For today’s update I have sorted all titles with at least 10% of their poll’s votes into one stack based on percentages of total poll/thread.
The actual Votes totals by thread are at the bottom.
In order to get the Top 100 as the starting point for DinoR’s scheme we may be able to dump any title with less than 17% of total and be close.
Tweaks? Different observations?
The Dirty Dozen 21 70.00%
Saving Private Ryan 64 69.57%
The Bridge on the River Kwai 27 69.23%
Casablanca 20 68.97%
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 26 63.41%
Dr. Strangelove 32 62.75%
Black Hawk Down 23 56.10%
Das Boot 42 56.00%
The Great Escape 28 54.90%
Inglourious Basterds 20 54.05%
The Best Years of Our Lives 13 52.00%
Lawrence of Arabia 26 50.98%
Patton 35 50.72%
Apocalypse Now 35 50.72%
Full Metal Jacket 38 50.67%
The Charge of the Light Brigade 13 50.00%
Where Eagles Dare 15 50.00%
All Quiet on the Western Front 29 50.00%
Stalag 17 19 50.00% <==
The Longest Day 25 49.02%
Letters from Iwo Jima 18 48.65%
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo 12 48.00%
The Caine Mutiny 17 44.74%
Run Silent, Run Deep 17 43.59%
The African Queen 16 42.11%
Paths of Glory 16 41.03%
MASH 28 40.58%
The Third Man 10 40.00% <==
Seven Samurai 15 39.47%
The Dam Busters 15 39.47%
The Guns of Navarone 20 39.22%
Enemy at the Gates 16 39.02%
Zero Dark Thirty 14 37.84%
From Here to Eternity 14 36.84%
We Were Soldiers 15 36.59%
They Were Expendable 9 36.00%
Glory 27 36.00%
Fail Safe 18 35.29%
Gladiator 14 34.15%
Platoon 25 33.33% 40
300 12 32.43%
Kelly's Heroes 22 31.88%
Mr. Roberts 12 31.58%
Hunt for Red October 29 31.52%
Zulu 16 31.37%
The Enemy Below 12 30.77%
The Dawn Patrol (1938) 8 30.77%
Drums along the Mohawk 8 30.77%
Gone with the Wind 8 30.77%
A Bridge Too Far 21 30.43%
The Sand Pebbles 9 30.00% <==
The Hurt Locker 11 29.73%
Valkyrie 11 29.73%
Schindler's List 26 28.26%
Sands of Iwo Jima 7 28.00%
Sahara 8 27.59%
Spartacus 14 27.45%
The Patriot 11 26.83%
Doctor Zhivago 8 26.67%
The Deer Hunter 18 26.09%
Tora! Tora! Tora! 18 26.09%
Operation Petticoat 10 25.64%
Breaker Morant 19 25.33%
American Sniper 9 24.32%
The Battleship Potemkin 14 24.14%
Guadalcanal Diary 7 24.14%
Henry V (Laurence Olivier) 6 24.00%
Fort Apache 6 24.00%
Battleground 6 24.00%
Von Ryan's Express 7 23.33%
The Dawn Patrol (1930) 6 23.08%
Henry V (Kenneth Branagh) 17 22.67%
The General 13 22.41%
Kingdom of Heaven 9 21.95%
The Imitation Game 8 21.62%
The Last of the Mohicans 20 21.74%
The Man Who Would Be King 15 21.74%
Gallipoli 16 21.33%
La Grande Illusion 12 20.69%
Destination: Tokyo 6 20.69% 80
On The Beach 8 20.51%
Battle of the Bulge 6 20.00%
King of Hearts 6 20.00%
Battle of Britain 6 20.00%
The Blue Max 6 20.00%
Good Morning, Vietnam 15 20.00% <==
Seven Days in May 10 19.61%
The Pianist 8 19.51%
Lone Survivor 7 18.92%
Fury 7 18.92%
The Right Stuff 14 18.67%
The Big Red One 14 18.67%
Three Kings 17 18.48%
The Bridges at Toko-Ri 7 18.42%
WarGames 13 17.33%
Wings (1927) 10 17.24%
Alexander Nevsky 10 17.24%
Beau Geste 10 17.24%
Mrs Miniver 5 17.24%
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 5 17.24% 100
U-571 7 17.07%
Downfall 7 17.07%
Ice Station Zebra 5 16.67%
Memphis Belle 15 16.30%
I Was a Male War Bride 4 16.00%
Stripes 12 16.00%
Empire of the Sun 12 16.00%
Strategic Air Command 6 15.79%
To Hell and Back 6 15.79%
No Time For Sergeants 6 15.38%
The Young Lions 6 15.38%
Pork Chop Hill 6 15.38%
A Few Good Men 14 15.22%
The Eagle Has Landed 10 14.49%
Braveheart 13 14.13%
Gettysburg 13 14.13%
For Whom the Bell Tolls 8 13.79%
Bataan 4 13.79%
Unbroken 5 13.51%
The Bedford Incident 4 13.33% 120
The Sound of Music 4 13.33%
The Bridge at Remagen 4 13.33%
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming 4 13.33%
Red Dawn 10 13.33%
Ran 10 13.33%
The Desert Rats 5 13.16%
Catch-22 9 13.04%
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison 5 12.82%
Pursuit of the Graf Spee 5 12.82%
The Four Feathers (1939 version) 7 12.07%
The Fighting Seabees 3 12.00%
A Walk in the Sun 3 12.00%
Excalibur 9 12.00%
Stalingrad 11 11.96%
Sink the Bismarck 6 11.76%
Father Goose 6 11.76%
Cross of Iron 8 11.59%
Force 10 from Navarone 8 11.59%
Midway 8 11.59%
Forrest Gump 10 10.87%
Life is Beautiful 10 10.87%
Heartbreak Ridge 8 10.67%
Top Gun 8 10.67%
In Harm's Way 3 10.00%
The Hill 3 10.00%
The Battle of Algiers 3 10.00%
Is Paris Burning? 3 10.00% 148
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For today’s update I have sorted all titles with at least 16% of their poll’s votes into one stack based on percentages of total poll/thread.
