Your Top Three Best War Movies of All Time

[SeaMonkey]

1. Lost Battalion

2. Battle Cry

3. Run Silent Run Deep

4. alternate: Sgt. York

[Slick91]

ORIGINAL: SeaMonkey

4. alternate: Sgt. York

Ooooooo...good one! An oldie, but a goodie!

[Raverdave]

I have not seen anyone put forward an oldie but a goodie....The Sand Pebbles.

[showboat1]

ORIGINAL: Raverdave

I have not seen anyone put forward an oldie but a goodie....The Sand Pebbles.

Ever notice how everyone who tried to help the Chinese in the movie ended up getting killed?

[Brigz]

ORIGINAL: Shadow of the Condor

Finally, the number one movie that I considered (and still do as on of the) best was Zulu. One of the classic concepts of strength (in technology) versus numbers. Forgetting the Jack Hawkins sub-plot of the drunken preacher (which he played very well) trying to prevent war with the Zulu nation, again the conflict of Lt. Chard the enginer who just wants to build his bridge, and Lt. Bromhead (the prototypical military school graduate "my grandfather served with Wellington, at Waterloo...") went quite a long way in helping shape the idea that individual ingenuity can often outperform "classic" military tactics.

[:)]

Glad someone else picked up on this masterpiece.

1. Spartacus (I know... it's not historical but it is one of the greatest movies ever made)
2. Zulu (Stunning and sooo British. Best "desperate and hopeless" stand I've ever seen)
3. The Longest Day (yes, that's what I said... The Longest Day... with John Wayne et al...a well made movie)
Honorable mention: The Thing (the early Howard Hawks' version)(it's kind of a war movie)

[SeaMonkey]

Alright Dave B, "The Thing", do you mean Matt Dillon, ala "Gunsmoke", James Arness' first role as the monster?

[stubby331]

I thought long and hard about this.

MOST of the movies mentioned so far I agree are great movies, (some greater than others). I actually own only two war movies. So they have to be in the top 3, they are;

ZULU
KELLY'S HEROES

My third choice is a toughie. I think it would have to be a tie between

A BRIDGE TOO FAR and SAVING PRIVATE RYAN

Special mention goes to Gallipoli as the Australian made war movie which has had the greatest affect on me.

[showboat1]

Zulu was great! I totally forgot about that one! The Alamo with John Wayne was good too (though a historical nightmare) certainly conveyed that sense of valor standing up against impossible odds for the benefit of others.

[Belisarius]

In no particular order:

• Das Boot
• Waterloo
• Stalingrad

With an honorable mention to Private Ryan for the Omaha scene.

[tsimmonds]

I'll just add one that hasn't been mentioned:

Paths of Glory (does an anti-war movie count as a war movie?)

[ravinhood]

300 Spartans

Zulu Dawn (famous qoutes: I ain't afraid of no one man, but, them Zulu, they come in the thousands, stabbing with those asigais! These bloody bullets run out, them spears DON'T!)

Zulu (famous quotes: Hold them! HOLD THEM! lol while I run and see about Chard. And everyone had to love HOOK, lol, most unrealistic depicted character in the movie according to what I read about him in the encyclopedia)

[EricGuitarJames]

Every time I think of this it changes[:D]

So todays three are:-

1) Zulu
2) Cross of Iron
3) Where Eagles Dare

I only nominate these because I know that I can bear repeated viewings of them[:)]

[Brigz]

ORIGINAL: SeaMonkey

Alright Dave B, "The Thing", do you mean Matt Dillon, ala "Gunsmoke", James Arness' first role as the monster?

That's the one. The remake with Kurt Russell is also a favorite movie of mine and is much closer to the original short story, but the original 50's "The Thing" is just an excellent and neat little movie.

Someone above mentioned Waterloo (the one with Rod Stieger I assume). That is also one of my favorite war movies. Picking out just three is just too difficult. I also would like to submit "Hell is for Heroes" with Steve McQueen and James Coburne. Another one of my all time favorites.

[norsemanjs]

I don't really have 3 favorites. But a couple I really like which have not noticed being mentioned.

The Great Escape
El Cid
Go For Broke

[Zeta16]

1. Red Dawn
2. Midway
3. Band of Brothers

[showboat1]

Ooooooooooooh!!!!!

El Cid! I haven't thought of that movie in YEARS!!!!!!!!! Yep, definitely a classic, though historically a bit iffy, and it had Chuck Heston and Sophia Loren to boot!!!!

[Sarge]

1) Band of Brothers 2) The Great Escape 3) Dirty Dozen

Whats your name private[:@]....Number twelve sir[:'(] kills me every time

[Bunker22]

1 - Waterloo
2 - Master and Commander (What are those ships firing at each other !!!????)
3 - Glory

[Rummy]

My biggest criteria for war movies are accuracy and the degree to which it moves me:

In no particular order:

Battle of Britain
Das Boot
Band of Brothers

Runner up: Red Dawn (one of the more underrated movies--just imagine it's Poland in '39 not America in '85 and it becomes a great WWII movie . . . minus the Cubans)

[NefariousKoel]

Nice move with Red Dawn Zeta. [&o]