The Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
The Guns Of Navarrone
Sands Of Iwo Jima
Patton
The Great Escape
A Bridge Too Far
PT 109
The Flying Tigers
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Raid On Rommel
Thin Red Line
The Deer Hunter
Hamburger Hill
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Apocolypse Now
Black Hawk Down
Behind Enemy Lines
Flight Of the Intruder
We Were Soldiers
The Bridge On The River Kwai
All Quiet On The Western Front
Guadalcanal Diary
Midway
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Pork Chop Hill
The Green Berets
Glory
Gettysburg
Braveheart
Troy
"Black Hawk Down" isn't a war movie. It's about a downed chopper/failed rescue in Somalia. "Schindler's List", I wouldn't include that either, personally. That dealt more with the Holocaust than actual combat. "Full Metal Jacket", meh. The 2nd half of the film is the only part that deals with war, and honestly, it's not all that great. It's more an individual character study. "Apocalypse Now" bored me to tears, and that too was more of a character study in Sheen, and him witnessing the atrocities of war.
That said:
Tae Guk Gi (The Brotherhood of War)
Saving Private Ryan
We Were Soldiers
Pearl Harbor (**** you, I loved it)
Platoon
Manchurian Candidate (1962 - One of the few Cold War films)
The original 1962 version was themed around the Cold War. It's more "war" related in the political/conspiratorial sense, but is more of a war film than "Schindler's List", IMO.
Most new age "war" films, even those that are "true", have some sort of underlying story, no matter if it's sappy or dramatic, or all blood and guts. I still think "Pearl Harbor" is a war epic, because the main focus is the war itself, and considering the actual LENGTH of the damn thing, which can really only be rivaled by "A Bridge Too Far".
Wasn't impressed by hamburger hill, platoon is known as the more realistic of the two. Everyone I know who was in the vietnam war says that it not only captures the insanity of the combat, but the self destructing mentality that a lot of people had. Plus everything that happened in Platoon happend to Oliver Stone while he was serving in the war.
yeah for me it'd be:
Saving Private Ryan
Platoon
Apocolypse Now
Hamburger Hill
Full Metal Jacket (despite the fact only half the movie was in the ACTUAL war, i still think they training half helped show the mentality and develop the characters)
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