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[&:]Sorry, I just can't do it. There are so many great ones, and so many lessons to be learned from each.

However, as to your suggestion that a vote be taken for crappiest war movie EVER. I can, without hesitation, offer STRIPES with Bill Murray as my pick of the worst of the worst. That is, if cold war movies count.

Das Boot - the Director's cut. I've never seen anything to top it.

Yeah I know it's five years later. So what.

As a war movie, Thin Red Line was the most horrible disappointment I ever saw.

I'm with you on this.

I got curious, so....
 
Based on where I could make out a definite vote (first votes only) for an actual movie, this is my count of the posts so far, since no-one else has provided one on-site:
 
Three Great Films - everybody agrees:
Das Boot  1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 (11)
Cross of Iron  1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 (10)
The Longest Day  1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 (9)

Outstanding war films:
Kelly's Heroes  1 1 1 1 1 1 1 (7)
Saving Private Ryan 1 1 1 1 1 1 (6)
A Bridge Too Far 1 1 1 1 1 (5)
Stalingrad  1 1 1 1 1 (5)
We Were Soldiers 1 1 1 1 (4)

The next group have three votes each; of these, I have only seen Patton.
If they are all to that standard, we'll call them 'well worth seeing'.
Glory   1 1 1
Patton   1 1 1
Tuntematon Sotilas 1 1 1 (The unknown soldier)
No Man's Land  1 1 1
Pork Chop Hill  1 1 1

Fascinating that so many good movies could only get two definite votes!
I have seen all of these except two, and they were all good.
Bridge over the River Kwai 1 1
Gettysburg  1 1
Zulu   1 1
Tora! Tora! Tora! 1 1 (HOW could this get so few votes?)
All Quiet on the Western Front 1 1 (I suppose the people who've actually seen this have mostly died of old age!)
The Battle of Britain 1 1
The Blue Max  1 1
Big Red One  1 1
Enemy at the Gates 1 1

Only one first vote for each of these: I have seen one third of them,
and they were all ok except the following:
I think the vote for Lawrence of Arabia must have been a joke;
and the vote for Thin Red Line just proves that no matter how awful a movie (as a war movie), there is someone who will like it....
 
Lawrence of Arabia 1
The Bridge (Die Brucke)1
Full Metal Jacket 1
Talvisota (Winter War) 1
Black Hawk Down  1
Apocalypse Now  1
A Long Days Dying 1
Midway   1
Hell is for Heroes 1
The Wild Geese  1
When Trumpets Fade 1
Waterloo  1
Platoon Leader  1
Good Morning Vietnam 1
Ran (Chaos)  1
Gallipoli  1
The Thin Red Line 1!
Play Dirty  1
The Pianist  1
The Boys of Company C 1
Heartbreak Ridge 1
Where Eagles Dare 1
The Alamo (2004) 1
The Dambusters  1
The Beast (Beast of War)1
 
Thumbs down:
The Thin Red Line 1 1 1 (but at least one person likes it)
Red Dawn  1 1
Enemy at the Gates 1 1 (a few people thought it not so bad)
Pearl Harbour  1 (chick flick war movie - that's not going to work, right?)
Stripes   1 (no one argued for this one)

Now, if you want to make a shopping list, you can [:)]

If we are voting I would like to cast a vote for "How I Unleashed the Second World War". It is a 3 part Polish movie circa 1969 about a Polish soldier Frank Dolas who shoots his rifle in Germany about 30 seconds before the German artillery started. It covers his adventure from then to a POW camp, to Austria, Yugoslavia, Syria, Italy, and than Finally back to Poland. If you don't have subtitles I doubt you know what is going on as the movie is in several languages including Polish, Italian, German, French just to name a few.

Breaker Morant would have to be in my Top 5!

I keep telling you all, Its "The Alamo", 2004 verison
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I have to go with Saving Private Ryan
 
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