The Longest Day - Definately a classic, with an all-star cast and some memorable quotes 'Yeah, it takes an Irishman to play the pipes!' 'Wounds my heart with a monotonous langour.'
A Bridge too Far - Also a great film, more Connery and a bit of Caine...the German tanks were a bit off but otherwise good stuff. The music score was memorable too...same as The Longest Day.
Das Boot - The Daddy of all submarine films....nuff said. Best watched in original German with English subtitles :up:
Saving Private Ryan - Would you believe it, I only watched this the other day for the first time. Very Hollywood in places but managed to avoid some of the major cliches. The fact that Upham remained cowering even when the rest of the team were getting slaughtered made me nod my head in appreiciation, in other war films that would have been the moment he reached for his BAR and went gung ho into action. However, the whole reason for the mission, the whole 'go out and grab one guy' was a little far-fetched and a bit too Hollywood IMHO.
The Great Escape - Classic Steve McQueen, the moments in the cooler particularly funny and the 'Good luck' bit particularly cringeworthy ('Noooo!! You got that far why the hell did you have to slip up!!')
Other - The Battle of Britain - This is probably the one I'm gonna vote for here...it's got all the events covered, and covered beautifully. The special effects are good even to this day, the dogfight scenes wonderfully enacted....and when you add to this fact that I'm British and come from the south-east...well, the Battle of Britain has a soft-spot for me.
Hell, even the missus quite enjoyed it.

I haven't seen Cross of Iron or Stalingrad yet (saw part of 'Enemy at the Gates' during a History lesson....wasn't overly impressed) but I will put them on my list to watch.

There are a lot of accounts of men being saved by there helmets only to be shot in the head moments later. Usually the shock from being hit in the head keeps their heads up for another clean shot.. Realism. Grim reality.. LUCK has everything to do with it.

Das boot is the fav so far in this forum? Who would've thunk it. Its my fav, I also thought Tora! Tora! Tora! is great, and I like private ryan. I hear a lot of British complaining that private ryan is too hollywood, and by watching it you would think it was only americans at normandy, when in fact the majority were British, so maybe Ryan isn't as historically accurate and too hollywood than it should be. But nevertheless entertaining enough to be one of my favorites. The Great Escape is pretty good too.

The Longest Day - Definately a classic, with an all-star cast and some memorable quotes 'Yeah, it takes an Irishman to play the pipes!' 'Wounds my heart with a monotonous langour.'

I've got lunatics laughing at me from the woods. My original plan has been scuppered now that the jeeps haven't arrived. My communications are completely broken down. Do you really believe any of that can be helped by a cup of tea?

Couldn't hurt Sir.

:up: :up: :up: :up:

I would also throw Patton into the mix

I picked "Cross of Iron" but I have the uncut version that does not have the BBFC certification on it (lucky me).
But there are other's I like:-
The Enemy below
Sink the Bismark
Battle of Brittain
633 Squadron
Were Eagles Dare
The Great Raid
Just to name a few

I picked Saving Private Ryan, just thinking about it, it practically started every WWII shooter up until now. Patton should be on that list and Enemy at the Gates is worth honorable mention(certainly not the best but must see WWII material).

edit: also see Europa Europa

What is the BBFC cert your talking about? What am I missing with the cut version?

Gee, can I vote for Pearl Harbor? :88)

I have to go with the Great Escape. Classic.

One that would go into the "Other Choice" for me is "In Harms Way" John Wayne, Kirk Douglas and many other featured actors in it. Takes you from Pearl Harbor to 1944 in the Pacific Theater of Operations. I have it on DVD and watch it at least 4 times a year. Just love the movie. Of course there are some liberties taken towards the Hollywood side of things, but I overlook them. In my opinion I think that movie is DAMN GOOD. In fact when my children are old enough (16 - 18 years old) they will be required to watch it. I'm a USN Chief Petty Officer so the discipline in the house is run like it is on a ship. Well at least I think it is, of course the Admiral (aka the WIFE) has ultimate rule so most of my edicts are eventually toned to what she says. LOL Can't be at sea all the time. :lol:

British Board of Film Certification

Uh-oh. I may have to give up my magic hat. I was only a Radioman trainee (Seaman 1st) when I got out in 1970. Looking back over the years, it's good to see someone making a career (even though we young slugs laughed at 'lifers' back in the day.

Mine's not on the list:

Kelly's Heros

Woof woof woof! :88)

http://www.homevideos.com/revaa/21b.htm

*note this movie was directed by the same guy who directed 'Where Eagles Dare'


"16 million bucks! Have yourelf a bottle of booze baby! You're beautiful!!"

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"Always with the negative waves Moriarty, always with the negative waves."

Kelly's Heroes...a WW2 flick that had seen the 1960s. :)

SPR. I liked the Band of Brothers type theme. The D-Day scene at the beginning is a classic.

"Always with the negative waves Moriarty, always with the negative waves."
my favorite line loved Odd Ball the beatnick/hippy moriarty was on the love boat also.

My favorite war movie tho is "Sgt York" and Audy Murphy story "To hell and back."

Saving Private Ryan definitely my favourite but The Thin Red Line comes a close second, very absorbing and surreal (war is rather surreal after all!).

[quote="Inajira"]Saving Private Ryan definitely my favourite but The Thin Red Line comes a close second, very absorbing and surreal (war is rather surreal after all!).[/]

Omg i loved The Thin Red Line..

It was more about humanity and effects rather than war.

To quote the dvd box

"To Say this movie is about war is to say that Moby Dick is a novel about whales."

-regarding The Thin Red Line

Well insofar as war is a part of humanity (and so, arguably is inhumanity), then the movie is about humanity.

I still reckon its primary focus is war though... kind of like an impressionist's painting of war.

Brilliant movie though... it gradually sucked me in, although Saving Private Ryan had me by the ____s from the start!