Johnny Got His Gun
Catch-22
Dr. Strangelove
Coming Home
Gallipoli
Saving Private Ryan
Band of Brothers?
Has this been mentioned? It was an HBO miniseries in 2001, and noticeably potrayed americans as the heroes of the war, but i thoroughly enjoyed it. It was incredibly historically accurate, and the combat sequences were very well done. It would be on my list.
"Band of Brothers" isn't a film. Now if there was a topic on the TV forum of best war series.
Well, it was filmed in a very cinematic style. But it would be on my top war tv series list anyway.
Marcel Ophuls' Veillées d'armes (or The Troubles We've Seen) deserves an honourable mention on the topic of war journalism - a very impressive documentary, I thought.
Yeah, Das Boot deserves a second mention. The subtitled version is the stronger film, I think. If you have a good home theater rig, the re-mastered Superbit Director's Cut DVD, Widescreen with DTS sound, is absolutely stunning. I'm generally not a huge DTS fan, but this one is superb - it blows away the DD soundtrack. The Progresive Scan video quality is excellent as well. 3½ hours of jaw droppin' entertainment.
If we're going to go German, I would certainly prefer "The Tin Drum" to "Das Boot."
Oh - I loved The Tin Drum - book and film!!!!!
Shows you how ignorant of modern times I am: I'm quite familiar with the book but never even knew it had been made into a film.
Lost Command and
The Battle of Algiers offer some insight concerning France's legacy to post WWII geopolitics.
Merry Andrew wrote:Shows you how ignorant of modern times I am: I'm quite familiar with the book but never even knew it had been made into a film.
It was made in 1979. Here is but one site that describes the movie:
The Tin Drum Comprehensive Movie Review
"The Tin Drum" is inspired and gut wrenchingly realistic movie.
Also, "Europa Europa" Based on a true chronical of a Jewish boy who is mistaken for a German, inducted into the German army and managing to maintain the facade throughout the war and escape the holocaust.
Glad Timber added "The Battle of Algiers." I have an old video of "Das Boot" and it looks like it is due for a replacement. I'll try the DTS decoding.
Platoon is my personal favorite war film
The Boys in Company C
The Boys in Company C. Someone mentioned it above, that is one hard to find movie. We hunted for months before finding a worn-out VHS copy through the library system.
This was the movie I mentally compared Platoon and Full Metal Jacket to, when they came out. I can't even remember seeing a Vietnam movie worth a crap prior to Boys in Company C.
Although I never read it, I know the M*A*S*H* paperbacks have the unit go to Vietnam. I always wondered if that story was any good. Anyone read it?
I have just watched Patton (finally)
It is great as a portrait of a legendary figure rather than a war film.
good
A legendary and very controversial character. The recent unfortunately crass comments by the Army officer in reference to it being fun shooting some people could make one view the movie in a different life.
I think this has potential to become a keeper in the genre
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Quote:Politicus: Politics and metaphor in next Eastwood film
By John Vinocur
Tuesday, March 8, 2005
PARIS Clint Eastwood's favorite film is always his next one, and the next one is about the six marines who planted the American flag on Iwo Jima in World War II. An Associated Press photographer caught a sense of America's unison and will in the angle of the rising Stars and Stripes, and in the bent backs of the guys who stood it tall.
