JensenS

As did I, and I agree. Fantastic movie. I'm especially embarrassed to have forgotten it seeing as I own it.

jpv

The Deer Hunter and The Killing Fields are my favorites. God, war is stupid.

Caspiantiger

Bridge over the river kwai
Spartacus

Stardust

Most of my favorites have already been listed, but one that nobody mentioned that I really like is Memphis Belle.

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Stardust

I forgot about Hamburger Hill

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"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can" -- John Wesley

hardcore

Haunting films.

Also the beginning of Saving Private Ryan and the end of Gallipoli.

Stardust

U-571
Crimson Tide
Hunt for Red October
Thirteen Days

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RYou

If you have seen them yet, The Military History Channel just started a series on the Bloodiest Battle of the Civil War. Watch it, these generals were insane; the soldiers were insane. 20, 30, 40,000 casualties in a single battle. The Wilderness, the south suffered 19,000 KIA in a single day. The angle for this one is through the biography of 1 or 2 that were in the heaqt of the battle. Shiuloh, was about Yankee General William Wallace, KIA from a miniball to the head, but llived for 3 onths will his wife cared for him in a southern plantation. Theres much more detail thean Ken Burns Civil War and telling the story through the experience of a warrior is pretty informative.

Okay everyone's got their AMC / TCM favorites, now here's some the AOne cinema, that is must see. Lots a good mentioned afore me so I won't repeat those here.

Historical - Gladiator - No one mentioned Gladiator, sheesh.

Global Wars - Star Wars - c'mon guys the original is clearly top entertainment

Okay, nuf of the fictional stuff, I'll start with the Civil War

Red Badge of Courage - an oldie well worth the view time, better yet read the book.

Gettyburg - great documentary of the 3 day clash. The acting is spotty at times, but you get the gist, Lee blew the war away not taking Semenary Ridge on day 1, and forcing the attacks on day 2 and three. Had he ordered his regiments to take Roundtop and Semenary Ridge on day 1 and the Wheatfield on day two, Washington DC would have been left unprotected.

How can you omit the classic, Gone With the Wind

Let's move on to WWI; how about
Sargeant York - Gary Cooper will keep you interested
Don't forget The African Queen. 95% a love dovey plot, 5% taking on the German Navy from a quasi bath tub.
The book is better than the movie and the movie is ....great - All Quiet on the Western Front
The Fighting 69th - Another of my favorites - with Pat Obrien and James Cagney

Okay, everyone has their WWII favorites.
Some of mine include those with the WWII in the background:
Schindlers List, Casablanca, The Caine Mutiny, To Have and Have Not.
Any of the 4 are worth renting because they ararely pop up on the tube anymore, especially the last 3.

For blood ang guts WWII Navy, favs include:

The Enemy Below - Robert Mitchem and Kurt Jurgens
Das Boot - largely a German cast
Run Silent Run Deep - Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster
Crash Dive - Tyrone Power and dana Andrews

One of the first produced about the war in the Pacific - Guadalcanal Diary. William Bendix is classically Brooklyn.

The Great Escape - a bit exaggerated from the real event, but Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough make one of the most incredible events of the war quite entertaining. Stalag 17 was close but no match for TGE.

The all time classic WWII movie - Sands of Iwo Jima.

Okay so you don't like the black and white stuff, then you gotta see Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima. It is fictional but the a lot of research that went into the Japanese defense of Iwo. You're supposed to watch it's twin first, Flags of Our Fathers, the American attack on Iwo, it's just as good, but Letters gives a perspective on the war that no other American made picture has attempted to tell. Letters is now on AMC about twice per month. Can't wait, some rainy weekend rent the trio, Sands of Iwo Jima, Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima.

UGLY

Band of Brothers hands down. I have probably watched the who series about 30x's

Apocalypse Now

Saving Private Ryan. This was shown to us in boot 3 times.

We were soldiers

Heart Break Ridge

ODH

Breaker Morant is another movie that occurs on the periphy of war and is a fantastic movie about the absurdity of war.