Top 5 War Films

[lloydnoise]

Kubrick is the war master. FMJacket is incredible but you should check out Paths of Glory, different vibe altogether, all about an investigative tribunal and institutionalised injustice, properly gets me at the end....

BADMAN WAR FILM

[DustyBunzzz]

Waltz with Bashir
Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
Zulu
The Deer Hunter

Downfall gets a mention as well

[magma]

Stalingrad
Dr Strangelove
Downfall
Full Metal Jacket
Redacted

[brasco]

saving private ryan
downfall
FMJ
hurtlocker
platoon

cant believe no ones mentioned windtalkers worst 4 quid i ever spent

[cityzen]

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[firky]

Ice Cold in Alex

Probably the best advert for piss weak larger ever

[bright maroon]

I'm with you japanezers..I was gonna say Ran though

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[wormcode]

Some great films mentioned so far. I'll throw in Casualties of War (Brian De Palma). I love this film, I think Sean Penn is brilliant in it. Michael J Fox is good as well, though it's kind of an odd role for him he fits the character. John C. Reilly is there too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_OVJxTyHy4

Stalingrad is another brilliant film that should not be missed.

[uncle bill]

Full Metal Jacket
Paths Of Glory
Das Boot
The Deer Hunter
The Bridge On The River Kwai

I also have a soft spot for Hell In The Pacific, mainly because Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune are both awesome. Also, M.A.S.H.

Best recent ones are Eastwood's 'Flags Of Our Fathers' / 'Letters From Iwo Jima'.

Apocalypse Now is no more a war film than Casablanca is. It's a film set during a war. Not the same thing.

[miscreant]

Full Metal Jacket
Paths Of Glory
Das Boot
The Deer Hunter
The Bridge On The River Kwai

I also have a soft spot for Hell In The Pacific, mainly because Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune are both awesome. Also, M.A.S.H.

Best recent ones are Eastwood's 'Flags Of Our Fathers' / 'Letters From Iwo Jima'.

Apocalypse Now is no more a war film than Casablanca is. It's a film set during a war. Not the same thing.

Really liked flags of our fathers, thought letters from iwo jima was pretty dull though, it had a really good storyline, showing the guys blowing themselves up etc but dont think the acting was all that.

[BaronVon]

Rescue Dawn
Full Metal Jacket
Three Kings
Star Wars
Platoon

I would have said The Deer Hunter but the first 30 minutes is rubbish. I've never managed to sit through the whole of Apocalypse Now.

[cityzen]

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[kay]

Umm....South Park The Movie?

[brasco]

Umm....South Park The Movie?

top shout. it was particularly harrowing when they bombed the baldwins

[firky]

One of the best anti-war films ever made IMO, I don't generally like Anime but this is an outstanding piece of work.

Grave of the Fireflies (火垂るの墓, Hotaru no Haka?) is a 1988 animated film written and directed by Isao Takahata.[1] This is the first film produced by Shinchosha, who hired Studio Ghibli to do the animation production work. It is an adaptation of the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Akiyuki Nosaka, intended as a personal apology to the author's own sister.

Roger Ebert considers it to be one of the most powerful anti-war movies ever made. Animation historian Ernest Rister compares the film to Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List and says, "it is the most profoundly human animated film I've ever seen."[2]

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[firky]

Oh ya. make sure you check out Company 9. Amazing war film right there

That's the Russian one, aye? I think I have seen that, it rings a bell, probably pissed and or stoned.

[fretn]

- nobody metioned black hawk down, definetely a good flick to me!

[my_war]

Apocalypse Now
Taegukgi (Brotherhood)
Grave of the Fireflies
The Thin Red Line
Come and See

[hatsudai]

"Empire of the sun" would be in there for me

[kay]

One of the best anti-war films ever made IMO, I don't generally like Anime but this is an outstanding piece of work.

Grave of the Fireflies (火垂るの墓, Hotaru no Haka?) is a 1988 animated film written and directed by Isao Takahata.[1] This is the first film produced by Shinchosha, who hired Studio Ghibli to do the animation production work. It is an adaptation of the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Akiyuki Nosaka, intended as a personal apology to the author's own sister.

Roger Ebert considers it to be one of the most powerful anti-war movies ever made. Animation historian Ernest Rister compares the film to Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List and says, "it is the most profoundly human animated film I've ever seen."[2]

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Cool, I'd been meaning to check this one out!