This ought to be close to the Top 100 that we’re shooting for to start the Final Series of the Big Playoff!
The Actual Votes totals by thread and links to the individual threads are at the bottom of the post.
Saving Private Ryan 66 70.21%
The Dirty Dozen 21 70.00%
The Bridge on the River Kwai 27 69.23%
Casablanca 20 68.97%
Dr. Strangelove 35 64.81%
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 27 62.79%
Das Boot 43 55.84%
Black Hawk Down 24 55.81%
The Great Escape 30 55.56%
Inglourious Basterds 20 52.63%
Full Metal Jacket 40 51.95%
Lawrence of Arabia 28 51.85%
Stalag 17 20 51.28%
Patton 35 50.72%
Apocalypse Now 35 50.72%
Letters from Iwo Jima 19 50.00%
Where Eagles Dare 15 50.00%
The Longest Day 27 50.00%
The Charge of the Light Brigade 13 50.00%
All Quiet on the Western Front 29 50.00% <== 20
The Caine Mutiny 18 46.15%
Run Silent, Run Deep 17 43.59%
Paths of Glory 16 41.03%
The African Queen 16 41.03%
The Guns of Navarone 22 40.74%
MASH 28 40.58%
Enemy at the Gates 17 39.53%
From Here to Eternity 15 38.46%
Seven Samurai 15 38.46%
The Dam Busters 15 38.46%
Fail Safe 20 37.04%
Zero Dark Thirty 14 36.84%
Glory 28 36.36%
We Were Soldiers 15 34.88%
Platoon 26 33.77%
Hunt for Red October 31 32.98%
Gladiator 14 32.56%
Kelly's Heroes 22 31.88%
300 12 31.58%
Sergeant York 9 31.03%
The Enemy Below 12 30.77%
Mr. Roberts 12 30.77%
The Dawn Patrol (1938) 8 30.77%
Drums along the Mohawk 8 30.77%
Gone with the Wind 8 30.77%
A Bridge Too Far 21 30.43%
The Sand Pebbles 9 30.00% <== 47
Schindler's List 28 29.79%
Zulu 16 29.63%
The Hurt Locker 11 28.95%
Valkyrie 11 28.95%
The Patriot 12 27.91%
Spartacus 15 27.78%
Sahara 8 27.59%
Doctor Zhivago 8 26.67%
Tora! Tora! Tora! 18 26.09%
The Deer Hunter 18 26.09%
Operation Petticoat 10 25.64%
Breaker Morant 19 24.68%
Guadalcanal Diary 7 24.14%
The Battleship Potemkin 14 24.14%
American Sniper 9 23.68%
Von Ryan's Express 7 23.33%
Kingdom of Heaven 10 23.26%
The Dawn Patrol (1930) 6 23.08%
The General 13 22.41%
The Last of the Mohicans 21 22.34%
Seven Days in May 12 22.22%
Gallipoli 17 22.08%
Henry V (Kenneth Branagh) 17 22.08%
The Man Who Would Be King 15 21.74%
The Imitation Game 8 21.05%
Destination: Tokyo 6 20.69%
La Grande Illusion 12 20.69%
On The Beach 8 20.51%
Battle of the Bulge 6 20.00%
The Blue Max 6 20.00%
King of Hearts 6 20.00%
Battle of Britain 6 20.00% = 79
The Big Red One 15 19.48%
Good Morning, Vietnam 15 19.48%
Three Kings 18 19.15%
The Pianist 8 18.60%
U-571 8 18.60%
Downfall 8 18.60%
Lone Survivor 7 18.42%
Fury 7 18.42%
The Right Stuff 14 18.18%
The Bridges at Toko-Ri 7 17.95%
Mrs Miniver 5 17.24%
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 5 17.24%
Wings (1927) 10 17.24%
Alexander Nevsky 10 17.24%
Beau Geste 10 17.24%
WarGames 13 16.88%
Ice Station Zebra 5 16.67% = 96
I’ll suggest that we go down the pile (after we have decided the voting in the individual “decades threads” is about done – and we’ve added in the “Overflow Thread” votes) and select the Top 120.
