Immortal war Movies

[pak-marine]

Watch Defiance its a good movie

 

[darkinsky]

das boot is the best

 

[cyphercide]

Apocalypse Now. Everything else is nothing but a cheap imitation of the archetype. No Man's Land and The Pianist have their moments.

 

[third eye]

A great movie that brings out the need to be a team player . Individual brilliance is appreciated yet one cannot be a one man army.

In 1943 North Africa, George Patton (George C. Scott) assumes command of (and instills some much-needed discipline in) the American forces. Engaged in battle against Germany's Field Marshal Rommel (Karl Michael Vogler), Patton drives back "The Desert Fox" by using the German's own tactics. Promoted to Lieutenant General, Patton is sent to Sicily, where he engages in a personal war of egos with British Field Marshal Montgomery (Michael Bates).

Performing brilliantly in Italy, Patton seriously jeopardizes his future with a single slap. While touring an Army hospital, the General comes across a GI (Tim Considine) suffering from nervous fatigue. Incensed by what he considers a slacker, Patton smacks the poor soldier and orders him to get well in a hurry.

This incident results in his losing his command-and, by extension, missing out on D-Day. In his final campaign, Patton leads the US 3rd Army through Europe. Unabashedly flamboyant, Patton remains a valuable resource, but ultimately proves too much of a "loose cannon" in comparison to the more level-headed tactics of his old friend Omar Bradley (Karl Malden). Patton won 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Scott, an award that he refused.

 

[Dandpatta]

I would put SPR as a modern epic in terms of story telling and the way the camera worked in this movie. Before SPR,
Platoon set the bar in bringing realistic GI-Joe (foul) language as it is in the face of the audiences . A big departure from otherwise sanitised versions of the Nam wars through Bob Hopes flicks. Following Platoon, movies like Hamburger Hill, Full Metal Jacket, The Thin Red Line, Letters from Iwo Jima et al brought out the harsh realities of a soldiers POV as well.

 

[RazPaK]

One of my most favorite war movies was Tae Guk Gi, which is Korean.

You can watch full film on youtube. It was epic.

 

[Dandpatta]

How could I have forgotten this one !! Yes, an epic in its own sense (Asian one, not Holly flick)

One of my most favorite war movies was Tae Guk Gi, which is Korean.

You can watch full film on youtube. It was epic.

 

[kinsr]

How about Malena ... a love story set during the time WWII.. im sure there are many fans of this movie on this very forum ..

 

[kinsr]

Speaking of war movies ..

How can we forget Kelly's Hero .. one of the greatest war movies ever made. There are lot many more worth the watch


Tora Tora Tora - the most real account of the attack on pearl harbor. Even though the "Pearl Harbor" was ok but made boring due to needless inclusion of romance in the movie.
Midway
In Harms Way

 

[SwatCat]

Behind enemy lines
Enemy at the gates
300
Border

 

[third eye]

It is early December 1941. American expatriate Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) is the proprietor of an upscale nightclub and gambling den in Casablanca. "Rick's Café Américain" attracts a varied clientele: Vichy French, Italian, and German officials; refugees desperate to reach the still neutral United States; and those who prey on them. Although Rick professes to be neutral in all matters, it is later revealed he ran guns to Ethiopia and fought on the Loyalist side in the Spanish Civil War.

Black-and-white film screenshot of several people in a nightclub. A man on the far left is wearing a suit and has a woman standing next to him wearing a hat and dress. A man at the center is looking at the man on the left. A man on the far right is wearing a suit and looking to the other people.

Petty crook Ugarte (Peter Lorre) shows up and boasts to Rick of "letters of transit" obtained by murdering two German couriers. The papers allow the bearer to travel freely around German-controlled Europe and to neutral Portugal, and are thus almost priceless to the refugees stranded in Casablanca. Ugarte plans to sell them at the club later that night. Before he can, however, he is arrested by the local police under the command of Vichy Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains), an unabashedly corrupt official. Ugarte dies in custody without revealing that he had entrusted the letters to Rick.

At this point, the reason for Rick's bitterness—his former lover, Norwegian Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman)—walks into his establishment. Upon spotting Rick's friend and house pianist, Sam (Dooley Wilson), Ilsa asks him to play "As Time Goes By". Rick storms over, furious that Sam has disobeyed his order never to perform that song, and is stunned to see Ilsa. She is accompanied by her husband, Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), a renowned fugitive Czech Resistance leader. They need the letters to escape to America, where he can continue his work. German Major Strasser (Conrad Veidt) has come to Casablanca to see that Laszlo does not succeed.

