Dietrich Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 While watching "Downfall", I felt like I was witnessing the events rather than watching a movie about the events. Highly recommended. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinnart Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 Lot's of classics mentioned. Kelly's Heroes is an all time favorite I can always watch. Here is one You probalbly would have a hard time finding, "Too Young The Hero". This was a made for TV movie I taped on VHS back in the day and still have. It is the story of america's youngest WWII vet named Calvin Graham ( played very well by Rick Shroeder). He was a large 12yr old boy who forged papers to enlist in the navy. and saw some major combat in the pacific. Eventually his capt. found out, and shipped him home where due to a foul up he was labeled a deserter, thrown in the brig, raped, and could not convince the navy he was really 12 yrs old. This was very well done, and acted. I really felt for this brave kid. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinnart Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 Another great one I don't think mentioned is "Platoon". This is also one of the few DVD's that really is great to watch with Oliver Stones comentary as he describes his own Vietnam experience in the scenes of the movie. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col Deadmarsh Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 I take it this is for war movies only... I nominate The Thin, Red Line. If you haven't seen this yet, you need to. It's a bit slow paced in parts but the acting is excellent and most of the script is too. Especially awesome is Nick Nolte as a Lt. Colonel who wants to make one last push for a promotion by ordering his men into a suicide fight against a dug-in Japanese army on top of a hill. The 2nd film I recommend is Tigerland. Good little film about the training men had to go through before being sent off to Nam'. I honestly thought Colin Farrell had a great career in front of him after seeing him in this film. Don't know what happened... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aka_tom_w Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 Blackhawk Down of course. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bergerbitz Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 "A Walk in the Sun" is another one...curiously good. It's like pickles and peanut butter sandwiches. And "Forgotten Soldier" is being made into a film? I'll bet Dorosh is growing big, juicy warts after hearing about that one. You newbies can ask me about that one...the old timers around here might remember him and his opinion about Guy Sajer. Heh... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rambler Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) There's no fighting, but I think it's a powerful film that portrays what those guys must have gone through upon returning home from the war. My favorite scene is toward the end of the movie, where Dana Andrews is walking through the boneyard filled with aircraft waiting to be scrapped. It makes you realize, even though they were only machines, they carried the lives of those men through hell. A Walk in the Sun (1945) Directed by Lewis Milestone, who also directed All Quiet on the Western Front. This film focuses on one platoon and their mission to take a farmhouse after hitting the beach at Salerno. It really drives home the small picture in an operation by just focusing on this one group. You don't know and aren't informed of what else is going on. You see it from this platoon's perspective the whole way through. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNAFU Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 The Pacific 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 I've always liked The Eagle Has Landed. Superb cast all the way around. Donald Pleasence as Himmler was super creepy. Everybody else was great too. You hardly ever get that in a war film. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakai007 Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 Cross of Iron is an awesome movie about a German squad on the Eastern Front. Real T-34's and a Stug to boot!!! Also MG34/42, Maxim MG, 8cm Mortars, all authentic weapons and equipment, a Pak 40 as well. I just watched it the other day, ending was different but a must see. Made in 1977 I believe. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Belenko Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler (1943) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036393/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kipanderson Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 Hi, My vote would go for The Pacific and Band of Brothers by Spielberg. Unoriginal choices but for high intensity warfare of any era I think the two above the best. With The Pacific being by the thickness of a cigarette paper the best. Das Boot is also great.... my number three. Interesting that all three are made for TV.... not really movies... All the best, Kip. PS If The Forgotten Soldier is made to Spielberg standards it will be a stunner... . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimerik Kukka Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 Hei I have always liked the old B&W: Attack (1956) U.S. infantry small unit action. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praetori Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 Beyond Enemy Lines 2004 A Finnish war movie portraying the Winter War. Simply a must see. Ambush 1999 Also a Finnish war movie portraying a bicycle troop during the war. Not as good as Beyond Enemy Lines but still a good treat. Das Boot and A Bridge too Far are also among the very best made. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchy Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 There's been a lot of good ones over the years but these stick out in mind. They are not ranked in any order... Run Silent, Run Deep The Enemy Below Empire of the Sun Battleground Saving Private Ryan The Blue Max Band of Brothers The Pacific Tora Tora Tora Das Boot Twelve O'clock High Cross of Iron Best Year of Our Lives 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 Beyond Enemy Lines 2004 A Finnish war movie portraying the Winter War. Simply a must see. Continuation War (1941-44). You will notice this in the film, as much of it takes place in summer time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 And if you want to be reminded of the fate of your poor pixeltruppen when you order them to rush that MG nest there's the film: "Johnny Got His Gun" (1971) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praetori Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 Continuation War (1941-44). You will notice this in the film, as much of it takes place in summer time. You're absolutely right. I was stuck in Winter War mode ;p 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredrock1957 Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 Just a side note on 'A Walk in the Sun' It was the first movie that took a character's thoughts and expressed them in words (by the character). I believe it was John Irlends character. That is all... -FR 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixxkiller Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 Well, Patton (1970?) is still one of my favorites. George C Scott was amazing. Restrepo is about the 173 Abn in the Konogol Valley in Afghanistan. This if you havent been there is one of the most dangerous places in our little war. The Green Berets has been panned through out the decades but its filmed beautifully and gives a look into Special Operations that I cant remember being in other films. Sands of Iwo Jima is my all time favorite movie. Midway is beyond epic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeatEtr Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 I recently saw 9th company, definitely worth watching, I recommend it. It's based on a small group of Soviet soldiers during the 1979-1989 Afghan war. We had a thread going about it in the CMA forums. Here's the trailer in HD. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malaspina Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 Has anyone mentioned Clint Eastwood's "Letters from Iwo Jima" (2006)? Extremely interesting for its take on the psychology of the Japanese soldier. An absolute must IMHO! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
user38 Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 Thank you Frenchy for mentioning Blue Max. However, I have to give you all a big "shame on you" for not mentioning Gettysburg (although arguably it is more properly identified in the "over acting" genre). If we are branching out into the Civil War then Glory rates a mention. Starship Troopers of course, and the Desert Fox was a solid effort, albeit lacking in realism (it is a bit jarring to see Rommel prancing about the desert without his signature skin lesion). There are lots more (Zulu anyone?) but in my opinon the single most important element in any war movie is the presence of Jürgen Prochnow. Given that Das Boot has already been taken, I vote for The Keep. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeatEtr Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 Starship Troopers of course... Are you drunk? :eek: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
user38 Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 I must be because I forgot to mention Breaker Morant. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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