If we use the last longish such report I gave at this post
that would have been
That would relieve some concern that the 100 breakpoint might have been too tight – even thought the same issue would apply to 120!
Using your scheme of Top Half Moves On to later polls, that would make the breaks at 60, 30, 15 and whatever (10?) (5?) instead of the original 50, 25 and whatever.
This assumes that the issue still exists after (hopefully) more votes continue coming in all around.
There’s been a flurry of activity the past day or two after things sat basically unchanged for about five days.
Therefore these numbers may already be out of date!
With discussions leading toward the idea that the Top Eight in each poll should move forward to the next phase of the project
I have indicated where those Top Eight would be based on current voting. There are a few places where that’s not going to work
but it’s reasonably close.
I have shown the total votes by poll as of today as compared with what they were last summary.
I’m thinking we can just drop those titles with ONE VOTE since they’re not apt to accumulate enough new votes to matter.
I have left them here so you can evaluate that idea.
Since the OVERFLOW voting is newest I have shown both the latest two versions.
Also you can click the link to the poll in question to see how voting may have changed since I took these sbapshots.
View Poll Results: Your favorite/best War Movies – OVERFLOW – Vote for up to TEN
This poll will close on 07-10-2015 at 07:50 PM
Twelve O'Clock High 12 60.00%
First Blood aka "Rambo" 5 25.00%
Yankee Doodle Dandy 4 20.00%
Story of G.I. Joe 3 15.00%
Rambo: First Blood Part II 3 15.00%
Hope and Glory 3 15.00%
Rambo 3 15.00%
Bombardier 2 10.00%
Soldier of Orange 2 10.00%
Au Revoir Les Enfants 2 10.00%
Rambo III 2 10.00%
Ride with the Devil 2 10.00%
Black Book "Zwartboek" 2 10.00%
The Wind That Shakes the Barley 2 10.00%
Waltz with Bashir 2 10.00%
Napoleon 1 5.00%
Waterloo Bridge 1 5.00%
Action in the North Atlantic 1 5.00%
Air Force 1 5.00%
God Is My Co-Pilot 1 5.00%
The Steel Helmet 1 5.00%
Men in War 1 5.00%
Waterloo 1 5.00%
The Odd Angry Shot 1 5.00%
Testament 1 5.00%
Utu 1 5.00%
An Ungentlemanly Act 1 5.00%
Heaven & Earth 1 5.00%
Tank Girl 1 5.00%
Underground 1 5.00%
The Truman Show 1 5.00%
Thirteen Days 1 5.00%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 20
View Poll Results: Your favorite/best War Movies – OVERFLOW – Vote for up to TEN
This poll will close on 07-10-2015 at 07:50 PM
Twelve O'Clock High 12 63.16%
First Blood aka "Rambo" 5 26.32%
Yankee Doodle Dandy 4 21.05%
Story of G.I. Joe 3 15.79%
Rambo: First Blood Part II 3 15.79%
Hope and Glory 3 15.79%
Rambo 3 15.79%
Bombardier 2 10.53%
Soldier of Orange 2 10.53%
Au Revoir Les Enfants 2 10.53%
Rambo III 2 10.53%
Ride with the Devil 2 10.53%
Black Book "Zwartboek" 2 10.53%
The Wind That Shakes the Barley 2 10.53%
Waltz with Bashir 2 10.53%
Napoleon 1 5.26%
Waterloo Bridge 1 5.26%
Action in the North Atlantic 1 5.26%
Air Force 1 5.26%
God Is My Co-Pilot 1 5.26%
The Steel Helmet 1 5.26%
Men in War 1 5.26%
Waterloo 1 5.26%
The Odd Angry Shot 1 5.26%
Testament 1 5.26%
Utu 1 5.26%
An Ungentlemanly Act 1 5.26%
Heaven & Earth 1 5.26%
Underground 1 5.26%
The Truman Show 1 5.26%
Thirteen Days 1 5.26%
View Poll Results: Your favorite/best War Movies From the 2000s (B) – Vote for up to SEVEN
This poll will close on 07-05-2015 at 06:42 AM
Inglourious Basterds 20 52.63%
Letters from Iwo Jima 19 50.00%
Zero Dark Thirty 14 36.84%
300 12 31.58%
The Hurt Locker 11 28.95%
Valkyrie 11 28.95%
American Sniper 9 23.68%
The Imitation Game 8 21.05%
Lone Survivor 7 18.42%
Fury 7 18.42%
Unbroken 5 13.16%
War Horse 3 7.89%
Jeremy Clarkson: Greatest Raid of All Time 2 5.26%
The Eagle 2 5.26%
OTHER (post and identify) 2 5.26%
Rescue Dawn 1 2.63%
Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland 1 2.63%
Escape from Colditz 1 2.63%
Red Tails 1 2.63%
