Top ten favorite war movies

[fmj123]

I know that a lot of people on joblo don't like war movies, but i do and i know that there are others like me. And by the way, if you don't like war movies then don't post here. Another thing, the movie doesn't have to have shooting in it to be considered a war movie. It just has to be about war. Here are my top ten. (Band of Brothers doesn't count same with Forest Gump).

1. The longest Day
2. Full Metal Jacket
3. Patton
4. Platoon
5. The Bridge Over River Qui
6. The Guns of Navarone
7. We Were Soldiers
8. Enemy At The Gates
9. Saving Private Ryan
10. A Bridge Too Far

[JayB18]

1. Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
2. Flags of our Fathers
3. We Were Soldiers
4. Platoon
5. Glory
6. Downfall
7. The Thin Red Line
8. Saving Private Ryan
9. Saints and Soldiers
10. Black Hawk Down

I haven't seen any older war movies. Would movies like Schindler's List or The Pianist count?

[Mr-Blonde]

1. Apocalypse Now
2. Full Metal Jacket
3. The Thin Red Line
4. Black Hawk Down
5. Platoon
6. The Bridge Over the River Quai
7. Tae Guk Gi: Brotherhood of War
8. Paths of Glory
9. Downfall
10. Born On the Fourth of July

[fmj123]

they both count. Yeah

[X-Nightcrawler]

My favorite war movie is Savior. Goddamn beautiful film.

[MidnightAngel]

1.Apocalypse Now
2.Platoon
3.Tae Guk Gi
4.Saving Private Ryan
5.The Wild Geese
6.El Alamein
7.Stalinsgrad
8.Where Eagles Dare
9.The Guns of Navarone
10.Das Boot

[deadguy76]

Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
Tigerland
Black Hawk Down
The Thin Red Line
Platoon
Saving Private Ryan
Casualties of War
Paths of Glory
Stalingrad

[RandalGraves]

1. Troy
2. Jarhead
3, Black Hawk Down
4. Flags of our Fathers
5. Saving Private Ryan
6. Full Metal Jacket
7. We Were Soldiers
8. Apocolypse Now
9. Behind Enemy Lines
10. Enemy at the Gates

[JayB18]

After seeing Flags of our Fathers I would put it in as my second favorite war movie.

[Le_Big_Mac]

1. The Bridge on the River Kwai
2. Casualties of War
3. Apocalypse Now
4. Full Metal Jacket
5. The Great Escape
6. The Guns of Navarone
7. Hell Is For Heroes
8. Saving Private Ryan
9. Flags of Our Fathers
10. The Wind and the Lion

[Hominid]

1. Apocolypse Now
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Platoon
4. Full Metal Jacket
5. THe Deer Hunter
6. The Bridge on the River Kwai
7. Patton
8. Lawrence of Arabia
9. Paths To Glory
10. All Quiet On The Western Front

[Puck Bond]

1. Saving Private Ryan(1998)
2. Platoon(1986)
3. The Great Escape(1963)
4. The Bridge on the River Kwai(1957)
5. Apocalypse Now(1979)
6. Paths of Glory(1957)
7. Patton(1970)
8. The Longest Day(1962)
9. Full Metal Jacket(1987)
10. Glory(1989)

[athf1980]

1. The Bridge on the River Kwai
2. Black Hawk Down
3. Full Metal Jacket
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. The Patriot
6. Platoon
7. The Pianst
8. We Were Soldiers
9. Patton
10. Flags of our Fathers

[ilovemovies]

1. Glory
2. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
3. Platoon
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. Born on the Fourth of July
6. The Thin Red Line
7. The Last Samurai
8. Braveheart
9. Courage Under Fire
10. Black Hawk Down

[Philip Marlowe]

Top 10 lesser known War films

Zulu
Memphis Belle
Hell Is For Heroes
Empire of the Sun
Forty-Ninth Parallel
Casualties of War
Hope and Glory
The Big Red One
When Trumpets Fade
Thirteen Days

I remember A Midnight Clear being great but it's been sometime.

Why do people like The Longest Day. I thought it was good but no where near a masterpiece. Maybe I'll go back and have a look at it.

[Puck Bond]

Originally posted by Philip Marlowe
Top 10 lesser known War films

Zulu
Memphis Belle
Hell Is For Heroes
Empire of the Sun
Forty-Ninth Parallel
Casualties of War
Hope and Glory
The Big Red One
When Trumpets Fade
Thirteen Days

I remember A Midnight Clear being great but it's been sometime.

Why do people like The Longest Day. I thought it was good but no where near a masterpiece. Maybe I'll go back and have a look at it.

Because its Saving Private Ryan made 45 years ago in glorious black and white with an international all-star cast!

[Erich Zann]

in no particular order:

downfall
apocalypse now redux
full metal jacket
a generation / kanal / ashes to diamonds
born on the 4th of july
stalingrad
das boot
lifeboat (the theme was about war)
johhny got his gun (not the greatest fiilm, but a very effective one)
battle of algiers

[Gian-Sergio]

1.Apocalypse Now
2.The Big Red One:The Reconstruction
3.Where Eagles Dare
4.The Battle Of Algiers
5.Full Metal Jacket
6.Dr. Strangelove
7.Saving Private Ryan
8.The Dirty Dozen
9.Hell In The Pacific
10.The Great Escape

[MickeyKnox]

1. Apocalypse Now
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Full Metal Jacket
4. Black Hawk Down
5. Das Boot
6. Letters From Iwo Jima
7. The Thin Red Line
8. Flags Of Our Fathers
9. The Great Escape
10. The Last Samurai

[Tony_Montana]

Saving Private Ryan
Apocalypse Now
The Deer Hunter
Braveheart
The Last Samurai
Last of the Mohicans
The Good the Bad and the Ugly (Civil War backdrop after all)
Lord of War
The Pianist
Three Kings

I don't really count Schindler's List as a war movie, since the Holocaust wasn't really anything to do with the war itself, rather the Nazi's regime.

Some other good ones: Zulu, The Dirty Dozen, Bridge on the River Kwai, Were Eagles Dare, The Great Escape, Pan's Labyrinth, the Guns of the Navorone and Kelly's Heros

[AngelDust06]

1. Braveheart
2. Platoon
3. Flags of Our Fathers
4. We Were Soldiers
5. Glory
6. The Deer Hunter
7. The THin Red Line
8. Patton
9. Tora! Tora! Tora!
10. Full Metal Jacket

[BigRedNeck]

1. Apocalypse Now
2. Full Metal Jacket
3. Platoon
4. Black Hawk Down
5. Band of Brothers (Not really a movie but its great series)
6. Hamburger Hill
7.Flags of Our Fathers
8. We Were Soldiers

[Hatfield]

1. Apocalypse Now
2. Paths of Glory
3. Patton
4. Platoon
5. Full Metal Jacket
6. The Boys in Company C
7. Tigerland
8. The Thin Red Line
9. Saving Private Ryan
10. Black Hawk Down

[HHHLovesMovies]

1. FULL METAL JACKET
2. Platoon
3. Saving Private Ryan
4. Braveheart
5. Glory
6. The Deer Hunter
7. Appocalypse Now
8. The Patriot
9. Flags Of Our Fathers
10. We Were Soldiers

[ToasT]

In no particular order...

The Thin Red Line
Saving Private Ryan
Apocalypse Now
Braveheart
A Bridge Too Far
The Beast
Three Kings
Jarhead
The Last of the Mohicans
The Last Samurai