86.6% from 3 members
Saving Private Ryan
Harrowing first 30 minutes make this the best most realistic war movie ever.
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Saving Private Ryan
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Director Steven Spielberg's World War II tour de force chronicles the journey of a GI squad on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines. Led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks), the unit is under orders to track down a soldier, Private Ryan (Matt Damon), so he might return home to his mother in ..read more »
76%
from 56,302 members
All Quiet On The Western Front
The 1979 'John Boy Walton' version not a patch on this original. Highlights the futility and horrors of the first world war. Not enough movies set during the first world war. With Hollywoods recent craze for remaking classics, would love to see this get the big money thrown at it.
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All Quiet On The Western Front
on DVD
(1930)
Starring: Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray
Director: Lewis Milestone
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A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
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from 2,933 members
Apocalypse Now Redux
Martin Sheen went mad during the making of this movie and you can see why, outstanding performance. And who can forget Robert Duvall's Colonel Bill Kilgores imortal lines 'I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end... '
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Apocalypse Now Redux
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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Released in August 2001, APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX, a restored and updated version of the 1979 film, includes 49 minutes of never-before-seen footage, a Technicolor enhancement, and a six-channel soundtrack.Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam epic, loosely based on HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad, tells ..read more »
73%
from 39,405 members
Das Boot
Fantastic film, realistic, claustraphobic, real insight ito the horrors of been in a U boat crew in the 2nd world war.
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Das Boot
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Jurgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
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In the midst of World War II, a German U-boat crew is sent out to patrol the Atlantic and fire at Allied ships bringing supplies to England. The submarine also carries a press correspondent, there to report from the front lines of nautical warfare. Meanwhile, the crew's captain (Jurgen Prochnow &#..read more »
73%
from 19,459 members
Full Metal Jacket
Stanley Kubricks Vietnam masterpiece, un-missable.
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Full Metal Jacket
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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In this riveting look at military life during the Vietnam conflict, Stanley Kubrick, who made the powerful antiwar classics PATHS OF GLORY (WWI) and DR. STRANGELOVE (the cold war), once again explores the behavior of men in battle. FULL METAL JACKET, adapted from Gustav Hasford's novel THE SHORT ..read more »
76%
from 30,772 members
Platoon
Oliver Stone directs what probably is the definative Vietnam war movie, emphasasing the futilty of the war, brilliant 60's soundtrack, fantasic performances from Charlie Sheen, Willem Defoe, Tom Berranger, a cameo from John C (Scrubs) McGinley and a very young Johnney Depp.
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Platoon
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger
Director: Oliver Stone
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In PLATOON, Oliver Stone uses his experience as an infantryman in Vietnam to convey the immediacy of guerrilla warfare: the brutal heat of the jungle, the brushes with such wildlife as snakes and leeches, and, most powerfully, the presence of the unseen enemy. Charlie Sheen stars as Chris, a raw ..read more »
74%
from 30,255 members
9th Company
One of the lesser known war movies, shot from the Russians point of view during the war in Afganistan in the 80's, following a group of very young green conscipts as they try to survive the horrors of war, very realistic, one of the best war movies of recent years.
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9th Company
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Fyodor Bondarchuk, Aleksei Chadov, Mikhail Evlanov
Director: Fyodor Bondarchuk
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Post-communist Russia's highest grossing film to date, 9TH COMPANY is a stirring and extremely timely modern day war movie on a par with Hollywood blockbusters 'Full Metal Jacket' and 'Platoon'. Based on real events, the film follows the ill-fated fortunes of a small group of young Russian soldiers,..read more »
63%
from 4,758 members
A Bridge Too Far
Richard Attenbourgh's huge historic telling of the failed attempt to capture several bridges to Germany in World War II in a campaign called Operation Market-Garden. Would be easier to list who isnt in this movie, but lets say Michael Caine, Edward Fox, Anthony Hopkins, Sean Connery, Dirk Bogarde, Elliot Gould, Gene Hackman, Larry Olivier!! too many to list, absolute classic, un-missable.
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A Bridge Too Far
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine
Director: Richard Attenborough, Sidney Hayers
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A starkly realistic account of the ill-fated airborne assault on Arnhem during World War II. Some of the best special effects ever seen in a war film.
73%
from 6,704 members
Kelly's Heroes
Dont know why i have such a soft spot for this movie, maybe its Eastwoods ultra cool performance of Kelly, Telly Savalis' manic, shouting Big Joe, maybe Donald Sutherlands brilliant crazy laid back 'Why dont you knock it off with them negative waves' Oddball. maybe because it has one of the best theme tunes of any war film Mike Curb Congregation's 'Burnig Bridges' its just an all round great great movie,
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Kelly's Heroes
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Carroll O'Connor
Director: Brian G. Hutton
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KELLY's HEROES combines comedy with wartime adventure as the laid-back members of an eccentric American army platoon plan an unusual expedition--to rob a bank located behind enemy lines. The ensemble cast includes Clint Eastwood, Donald Sutherland, Don Rickles, Telly Savalas, Carroll O'Connor, and ..read more »
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from 6,077 members
Zulu
Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift. Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins and a very young Michael Caine star in what is a classic British stiff upper lip war movie, maybe not strictly factually correct but still a wonderful movie and one what set Mr Caine on his way to mega stardom.
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Zulu
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson
Director: Cyril Endfield
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Narrated by Richard Burton and starring an outstanding Michael Caine in his first starring role, ZULU is a tense and dramatic war film about the Battle of Rorke's Drift in 1879--which was part of the Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa--where approximately 150 British soldiers held off 4,000 Zulu ..read more »
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