Snow White and the Huntsman 1 2.63%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 38
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 34
Your favorite/best War Movies From the 2000s (A)
View Poll Results: Your favorite/best War Movies From the 2000s (A) – Vote for up to SEVEN
This poll will close on 07-05-2015 at 06:19 AM
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 27 62.79%
Black Hawk Down 24 55.81%
Enemy at the Gates 17 39.53%
We Were Soldiers 15 34.88%
Gladiator 14 32.56%
The Patriot 12 27.91%
Kingdom of Heaven 10 23.26%
U-571 8 18.60%
The Pianist 8 18.60%
Downfall 8 18.60%
A Very Long Engagement 5 11.63%
The Lost Battalion 3 6.98%
The Bunker 2 4.65%
Windtalkers 2 4.65%
The Great Raid 2 4.65%
Jarhead 2 4.65%
Malèna 1 2.33%
The 9th Company 1 2.33%
OTHER (post and identify) 1 2.33%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 43
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 36
Your favorite/best War Movies From the 1960s (B)
View Poll Results: Your favorite/best War Movies From the 1960s (B) – Vote for up to SEVEN
This poll will close on 07-04-2015 at 03:49 PM
The Dirty Dozen 21 70.00%
Where Eagles Dare 15 50.00%
The Sand Pebbles 9 30.00%
Doctor Zhivago 8 26.67%
Von Ryan's Express 7 23.33%
Battle of the Bulge 6 20.00%
The Blue Max 6 20.00%
King of Hearts 6 20.00%
Battle of Britain 6 20.00%
Ice Station Zebra 5 16.67%
The Bedford Incident 4 13.33%
The Sound of Music 4 13.33%
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming 4 13.33%
The Bridge at Remagen 4 13.33%
In Harm's Way 3 10.00%
The Hill 3 10.00%
The Battle of Algiers 3 10.00%
Is Paris Burning? 3 10.00%
The Heroes of Telemark 2 6.67%
King Rat 2 6.67%
Khartoum 2 6.67%
Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) 2 6.67%
The Green Berets 2 6.67%
None but the Brave 1 3.33%
Operation Crossbow 1 3.33%
Night of the Generals 1 3.33%
The Devil's Brigade 1 3.33%
Play Dirty 1 3.33%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 30
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 29
Your favorite/best War Movies From the 1960s (A)
View Poll Results: Your favorite/best War Movies From the 1960s (A) – Vote for up to SEVEN
This poll will close on 07-04-2015 at 06:30 AM
Dr. Strangelove 35 64.81%
The Great Escape 30 55.56%
Lawrence of Arabia 28 51.85%
The Longest Day 27 50.00%
The Guns of Navarone 22 40.74%
Fail Safe 20 37.04%
Zulu 16 29.63%
Spartacus 15 27.78%
Seven Days in May 12 22.22%
Sink the Bismarck 6 11.11%
Father Goose 6 11.11%
The Manchurian Candidate 5 9.26%
The Train 5 9.26%
The Alamo 3 5.56%
Ensign Pulver 3 5.56%
Tunes of Glory 2 3.70%
War Is Hell 2 3.70%
Hell is For Heroes 2 3.70%
Taras Bulba 2 3.70%
The 300 Spartans 1 1.85%
The Lost Battalion 1 1.85%
PT 109 1 1.85%
633 Squadron 1 1.85%
Guns at Batasi 1 1.85%
OTHER (post and identify) 1 1.85%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 54
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 48
Your favorite/best War Movies From the 1950s (B)
View Poll Results: Your favorite/best War Movies From the 1950s (B) – Vote for up to SEVEN
This poll will close on 07-03-2015 at 08:39 PM
The Bridge on the River Kwai 27 69.23%
Run Silent, Run Deep 17 43.59%
Paths of Glory 16 41.03%
The Enemy Below 12 30.77%
Operation Petticoat 10 25.64%
On The Beach 8 20.51%
No Time For Sergeants 6 15.38%
The Young Lions 6 15.38%
Pork Chop Hill 6 15.38%
Pursuit of the Graf Spee 5 12.82%
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison 5 12.82%
Away All Boats! 3 7.69%
A Farewell to Arms 3 7.69%
OTHER (post and identify) 2 5.13%
Between Heaven and Hell 1 2.56%
The Burmese Harp (1956) 1 2.56%
Reach for the Sky 1 2.56%
The Sad Sack 1 2.56%
Ashes and Diamonds 1 2.56%
Orders to Kill 1 2.56%
Anatomy of a Murder 1 2.56%
The Devils Disciple 1 2.56%
The Journey 1 2.56%
The Bridge "Die Brücke" 1 2.56%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 39
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 38
Your favorite/best War Movies From the 1950s (A)
