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My favorite war movie ever is Kenneth Branagh's version of Henry V. Shakespeare was so thoughtful about war and exploring the issues of command, fear, loss and outcomes, and Branagh put it into the nicest package .

I also like a lot of the ones already mentioned. Gallipoli is especially moving and I also remember liking "Dogs of War" about mercenaries, although it's been a while.

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I feel the need to return and add the Canadian-made "Passchendaele" to my list.

Really, Liz? I haven't seen it yet, but I haven't heard a single good review. I read the novel version of the screenplay and I found it just okay, not a real gripping story.

The alltime champion, best war movie ever made has to be Sgt.York. followed by, All Quiet On THE Western Front.

War films eh...hmmmm...

Saving Private Ryan
Tears of the Sun
Hart's War
Escape to Victory (I know...it's football, but it is aginst the Germans)

Just to add two more that I don't think have been mentioned


King and Country
The Bridge on the River Kwai

Gettysburg was amazing.Only movie I have even seen in the theater that had an intermission.Saving Private Ryan was also amazing, although the first 30 minutes were maybe the toughest part of any movie to watch that I've seen.

Maybe we can even have a sub-category for cold war movies?

Hunt For Red October
Dr. Strangelove

No Doubt it's In Harms Way with John Wayne.

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Dances with Wolves
Glory
Bravehart
The 13th Warrior
Lord of the Rings
Star Wars
(Not sure if it counts but) Chronicles of Riddick
PT109
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That's all I can think of at the moment.

The best to me was Bataan but there are other great movies as Guadalcanal, MacArthur, Patton, Zulu, Casablanca, 55 Days in Peking, Platoon and Sands of Iwo Jima.
I love watching old movies starring John Wayne about WWII in the Pacific.
I enjoyed one directed by John Wayne about the Mexican-Texan War, "The Alamo", which I watched 22 times.

Pretty surprised no one had mentioned "Tigerland". Pretty well done film and along with many others already mentioned one of my favorites.

300 Spartans is the older, in my opinion better version.

If you've never seen Sam Peckinpah's Russian front anti-war movie 'Cross of Iron' with James Coburn as U/Off.Steiner, you haven't seen the best IIWW film ever made.

My favourite is probably Stanley Kubrick, 'Paths of Glory', already mentioned, and I've got a soft spot for the under-rated 'Bridge Too Far'.

From more recent years there's nothing much can compare with the fantastic German language film 'Der Untergang' about the fall of Berlin.

And three films of war seen through the eyes of children: 'Empire of the Sun', already mentioned, 'Hope and Glory', John Boorman's marvellous memories of growing up in the London Blitz, and another German film, 'Europa Europa', about the incredible war of a young Jewish Volksdeutscher whose efforts to survive take him into the Hitler Youth among other things.

A few more that popped in my head:

Jarhead
Enemy at the Gates
Hamburger Hill
Three Kings

300 Spartans is straight out of the sword and sandle epics of the late fifties early sixties. I'm not sure what year it was made, but it's more real life if you like. No spectacular special effects but the story is essentially the same. 300 is the remake after all.

BTW Guns of Navarone

Band of Brothers, Platoon, Enemy at the Gates, Big Red One, Ice Station Zebra, Glory and The Beast. Ken

Certainly have to agree with Richie15 about "Der Untergang" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363163 . I think perhaps one of the most realistic WWII movies I've seen.

A good Vietnam one would be "84c Mopic" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096744/

War movies in my top 100:
Saving Private Ryan
Hotel Rwanda (I consider it war)
Schindler's List
Patton
Enemy at the Gates
Das Boot (The Boat)
Der Untergang (Downfall)
The Pianist
Flags of Our Fathers
Defiance
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Full Metal Jacket
Flyboys
Good Morning Vietnam

I guess technically the original Star Wars trilogy, Lord of the Rings, Children of Men, The Hunt for Red October, Watchmen, The Matrix, and the Indiana Jones movies are sort of war movies too.

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Along with Saving Private Ryan I'll add.....


Black Hawk Down

Troy

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