The Greatest War Movies

[stivenmichelus]

Black Hawk Down
Independence day
platoon
Pearl harbour
The Hurt Locker

 

[SHASH2K2]

saving private ryan
platoon
patriot
gladiator
lord of rings

 

[sandeepdg]

Choosing 5 movies from such a huge category is very very difficult !! I rather categorize my favorites based on particular wars:

WW 2:


1) The Bridge on the River Kwai
2) The Guns of Navarone
3) Schindler's List
4) The Thin Red Line
5) Saving Private Ryan

Vietnam War:

1) Platoon
2) Flight of the Intruder
3) First Blood 2
4) Full Metal Jacket
5) We were Soldiers

More Recent war films:

1) Black Hawk Down
2) Navy Seals
3) The Hurt Locker
4) Tears of the Sun
5) The Delta Force

 

[samarsingh]

No Man's Land
It does not have grand battle scenes like saving Private Ryan but it sure is a no nonsense movie that gets the message across, must watch in my view.
Also it deservingly got the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2002 (Beating our own Lagaan)

 

[Phenom]

Enemy At the Gates

Its a gripping story about 2 snipers on a fight to the death. The depiction of the city of Stalingrad during the battle was just awe inspiring. Definately the best WW2 movie that I have seen. Its also interesting to see WW2 from a non-US perspective.

 

[JBH22]

1-9th company (Russian airborne troops) based on the real fight of hill 3234 during Operation Margistral in Afghanistan 1988
2-Black Hawk Down
3-Enemy at the gates
4-Border (sunny paaji)
5-Tora Tora Tora (Pearl harbor bombing preparation japanese perspective)

 

[sandeepdg]

Enemy At the Gates

Its a gripping story about 2 snipers on a fight to the death. The depiction of the city of Stalingrad during the battle was just awe inspiring. Definately the best WW2 movie that I have seen. Its also interesting to see WW2 from a non-US perspective.

Surely, this is an awesome movie, mate !!! Awesome sniping duel between Jude Law as a Soviet sniper and Ed Harris as the German major !! But I think it pales in comparison to the movies listed by me, that's my view, mate.

 

[Param]

The best war movie ever is no doubt 'Saving Praivate Ryan'.

'Saving Private Ryan' voted no1 war film
PTI, Aug 20, 2009, 05.17pm IST

Read more: 'Saving Private Ryan' voted no1 war film - UK - World - The Times of India 'Saving Private Ryan' voted no1 war film - UK - World - The Times of India

LONDON: Steven Spielberg's multiple Oscar winning film 'Saving Private Ryan´ has been named the best war film of all time in a poll of movie fans.

Saving Private Ryan´, a 1998 film starring Hollywood stars Tom Hanks and Matt Damon, garnered 21% of the vote, Telegraph online reported.

The survey was conducted by online DVD and games rental service Lovefilm on more than 3,000 of its members, to mark the cinema release of Quentin Tarantino's 'Inglourious Basterds´.

'The Great Escape´, featuring Steve McQueen as the Cooler King, took 11% of the vote. It pipped another Spielberg-directed film, 'Schindler's List´ to second spot.

Francis Ford Coppola's 'Apocalypse Now´, set in Vietnam but based on Josef Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness, came fourth with nine per cent of the votes.

The Vietnam War was also the backdrop for Stanley Kubrick's 'Full Metal Jacket´ and Oliver Stone's 'Platoon´, which came fifth and sixth respectively, as well as Michael Cimino's 'The Deer Hunter´ which grabbed the tenth position.

'Braveheart´, starring Hollywood superstar Mel Gibson as the Scottish hero William Wallace, claimed seventh spot while modern day war movie 'Black Hawk Down´ came eighth.

Wolfgang Peterson's German U-Boat drama 'Das Boot´ was the only non English language film to make it in to the list on the ninth spot.

Read more: 'Saving Private Ryan' voted no1 war film - UK - World - The Times of India 'Saving Private Ryan' voted no1 war film - UK - World - The Times of India

 

[Suryakiran]

My Top 5 list.

1. Saving Private Ryan
2. Enemy at the Gates
3. Bridge too far
4. Pearl Harbor
5. Patton (nobody have listed this movie. Haven't anybody seen this one?)

Few other movies which I liked...
1. The Great Escape
2. Cross of Iron (German side of WW2. Did anybody watch it?)

 

[pmaitra]

My top pick:

• The Guns of Navarone
• 9 Rota
• Enemy at the Gates
• Escape from Sobibor
• Black Hawk Down

 

[Oracle]

1. Bridge on the river Kwai
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Iwo Jima
4. The Pianist
5. No Man's Land

 

[Blackwater]

Black hawk down
Tora Tora Tora
Behind enemy lines

 

[utubekhiladi]

1) Apocalypse now
2) windtalkers (my fav bloodiest war movie)
3) saving private ryan
4) we were soldiers
5) black hawk down
6) full metal jacket
7) pearl harbor
8) Enemy at the Gate
9) A Bridge Too Far
10) Border (Bollywood)

 

[pmaitra]

Black hawk down
Tora Tora Tora
Behind enemy lines

Thanks a great choice! You have good taste. I already picked my 5, so can't include it. It would have competed with Black Hawk Down in my perspective.

 

[Armand2REP]

I like ancient warfare movies best...

1) Gladiator
2) Braveheart
3) The Patriot
4) Master and Commander
5) Troy
6) Windtalkers

 

[utubekhiladi]

i am surprised no one picked 'windtalkers'... how can you miss this movie?

 

[Godless-Kafir]

I like ancient warfare movies best...

1) Gladiator
2) Braveheart
3) The Patriot
4) Master and Commander
5) Troy
6) Windtalkers

No French movies or is that COTS too!!

 

[utubekhiladi]

No English war Movie can match our indigenous war movie

 

[Armand2REP]

No French movies or is that COTS too!!

French war films are about exploring the psyche of the trenches, it is depressing.

 

[utubekhiladi]

I like ancient warfare movies best...

1) Gladiator
2) Braveheart
3) The Patriot
4) Master and Commander
5) Troy
6) Windtalkers

dude, wintalkers is not an ancient war movie.. who told you that?

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