What is the best War Film you have ever watched?

Mods can we have a poll please?

Saving Private Ryan
Black Hawk Down
Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
The Deer Hunter
Platoon
Schindler's List
The Great Escape
A Bridge Too Far
Other (Please mention)

Loved battle of the bulge, but for modern films it has to be Saving Private Ryan.

Oo i do like...... balls i think it was called "windtalkers" and the last solidier is good too

Was that the one when the yanks used indians for thier codes mags.

Was that the one when the yanks used indians for thier codes mags.

Think so, i remember the fire bit it was fantastic

A Bridge Too Far

I'm not passinng judgement 'til I've seen Apocolypse Now!

Heard good things but at the minute it'd be The Deer Hunter!

Great Escape easily, possibly the greatest film ever.

Just fantastic from start to finish.

Don't have time as I'm off to work, but other films could include Hamburger Hill, We Were Soldiers and Windtalkers as Mag mentioned... I do enjoy a good war film and own a fair few, haven't voted yet but I'm leaning towards Platoon.

Just a shame we can't include the Band Of Brothers series as it's not a film outright. That was fantastic!

I've voted Platoon, because I thought it was slightly better than Saving Pvt Ryan and Full Metal Jacket but I still got to watch Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter. Black Hawk Down is good but it doesn't compete with these classics.

Still may change my vote, but right now it's Platoon.

Band of brothers is great series Ayrton , got the box set. (only £19.99 in HMV) And i would have voted for it if was a film.

Apocalypse Now for me but Platoon was a very close second!

Band of brothers is great series Ayrton , got the box set. (only £19.99 in HMV) And i would have voted for it if was a film.

It's true it's one of the best series I've ever seen, and like some of the very best war films it's based on true events. It's also interesting to note that it's about the 101st Airborne Division, which is the same section of soldiers fighting in Hamburger Hill (also a true story).

Saving Private Ryan is a very close second for me behind Platoon. It's the only war film I've seen at the cinema, and you can't really compare that to watching it on TV, even if I have the DVD. The sheer scale of the screen and volume of the combat, combined with the speakers all around you, make it very realistic! Obviously I'm talking mainly about the storming of the beaches at the beginning of the film, where my eyes were riveted to the screen, and I don't think I blinked for about half an hour! Utterly amazing, if very shocking, stuff. It's the one time I've ever seen people applaud at the end of the film too, it was surprising, but a testament to the director (Spielberg) and the men in whose memory the film was made.

Platoon edged it, because it goes deeper into the psychology of warfare, and the trauma that it causes each man who fights. The Second World War was a true case of good versus evil, and the men fighting knew they were doing so for the very freedom of humanity. However, the men who fought in Vietnam (and perhaps the Gulf War later) were less sure of their morals and why they were there. As such, the air of confusion and hatred of both the enemy and themselves for what they were doing was well captured by Oliver Stone. The story is also based vaguely on Stone's tour of duty in Vietnam. Plus the scene where Dafoe and the others are stoned out of their minds (for real too! ) is hilarious!

I have most of the list on DVD, I forgot to mention Stalingrad too with Jude Law, another good film. I agree Black Hawk Down is excellent too, though it's a little too technical and less "human" for me, though I still loved it.

The list is endless Ayrton . I like the old black and white one ie- The Sands of Iwo Jima etc.

No-one mentioned Pearl Harbour? :

Is Pirates of the Caribbean and Lord of the Rings included?

  Best bit in pearl harbour is when the yank said - I think world war two has just started , what were we doing , playing tiddly winks.

Apocalypse Now for me but Platoon was a very close second!

I've also got Apocalypse but still need to watch it. Same with The Deer Hunter. Heard good things about these two films though. Both Vietnam war which is way more interesting than this current Afghan war.

Escape to Victory is a boss film about P.O.W's.

Colditz is a great old fashioned British comedy about the war.

Dad's Army the film is funny throughout and one of Britain's best comedy sitcoms.

Dirty Dozen (origional) is a cracking war film as well.

Kelly's Heroes is good but not one me faves.

Very Important Person is another British classic comedy about the war.

The list is endless Ayrton . I like the old black and white one ie- The Sands of Iwo Jima etc.

I must agree with Gareth G wholeheartedly !
The sands of Iwo Jima is a Classsic but with no insult to our younger members the only people with a true view of this question has to be people nearer to 50 who will have seen the old Black and White Films as well. !
My kids who are 29,26 & 21 won´t watch B/W films as they´re "old biddy" films !
there are far too many to list them all and ones you will have forgotten but here are just a few !
633 Squadron,  Bridge on the River Kwai,  Desert Rats,  Kellys Hero´s,  the Halls of Montezuma,  the Longest Day,  Von Ryans Express,  Behind Enemy Lines ,  The Dambusters,  One of our Aircraft is Missing,  Back to Bataan,  Flying Leathernecks,  From Here to Eternity,  El Alemein,  Desert Fox,   Above us the Waves,  The Colditz Story,  To Hell and Back,  The Battle of the River Plate,  A Town Like Alice,  D-Day the Sixth of June,  Dunkirk,   Carve her name with Pride,  Ice Cold in Alex,  Run Silent Run Deep,  The Guns of Navarone,  The Longest Day,  Where Eagles Dare,  The Battle of Britain,  Mosquito Squadron,  Tora ! Tora ! Tora !,  Raid on Rommel.
out of the ones on the list I remember Saving Private Ryan as one that stand out so that gets my vote !

Escape to Victory is a boss film about P.O.W's.

Indeed! Haven't seen that for years.

Torn between Platoon and Apocalypse Now in the vote.

What about Commando? One of the best comedy characters of all time was in that - Vernon Wells.

I'm gonna kill you John!!!!!!!!!



 

Custa's Last Stand. Not your usual war film of the world wars but the yanks against the native americans. Still a boss film, like most of those sort of films.

What about Commando?

What a crap film that was!

Forgot to mention - great thread Rafa La Bamba!