Bear in mind that I'm only posting this because I have a compulsive need to make film lists and share them, but feel free to answer it anyway. Mine are:
1. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
2. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
3. Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
4. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
5. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
Runner-up: The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino)
I'd also like to give special mention to Dr. Strangelove, which I didn't include because it doesn't quite fit under the conventional definition of a "war film."
2006-12-12 12:36:58 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
I didn't forget Platton. Oliver Stone is a horrible, horrible filmmaker, although that is the closest he's ever come to a good film.
2006-12-12 12:58:02 · update #1
1) Apocalypse Now
2) Full Metal Jacket
3) Paths of Glory
4) The Big Red One
5) All Quiet On The Western Front
2006-12-12 13:15:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Apocalypse Now
2. The Deer Hunter
3. The Steel Helmet (Sam Fuller)
4. The Outlaw Josie Wales (post Civil War)
5. Saving Private Ryan
2006-12-12 21:13:48 · answer #2 · answered by texasfilmsnob 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Disincluding Dr. S., working with a loose-ish definition of 'war film':
1. Paths of Glory (yay!)
2. Lawrence of Arabia
3. Das Boot
4. Breaker Morant
5. The Great Escape
6. The General (if it counts!)
7. Glory
8. The Killing Fields
9. Salvador (sorry, I read that you hate Oliver Stone, but I like this one, and it's a much smaller movie than the more bombastic, boring stuff like Platoon)
10. Spartacus
2006-12-12 21:39:31 · answer #3 · answered by Kate S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Full Metal Jacket
2. Platoon
3. Apocalypse Now
4. We Were Soliders
5.The Deer Hunter
2006-12-12 20:52:08 · answer #4 · answered by Karra E 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tora Tora Tora
Midway
The Longest Day
Green Berets
The Sands of Iwo Jima
From Here to Eternity
Casultuies of War
M*A*S*H
Full Metal Jacket
Uncommon Valor
Bat 21 --true story
2006-12-12 20:56:49 · answer #5 · answered by nas88car300 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Saving Private Ryan
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Deer Hunter
Forest Gump
2006-12-12 20:44:02 · answer #6 · answered by Greg B 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I. Saving Private Ryan
II. Full Metal Jacket
III. Braveheart
IV. Black Hawk Down
V. Lord of the Rings (The Two Towers)
2006-12-12 21:35:55 · answer #7 · answered by Mikenytro 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Saving Private Ryan
The Dirty Dozen
The Guns of Navarone
The English Patient
A Farewell to Arms
2006-12-12 21:13:26 · answer #8 · answered by Diane G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have seen NONE of these movies.
But Dr. Strangelove definitely would be on my list. Wild movie.
Sort of a 60's version of Crank.
Bridge over River Kwai was good
Zulu was very good.
Batman Returns butler was in it.
Runner up for me would be Red Dawn
I like Rambo II and III.
Why don't they have Rambo III on CD?
Hope this helps. I will see if your list of movies is available for rent at the video store.
My favorite scary movie; Predator. FINALLY! the main character FIGHTS BACK. Too many movies everyone dies, NO ONE picks up anything to fight back. Runner up would be SILENT HILL. At least the two women TRY to fight back. Stupid do-not-fight-back was American Werewolf in London. Remember the guy in the subway. He had an attache and a umbrella. The wolf is after him, so THROW DOWN the attache and the umbrella, and then WORSE - fall down and scream! Give me a break...
2006-12-12 21:18:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Deer Hunter
Apocalypse Now
Hamburger Hill
Glory
Full Metal Jacket
Taps - (Tom Cruise) not really war but you know
2006-12-12 20:47:35 · answer #10 · answered by Lolitta 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