Favorite classic military movies

[Nicodemus]

Gods And Generals
Gettysburg
Son Of The Morning Star

 

[bilgerat]

so many to choose from but heres a few
The enemy below
Twelve o'clock high
A bridge to far
The young lions
Run silent Run deep
Battle Stations

and my favorite ... The guns of Navarone

 

[The Original Rooster]

In no particular order and no particular war or country, just war films:

Tora Tora Tora
Midway (1976)
A Bridge Too Far
The Memphis Belle (1990)
The Battle of Britain
Sink The Bismarck
The Battle of the River Plate
Das Boot (1981)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
The Enemy Below
Against the Sun
The Cruel Sea

And I'm sure there's a few I'm forgetting.

 

[Milkman]

Interesting take on the subject! I never really thought about that sub-genre (no pun intended) of the "war movie" category. I think the first submarine movie I ever saw was "Das Boot" around 1980 or so if memory serves.

When you watch a submarine war movie on streaming plan’s like Roku it pops up suggestions of more and more.
I think I may have watched all the English speaking ones now.

 

[Ruger#3]

In no particular order and no particular war or country, just war films:

Tora Tora Tora
Midway (1976)
A Bridge Too Far
The Memphis Belle (1990)
The Battle of Britain
Sink The Bismarck
The Battle of the River Plate
Das Boot (1981)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
The Enemy Below
Against the Sun
The Cruel Sea

And I'm sure there's a few I'm forgetting.

Trivia for you, the real Memphis Belle was restored to display quality and is in the USAF museum. The one flying around the country in air shows is not the plane that flew in combat.

 

[The Original Rooster]

Trivia for you, the real Memphis Belle was restored to display quality and is in the USAF museum. The one flying around the country in air shows is not the plane that flew in combat.

I wasn't even aware the original still existed!

 

[Throwback]

Add in a pretty bad movie, The Green Berets. It didn't stick to the 1965 novel, and bore little resemblance to the reality of South Vietnam at the time. The movie did not accurately depict the Army's special forces, and certainly was not an "influential" move when it was released in 1968.

But it did have John Wayne as lead actor and director. It did portray US forces in a positive light - just as the Hippie culture of San Francisco was spreading to become the anti-war socialist movement on school campuses. The Green Berets was possibly the only movie in those years that a high school or college kid could see patriotic American men trying to do the right thing.

A late friend of mine met John Wayne when they were filing it and he was at Benning (he was a legit GB)

 

[Ruger#3]

I wasn't even aware the original still existed!

 

[ryork]

I was a WWII Pacific Theatre history geek in my younger years. Loved to watch Midway, Tora Tora Tora, Run Silent Run Deep, In Harms Way, Sands of Iwo Jima, PT 109 (not sure if that is what is called off the top of my head) among others.

 

[WOODIE13]

We Were Soldiers, Band of Brothers, Most any John Wayne military movie.

Gung Ho, Platoon, FMJ, Hacksaw Ridge

 

[breathe in]

M*A*S*H
Apocalypse Now
The Deer Hunter