Best War Film??

[Tanzeylee]

Fury.

 

[WyongBlue]

Twelve 0 Clock High
The Longest Day
Sink the Bismark
The Desert Rats
Gallipoli
We were Soldiers

 

[hackneyslim]

Come and See
Shoah
The Beast
All Quiet on the Western Front

 

[uweuweuwe]

Good morning Vietnam
Although maybe showing my age but when someone says war film I tend to think of black and white movies like the dam busters, angels one five or ice cold in alex and sure they were always staring Richard todd

 

[grunge]

for me its Saving Private Ryan followed by Platoon.

 

[Henkeman]

The Bridge on the River Kwai.

Alec Guinness is wonderful throughout.

It's a great film, but the poor bugger who they based Colonel Nicholson on in reality spent four years sabotaging the Japanese at every turn and was known for the rest of his life as a collaborator because of the film.

Sink the Bismarck is an interesting one, because they had Kenneth More being the hero correctly guessing where the battleship had gone. It stands up pretty well now too, but of course the reason they had to do that exposition was that the film makers had no idea that Bletchley Park existed, nor that they eventually found her through Lutjens dreadfully ill advised radio message.

 

[bluesking]

Cross of Iron
Where Eagles Dare
Full Metal Jacket
Battle of Britain
The Cruel Sea
Das Boot
Stalingrad (the 90's version)
Guns of Navarone
Platoon
Empire of the Sun
The Beast (also known as "The Beast of War")

The one that really does it for me was a TV based film about the Z Special Force raids on Singapore Harbour called "The Heroes". Have read the book as well and apart from having your customary Australian soap star in them the story itself is both fantastic and harrowing in equal measure.

 

[Lancet Fluke]

Platoon, The Pianist and Casualties of War.

 

[tonea2003]

schindlers list needs a mention

 

[Ghandi's Flip Flops]

Cross of Iron
Where Eagles Dare
Das Boot
The Longest Day
and maybe Saving Private Ryan for the opening scene