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Just wanting to get a thread going listing the old and the maybe obscure.
I'm suggesting anything from 1970 and back.
I am not in a hurry to debate them against each other as much as to get up a list of ones you know of.

I'm going to lead off with 'The Battle of Coral Sea' (1959).
Found it on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cV6hddJ2M4

It's watchable, but the end of the film features the battle, and is it ever a groaner
This was my first time enountering this film.
Worth watching as a period piece amusement. No history lesson here though.
I'm going to add other titles as I can pick them from my memory.

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020629/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Quiet ... 1930_film)

https://archive.org/details/All.Quiet.o ... 930_201605

Enough said.

A handful:

Battle of the Bulge 1965. I found it quite bad.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058947/

The Bridge at Remagen
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064110/

The Longest Day
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056197/

In Harms Way
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059309/

30 Seconds Over Tokyo
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037366/

They Were Expendable
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038160/?ref_=tt_sims_tt

Flying Leathernecks
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043547/?ref_=tt_sims_tt

Wake Island
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035530/

Oh and this one. How could I forget it. [8|]

Bridge Over the River Kwai
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050212/

There are a bunch more I can think of but I'd be here all night.

Like Run Silent Run Deep
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052151/

Sink the Bismark
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054310/?ref_=tt_sims_tt

The Desert Rats
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045679/?ref_=tt_sims_tt

The Dam Busters
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046889/?ref_=tt_sims_tti

Pursuit of the Graf Spee
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048990/?ref_=tt_sims_tt

There's one where they get caught in the desert with an M3 tank and Allied soldiers from three or four different countries and they find a well. The Germans want the well too. Can't recall the name of it. Drats.

Found it. [;)]

Sahara
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036323/?ref_=tt_urv

Decision before Dawn (1951)
Little combat but an interesting inside view of a crumbling Germany.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pEfCo5uZLM

Outside the scope but Im going to also suggest Conspiracy (2001) because its absolutely chilling.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266425/

A lot of good ones mentioned already, a few more to add:

Battle of Stalingrad- 1949 Russian with English subtitles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9tO7GF8pnY
part 2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmqGei_c4no

Enemy Below-1957
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny6oZED1Hm8

12 O'Clock High -1949
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p60wUlGWm5o

Stalag 17 -1953 Not really a war movie but always worth a mention
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY7nPXCByR0

ORIGINAL: MrsWargamer

Just wanting to get a thread going listing the old and the maybe obscure.
I'm suggesting anything from 1970 and back.

warspite1

Waterloo (1970)

A superb film with an excellent cast and wonderfully desriptive soundtrack (here is one example below)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjHw3pk ... tKWj&index


Now Maitland, Now's your time!



Scotland Forever!



Go ahead if you want to shoot your emperor..... if only - that would have saved a lot of carnage

... and of course

Battle of Britain (1969)

Another wonderful film, cast and and even better soundtrack than Waterloo. The music at the end still brings a tear to the eye and as for the Luftwaffe march - [&o]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHxADv7pzZ0


Yellow nosed bastards


Don't you shout at me Mr Warwick!!



Stukas!!

La Grande Illusion
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028950/?r ... flmg_dr_23

Paths of Glory
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050825/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

The Great War
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052861/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Lawrence of Arabia
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056172/?ref_=kw_li_tt

Watched this one again recently
Ice Cold in Alex
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053935/

The Graf Spee film is a hard one to find online. Not impossible, but it shows what you know about scrounging.

I recall reading 30 seconds over Tokyo at age 13 during my first experience at an army cadet camp (god did I hate that camp experience).

Here's a bunch:

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4898824

Oh, how about Flyboys? Love the biplanes and triplanes.

Yeah I know, 2006. But the aircraft...the aircraft.

ORIGINAL: Lobster

Oh, how about Flyboys? Love the biplanes and triplanes.

Yeah I know, 2006. But the aircraft...the aircraft.

You mean like the Blue Max? If I remember the name correctly.

Or Hell's Angels
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020960/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Ah... Hill's Angels. Yes, I was a fan of them back in the day - especially Leigh Miles....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhp37_V8vzg

Greetings MrsWargamer,
Pacific:
The Long and the Short and the Tall (also known as Jungle Fighters)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPwVmXUVeM8

Teutonic Knights vs Russians:
Alexander Nevsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKZPgGbUuX0

Eastern Front: Italians vs Soviets
Attack & Retreat (Italiani brava gente)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lKGq8byTFg

Several of the movies I would bring up have already been mentioned. So, I 'll have to add one that isn't listed yet.

The Red Badge of Courage (1951) with Audie Murphy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLdXhaW8bLs

The Red Badge of Courage (1974) with Richard Thomas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCvoTKX ... e=emb_logo

ORIGINAL: rommel222
Teutonic Knights vs Russians:
Alexander Nevsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKZPgGbUuX0

Fun fact: the battle scenes were rotoscoped and used as battle scenes in the animated version of "The Lord of the Rings".

Can someone help me to remember what movie this was?
It may not even be primarily a war movie but it had
a memorable war scene... A column was being strafed by
Japanese planes. Ground fire caused one of the planes
to make a forced landing near the column. Soon the
Japanese plane was surrounded by a distant crowd.
The Japanese pilot climbed out onto a wing and shot
himself while the crowd watched.

Sound familiar to anyone? I saw this sometime in the 70's
so it is at least that old. Don't remember anything else.

'In Which we serve' Noel Coward
'The Cruel Sea' Jack Hawkins
'Play Dirty' Michael Caine
'To Late the Hero' Michael Caine