What is the best War Film you have ever watched?

Dizzy: great call for Zulu, what a classic film.

Although not a film outright, I loved the "Sharpe" series with Sean Bean, that was wicked! Real gung-ho stuff, with Sharpe being the officer who rises through the ranks, detested by all the upper class tossers who thought he didn't deserve it. I loved the adventures of him and his gritty band of mis-fits!

There were some beauties, don't remember them all off the top of my head, but Sharpe's Eagle and Sharpe's Honour were great! Could always rely on him to shag a bit of French totty, shoot her abusive husband, and survive against all the odds against Napoleon's troops!

Here are some more that haven't been given a mention  (most I own)

Battle Of Britain
Casablanca
Eagle Has Landed
Hart's War
Hunt For Eagle One
Ice Cold In Alex
Master & Commander
Memphis Belle
Massacare In Rome
Salvador
Tora Tora Tora
We Are Soldiers
The Malta Story

Windtalkers is one of my faves but there are so many to choose from.

"Brothehood of War" is very good film for me,was so sad after it.

Letters from iwo jima was great but for a classic then its either Where Eagles Dare or The Great Escape

Great Escape for me,read the book its even better

we were soldiers,

What a film and true as well

we were soldiers,

What a film and true as well

Agree, cracking film!

Read some bad reviews of it online, but I found it an excellent film. Not only based on true events, but shows the courage and brotherhood that bonds soldiers on the front line, and the heartache of the families who lose their sons and husbands on the field of battle.

I suppose some people don't think it was political enough for a film set during the Vietnam war.  :

A movie that I thought was better than black hawk down is Tears of the Sun.

Patton
Longest Day
Bridge to Far
Platoon
Downfall
Desert Fox
Resistance..(2008)
Victory
Great Escape
Midway

Please don't include "Pearl Harbor" in any debate about Good WW2 movies.... ...That movie was a disgrace.

Band of Brothers....really a "mini series" but THE "BEST" WW2 Film made.

Does small soldiers count 
For me it's the great escape.
What a film 

Band of Brothers....really a "mini series" but THE "BEST" WW2 Film made.

Absolute classic that, got that on DVD, the interviews with some of the survivors of easy company are something else as well.

Absolute classic that, got that on DVD, the interviews with some of the survivors of easy company are something else as well.

Historically, the BEST WW2 film. These kids, 18,19,20 year olds..Jumped into France on D-day, jumped into Holland for "Market Garden", took huge losses at Carentain, Held off the Germans at Bastogne, crossed the Rhine into Germany, Liberated Landsburg concentration camp, and captured Hitlers HQ at Berchetsgaden...Christ' you could'nt make up a better story.

Full metal jacket - i could watch the first half with the cool sergeant major all day

Zulu - Any film with a character called Gonville Bromhead (michael caine) has to be worth watching

The Dam Busters - bombs that bounce ! and its all true - great stuff

Kelly's Heroes!!! 

I'm quite obsessed with war movies and military history and one of the best films I've ever seen is Escape From Sobibor.

But my all time favourite isn't a film, it's the tv serial Band Of Brothers. Both the book and the tv serial are amazing.

How does Schindler's List only have 2 votes now I have voted for it.

Oozes class. Spine-Chilling.

I suppose people must prefer action instead...

Doesn't anyone think Saving Private Ryan was slightly spoilt at the end when he saluted at the grave. Cheese to the max.

How does Schindler's List only have 2 votes now I have voted for it.

Oozes class. Spine-Chilling.

I suppose people must prefer action instead...

So did i! I loved it.

For me it has to be Apocalypse Now by a country mile. It's got depth, action and even comedy seeping out of every gritty pore. Yeah the older "classics" were great but Apocalypse Now changed the over-sanitised, Hollywood imagery of war for ever.

"I love the smell of Napalm in the morning: it smells like victory." .......class! 

Can't choose between Saving Private Ryan or Schindler's List.

For me it has to be Apocalypse Now by a country mile. It's got depth, action and even comedy seeping out of every gritty pore. Yeah the older "classics" were great but Apocalypse Now changed the over-sanitised, Hollywood imagery of war for ever.

"I love the smell of Napalm in the morning: it smells like victory." .......class! 

overlong overrated unadulterated sh*te!!!  that saying is the best thing about that film

Voted Schindler's List.

overlong overrated unadulterated sh*te!!!  that saying is the best thing about that film

Ouch! That's me told off then.

overlong overrated unadulterated sh*te!!!  that saying is the best thing about that film

You've got to be a wind up mate,the film is to borrow one of your adjectives ,unadulterated quality which received more accolades from critics and Joe Public than any war movie made,veterans of the conflict even acknowledge its authenticity and honest portrayal of events.From your comments you sound like a Sylvester Stallone fan,nothing whatever wrong with that but a lot of people would describe Rocky in the same way as you depict Apocalypse Now.