Yet another movie thread (war flicks this time)

Memorial Day is coming up, and all the networks seem to be packing their lineups with war movies. Got me to thinking, what is (are) your favorite war movie(s)? Here are some of mine, in no particular order:

Memphis Belle
The Longest Day
Glory
Flags of Our Fathers (good movie, but the book was much better)
Gettysburgh
The Patriot

 

Platoon
Full metal jacket
Uncommon valor

 

Inglorious Bastards
Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket

 

Thin Red Line


Anyone want to do best war books?

The Naked and the Dead
A Farewell to Arms

 

Memphis Belle! My favorite bird from WW2; the B-17 flying fortress. Nothing produced today sounds like a big ass radial engine!

 

Blackhawk down
Flag of our fathers

 

Saving private Ryan
Magnificent seven
Southern comfort
Band of brothers

 

Memphis Belle was a great movie! Full metal jacket was also a good one.

Heartbreak Ridge
Enemy at the gates
M*A*S*H

 

Enemy at the gates awesome movie

 

A number of great ones up here already - especially Band of Brothers!

I'd also say these two oldies but goodies:

The Dirty Dozen
Stalag 17

 

Everything listed are very watchable movies. Anything J. Wayne did has to be there too.

Band of Brothers was such a great series. I've probably seen it a dozen times and I still can't stop watching it.

Just about anything from the 40's.. Wake Island, Bogart's Sahara come to mind.

 

Like Igilmore said, many good movies already posted. I'm not sure I have a favorite. Memorial Day is coming soon and I know it is a day for WWII vets. Love the movies but I just can't stop thinking about the active duty military who, maybe somebody might have a holiday and movie made about them.

God Bless you servicemen and women! Thank you for what you and your family do for our country!

 

Patton, Zulu and A Bridge Too Far deserve mentions.

 

U-571 is on right now. Another great one!

 

Saving Private Ryan
Full Metal Jacket
Black Hawk Down

If we talk about books Team Yankee is a great book. Being a former tanker I love this book and I don't normally read books

 

Lots of good ones mentioned. I would add Das Boot.

 

Apocalypse Now

Just read a good one: We Die Alone.

 

The Great Escape

 

The Bridge Over the River Quai (sp?)
Patton
The Dirty Dozen

Does anybody know a movie about WWII POWs who build a glider and catapult it off the roof of a building using a bathtub as the counter weight. The glider is built with wooden frame, covered with oat-mill soaked bed sheets. They launch, fly to Switzerland I think. The end of the movie is the glider flying to freedom and everybody breaks into a victory song... I'll be darned if I cant remember the name of the movie though. It's a great movie, first time I saw it must have been at least 30 years ago. Help anybody?

 

I read that. Crazy escape across Russia.

 

+1 to The Great Escape and MASH. Kellys Heros and Stripes.

 

1941

 

The eagle has landed

 

Lots of great one's already mentioned. Two I'll add:

Dr Strangelove
We Were Soldiers

 

Von Ryan's Express

Incredible movie.

 

hands down, fire birds
Also:
Patton
We were soldiers
A bridge to far
Also there was a doc about glider pilots called silent wings feat andy rooney if you dont know much about thoes guys. They had balls! If you live near campbell or bragg go on post and walk through one. Also if you ever road trip by a large post, please go on and stop at a museum. Your dollars funded them after all.

Books:
We were soldiers
Tiger force
The last true story ill ever tell
Black hearts

 

+1 for "A Bridge Too Far"
Also adding "A Midnight Clear"

Book: "The 900 Days: The Siege Of Leningrad" by Harrison Salisbury.
This is an incredibly detailed and gruesome account of the Siege.

 

Midway
Pearl Harbor
The Sand Pebbles
Tora Tora Tora

 

Rambo Series
Commando
Delta Force
Missing in Action

 

Best War Book

King Rat by James Clavell

 

While it's not a "movie," it is possibly one of the most poignant shows you can watch & is certainly most fitting for viewing on Memorial Day:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/introduction/warletters/

For "movies" I thought these were really good ones:

We Were Soldiers

Saving Private Ryan

Tears Of The Sun

The Great Escape

 

The Big Red One (1980) is one of my favorites.

The Hurt Locker is probably the last war movie I saw and I really enjoyed it too. Might be time for a rewatch this week.

 

I'm sure you get this all the time, but did you know that guy is from Antigo?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colditz_Cock

 

Full Metal Jacket
Patton
Red Dawn
Saving Private Rian
Leathernecks

 

Saving Private Ryan
Apocalypse now
Glory
Band of Brothers
Tropic Thunder

All of these are classics in my mind, okay not the last one. Side topic: Watching the Pacific series right now (on disc 4). Had so much potential, I thought maybe they would have chronicaled some aviators or guys in the navy. I'm fine with covering the Marines exclusively, but it just wasn't done as well as Band of Brothers.