Yet another movie thread (war flicks this time)

[gratus fermentatio]

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

 

[rhamilton]

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.

 

[motobrewer]

Flags of Our Fathers (good movie, but the book was much better)

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

 

[motobrewer]

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?

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

 

[wolfstar]

Full Metal Jacket
Patton
Red Dawn
Saving Private Rian
Leathernecks

 

[solbes]

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.