i've been looking for good war films to watch lately,saving private ryan,thin redline etc,etc.so far the best one i've seen is a bridge too far,whats your fav?
2007-04-06 14:48:38 · 34 answers · asked by voodooelectric 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Unquestionably, my favorite World War II movie is David Lean's Academy Award winning "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957) with William Holden and Alec "Star Wars" Guinness. Briefly, the film concerns the construction and destruction of a railway bridge built for the Japanese by British P.O.W.s. Holden is the hero who miraculously escapes from an inescapable prison camp in the middle of the jungle and makes it back to Allied lines. Once he is back, the Brits ask him to lead them to the bridge so that they can blow it up before the Japanese can send their first troop train through. The film is available in a color, widescreen edition with loads of documentaries. Holden's character is very anti-heroic, long before Clint Eastwood's Man with No Name character. Guinness plays a crazy British colonel who decides to help the Japanese build the bridge largely as a way to maintain discipline and morale among his own troops. When one of Guinness's subordinate officers tells him that the bridge could last almost forever, it appeals to the colonel's ego to build the bridge. This movie mixes drama with humor--mostly ironic humor. It is gritty, philosophical, but it's ending may leave you with a sour taste. Other great WW.2 war movies are "The Great Escape" (1963), "633 Squadron" (1964), "Where Eagles Dare" (1968), "The Longest Day" (1963), "Objective Burma!" (1945), "Gung-Ho" (1942) with Randolph Scott and Robert Mitchum, "The Guns of Navarone" and "Force 10 From Navarone."
2007-04-06 15:46:31 · answer #1 · answered by vanrbrts 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Thin Red Line on top
Also of note (in no particular order): Letters from Iwo Jima, Flags of Our Fathers, All Quiet on the Western Front, The General Dies at Dawn, Red Badge of Courage, Platoon, Apocalypse Now, Patton, Das Boot, Kanal, and Cross of Iron
2007-04-06 15:11:53 · answer #2 · answered by xiibaro 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Born On The 4th of July w/Tom Cruise, or Full Metal Jacket (Director Stanley Kubrick)
2007-04-06 15:06:41 · answer #3 · answered by Melissa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
300
2007-04-06 17:07:07 · answer #4 · answered by nash ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Saving Private Ryan is a great war movie. You feel genuinely sad for each character that is killed.
Platoon is also a good war movie. It seems very real.
Born on the Fourth of July is a very gritty war movie, that follows one solider before the war, during the war and after the war. Its a very sad movie.
2007-04-06 14:55:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Saving Private Ryan, 300 is awesome if you consider it a war movie and Pearl Harbour was great too.
2007-04-06 14:55:27 · answer #6 · answered by vanhammer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Glory
2007-04-06 14:59:44 · answer #7 · answered by D930Clan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'To End All Wars' & 'All Quiet On The Western Front'
2007-04-06 15:21:50 · answer #8 · answered by irish1 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Glory is my favorite for sure! Matthew Broderick, Carey Elwes, Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington...GREAT stuff and pretty much fact-based. It's set during the American Civil War and tells the story of the 54th Massachusetts, the first "colored" regiment in the war.
Also check out Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket. (Both are Vietnam films.) The opening 30+ minutes of FMJ is fantastic!
2007-04-06 15:32:12 · answer #9 · answered by playdead1414 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
saving private Ryan
2007-04-06 14:54:17 · answer #10 · answered by hyper29 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tae Guk Gi (The Brotherhood of War). Its Korean. DO NOT watch it dubbed. If you can't handle subtitles you probably shouldn't watch it.
2007-04-06 15:15:37 · answer #11 · answered by somathus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