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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.
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.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.
I wasn't even aware the original still existed!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.
A late friend of mine met John Wayne when they were filing it and he was at Benning (he was a legit GB)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.
Gung Ho, Platoon, FMJ, Hacksaw RidgeWe Were Soldiers, Band of Brothers, Most any John Wayne military movie.