Ok Favorite WAR movie of all time ??

[johnastovall]

Originally Posted by Duffy Pratt

Grand Illusion - Renoir
Shoulder Arms - Chaplin
The General - Keaton
Kagamusha - Kurasowa
Seven Beauties - Wertmuller
Battle of Algiers - Pontecorvo
Paths of Glory - Kubrick

Excellent picks, I had forgotten about the war theme in 'Seven Beauties' and 'Grand Illusion' just has to be on any best war movies.

If you've not see The Battle of Algiers - Criterion Collection excellent background matterial on the DVD.
Yacef Saadi who plays "Djafar" was an FLN bomb maker and operational director for the bombing.

[texxter]

Some good ones mentioned already, so here is a few more I like:

All Quiet on the Western Front - Lewis Milestone (1930)
The Deer Hunter - Michael Cimino (1978)
Jeux interdits - René Clément (1952)
Hiroshima mon amour - Alain Resnais (1959)
Au revoir les enfants - Louis Malle (1987)
The Pianist - Roman Polanski (2002)
Das Boot - Wolfgang Petersen (1981)

texxter added 2 Minutes and 56 Seconds later...Double Post Merged Below

If you've not see The Battle of Algiers - Criterion Collection excellent background matterial on the DVD.

This is an excellent film - available here - http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...98016489872474 - seems to be an illegal copy, so check it out and buy the Criterion DVD.

[lscottpht]

Originally Posted by ken74

Band of Brothers
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
Midway
Gladiator
Victory at Sea - It's a documentary I watched back in the 80's in history class

Ooh, ooh, Gladiator! One of my all time favorite movies!

[johnastovall]

Originally Posted by texxter

Some good ones mentioned already, so here is a few more I like:

All Quiet on the Western Front - Lewis Milestone (1930)
The Deer Hunter - Michael Cimino (1978)
Jeux interdits - René Clément (1952)
Hiroshima mon amour - Alain Resnais (1959)
Au revoir les enfants - Louis Malle (1987)
The Pianist - Roman Polanski (2002)
Das Boot - Wolfgang Petersen (1981)

Oh yes, the director's cut of Das Boot is a must see also. Greatest submarine movie ever....

[ka5txl]

Originally Posted by ka5txl

"A Band of Brothers"
"Saving Private Ryan"
"A Bridge too Far"
"The Longest Day"

Forgot to add "We were Soldiers"

[andyz]

The Great Escape - absolutely!

[kenw]

You are all hereby sentenced to live the remainder of your ungrateful lives in...Oklahoma!

THE GREATEST WAR MOVIE OF ALL TIME:

The Alamo. It's Texas and it has John Wayne. What else is there?

OK, so if you want a war movie that will keep you awake at night, Stanley Kubrik's 'Path's of Glory' (1957) will work better than any drug....

[danchez]

a different type of war movie but a great one none the less: Pan's Labyrinth