Patton
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Lawrence of Arabia
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Dances with Wolves
Saving Private Ryan
Glory
Das Boot (the German language version, not the dubbed version)
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Braveheart
The Manchurian Candidate (the 1962 version with Frank Sinatra, not the remake)
The Guns of Navarone
The Great Escape
The Longest Day
A Bridge Too Far
Schindler's List
Platoon
The Deer Hunter
Gone with the Wind
Gettysburg
Gods and Generals
To Hell and Back
Casablanca
Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
Stone Mountain
'Breaker' Morant
All Quiet on the Western Front
Stalag 17

I haven't yet seen Flags of Our Fathers or Letters from Iwo Jima but they look good.

Any good ones I missed?

I'd add

The Dam Busters (a personal favourite)
Paths of Glory
The Bridge (a German film)
Stalingrad (also German)
Sink the Bismarck!
In Which We Serve
Gallipoli
The Lighthorsemen
The Red Badge of Courage
Joyeux Noel

and probably quite a few more. "The Great Escape" is high on my list, but you've already mentioned it. Same with "Casablanca".

I preferred "Letters from Iwo Jima" to "Flags of Our Fathers", but they're both worth watching.

The Battle of Britain
Tunes of Glory (this might be spanishliz's 'Paths of Glory?]
A Bridge Too Far
The Longest Day
All Quiet on the Western Front
Star Wars Episode 4 (the first we saw - apologies if wrong no.)
Schindler's List
The Great Escape
Casablanca

I should be ashamed of myself for interrupting these excellent (and serious) listings of films ... but I just have to mention "M*A*S*H" and "Stripes". Oh, and also the totally serious "Coming Home" (which, I guess, was technically a 'post-war' movie?)...

Could we call "Cold Mountain" a war movie? And, in the same vein in one way though years apart in everything else, "Shenandoah".

Good grief! I forgot "Zulu"!

The Dirty Dozen has got to be my favorite.

Sam Fuller's "The Big Red One" (the reconstructed version)

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I thought in the beginning we meant strictly 'battle oriented ' movies, but that's what I get for thinking inside the box.

Cold Mountain is really fine, though supremely hard to watch in parts, along with Gone With the Wind and Casa Blanca. Since You Went Away is another nice effort.
Now that I have adjusted my mindset, there are more good war movies than I can count.

I'm not big into war movies, personally. But if we're talking about movies where war figures centrally to the characters, rather than ones where the bulk of the plot centers around combat, then:

Gone with the Wind
Born on the Fourth of July
African Queen
Empire of the Sun
Jacob's Ladder

Of combat movies

All Quiet on the Western Front (the old one of course)

Other movies that spring to mind (or miniseries as well)

Hornblower (maybe it's crazy, but I love this miniseries)
Last of the Mohicans
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (thats the one with Milla Jovovich)
Memphis Belle
Windtalkers
Wargames (OK, it's cold war, maybe not war war)
And yes, Good Morning Vietnam.

Apart from the great 'classics' that were already mentioned, another great (in my opinion) war movie is "To End All Wars ".
It's a true story from WWII and I'd honestly recommend it to anybody. It's cruel but "different" in a very good way, I'd say.

I liked Soldaat van Oranje (English title I believe is Soldier of Orange) and Un long dimanche de fiançailles. A film I've heard a lot of good things about but that I've never seen is Dresden, a German TV film.

"Saving Private Ryan" ....gets me every time at the end where he asks his wife to tell him he's led a good life.

Just thought of another good one: "Operation Daybreak" (1975). Based on a true story. Set in World War II. A squad of Czech expatriates are parachuted into Czechoslovakia in order to assassinate the German governor Reinhard Heydrich, the likely heir-apparent after Hitler. Not a great movie but WWII buffs would like it.

My Favorite is Patton, saving private ryan, and flyboys if you count that as a war movie.

Schindler's List
The Pianist
Deer Hunter

I'd like to add the HBO series 'Band of Brothers' to the list.

It's based off the book by the same name from Stephen Ambrose.

If you haven't seen this series, I highly recommend purchasing the DVD box set. It's one of those that you'll get your moneys' worth out of. I rewatch the entire series bi-annually.

We Were Soldiers springs to mind and so does Gallipoli. I think they both star Mel Gibson. We Were Soldiers is based on the Vietnam War.

No a huge fan of the genre but my favorite is definitly Patton.

"Saving Private Ryan"
I've lost count how many times I've watched it.

Oh! I just thought of another great one (that I don't think's been mentioned yet?): Friendly Persuasion in 1956.

The Deer Hunter (my favorite)
The Naked and the Dead
The Best Years of Our Lives
From Here to Eternity

Shildren's List
Bravehart

Many of my favourite war movies have already been mentioned. Here's some I also like...

Zulu Dawn
Where Eagles Dare
Waterloo
Raid On Rommel
Battle of the Bulge
Midway
Major Dundee
The Blue Max
Thin Red Line
Anzio
Kelly's Heros
PT 109
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Khartoum
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Starship Troopers

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