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Top 10 War Movies

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Saving Private Ryan

Harrowing first 30 minutes make this the best most realistic war movie ever.

Saving Private Ryan on DVD (1998)
Starring: Ted Danson, Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diese
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Steven Spielberg's Oscar winning, epic, World War 2 drama is set against the backdrop of the Normandy landings. A squad of American soldiers, led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks), receive top-level instructions to undertake an unusual mission: to rescue Private James Ryan (Matt Damon), whose ..read more »
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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.

All Quiet On The Western Front on DVD (1930)
Starring: Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Lew Ayres
Director: Lewis Milestone
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One of the most powerful anti-war statements ever put on film, this gut-wrenching story concerns a group of friends who join the Army during World War I and are assigned to the Western Front, where their fiery patriotism is quickly turned to horror and misery by the harsh realities of combat. ..read more »
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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... '

Apocalypse Now Redux on DVD (1979)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Albert Hall, Laurence Fishburne
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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A new cut of the multi-million dollar Vietnam psychedelic epic, with director Francis Ford Coppola adding 55 minutes of deleted scenes. The Vietnam War rages and US Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is sent on a mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a renegade American officer who has ..read more »
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Das Boot

Fantastic film, realistic, claustraphobic, real insight ito the horrors of been in a U boat crew in the 2nd world war.

Das Boot on DVD (1981)
Starring: Jurgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
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Wolfgang Petersen directs this gripping account of a German U-96 submarine in action during World War Two. The crew's long periods of boredom are contrasted with the claustrophobic terror they experience when engaging the enemy.
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Full Metal Jacket

Stanley Kubricks Vietnam masterpiece, un-missable.

Full Metal Jacket on DVD (1987)
Starring: Vincent D'Onofrio, Kevyn Ma, Vincent D'Onofrio
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Stanley Kubrick's return to filmmaking after a seven-year hiatus, this film crystallizes the experience of the Vietnam War by concentrating on a group of raw Marine volunteers. Based on Gustav Hasford's novel The Short Timers, the film's first half details the volunteers' harrowing boot-camp ..read more »
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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.

Platoon on DVD (1986)
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger
Director: Oliver Stone
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Oliver Stone's award winning film tells the story of a young innocent 19-year-old soldier, Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen), who is thrown headfirst into the bloody Vietnam conflict. He is forced to fight not only the Viet Cong, but also his own fears and intense anger. As a result of not being able to ..read more »
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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.

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 »
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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.

A Bridge Too Far on DVD (1977)
Starring: James Caan, Anthony Hopkins, Elliott Gould
Director: Sidney Hayers, Richard Attenborough
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Richard Attenborough's star-studded account of the failed 1944 Arnheim assault. Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Robert Redford and Sean Connery are among those battling against insurmountable odds - foul weather, bad luck, negligence on the part of intelligence officers - to secure one of the bridges ..read more »
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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,

Kelly's Heroes on DVD (1970)
Starring: Stuart Margolin, Don Rickles, Perry Lopez
Director: Brian G. Hutton
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During World War Two in occupied France, a group of soldiers led by Kelly (Clint Eastwood) capture a German general. He reveals the location of a bank housing 14,000 bars of Nazi gold, which Kelly and his men set out to steal. The only problem is that the bank lies thirty miles behind enemy lines.
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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.

Zulu on DVD (1964)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Stanley Baker, Michael Caine
Director: Cyril Endfield
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Filmed on a grand scale, Zulu is a rousing recreation of the January 22, 1879, siege of Rorke's Drift in Natal, Africa. An army of 4,000 Zulu warriors have already decimated a huge British garrison; now they are on their way to the much smaller Rorke's Drift. A Royal Engineers officer (Stanley ..read more »
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