View Poll Results: Your favorite/best War Movies From the 1950s (A) – Vote for up to SEVEN
This poll will close on 07-02-2015 at 12:56 AM
Stalag 17 20 51.28%
The Caine Mutiny 18 46.15%
The African Queen 16 41.03%
From Here to Eternity 15 38.46%
Seven Samurai 15 38.46%
The Dam Busters 15 38.46%
Mr. Roberts 12 30.77%
The Bridges at Toko-Ri 7 17.95%
Strategic Air Command 6 15.38%
To Hell and Back 6 15.38%
The Desert Rats 5 12.82%
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel 4 10.26%
The Cruel Sea 3 7.69%
Battle Cry 3 7.69%
The Big Lift 1 2.56%
Three Came Home 1 2.56%
The Wooden Horse 1 2.56%
Sailor for the King 1 2.56%
The Glenn Miller Story 1 2.56%
The Colditz Story 1 2.56%
OTHER (post and identify) 1 2.56%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 39
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 32
Your favorite/best War Movies From the 1940s (B)
View Poll Results: Your favorite/best War Movies From the 1940s (B) – Vote for up to SEVEN
This poll will close on 07-01-2015 at 05:15 PM
The Best Years of Our Lives 13 52.00%
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo 12 48.00%
The Third Man 10 40.00%
They Were Expendable 9 36.00%
Sands of Iwo Jima 7 28.00%
Henry V (Laurence Olivier) 6 24.00%
Fort Apache 6 24.00%
Battleground 6 24.00%
I Was a Male War Bride 4 16.00%
The Fighting Seabees 3 12.00%
A Walk in the Sun 3 12.00%
13 Rue Madeleine 2 8.00%
Command Decision 2 8.00%
The Purple Heart 1 4.00%
The Seventh Cross 1 4.00%
Objective: Burma 1 4.00%
Rome, Open City 1 4.00%
Stairway to Heaven 1 4.00%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 25
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 25
Your favorite/best War Movies From the 1940s (A)
View Poll Results: Your favorite/best War Movies From the 1940s (A) – Vote for up to SEVEN
This poll will close on 07-01-2015 at 03:00 PM
Casablanca 20 68.97%
Sergeant York 9 31.03%
Sahara 8 27.59%
Guadalcanal Diary 7 24.14%
Destination: Tokyo 6 20.69%
Mrs Miniver 5 17.24%
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 5 17.24%
Bataan 4 13.79%
The Sea Hawk 3 10.34%
Northwest Passage 2 6.90%
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing 2 6.90%
Spitfire 2 6.90%
The Stage Door Canteen 2 6.90%
This Is the Army 2 6.90%
49th Parallel 1 3.45%
Went The Day Well? 1 3.45%
Gung Ho!: The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders 1 3.45%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 29
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 28
Your favorite/best War Movies From the 1980s
View Poll Results: Your favorite/best War Movies From the 1980s – Vote for up to SEVEN
This poll will close on 06-30-2015 at 04:19 PM
Das Boot 43 55.84%
Full Metal Jacket 40 51.95%
Glory 28 36.36%
Platoon 26 33.77%
Breaker Morant 19 24.68%
Gallipoli 17 22.08%
Henry V (Kenneth Branagh) 17 22.08%
The Big Red One 15 19.48%
Good Morning, Vietnam 15 19.48%
The Right Stuff 14 18.18%
WarGames 13 16.88%
Stripes 12 15.58%
Empire of the Sun 12 15.58%
Red Dawn 11 14.29%
Ran 10 12.99%
Excalibur 9 11.69%
Heartbreak Ridge 8 10.39%
Top Gun 8 10.39%
The Beast (aka The Beast of War) 8 10.39%
Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence 4 5.19%
Born on the Fourth of July 4 5.19%
Casualties of War 4 5.19%
Kagemusha 3 3.90%
Come and See 3 3.90%
Hamburger Hill 3 3.90%
Grave of the Fireflies 3 3.90%
A Soldier's Story 2 2.60%
Iron Eagle 2 2.60%
The Lighthorsemen 2 2.60%
84C Mopic 2 2.60%
An Officer and a Gentleman 1 1.30%
The Burmese Harp (1985) 1 1.30%
Bat*21 1 1.30%
Farewell to the King 1 1.30%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 77
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 68
Your favorite/best War Movies From the 1970s
View Poll Results: Your favorite/best War Movies From the 1970s
This poll will close on 06-29-2015 at 09:14 PM
Patton 35 50.72%
Apocalypse Now 35 50.72%
MASH 28 40.58%
Kelly's Heroes 22 31.88%
A Bridge Too Far 21 30.43%
Tora! Tora! Tora! 18 26.09%
