Whats your favourite war film ever?

[razor]

[VladimirIlyich]

Come and See.

Russian made film focused on Belarus. Absolutely horrific and moving at the same time,an epic.

Stalingrad,the German one made in 1992 was also brilliant.

[Total Longo]

Genuinely surprised that nobody has mentioned Terence Malick's The Thin Red Line. One of the most thought provoking and moving takes on war i've seen. Superb cast, awesome cinematography and a brilliant soundtrack by Hans Zimmer. 

[billypilgrimnz]

Full Metal Jacket may be the most overrated film of all time. It was filmed entirely in England and it shows. It looks ridiculous. Indeed, ridiculously stagey. That's without getting into the politics of it...

I agree with this. Take away the string of memorable insults by Ermey, and there is nothing else there.

[billypilgrimnz]

Apocalypse Now, A Midnight Clear, Paths of Glory, Army of Shadows, The Train, Cross of Iron, The Last of the Mohicans

[Chairman Meow]

Not necessarily favourites but very good anyway.

 

The Counterfeiters, based on the story of the Jews who the Germans had making counterfeit money during the war.

 

Conspiracy, the most entertaining and grim telling of a committee meeting ever. Done by BBC and HBO and telling the story of the Wansee Conference. 

 

 

 

Most of the other stuff others have mentioned. 

 

One thing that is very interesting I've found is that most of the foreign war films seem to be a lot more matter of fact and tell a straighter story. Likewise something like the book Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger, there is no romantic notion of war in it, he just writes a brutal account of his own involvement in the war and is quite open about the fact that despite all of the brutality of it that part of him quite enjoyed the thrill of it all. It's a huge contrast to the largely romanticised British accounts I think. 

[the chimp]

Genuinely surprised that nobody has mentioned Terence Malick's The Thin Red Line. One of the most thought provoking and moving takes on war i've seen. Superb cast, awesome cinematography and a brilliant soundtrack by Hans Zimmer. 

 

That'd be my choice. Thought We Were Soldiers was very good also. Not sure if Zulu has been mentioned but I'd always watch that when it's on - fucking great film.

[Strontium]

Navy Seals.

[Pureblood]

Hot Shots Part Deux

[njackets]

Zulu is a fucking great film, this is one of the greatest scenes in film history for me.

 

 

I served with Roukes Drift company in Iraq the direct descendants of this unit.

[Bjornebye]

Zulu is a fucking great film, this is one of the greatest scenes in film history for me.

 

 

I served with Roukes Drift company in Iraq the direct descendants of this unit.

Thats fuck all mate, Michael Caines character is based on Stringvests great great great great great grandson

[Pureblood]

I agree with this. Take away the string of memorable insults by Ermey, and there is nothing else there.

Take away the shark from Jaws and it would be a bit shit.

[Josef Svejk]

Forgot All Quiet on the Western Front...

[Josef Svejk]

By the way, you can't have a war film thread without mentioning the magnificently awful Heartbreak Ridge...

[Sut]

Where Eagles Dare.

[SasaS]

Ostre sledovane vlaky / Closely Observed Trains

Not much war in it, but I just cannot pass up an opportunity to promote it.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060802/reference

 

Also, someone mentioned Cross of Iron. You can't go wrong with Peckinpah.

 

 

[NoelM]

Downfall, Platoon, The Hurt Locker, Schindlers List, Apocalypse Now, great shout on Conspiracy -  it's brilliant.

Thirteen Days (The Cold War), The Spy Who Came in From The Cold.

[Bjornebye]

The Hurt Locker is a good shout.

[Stu Monty]

Genuinely surprised that nobody has mentioned Terence Malick's The Thin Red Line. One of the most thought provoking and moving takes on war i've seen. Superb cast, awesome cinematography and a brilliant soundtrack by Hans Zimmer. 

 

Also has some fucking boss lines in it that are used in UNKLE's Eye for an eye:

 

 

This great evil, where's it coming from?

How'd it steal into the world?

Who's doing this? Who's killing us?

Mocking us with the sight of what we might have known

[Carvalho Diablo]

[Tony Moanero]

I'm sure that I've never watched a war film.

[Mendoza]

[Mike D]

Ice cold in Alex

[Josef Svejk]

 

Ostre sledovane vlaky / Closely Observed Trains

 

Not much war in it, but I just cannot pass up an opportunity to promote it.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060802/reference

 

Also, someone mentioned Cross of Iron. You can't go wrong with Peckinpah.

 

 

 

Great novel(ist)...

[redheart]

A bridge too far

 

Patton

 

Three Kings

 

The Thin Red Line

 

MASH

 

Starship Troopers