Best war films

The Train, Burt Lancaster.

The development of large HD TV's has enabled films to be seen properly at home.

Most of the films we watched as kids or back in the day are worth watching again on a modern tv's

What bugs me though, why isn't there a proper decent American Civil War film?

A few have been done but nothing spectacular.

Shout out for Dads Army too ;-)
 
In my opinion, the below are essential viewing:

1. Soldier of Orange
2. Black Books
3. Saving Private Ryan [incredible production]
4. Narvik
5. Unbroken
6. Patton [is under-rated]
7. The 6888
8. The Dambusters
9. Operation Mincemeat
10. Number 24
11. All Quiet on the Western Front [original]
12. Letters from Iwo Jima
13. Gallipoli
14. Operation Mincemeat
15. The Pianist
16. Platoon
17. Das Boot
18. Shoah
19. The Ascent [Russian]
20. Kanal
21. Pilecki's Report [Polish]
22. The Keeper [shameless Blue connection]


 
ysmsa said:
The Train, Burt Lancaster.

The development of large HD TV's has enabled films to be seen properly at home.

Most of the films we watched as kids or back in the day are worth watching again on a modern tv's

What bugs me though, why isn't there a proper decent American Civil War film?

A few have been done but nothing spectacular.

Shout out for Dads Army too ;-)
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Not quite a war film (unless you count Baron Bomburst vs the children), but Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was on tv a while back, so we forced the kids to watch it and the picture quality on a uhd tv was stunning, like I’d never seen it before - I suppose these films were originally made for huge cinema screens and the original format can now be shown
 
Oyster28catcher said:
In my opinion, the below are essential viewing:

1. Soldier of Orange
2. Black Books
3. Saving Private Ryan [incredible production]
4. Narvik
5. Unbroken
6. Patton [is under-rated]
7. The 6888
8. The Dambusters
9. Operation Mincemeat
10. Number 24
11. All Quiet on the Western Front [original]
12. Letters from Iwo Jima
13. Gallipoli
14. Operation Mincemeat
15. The Pianist
16. Platoon
17. Das Boot
18. Shoah
19. The Ascent [Russian]
20. Kanal
21. Pilecki's Report [Polish]
22. The Keeper [shameless Blue connection]


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Parts of Patton were actually filmed in Knutsford.
 
Boo or Boo-urns said:
On tonight, ITV4 HD @ 22:00 (Weds 4th June)

Platoon (1986)
Four-time Oscar-winner film following a young college dropout who signs up for service in Vietnam in September 1967 and finds himself on the front line.

Starring Tom Berenger, William Dafoe & Charlie Sheen.
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Bloody missed it-(
 
ysmsa said:
The Train, Burt Lancaster.

The development of large HD TV's has enabled films to be seen properly at home.

Most of the films we watched as kids or back in the day are worth watching again on a modern tv's

What bugs me though, why isn't there a proper decent American Civil War film?

A few have been done but nothing spectacular.

Shout out for Dads Army too ;-)
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Shenandoah
Red badge of courage
the Horse Soldiers
Outlaw Josie Wales
Gone with the wind
few decent films there.
 
The Battle of Britain.
The Hill.
Ice Cold in Alex.
The Longest Day.
The Dambusters.
Das Boot.
Convoy.
The Cruel Sea.

As an aside, my father fought in Africa and Italy during the war, and other than Ice Cold in Alex, I can't think of any film I've watched over the years that tells the story of the theatres of battle he was engaged in that were just as pivotal in winning the war.

El Alamein, Salerno, and Monte Casino were brutal, hard fought campaigns with little recognition today, and as he said to me on the day we were watching the 60th celebrations of D-Day on the TV, ' No one remembers us'.
 
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