When Laszlo makes inquiries, Ferrari (Sydney Greenstreet), a major underworld figure and Rick's friendly business rival, divulges his suspicion that Rick has the letters. In private, Rick refuses to sell at any price, telling Laszlo to ask his wife the reason. They are interrupted when Strasser leads a group of officers in singing "Die Wacht am Rhein". Laszlo orders the house band to play "La Marseillaise". When the band looks to Rick, he nods his head. Laszlo starts singing, alone at first, then patriotic fervor grips the crowd and everyone joins in, drowning out the Germans. In retaliation, Strasser has Renault close the club.
That night, Ilsa confronts Rick in the deserted café. When he refuses to give her the letters, she threatens him with a gun, but then confesses that she still loves him. She explains that when they first met and fell in love in Paris, she believed that her husband had been killed attempting to escape from a concentration camp. Later, while preparing to flee with Rick from the imminent fall of the city to the German army, she learned that Laszlo was alive and in hiding. She left Rick without explanation to tend her ill husband.

The lovers are reconciled. Rick agrees to help, leading her to believe that she will stay with him when Laszlo leaves. When Laszlo unexpectedly shows up, having narrowly escaped a police raid on a Resistance meeting, Rick has waiter Carl (S. K. Sakall) spirit Ilsa away.

Laszlo, aware of Rick's love for Ilsa, tries to persuade him to use the letters to take her to safety. When the police arrest Laszlo on a minor, trumped-up charge, Rick convinces Renault to release him by promising to set him up for a much more serious crime: possession of the letters of transit. To allay Renault's suspicions, Rick explains he and Ilsa will be leaving for America.
When Renault tries to arrest Laszlo as arranged, Rick forces him at gunpoint to assist in their escape. At the last moment, Rick makes Ilsa board the plane to Lisbon with her husband, telling her she would regret it if she stayed, "Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life."

Strasser, tipped off by Renault, drives up alone. Rick shoots him when he tries to intervene. When the police arrive, Renault pauses, then tells them to "round up the usual suspects." Renault suggests to Rick that they join the Free French at Brazzaville as they walk away into the fog.

 

[third eye]

A movie I doubt anyone interested in war movies could have missed.

A US Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers in World War II.

In England, in the spring of 1944, Allied forces are preparing for the D-Day invasion. Among them are Major John Reisman (Lee Marvin), an OSS officer; his commander, Regular Army Major General Sam Worden (Ernest Borgnine); and his former commander Colonel Everett Dasher Breed (Robert Ryan). Early in the film the personalities of the three men are shown to clash and the characters of the individualistic Reisman and the domineering Breed are established. Reisman is aided by his friend, the mild-mannered Major Max Armbruster (George Kennedy)

Major Reisman is assigned an unusual and top-secret pre-invasion mission: take a small unit of soldiers convicted of felonies and turn them into a commando squad to be sent on a special mission, an airborne infiltration and assault on a chateau near Rennes in Brittany. The chateau will be hosting a meeting of dozens of high-ranking German officers, the elimination of which will presumably hamper the German military's ability to respond to D-Day. Those felons who survive the mission will have their sentences commuted. It quickly becomes clear that both Reisman and his superiors regard the operation as a near-suicide mission and expect that few, if any of the felons will return.

Reisman is assigned twelve convicts, all either serving lengthy sentences or destined to be executed. Notable members include slow-witted Vernon Pinkley (Donald Sutherland); Robert Jefferson (Jim Brown), an African American soldier convicted of killing a man in a racial brawl; Samson Posey (Clint Walker), a gentle giant who becomes enraged when pushed; Joseph Wladislaw (Charles Bronson) a taciturn coal miner recruited for his ability to speak German, convicted of shooting his squad's medic; A.J. Maggott (Telly Savalas), a misogynist and religious fanatic; and Victor Franko (John Cassavetes), a former member of the Chicago organized-crime Syndicate who has extreme problems with authority. Under the supervision of Reisman and military police Sergeant Bowren (Richard Jaeckel), the group begin training. After being forced to construct their own living quarters, the twelve individuals are trained in combat by Reisman and gradually learn how to operate as a group. For parachute training they are sent to the base operated by Colonel Breed. Under strict orders to keep their mission secret, Reisman's men run afoul of Breed and his troops, especially after Pinkley poses as a general and inspects Breed's troops. Angered at the usurpation of his authority, Breed attempts to discover Reisman's mission and then attempts to get the program shut down. Major Armbruster suggests a test of whether Reisman's men are ready: during practice maneuvers which Breed will be taking part in, the "Dirty Dozen" will attempt to capture the Colonel's headquarters. During the maneuvers, the men use various unorthodox tactics, including theft, impersonation, and rule-breaking, to infiltrate Breed's headquarters and hold him and his men at gunpoint. This proves to the General that Reisman's men are ready.

