Pebbles....

good Steve McQueen movie.

edit: D'oh! Someone mentioned it already!!!

[Burma Jones]

69. All Quiet on the Western Front (n/t)

[Burma Jones]

70. Kurosawa - Ran, Kagamusha (n/t)

[southerngirlwriter]

72. CADENCE is the best war movie I've ever seen.

Made me cry many times.

[Odessey]

73. If you'd like a comedy...

See "Stalag 17". The series "Hogan's Heroes" was based on it, but the movie is much better! It's hilarious! About a bunch of Americans in a German POW camp. Stars William Holden. It's black and white and I believe was made in the mid-1950's. Excellent movie!

Also,

All Quiet on the Western Front
Guns of Navarone
Windtalkers
War and Remembrance
Bridge on the River Kwai
The Great Escape