Most quotable warmovie ever, even more than Apocalypse Now. :)

If your into old stuff, I recommend The brigdes of Toko Ri and The cruel sea, at least those movies were a lot better than I gave them credit for.

I would also recommend Failsafe, although this is perhaps more of a coldwar thriller than a war movie.

Come and See
Paths of Glory
Casualties of War
The Steel Helmet
The Deer Hunter

Tora! Tora! Tora!
Midway
Patton
Guns of Navarone
The Blue Max
Battle of Britain (1969)
The Devil's Brigade

Maybe not all classics...but these are just a few off the top of my head that I remember enjoying.

Empire of the Sun
Days of Glory
Where Eagles Dare
Letters From Iwo Jima
Flags of our Fathers
Downfall
The Great Escape
Casablanca
Kelly's Heroes
Saving Private Ryan
Bridge on the River Kwai
A Bridge too Far
The Dirty Dozen
Hell in the Pacific
Cross of Iron
Patton
Catch 22
The Guns of Navarone
M*A*SH
Three Kings
Black Hawk Down
The Longest Day
Enemy at the Gates
Stalingrad

Can't remember anything more at the moment, but I'm sure I'm missing a lot of good stuff...

Second on Cross of Iron and The Blue Max.
Also, just watched it again: The Green Berets

If you want REAL CLASSICs try :

The Great Escape
The Battle of The Bulge
A Bridge to far
The Battle of Midway
Tora! Tora! Tora!
The Bridge at Remargen
The Longest Day
The Battle of Britain
The Desert Fox
Tobruck
The Bridge Over The River Kuiq (not shue I got the speeling right on the name of the river)

All of which are based on REAL events from WWII

and then theres:

Where Eagles Dare
The Guns of Navarone
Ice Cold in Alex
The Hill
The Malta Story
The Devils Brigade
The Diry Dozen
Kelly's Hero's

And from the Nam war

The Green Berats (probably spelled betats wrong lol)


Thats all I can think of at the moment, if I think of any more I will let you know.

I don't really watch war movies, since they're kind of depressing...
But I hear a lot of recommendations for The Unknown Soldier (a lot of people seem to prefer the original 1955 movie, but this seems to have fancier visuals), and The Winter War.

/edit: I'm assuming that Winter War video is about the movie as I haven't actually seen it
/edit2: it could be crazy spoiler heavy without me knowing :p

Pearl Harbour.... no seriously, it's great.... aw, OK...

:P

Von Ryans Express, classic WWII movie.

Not sure if these qualify, as I don't like war movies much, and I like different takes on war settings. Especially slightly anti-war films, sparing me the crap about righteous patriotic slaughter. Mind you, I'm not much into straightforward pathos à la Private Ryan either. So, for me, great "war movies" :

- Das Boot (that you mentionned).

- Kelly's Heroes (less about war than about using war resources to rob a bank behind the frontline).

- Les Morfalous (roughly the same premise, slightly awesomer).

- Where Eagles Dare (a McLean adaptation, so, leaning more towards overcomplicated quadruple-agent spy themes than pure war movie).

- The Beast (excellent non-manichean movie about a stranded russian tank in the afghan desert).

- Enemy at the gates (more like a personal sniper duel in the ruins of the city).

- Murphy's War (very cool movie, also about a very personal quest).

- Le fou de guerre (totally non-war movie about a crazed soldier in a desert outpost).

- Eye of the Needle (again, less about war than about a german spy -brilliant Sutherland- about to reveal to the nazis the whole Operation Overlord project).

- Deer Hunter (just fabulously awesome movie, no idea what it's really about, though).

- Master and Commander (heh, it's a war movie isn't it).

- Paths of Glory (more like a trial movie about ww1 mutineers).

- Black Adder Goes Forth (yes, there you go).

and I'm being told that "The Hill" is completely brilliant too, but I haven't seen it yet.

Terrible! Propaganda film. One of Wayne's worst efforts. And that includes his 1,000 B-Movie westerns.

The following are fairly good and watchable films about WW2 - mostly, if not entirely from the Allied perspective (although there are some documentary-esque ones that show the action from the Axis side, as well....)

I've included a wide mix of genres - tanks; planes; naval, troops, spy; POW....the list should keep you busy for about 5 months :P
Sorry, I'm not really up on foreign films on the subject - Soviet, Chinese; Japanese; Eastern European, etc...

Battle of the Bulge.
A Bridge Too Far.
Bridge on the River Kwai.
Full Metal Jacket.
Tora! Tora! Tora!
(Battle of) Midway.
The Final Countdown. [Not a war movie, per se, but interesting premise, and internally consistent!]
Das Boot.
Kelly's Heroes.
Where Eagles Dare.
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convoy_(1940_film)]Convoy[/url].
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/49th_Parallel_(film)]The 49th Parallel[/url].
The One That Got Away.
Casablanca. *cough*
In Which We Serve.
Saboteur. [Hitchcock! <3<3<3<3<3]
Battle of the River Plate.
Destination Tokyo.
We Dive at Dawn.
The Fighting Seabees.
30 Seconds Over Tokyo.
The House on 92nd Street. [German Spy ring in USA]
The Wooden Horse.
Reach For The Skies.
The Caine Mutiny. [Bogart <3<3<3<3<3]
Dam Busters.
633 Squadron.
Colditz Story.
Above Us The Waves.
A Town Like Alice.
The Desert Fox.
Carve Her Name With Pride.
Ice Cold In Alex.
Operation Amsterdam.
Sea of Sand.
Torpedo Run.
Guns of/Force 10 From Navarone.
PT109. [JFK's service in the Pacific]
The Heroes of Telemark.
Von Ryan's Express. [Frank Sinatra keeps missing his train!]
Hell in the Pacific. [CLASSIC!]
The Big Red One.
Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence. [David Bowie?! O_o!]

Enjoy!

Most of the ones I would've recommended have been mentioned already. I actually really like Saving Private Ryan - it doesn't seem filled with any more pathos than other such movies and less than most, but to each his own ...

Given that you didn't like Saving Private Ryan, you might not like Band of Brothers, but it is one of the great miniseries of any genre. For miniseries:

Band of Brothers
Generation Kill (already mentioned)

I haven't seen the Pacific, but I've heard it is not as good as those two.

An incredible one my brother showed me:
Come and See
Great Soviet cinema.

Woot! A submarine movie I didn't know/have !!

Found it on my favorite DVD online shop, wishlisted, will probably order it in a couple of weeks. Thanks.

It's filled with TOM HANKS !! How much more pathos do you want ?

Watch the TV series called Tour Of Duty...

Life Is Beautiful
Grave of the Fireflies
No Man's Land

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