recommend classic war movies

[marksomebodyelse]

They Were Expendable
Coming Home
The Longest Day
Patton
Full Metal Jacket
Gardens of Stone
Das Boot

[JoeM]

Here's a few old movies I grew up watching over and over when I was a kid:

A Walk in the Sun (Dana Andrews-1945)
Attack (Jack Palance-1956)
Guadalcanal Diary (Preston Foster-1943)
They Were Expendable (John Wayne, Robert Montgomery-1945)
Battleground (Van Johnson-1949)
Twelve O'Clock High (Gregory Peck-1949)
Run Silent, Run Deep (Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, and Jack Warden-1958)
The Steel Helmet (Gene Evans-1951)
Fixed Bayonets! (Richard Basehart, Gene Evans-1951)

[Filliam H. Muffman]

What do you mean by "classic"... gladiator, samurai, Civil War, Spanish-American, cowboy and indian, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, or just war movies made in the 50's-70's?

New WWII:
WindTalkers
Tears of the sun

Comedy/black comedy:
1941
Catch 22
Tropic Thunder
Good Morning, Vietnam

Old not mentioned:
The Sands of Iwo Jima
Gone With the Wind
Where Eagles Dare
The Great Dictator
Casablanca
Ran
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Battle of Algiers
Grand Illusion
Barry Lyndon
Army of Shadows
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (and a bunch of spagetti westerns made and set about the same time)

[Rolando]

MASH?

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Found a couple more at this site.
http://www.franksreelreviews.com/shortta...antwar.htm

Sergeant York
Gallipoli
The Lost Battalion
African Queen
Wings (lot of movies with that name, not sure which)
All Quiet on the Western Front
A Farewell to Arms
The Dawn Patrol
The Blue Max
The Guns of Navarone
Cross of Iron
Empire of the Sun
From Here to Eternity
30 Seconds Over Tokyo
M*A*S*H
Macarthur
Manchurian Candidate
Pork Chop Hill
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Ben Hur
The Sand Pebbles

And one I could not remember the name of, had to search on cast members.
Ensign Pulver (which lead me to)
Fail-Safe (cold war)

[TheCaber]

Kagemusha (Shadow Warrior)

300

[neophyte]

On the Beach (1959)
Director: Stanley Kramer
Stars: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner and Fred Astaire

Aftermath of global nuclear war, survivors know they will succumb.

[Racer X]

Operation Petticoat
Mr Roberts
Ensign Pulver

for comedies.

[cbelt3]

The Big Red One....Mark Hamill is the scared kid on the beach in North Africa

[Speedy]

Saw if for the first time last night. A Tea Party classic.

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