Whats your favourite war film ever?

[DiddisSillyRun]

zulu!

[Mike D]

MASH.

[VladimirIlyich]

Like somebody said earlier,the foreign war films are streets ahead of the Hollywood cringefests even though I used to love The Great Escape and a lot of the other stuff when I was younger.

The World at Documentary series was definitive for me and should be on the curriculum. Those apocalypse World War 1 and 2 are brilliant also and do a great job of telling the whole story in an abridged way without neglecting too much necessary information. Canadian made too.

[Lee909]

Just bought a load

Anyone seen any of these German/Russian /Asian ones

 

1939 Battle of Westerplatte

Admiral

Attack On Leningrad

Exodus Frozen Silence

Rhineland

Saints and Soldiers - The Void

Saving Private Ryan

When Trumpets Fade Winter War

Ambush 1941

Stalingrad

Where Eagles Dare

The Dirty Dozen

Battle Of The Bulge

Patton

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Von Ryan's Express

Sand Pebbles

The Longest Day

Twelve O'Clock High

A Bridge Too Far

The Great Escape

The Battle of Britain

 

 

About £25 for the lot.

[Cardie]

Isn't the new Mel Gibson effort supposed to be very good?

 

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[Lee909]

Not sure what that is. Ill have to have a look. He might be as mad as a box of frogs but he can make a decent entertaining,historically wrong film.

[Cardie]

Not sure what that is. Ill have to have a look. He might be as mad as a box of frogs but he can make a decent entertaining,historically wrong film.

Hacksaw Ridge it's called, remember the trailer being decent and could swear it was being discussed either on TV or Radio in more than positive tones but could have mis-heard.

[mars]

In which we serve

 

Battle of the River Plate

[Lee909]

Hacksaw Ridge it's called, remember the trailer being decent and could swear it was being discussed either on TV or Radio in more than positive tones but could have mis-heard.

The name rings a bell

Ill look it up

[Lee909]

Yeah good reviews

 

Hacksaw Ridge received positive reviews from critics. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 86%, based on 349 reviews, with an average rating of 7.2/10.On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average to reviews, the film has a score of 71 out of 100, based on 44 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[53] On CinemaScore, audiences gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.[5

[Kloppite]

The Great Escape and platoon. The former being the best.

[Chairman Meow]

Anthropoid.

 

A bit hit and miss, biggest problem for me was the fact it had English actors speaking English with a Czech accent, I get they're trying to make it clear that this wasn't carried out by English people but I had to keep going back to listen to bits again as it was really hard to understand them until it got a decent way into the film. 

 

Overall it's pretty good, it still portrayed the tension of the attempt on Heydrich and the ending of the film really well even though I was watching it as someone who knew the story really well anyway. Trying not to give anything away there for anyone who either hasn't seen it or doesn't know the story already.

 

Solid 6/10, would have been a lot higher if they either skipped the accents or just got it played by local actors and subtitled it. 

[Edward.]

Not a war film but what my Grandad did in the war.

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Try watching the Green Berets !

Never seen it, but I'm told that the final scene shows the sun setting in the East.

[magicrat]

Never seen it, but I'm told that the final scene shows the sun setting in the East.

 

I won't spoil it for you.

 

Has anyone mentioned  "The Battle of Britain"

Brilliant film and groundbreaking aerial screenplay at the time, 

[Kloppite]

A matter of life and death

[Alan Sex]

Not a war film but what my Grandad did in the war.

 

That is awesome. I picture it being brought to life via film, with James haring around the countryside trying to catch up - with the Benny Hill theme playing.

[Edward.]

Pretty close to the truth really he didn't have any ammunition either.

[Jennings]

Guns of Navarone

[magicrat]

Guns of Navarone

 

Alistair McClean,

Read all his books as a teenager,

[Tony Moanero]

Thomas and the Magic Railroad.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Tora tora tora is ace. Boring as fuck but the end scenes at Pearl Harbour are pretty fucking mental.

 

A bunch of stuntmen maimed or worse apparently !

[razor]

In which we serve

 

Battle of the River Plate

 

I'll see your In Which We Serve, and raise you a Pimpernel Smith.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I'll see your In Which We Serve, and raise you a Pimpernel Smith.

 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Corialanus is worth a watch.

 

 

It's that intense, that after a while you stop giggling at the word "anus".