The Deer Hunter 18 26.09%
The Man Who Would Be King 15 21.74%
The Eagle Has Landed 10 14.49%
Catch-22 9 13.04%
Midway 8 11.59%
Cross of Iron 8 11.59%
Force 10 from Navarone 8 11.59%
The Boys in Company C 5 7.25%
Zulu Dawn 5 7.25%
The OdeSSa File 4 5.80%
The Four Feathers (1977) 3 4.35%
OTHER (post and identify) 2 2.90%
Johnny Got His Gun 1 1.45%
Raid on Rommel 1 1.45%
The Execution of Private Slovik 1 1.45%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 69
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 67
Your favorite/best War Movies From the 1990s
View Poll Results: Your favorite/best War Movies From the 1990s
This poll will close on 06-29-2015 at 04:22 AM
Saving Private Ryan 66 70.21%
Hunt for Red October 31 32.98%
Schindler's List 28 29.79%
The Last of the Mohicans 21 22.34%
Three Kings 18 19.15%
Memphis Belle 15 15.96%
A Few Good Men 15 15.96%
Gettysburg 14 14.89%
Braveheart 13 13.83%
Stalingrad 11 11.70%
Forrest Gump 11 11.70%
Life is Beautiful 10 10.64%
Hot Shots 8 8.51%
Jacob's Ladder 7 7.45%
Richard III 7 7.45%
The Thin Red Line 7 7.45%
Europa Europa 5 5.32%
A Midnight Clear 4 4.26%
The Tuskegee Airmen 4 4.26%
Prisoners of the Sun 2 2.13%
GI Jane 2 2.13%
OTHER (post and identify) 2 2.13%
Flight of the Intruder 1 1.06%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 94
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 86
Your favorite/best War Movies Prior to 1940 – Part 2
View Poll Results: Your favorite/best War Movies Prior to 1940 – Part 2
This poll will close on 06-28-2015 at 07:35 AM
The Charge of the Light Brigade 13 50.00%
The Dawn Patrol (1938) 8 30.77%
Drums along the Mohawk 8 30.77%
Gone with the Wind 8 30.77%
The Dawn Patrol (1930) 6 23.08%
The Birth of a Nation 1 3.85%
The Fall of Babylon 1 3.85%
Bonnie Scotland 1 3.85%
Blockheads 1 3.85%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 26
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 25
Your favorite/best War Movies Prior to 1940
View Poll Results: Which are your preferred War Movies from this period?
This poll will close on 06-26-2015 at 10:22 PM
All Quiet on the Western Front 29 50.00%
The Battleship Potemkin 14 24.14%
The General 13 22.41%
La Grande Illusion 12 20.69%
Wings (1927) 10 17.24%
Alexander Nevsky 10 17.24%
Beau Geste 10 17.24%
For Whom the Bell Tolls 8 13.79%
The Four Feathers (1939 version) 7 12.07%
Lives of a Bengal Lancer 4 6.90%
OTHER War Movie before 1940 (post and identify) 2 3.45%
These are the polls that have had changes since my last summary:
Best All-Time Military Movies – OVERFLOW Voting
View Poll Results: Your favorite/best War Movies – OVERFLOW – Vote for up to TEN
This poll will close on 07-10-2015 at 07:50 PM
Twelve O'Clock High 13 52.00%
First Blood aka "Rambo" 5 20.00%
Yankee Doodle Dandy 4 16.00%
Story of G.I. Joe 3 12.00%
Rambo: First Blood Part II 3 12.00%
Hope and Glory 3 12.00%
Ride with the Devil 3 12.00%
Rambo 3 12.00%
Bombardier 2 8.00%
Soldier of Orange 2 8.00%
Testament 2 8.00%
Au Revoir Les Enfants 2 8.00%
Rambo III 2 8.00%
Heaven & Earth 2 8.00%
Underground 2 8.00%
Thirteen Days 2 8.00%
Black Book "Zwartboek" 2 8.00%
The Wind That Shakes the Barley 2 8.00%
Waltz with Bashir 2 8.00%
Napoleon 1 4.00%
Waterloo Bridge 1 4.00%
Action in the North Atlantic 1 4.00%
Air Force 1 4.00%
God Is My Co-Pilot 1 4.00%
The Steel Helmet 1 4.00%
Men in War 1 4.00%
Waterloo 1 4.00%
The Odd Angry Shot 1 4.00%
Utu 1 4.00%
An Ungentlemanly Act 1 4.00%
Tank Girl 1 4.00%
The Truman Show 1 4.00%
View Poll Results: Your favorite/best War Movies From the 2000s (B) – Vote for up to SEVEN
This poll will close on 07-05-2015 at 06:42 AM
Inglourious Basterds 20 51.28%
Letters from Iwo Jima 19 48.72%
Zero Dark Thirty 14 35.90%
300 13 33.33%
The Hurt Locker 11 28.21%
Valkyrie 11 28.21%
American Sniper 10 25.64%
Fury 8 20.51%
The Imitation Game 8 20.51%
Lone Survivor 7 17.95%
Unbroken 5 12.82%
War Horse 3 7.69%
OTHER (post and identify) 3 7.69%
Jeremy Clarkson: Greatest Raid of All Time 2 5.13%
