What is the best War Film you have ever watched?

The Longest Day , forgot about that one Frizzby. Now that's a brilliant film , just look at the star cast. John Wayne, Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Rod Steiger, Robert Mitchum , Peter Lawford , Robert Wagner. no wonder it was the most expensive black and white film to be made, that is until they made Schindler's List. Not just a brilliant film but an all time classic.

What a crap film that was!

Don't dis Commando! How you can dismiss one man taking on a whole army to save his daughter and succeeding, is beyond me! 

Isn´t Commando the one where the car goes on its side and slides for half a mile before being pushed back over and driven away with no damage to that side of the car whatsoever !

Schindler's List is a great movie. Watched it in History and was captivatd by it. The message, images and recounts are amazing.

Also another one about slavery i saw. Amistad i think it was called. Brilliant movie.

My sister has got the film Schindler's List, am tempted to watch it soon but I've only got one more war movie of my own to watch first and that is Apocalypse Now. Heard brilliant reviews on it, may watch it tonight.

Last night I watched The Deer Hunter. It has some very intense moments, like when they are playing Russian Roulette. Robert De Niro is the main character, I'd advise you to buy this film as it's only £5 from play.com or £6 from HMV.

Full Metal Jacket is another classic. It has two halfs. The first when they are in the boot camp and the 2nd when they are trained Marine Corps out in Vietnam. It's very funny film!

I ve only seen Saving Private Ryan once, but what a film, another good one was with Jude Law an a sniper? Can't think of the name off the top of my head.

Got it "Enemy at the Gates"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0215750/

One of Jude Law's better films that Redpuppy!

Love Kelly Heroes - Clint Eastwood and Telly Savalas are good in it as is comedian Don Rickles who is crapgame, but Donald Sutherland steals that film by a country mile as the loony Oddball

Agree with a lot of posters with some of the films they have mentioned, including the impressive Windtalkers, Saving Private Ryan, Bridge on the River Kwai, The Dambusters, Where Eagles Dare, The Battle of Britain (another one I forgot about til I saw Frizzby's post, so many films I saw as a kid, I've actually forgotten a few of them now!

Agree with some of the posts about Band of Brothers too, got the DVD box-set - utterly Brilliant, also impressive are the extras including the interviews with the surviving members of Easy Company.

Just for RedKenny

"Hey ladies, wanna see me go kick some ass!"

"He's one Huge Muthafucker"

"This is my weaker arm Sally!"

"You know when I said I was going to kill you last Sally!
"Yes you did"
"I Lied!"

"I was a Green Beret"
 "I eat Green Beret's for breakfast"
 "You guys eat too much red meat!"

"Let's go shopping!"

"She's got something for us?"
 "Oh sh*t!"

"I read the instructions!"

"How will I know your call sign?"
"Cos all F***ing hells going to break loose!"

"I'm not going to shoot you between the eyes John, I'm gonna shoot you between the balls"
 "Let off some steam Bennett!"

"You left anything for us John?"
"No, just bodies"

"All I would say is, you're coming back"
"NO CHANCE!"

You gotta to love Commando. As a kid I always thought Commando would have had Rambo in a straightner!

 

"I'm not going to shoot you between the eyes John, I'm gonna shoot you between the balls"
 "Let off some steam Bennett!"

 

Cheese beyond belief!

For those who loved Band Of Brothers, a sequel is currently being filmed, and will be aired next year in the USA. Whilst not following any of the characters from the original, the series will be produced again by Spielberg and Hanks, and be in the same style.

Called The Pacific, more details are here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pacific_(miniseries)

The thin red line, good war movie I think it is a Oliver Stone flick.
Deer Hunter is messed up big time but love the way they get out of the POW camp!!!
Jarhead is good too.
Which is the one with the line "I love the smell of napalm in the morning"

Apocalypse Now, one of the greatest war scenes ever!

Ride of the Valkyries blasting out

Robert Duvall is boss!

Apocalypse Now "The scene, famous for its use of Richard Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries," ends with the soldiers surfing the barely claimed beach amidst skirmishes between infantry and VC. After helicopters swoop over the village and demolish all visible signs of resistance, a giant napalm strike in the nearby jungle dramatically marks the climax of the battle. Kilgore exults to Willard, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning", which he says smells "like...victory" as he recalls a battle in which a hill was bombarded with napalm for over twelve hours."

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

Don't bother over rated sh*te 3hrs of my life I'd like back please!

Uprising ( about the warsaw ghetto)
Full Metal Jacket
Bridge To Far
Land & Freedom (Spanish civil war)

Did enjoy a Band Of Brothers

Just fresh from watching another war movie in history called, 'All Quiet on the Western Front'. Not the newest movie but it shows exactly what they went through; disease, death etc. Great factual movie if thats what you like. I know i certainly enjoyed it.

PS: Its not one of those school educational films entirely.

Band of Brothers, even though it technically is a mini-series

I`ve voted for Apocalypse now........and on second place definetly The Deer Hunter,but there are a lot more war films,I do like,
for instance,The Grey Zone,and to me one of the best:The Pianist!


also::

-Casulties of War
-Anne Frank the whole story

633 Squadron, one of my favourites on ITV4 now !

Sink the Bismarck.

This morning.

Boss.

enemy at the gates is a modern classic.... concentrating on the border between russian ad germany.... the siege of stalingrad...and it mainly concentrates on snipers....absolutly brill war film

The Great Escape. Still is and always will be the best war film in my opinion.

Don't care if I've already posted pretty much the same thing in here. It deserves mentionin again.

The Iron Cross another great film .

Forgot Zulu & Dambusters

Dizzy absolute tremendous shout there for Zulu, got it on DVD as well!!

Rorke's Drift and all that