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Recommend some good war movies/documentaries?
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So I've been on a war movie/documentary kick the last couple of days.
Can you guys recommend good war movies/tv shows/documentaries? I don't care about the time period...
Some of the movies I have already seen/plan on seeing are:
Black Hawk Down
Cold Mountain
Pearl Harbor
Enemy at the Gates
That's about it, unfortunately.
Thanks!
Can you guys recommend good war movies/tv shows/documentaries? I don't care about the time period...
Some of the movies I have already seen/plan on seeing are:
Black Hawk Down
Cold Mountain
Pearl Harbor
Enemy at the Gates
That's about it, unfortunately.
Thanks!
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Then after you've seen it, google "downfall hd dvd parody." But only after. It'll ruin it :P
Everyone should see Paths of Glory
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Patton
The Big Red One
Band of Brothers.
Band of Brothers.
Ken Burns' Civil War series (also mentioned above) is supposed to be really good, but he also has a series called "The War" about WWII that I would guess is also pretty good. It's too early for me to think of anything else.
Did I mention Band of Brothers? Because seriously, it's damn good.
What?
Ok, saving Private Ryan, Das Boot, Full Metal Jacket, Stalingrad.
My own additions:
A Bridge on the River Kwai
Twelve O'Clock High
Lawrence of Arabia
Also, not explicitly a war flick, but "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara" is wholly worth a viewing.
Dark Ages:
Braveheart
Revolutionary War:
The Patriot
Civil War:
Glory
Cold Mountain
World War II:
Anything with John Wayne, and I do mean any film with John Wayne.
Kelly's Heroes
Patton
To Hell and Back
Tora Tora Tora!!
Saving Private Ryan
Downfall
Vietnam:
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
1st Gulf War:
Three Kings
Fictional:
Star Wars
Independence Day
Lord Of The Rings Trilogy
And Private Ryan if you havent seen it.
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Apocalypse Now
Caution:
I'm hoping that you know which movies are trying to be historically acurate and which one's are not letting the truth get in the way of a good story.
I liked the Director's Cut, I think it's better.
Private Ryan
Downfall
Paths of Glory
Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
Deer Hunter
The Great Escape.
Satans..... hints.....
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Well done sir.
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It's one of the best movies ever.
The Longest Day has also been suggested, Paul Anka, John Wayne, and Sean Connery to name a few of the stars of this 1962 classic.
And one of my other favorites is Battle of Britain, 1969
Band of Brothers x umpteen + 1
Also, Glory.
This guy knows what he's talking about. Also, "Kingdom of Heaven" if you don't mind the crusades.
I just saw this a while back. My god, it's a bummer. Excellent flick though.
Another great WWI film - perhaps the great one - is Grand Illusion. I cried like a baby at the end.
And another good one - although it's more about the aftermath of war - is Breaker Morant, about the real-life trial of an English-Australian soldier for war crimes at the end of the Boer War. Starring Edward Woodward, one of my favorite actors, and features one of the best last lines in a movie ever.
Dr. Strangelove
Duck Soup
300 actually isn't too bad as a war film as long as you keep in mind that it's being exagerrated by the narrator telling the story
Stalag 17
Band of Brothers
And of course Saving Private Ryan and maybe The Big Red One.
Oh and if you want documentaries, The Fog of War is a masterpiece.
Might be kinda obscure, though.