WAR FILMS.What are the five best?Mine are,BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI,SAVING PRIVATE RYAN,STALINGRAD,DAS BOOT AND

Question

A BRIDGE TOO FAR.more whoppers please.

Answer 1

battle of britain, the longest day, a bridge too far, the eagle has landed, the great escape and of the fairly modern one's saving private ryan and enemy at the gates.

Answer 2

Casualties of War...

Bat 21...

Hamburger Hill...

That vietnam one with Bruce Willis in it..??

Apocalypse now...

Answer 3

enemy at the gates, shaving ryan's privates, gladiator (its not war but its still fulla the battle stuff! dnt tell me you weren't impressed with the DIAMOND), and rambo 4 AA gunning people they would have chopped your heads off and raped her 50 times!

oh Stallone your in there wi arnie wi the comments

Answer 4

All of the films mentioned are brill

The Trench (WW1)

Answer 5

The Longest Day,,, Tora,Tora,Tora,,,,Hunt for Red October (not a war film, but an excellent movie),,,,Kelly's Heroes (a little comic relief),,,Apocalypse Now,,,

Wild Geese if you like mercenary action.

Answer 6

In no particlar order

1. Das Boot

2. Stalingrad

3. Saving Private Ryan

4. Downfall

5. Gettysburg

Answer 7

The Ten Commandments - Past.

The Longest  Day - Present.

The Great Escape ?

King Rat?

Luke 9.25,55-56,60

What do you think?

Answer 8

Full metal jacket,the dambusters,kellys heros,saving private ryan and the old pearl harbour movie.

Answer 9

Ok..how about in addition 'paths of glory' and 'full metal jacket' These show the stark brutality and meaninglessness soldiers are thrown into in total war situations

Answer 10

Blue Max, Longest Day, Midway, Tora Tora Tora, Kelly's Heroes (My personal favorite Comedy), Full Metal Jacket, Gardens of Stone, and Private York.

Answer 11

The Longest Day

Saving Private Ryan

Sands of Io Jima

The Fighting 69th  (1930 era)

All Quiet on the Western Front  (also about 1930)

The Green Berets

Sergeant York

Answer 12

D-Day

Battle of Britain

Fly For Your Life.

The Dambusters

Catch 22.

and that's just WW II.

All Quite on the Western Front

WW I

Answer 13

Patton (For YEARS I thought George C. Scott WAS Patton!)

In Harm's Way

Midway

To h**l and Back (The True Story of Audie Murphy)

Saving Private Ryan

The Sands of Iwo Jima

Answer 14

Battle of Britain

The Great Escape

A Bridge too far

Saving private Ryan

And most recently

Letters from IWO JIMA

although there are others to be considered..  Like

Enemy at the Gate

Reach for the Sky

The Dambusters

&

A matter of life and death (not strictly a war film, but one of my top 10 of all time and set in WW2)

Oh and yes... Black Hawk Down (can't watch that enough)

Answer 15

Good call on some of those.

Here are a few of my favorites:

1. Downfall (German-with English subtitles)

2. Apocalypse Now Redux

3. Enemy at the Gate

4. Blackhawk Down

5. Gallpoli

Answer 16

Not a war flick, but "The Bedford Incident" is pretty darn good.