OK - What's yer favourite War Film? .....

[ST2UP]

Schindlers List
Band of Brothers (TV series)
Enemy at the gates
Every sub movie and naval battle there ever was and finally...
Starship Troopers :)
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Starship Troopers....   Nothing to do with having Denise Richards in it of course 

[Bikebear]

Mmmmmmmm... Denise Richards

[Brock]

The bridge over the River Kwai was a good movie.

Interesting trivia. Movie was shot in Sri Lanka. Tjhe river Kwai wasnt known as the river Kwai, but after the movie, tourists wanted to see the bridge over the river, so it was renamed to mae it easier to find.. :)

[Wombat]

i have made my final decision. One of my mentors who taught me my skills in my profession in my younger days was a supply truck driver in the battle of the bulge. RIP

 

[hobs]

'The Train'. Early black and white movie with Burt Lancaster about the french resistance against the germans. If you guys would get it out and watch it, you would vote it the best ever. Really worth a watch.

Was based on actual events.

[Sean]

Apocalypse Now for something a bit heavy and Saving Private Ryan for some action.
 

[Biggles]

Stalingrad (1993), mainly because it portrays in a very real way the futility and horror of the siege of Stalingrad.

I also enjoyed Das Boot.

And Full Metal Jacket... and Apocalypse Now... and Above us the waves.....

Now there's a man with great taste and sophistication.

And yes, Neale, "Sound of Music" was a war movie that filled in an interesting aspect of the effects of Hitler's madness on families.

[Toddy52]

I have to go with The Dam Busters, my Dad did 35 missions in 460 Squadron Lancasters.

[RexJ]

Mmmmmm. Indeed Denise Richards! 

And a film? - there's lot's of them. We've had lot's of wars to make movies about.

Das Boot came from nowhere. It wasn't originally released in English. On the other side of the ocean was The Cruel Sea with James Mason.

Forty Thousand Horsemen and Gallipoli were pretty good outings as well.

[Gatey]

In more recent times "Enemy at the Gate" got my vote. "Kelly's Hero's" was always a favourite.
Classics like "Apocalypse Now"gave me something to think about when it first came out. Its close resemblance to the circumstances of Barry Petersen and a very few others of my dad's team... was confronting.

[StinkyPete]

I have to go with The Dam Busters, my Dad did 35 missions in 460 Squadron Lancasters.

I did enjoy "Memphis Belle".  My Dad (now 90) flew Halifaxs with 462, was shot down on his 5th Mission and spent the last few months in POW camp.

[JuST Peter]

While I voted for Battle of Britain and A Bridge Too Far - both actual battles and well played too - but my all time favourite is Zulu.......yep, it's an oldie for sure, but also very well done, not to mention it being Michael Caine's first major role in a movie. i first watched it at Kapooka during rookie training. it's purpose to illustrate to us young soldiers, was what discipline in the field can achieve

[Sicman]

While I voted for Battle of Britain and A Bridge Too Far - both actual battles and well played too - but my all time favourite is Zulu.......yep, it's an oldie for sure, but also very well done, not to mention it being Michael Caine's first major role in a movie. i first watched it at Kapooka during rookie training. it's purpose to illustrate to us young soldiers, was what discipline in the field can achieve

Yep good movie Zulu - we were shown it in my Air Cadet days during edumacation on Man Management courses

[Sabie]

I've got it on DVD....

[RexJ]

I have to go with The Dam Busters, my Dad did 35 missions in 460 Squadron Lancasters.

I did enjoy "Memphis Belle".  My Dad (now 90) flew Halifaxs with 462, was shot down on his 5th Mission and spent the last few months in POW camp.

While I voted for Battle of Britain and A Bridge Too Far - both actual battles and well played too - but my all time favourite is Zulu.......yep, it's an oldie for sure, but also very well done, not to mention it being Michael Caine's first major role in a movie. i first watched it at Kapooka during rookie training. it's purpose to illustrate to us young soldiers, was what discipline in the field can achieve

Yep good movie Zulu - we were shown it in my Air Cadet days during edumacation on Man Management courses

So that's why we saw Zulu twice at Kapooka.      I always thought our intake was considered such a rebellious lot it was punishment. AND they made us watch Mechanized Death, about road safety three times.  It's a American safety filum about car accidents, filmed at the scene with no editing. Both cool AND gruesome.
We had about 4 guys roll there cars whist we were in Luft Stalag Kapooka, so das Kamp Kommandant thought this would teach us something.
It did. We thought it was so grouse we went to the boozer got kashtonered, and talk s..t about it for a few hours. 
What it is to be 17! Thinking inside, outside and all around the box!

[Cerebral Knievel]

The Odd Angry Shot get's my vote for # 1.
Closely followed by Apocalypse Now & Platoon.

[ST2UP]

O' yeah, the odd angry shot is a great flick.....