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I wouldnt mind making a little dvd collection of war films...
I like the Pianist and 'we were soldiers'
What you all think...
I loved it.
Band of Brothers
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Saving Private Ryan
Hamburger Hill
Casualties of War
The Thin Red Line
Good Morning, Vietnam
I don't know if I have one favourite film, but I would certainly include:
A Bridge too Far
The Great Escape
That 1950's submarine one with Sidney Poitier - anyone remember?
Syzygy
Ice cold in Alex
Totally fantastic film - add that to my list too :-)
That 1950's submarine one with Sidney Poitier - anyone remember?
The Bedford Incident [rottentomatoes.com]
Had to look it up as couldn't recall initially...
Syzygy
Do you mean Tora! Tora! Tora!?
Ooo and 'Das Boat' - the original with sub-titles. And a hearty second on the mini-series Band of Brothers.
"The Fighting 69th" - very corny at times, but it's got Pat O'Brien and Jimmy Cagney.
"Go For Broke" - the story of the all Japanese-American 442nd Infantry Regiment
Definitively a best, and my favorite war flick.
However Zulu has to be the best of all time I recall seeing this for the first time - boy I was on the edge of my seat shouting orders!
Zulu
Online "Mr Caine in the film Zulu" impression (following my award winning duck call):-
Don't throw. Bloody spears. At me.
TJ
That was called Threads, and it freaked me out for a week way back when I was in University. I skipped a couple lectures and drank heavily thinking the end was near.
Best war films:
Saving Private Ryan
Das Boot
Longest Day
Bridge Too Far
All's quiet on the Western Front (original B & W)
This is a constant discussion in my office as well as my private life. I have come to a conclusion..... the best war movies never have woman in talking roles. </duck>
Full Metal Jacket
I supplied most light firearms, safe blank ammo, and some SFX for that film, but Apocalypse Now is by far my favorite war movie.
Joe Lombardi was the best guy around at the time.
Private Ryan was the most realistic war movie for SFX and props. It's a monumental masterpiece. I sort it on second place after Apocalypse Now.
BBC thing that was banned about the effects of nuclear explosion ..can't remember the name
That was The War Game. It was directed by Peter Watkins, who also directed Culloden. The War Game was banned for twenty years or so it was judged so shocking,but you could watch it at local film societies and the such, which is where I first saw it. They eventually showed it on television and I thought that, production values having moved on, it appeared weak. When I saw it in the sixties I was shaking with anger hours afterwards.
Full Metal Jacket is brilliant, as are Das Boot and The Thin Red Line.
Does The Battle of Algiers count as a war film?
from IMDB, "A dramatization of the probable consequences of a full scale nuclear war on a English community."
>>Attack! Attack! Attack!Do you mean Tora! Tora! Tora!?
You're quite right in picking up my mistake; I am confusing the title "Attack!" with "Tora! Tora! Tora! (Attackx3).
To reclarify therefore, I meant Attack! [imdb.com]. Superb movie...
To add to the list: Dunkirk. Also: Stalingrad.
Das Boot, I have to agree, is brilliant as a film.
Syzygy
/I am a big fan of the History channel for documentaries
No seriously, Das Boot is my favorite