The Eagle 2 5.13%
Rescue Dawn 1 2.56%
Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland 1 2.56%
Escape from Colditz 1 2.56%
Red Tails 1 2.56%
Snow White and the Huntsman 1 2.56%
View Poll Results: Your favorite/best War Movies From the 1980s – Vote for up to SEVEN
This poll will close on 06-30-2015 at 04:19 PM
Das Boot 44 56.41%
Full Metal Jacket 41 52.56%
Glory 29 37.18%
Platoon 26 33.33%
Breaker Morant 19 24.36%
Gallipoli 18 23.08%
Henry V (Kenneth Branagh) 17 21.79%
The Big Red One 15 19.23%
Good Morning, Vietnam 15 19.23%
The Right Stuff 14 17.95%
Stripes 13 16.67%
WarGames 13 16.67%
Red Dawn 12 15.38%
Empire of the Sun 12 15.38%
Ran 10 12.82%
Excalibur 9 11.54%
Heartbreak Ridge 8 10.26%
Top Gun 8 10.26%
The Beast (aka The Beast of War) 8 10.26%
Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence 4 5.13%
Born on the Fourth of July 4 5.13%
Casualties of War 4 5.13%
Kagemusha 3 3.85%
Come and See 3 3.85%
Hamburger Hill 3 3.85%
The Lighthorsemen 3 3.85%
Grave of the Fireflies 3 3.85%
A Soldier's Story 2 2.56%
Iron Eagle 2 2.56%
84C Mopic 2 2.56%
An Officer and a Gentleman 1 1.28%
The Burmese Harp (1985) 1 1.28%
Bat*21 1 1.28%
Farewell to the King 1 1.28%
I can’t say the results are surprising. The nomination system put in a lot of movies that are not war movies, but oh well.
I think all the top polling movies are highly deserving.
I’ve said it in other movie contexts before and will again in that I always prefer a movie that tries something different. A movie that is very well made but is basically just a better crafted version of lesser movies isn’t as impressive to me as a movie that might even have a few more flaws but makes an attempt to be something new. “Saving Private Ryan” is not, scriptwise, an especially well-written movie, but it moved war movies in a direction they had not generally gone before in terms of brutal, horrific realism. You’d never quite seen anything LIKE that. The style and feel of, say, “Flags of our Fathers” and “Letters from Iwo Jima” are directly traceable to “Saving Private Ryan.” Had SPR and Letters from Iwo Jima been released on the same day, I would argue Iwo Jima was the better film; it has the same level of excellence in cinematic artistry and portrays war in must the same way SPR does. But it was in fact released years later, and owes much of what it is to SPR.
I would make similar comments about many of the other top polling movies; “Patton” is a very unusual character study by the standards of its day. “Apocalypse Now” and “MASH” are not really like anything else. “All Quiet on the Western Front” was an anti-war movie in a time that was a controversial perspective to say the very least.
Full Metal Jacket? Platoon? Das Boot? Gallipoli? Ran? Grave of the Fireflies?
Saving Private Ryan was the first film to take the grim realism of lots of previous films and lighten up the tone and presentation, without turning it into a puff piece for the military, well enough to be palatable to your average audience. But it was far from the first to present war as a brutal environment. It may be the first to present it “realistically”, in the sense that it was less hyperactively pro- or anti-war than the films which had come before it, but I’d vote that that’s a side effect of lightening the tone of an anti-war film rather than a conscious aim.
“Das Boot” is a different beast, but no, I wouldn’t say those are quite the same in terms of the technical proficiency with which the carnage is shown. They are also, for want of a better term, more traditionally paced, if you will. “SPR” is deliberately relentless at times, purposefully exhausting the viewer with violence. (Don’t get me wrong, those are all great, great movies.)
I think, too, that the film’s deliberately avoidance of pro or anti-war positioning was itself part of its ambition and innovation. The absence of a political position simply places greater emphasis on the horror.