The night of the raid, the men are flown to France, and practise a rhyme they have learned which details their roles in the operation. There is a slight snag when upon landing in a tree one of the Dozen, Jiminez (Trini Lopez) breaks his neck and dies, but the others proceed with the mission. Wladislaw and Reisman infiltrate the meeting disguised as German officers while Jefferson and Maggott sneak onto the top floor of the building. The others set up in various locations around the chateau. The plan falls apart when Maggott sees one of the women who had accompanied the officers, abducts her at knifepoint, and orders her to scream. The German officers downstairs ignore her, thinking she is just having sex. Maggott stabs her and begins shooting, alerting the German officers. Jefferson kills Maggott, as Maggott began to realize he was going to die anyway. As the officers and their companions retreat to an underground bomb shelter, a general firefight ensues between the Dozen and the German troops. After Wladislaw and Reisman lock the Germans in the bomb shelter, the Dozen pry open the ventilation ducts to the shelter and drop unprimed grenades down, then pour gasoline inside. Jefferson throws a primed grenade down each shaft and sprints for their vehicle, but is shot down as the grenades explode. Reisman, Bowren, Wladislaw, and Franko, the last remaining survivors of the assault team, are making their escape on a German half-track when Franko, shouting triumphantly that he has survived, is shot by a stray round. Back in England only Reisman, Bowren and Wladislaw have managed to get out alive.

 

[GR!FF!N]

lets start from World Wars...and then we'll move along..allright????

I saw few WW-I movies....

Flyboys
All Quiet on the Western Front
Paths of Glory(must watch)
Lawrence of Arabia
Legends of the Fall
Joyeux Noël(must watch)
The Red Baron
War Horse
A Very Long Engagement(nice movie)
Gallipoli


all of them are on war,but not exactly on warfare technique....

now,the movies on WW-2 I've watched---

Casablanca(immortal movie,must watch)
Flying Tigers
To Be Or Not To Be
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Stalag 17
The Caine Mutiny
To Hell and Back
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Ballad of a Soldier
The Bridge
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Judgment at Nuremberg
Ivan's Childhood
The Longest Day
The Great Escape
The Thin Red Line
Battle of the Bulge(you might want to see it)
The Sound of Music
The Dirty Dozen
Patton
Tora! Tora! Tora!(epic..must see)
Midway (another great one)
Cross of Iron
A Bridge Too Far(epic)
MacArthur
Das Boot (one of the very best)
Escape to Victory
Empire of the Sun
Grave of the Fireflies(must watch)
Stalingrad(must watch)
The Winter War
Europa Europa
Schindler's List(great one)
Underground
The English Patient
Life Is Beautiful(one of the very best)
Saving Private Ryan
The Thin Red Line
Malena
U-571
As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me
Band of Brothers(must watch entire series)
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Dark Blue World
Enemy at the Gates
Pearl Harbor
The Cuckoo
The Pianist(must watch)
Downfall
Dunkirk
The Great Raid
Black Book
Days of Glory
Flags of Our Fathers
Letters from Iwo Jima(one of the very best)
Tali-Ihantala 1944
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Defiance
Ip Man
The Reader
Valkyrie
Inglourious Basterds
The Pacific(great one...entire series)
The Way Back
Red Tails
White Tiger
Dunkirk
The windtalkers

well,I guess thats it..I know I missed few...most of these are good movies...now,start watching..

 

[sms]

@GR!FF!N you've covered almost all good war movies. There was one Korean movie about Korean war and about capturing a hill. Cannot recall it's name Great move must be added to list.

Can you add Indian movies ...
Haqeeqat - Plight and hard ship of Indian Soldiers in 1962 war
Akaraman - 1971 war movie with love triangle, bravery, courage and sacrifice of soldiers and their families
Vijeta - A Mig 21 Pilot's story based on 1971 war
Lalkar - based on bravery of two brothers to fight against Japanese invasion during WWII

and great "Border" - Naam hi kaafi hai

 

[third eye]

It was hoped that posters would describe the movie & not just produce a laundry list of movies.

The description would in turn help posters to view the movie if they so felt.