Must-watch war movies?

[748rpilot]

Looking for recommendations on war related or themed movies to watch. Documentaries, based-on-a-true-story or historical fiction preferred. Ideally available on Amazon Prime or Netflix, as that's all I have available.

Someone in the PortaJohn thread mentioned Fury, so I checked it out. Really good movie, I thought! Then I watched Anthropoid, which was also quite good, and a couple documentaries about the Nazis and the weird shit they got up to.

What recommends The Hide?

 

[Mister Ridge]

Band of Brothers. The Pacific. The Longest Day. To Hell and Back.

 

[plh]

Breaker Morant

 

[roostercogburn98]

Hacksaw Ridge
Wind Talkers

 

[Cowpokey]

We Were Soldiers, The Outpost, Flags of Our Fathers, Full Metal Jacket, Platoon

 

[Bulletproof1060]

12 Strong
If your on HBO. Generation Kill It’s a great mini series.

 

[theLBC]

restrepo

 

[Numb_Skull]

The Woman King, it’s 100% true and factual.

 

[Yasherka]

Come and See

 

[JoshPutman]

We were soldiers
Saving Private Ryan
Windtalkers
Kelly's Heroes
Full Metal Jacket
Heartbreak Ridge... not much actual war, but still great.
Enemy at the Gates
The Dirty Dozen

 

[timesublime]

Come and See

This!!!

 

[Doc68]

Battle of the bulge
Bridge too far

 

[timesublime]

Hyena Road, Bridges at Toko-Ri, Run Silent Run Deep, Taking Chance, Tae Guk Gi, The Last Detail, Boys of Company C, Danger Close...

 

[Downtown]

Another vote for Restrepo and it's sequel, Korengal.

 

[Kein Mitleid]

Come and See was excellent and pretty disturbing.

Paths of Glory

Thin Red Line

Downfall

Stalingrad (by Vilsmaier)

The Pianist

 

[748rpilot]

The Woman King, it’s 100% true and factual.

Is that male-to-female or female-to-male? I do just find this all so confusing.

 

[Atomic_Lobster]

Zulu

 

[Sean the Nailer]

The Great Escape.
Hacksaw Ridge
As has been said:
Band of Brothers
The Pacific
The Big Red One

 

[EddieNFL]

Sands of Iwo Jima

Green Berets

Korea: The Forgotten War

 

[sirhrmechanic]

Pretty sure there is already a thread here... you might do search.

But...

Seige of Jadotville
The Wild Geese (campy, but good)
The Seige of Firebase Gloria
Jarhead
Second on ZULU... Fantastic!
Miniseries Generation Kill
Blackhawk Down

Cheers,

Sirhr

 

[Skunk]

Glory

 

[sirhrmechanic]

The Battle of Britain (Campy, but the aerial scenes are awesome)
Tora Tora Tora
The Longest Day
Second The Green Berets!
Apocalypse Now Redux (long version)

 

[ZY100]

Beneath Hill 60

 

[Alphatreedog]

All quiet on the western front .

 

[ewoaf]

Master and commander
Midway
American sniper
Casualties of war
The hurt locker
Green zone
Top gun
Top gun 2
The Alamo
Hamburger hill
84 Charlie MOPIC
April morning
Rules of engagement
Three Kings
Gettysburg
Gods and generals
Free state of Jones
Flight of the intruder
Red Dawn
Rambo 2 or 3
Valkyrie
Braveheart
Turn
Four feathers
Inglorious bastards
Patton
Hunt for red October
Hunter killer
Crimson tide
Tears of the sun
Act of valor
The Patriot
The war that made America
Hornets nest
China Beach
They shall not grow old
Field of Lost shoes
Starship troopers

 

[Thumper580]

Bridge on the River Kwai

 

[n2ishun]

So far no one has mentioned Kelly's Heroes ?
I mean how can you not ?

 

[Ichi]

The Eagle Has Landed (1976) Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland - Full Movie Upscaled to 4k by AI

 

[Ichi]

The Enemy Below (1957) Robert Mitchum, Curt Jurgens - Full Movie

 

[Ichi]

The Heroes of Telemark (1965) Kirk Douglas - Full Movie

 

[Maggot]

Band of Brothers. The Pacific. The Longest Day. To Hell and Back.

The longest day.

Watching the Rangers scale the cliffs on those nets. Humbling. If yor ever think youre having a bad fucking day just watch the landing.

Being of the Viet Nam era, two of my favorites are Platoon, and Apocalypse Now. Oddly both starred a Sheen.

I think Apocalypse Now is one of the all time great movies of any genre. so many memorable quotes.

“I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”

"I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight... razor... and surviving."

"Charlie don't surf."

“In this war, things get confused out there—power, ideals, the old morality, and practical military necessity . . . because there’s a conflict in every human heart between the rational and the irrational, between good and evil. And good does not always triumph.”

“The horror, the horror.”

 

[Maggot]

Zulu

This and This , shit your brithches time, one.

 

[Cowpokey]

Thanks for the new thread OP, I've started watching Band of Brothers again this evening, haven't watched the series in a few months...always a good show.

 

[Ichi]

Tae Guk Gi - The Brotherhood of War

 

[JR_77]

Anyone watched “Downfall?” It has the infamous Hitler scene that’s been used in 100’s of funny short videos.

The reviews say it’s fantastic. German language only from my understanding so have to use subtitles.

 

[Ichi]

The Front Line - Available on Amazon Prime

 

[pmclaine]

Been listening to this guys comparisons of movies to actual history on my rides into work….

https://m.youtube.com/@ReelHistory

Lots of war movies reviewed.

 

[Maggot]

Ay movie in which a lot of communists die.

 

[Ichi]

The Battle of Chosin - American Experience Documentary. Available on Amazon Prime

 

[Ronws]

"Heartbreak Ridge."

 

[Ichi]

My Way - Available on Amazon Prime

A bit far fetched. But an interesting plot involving Koreans force to fight for the Japanese in Manchuria against the Russians and eventually ending up on the beaches of Normandy.

 

[Soulezoo]

All the above plus, Das Boot, 12 O'clock High, They were expendable (based on true events)

 

[sirhrmechanic]

The longest day.

Watching the Rangers scale the cliffs on those nets. Humbling. If yor ever think youre having a bad fucking day just watch the landing.

The famous scene where the beach master gives Sean Connary’s Bren Carrier “a good bash”… was real. The beach master was Colin Maud.

Colin Maud - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

The actual shillelagh he carried onto the beach was used in the movie. And now resides in the D-Day museum in Portsmouth, UK.

Maud was a technical advisor on the film.

Tough men!

Sirhr

 

[sirhrmechanic]

All the above plus, Das Boot, 12 O'clock High, They were expendable (based on true events)

They Were Expendable was very closely based on William Lindsey White’s book of the same name. One of the first big “War bestsellers” along with Guadalcanal Diary and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.

Also great movies!

Sirhr

 

[NCgreentick]

There is a sub-titled French movie called "Intimate Enemies" that was pretty good. It's about the French fighting insurgents in Algeria.

 

[Ichi]

The Battle of Jangsari - Available on Amazon Prime

 

[Ronws]

Another movie I liked was "M*A*S*H" with Donald Sutherland.

 

[LeftyJason]

The guns of navarone

 

[acudaowner]

stripes
tropic thunder
mash
adventure team America the uncut edition

 

[K470]

Sergeant York and on the lighter side 1941