Here’s an update of polls that have had changes since either Post #29 or Post #28
In each case I have shown a break after the eighth title (with ties counted)
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Your favorite/best War Movies From the 2000s (B)
View Poll Results: Your favorite/best War Movies From the 2000s (B) – Vote for up to SEVEN
This poll will close on 07-05-2015 at 06:42 AM
Inglourious Basterds 21 52.50%
Letters from Iwo Jima 19 47.50%
Zero Dark Thirty 14 35.00%
300 13 32.50%
The Hurt Locker 11 27.50%
Valkyrie 11 27.50%
American Sniper 10 25.00%
Fury 8 20.00%
The Imitation Game 8 20.00%
Lone Survivor 7 17.50%
Unbroken 5 12.50%
War Horse 3 7.50%
OTHER (post and identify) 3 7.50%
Jeremy Clarkson: Greatest Raid of All Time 2 5.00%
The Eagle 2 5.00%
Rescue Dawn 1 2.50%
Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland 1 2.50%
Escape from Colditz 1 2.50%
Red Tails 1 2.50%
Snow White and the Huntsman 1 2.50%
View Poll Results: Your favorite/best War Movies From the 1940s (B) – Vote for up to SEVEN
This poll will close on 07-01-2015 at 05:15 PM
The Best Years of Our Lives 15 50.00%
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo 13 43.33%
They Were Expendable 10 33.33%
Sands of Iwo Jima 10 33.33%
The Third Man 10 33.33%
Henry V (Laurence Olivier) 6 20.00%
Fort Apache 6 20.00%
Battleground 6 20.00%
The Fighting Seabees 4 13.33%
I Was a Male War Bride 4 13.33%
A Walk in the Sun 3 10.00%
13 Rue Madeleine 2 6.67%
Command Decision 2 6.67%
The Purple Heart 1 3.33%
The Seventh Cross 1 3.33%
Objective: Burma 1 3.33%
Rome, Open City 1 3.33%
Stairway to Heaven 1 3.33%
View Poll Results: Your favorite/best War Movies From the 1940s (A) – Vote for up to SEVEN
This poll will close on 07-01-2015 at 03:00 PM
Casablanca 20 66.67%
Sergeant York 9 30.00%
Sahara 8 26.67%
Guadalcanal Diary 7 23.33%
Mrs Miniver 6 20.00%
Destination: Tokyo 6 20.00%
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 5 16.67%
Bataan 4 13.33%
The Sea Hawk 3 10.00%
Northwest Passage 2 6.67%
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing 2 6.67%
Spitfire 2 6.67%
The Stage Door Canteen 2 6.67%
This Is the Army 2 6.67%
49th Parallel 1 3.33%
Went The Day Well? 1 3.33%
Gung Ho!: The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders 1 3.33%
View Poll Results: Your favorite/best War Movies From the 1980s – Vote for up to SEVEN
This poll will close on 06-30-2015 at 04:19 PM
Das Boot 45 56.25%
Full Metal Jacket 43 53.75%
Glory 30 37.50%
Platoon 26 32.50%
Breaker Morant 19 23.75%
Gallipoli 18 22.50%
Henry V (Kenneth Branagh) 17 21.25%
The Big Red One 15 18.75%
Good Morning, Vietnam 15 18.75%
The Right Stuff 14 17.50%
Stripes 13 16.25%
WarGames 13 16.25%
Red Dawn 12 15.00%
Empire of the Sun 12 15.00%
Ran 10 12.50%
Excalibur 9 11.25%
Heartbreak Ridge 8 10.00%
Top Gun 8 10.00%
The Beast (aka The Beast of War) 8 10.00%
Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence 4 5.00%
Born on the Fourth of July 4 5.00%
Casualties of War 4 5.00%
Kagemusha 3 3.75%
Come and See 3 3.75%
Hamburger Hill 3 3.75%
The Lighthorsemen 3 3.75%
Grave of the Fireflies 3 3.75%
A Soldier's Story 2 2.50%
Iron Eagle 2 2.50%
84C Mopic 2 2.50%
An Officer and a Gentleman 1 1.25%
The Burmese Harp (1985) 1 1.25%
Bat*21 1 1.25%
Farewell to the King 1 1.25%
View Poll Results: Which are your preferred War Movies from this period?
This poll will close on 06-26-2015 at 10:22 PM
All Quiet on the Western Front 30 50.85%
The Battleship Potemkin 14 23.73%
The General 13 22.03%
La Grande Illusion 12 20.34%
Wings (1927) 10 16.95%
Alexander Nevsky 10 16.95%
Beau Geste 10 16.95%
For Whom the Bell Tolls 8 13.56%
The Four Feathers (1939 version) 7 11.86%
Lives of a Bengal Lancer 4 6.78%
OTHER War Movie before 1940 (post and identify) 2 3.39%
Thanks for your hard work and commitment on this, Zeldar. I’ve been very intrigued by the project and have noted several movies that I wanna watch now.
View Poll Results: Your favorite/best War Movies From the 1940s (B) – Vote for up to SEVEN
This poll will close on 07-01-2015 at 05:15 PM
The Best Years of Our Lives 16 50.00%
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo 13 40.63%
The Third Man 11 34.38%
They Were Expendable 10 31.25%
Sands of Iwo Jima 10 31.25%
Henry V (Laurence Olivier) 6 18.75%
Fort Apache 6 18.75%
Battleground 6 18.75%
The Fighting Seabees 4 12.50%
I Was a Male War Bride 4 12.50%
A Walk in the Sun 3 9.38%
13 Rue Madeleine 3 9.38%
Objective: Burma 2 6.25%
Command Decision 2 6.25%
The Purple Heart 1 3.13%
The Seventh Cross 1 3.13%
Rome, Open City 1 3.13%
Stairway to Heaven 1 3.13%
… I’m proposing that we dispense with the preliminaries and get down to the Final Phase of this exercise.
Either the TOP EIGHT from each poll – or those titles that individually received at least 10% of their poll’s votes – will move on to the Second Phase where we will reduce that number of titles to half of the population of whatever that number turns out to be.
Other suggestions or ideas?
Unless there’s objection to this plan I will start that Second Phase poll on Saturday June/27.
