What is your favorite WW I I movie? why?

Answer 1

I enjoyed almost all of them myself and still do. Like movies today, most were more fiction then real but movies back then to me were more realistic. Actors like John Wayne, Clark Gable, Glenn Ford, Ernie Borgnine, Pat O'Brien, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, just to name a few made movies worth going to and kept you in suspense, laughter and what ever. They were all great and still are today.

Answer 2

There are just too many to list here. But I will try to put down a couple of my absolute favorites.
Battle of Midway- this movie depicted the front end of WWII from the days and weeks following the battle of Coral Sea, to the days following the battle of Midway Island in May of 1942. The star studded cast portrayed what was (according to veterans that took part in this action) almost a documentary rather than a movie, it was so close to the original.

Sands of Iwo Jima- John Wayne only played two or three types of roles in his career, but by God, he played them well. This was the first time I ever saw the Duke die, and I thought he was invincible. But the point was a group of individuals coming together to make a team, and watching everyone fail, succeed, make mistakes and overcome in a battle that is near and dear to the hearts of every marine. Of the battle for Iwo Jima, Admiral Chester Nimitz (CINCPAC-Allied Forces) was quoted as saying "Uncommon valor was a common virtue.) I have yet to see Flags of Our Fathers, but another memorable quote comes from the advertisements. "They fought for their country, they died for their friends.

Mister Roberts/Ensign Pulver-comedy that revolves around the crew of a Navy freighter that stars James Cagney, Jack Lemmon, Walter Mathau and a handful of others. Takes an irreverany look at a crew that was not actually involved in the fighting during WWII.

Saving Private Ryan- gritty look at the war following D-Day. It shows the comaraderie of a single unit and the dedication they have to finding one of their own, even though they have no idea who he is. Star studded cast, filmed using the same cameras and film that was used at the time for an ultra realistic view of how things were. The whole movie is a flashback of an old veteran wondering if his life was actually worth the sacrifice of so many.

The Thin Red Line- an attempt to copy the feel and success of Saving private Ryan, this movie is so bad that it would have to borrow success to be considered at the bottom of the suck pile. This 3.5+ hour movie had more names that you could shake a stick at, and I would pay a hundred times what I paid to see it if only I could have that period of my life back. There were some fruity issues in that movie, most notably the fact that three MARINE!!!!!!!!!!!!! divisions landed at Guadacanal, not the Army, and this thing had no plot, and drove me to find the proucers of Total Recall so that I could get one of their patented labotomies so that I could forget that that period of my life ever happened.

But enough about me.

Answer 3

i have alot of favorite WW2 movies...
Tora Tora Tora
Patton
The Longest Day
The Great Raid
The Great Escape
Battle of the Bulge
Saints and Soldiers
Enemy at the Gates
Windtalkers(could have been better and alittle more realistic)
Saving Private Ryan (was good but coulda also done better)
Band of Brothers (it was a TV series on HBO but i still call it a movie)

and i think the worst WW2 movie ever made was
Pearl Harbor

anyway i like watching war movies because it shows how horrible things people have gone through. and that the only people they had to trust was the person next to them and how they devolpoed a brotherly bond. they also tell storys about some of the heroic things people have done in history.

Answer 4

Old one - The Devil's Brigade. - I loved the way the Americans and Canadians came together in order to be the catalyst for the Special Forces.

New one - Saving Private Ryan - I admit I felt I was in shell shock over the realism of this one but I was also moved to tears. It was a truly heartfelt veterans movie.

Answer 5

It'd have to be just about any John Wayne movie. He was in "The Flying Tigers", "Sands of Iwo Jima", "Flying Leathernecks", "The Fighting Seabees", "The Longest Day", "In Harm's Way", "Back to Bataan", "They Were Expendable" and "Operation Pacific". Of those, my fave would probably be the movie he had the smallest part of all those titles...."The Longest Day". It was an awesome movie with an all-star cast. Right up there with that would be "Sands of Iwo Jima". It's a powerful movie about the account of that day.

I can't really say that John Wayne made a bad movie about WWII. He gave great credit to that war and our military who served.

Answer 6

Yes, I would have to go with any John Wayne movie. No need to re-list them again.
Second choice...Blood on the Sun. Why...Starred James Cagney, another great actor of that era.

Answer 7

Windtalkers is perhaps the worst war movie ever made - I mean, filming trampoline-propelled guys in slo-mo to simulate the effects of a grenade blast is just terrible!

Answer 8

Frances joins the army. he was very smart and when he would start talking the soldiers would get their mood up a notch.

Answer 9

BAND OF BROTHERS! because it shows the realitys of war but also shows the beauty of commradary and brotherhood that can only come from war.

Answer 10

band of brothers