# Best All-Time Military Movies -- Pre-Poll Data Gathering **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 26, 2015, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-all-time-military-movies-pre-poll-data-gathering/720835 "2015-05-26T00:38:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![wellanuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@wellanuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wellanuff)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-all-time-military-movies-pre-poll-data-gathering/720835/21 "2015-05-26T02:31:50Z")
Kelly’s Heroes ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-all-time-military-movies-pre-poll-data-gathering/720835/22 "2015-05-26T02:49:46Z")
We Were Soldiers - agreed Black Hawk Down Zero Dark Thirty American Sniper ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-all-time-military-movies-pre-poll-data-gathering/720835/23 "2015-05-26T02:53:34Z")
[A Walk in the Sun](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038235/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) ---
**Author:** ![Scruff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Scruff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruff)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-all-time-military-movies-pre-poll-data-gathering/720835/24 "2015-05-26T02:54:23Z")
Breaker Morant Zulu Das Boot ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-all-time-military-movies-pre-poll-data-gathering/720835/25 "2015-05-26T03:01:45Z")
The Deer Hunter Casualties of War Henry V (Laurence Olivier) Henry V (Kenneth Brannagh) Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) Breaker Morant Zulu The Four Feathers (1939 version) ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-all-time-military-movies-pre-poll-data-gathering/720835/26 "2015-05-26T03:11:54Z")
Set up separate polls by war (Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korean Conflict, Vietnam, Iraq, etc) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-all-time-military-movies-pre-poll-data-gathering/720835/27 "2015-05-26T03:16:29Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Set up separate polls by war (Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korean Conflict, Vietnam, Iraq, etc) Thanks for the idea. Here’s the list so far (A and The not used in the alphabetizing) as of **Peter Morris** with dupes being shown: # ================================== Alexander Nevsky All Quiet on the Western Front American Sniper Apocalypse Now The Battleship Potempkin Black Hawk Down Black Hawk Down Breaker Morant Breaker Morant The Bridge on the River Kwai A Bridge Too Far The Caine Mutiny Casualties of War Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) The Cruel Sea Das Boot The Boat Das Boot Das Boot The Deer Hunter The Dirty Dozen The Dirty Dozen Dr. Strangelove Strangelove Downfall Enemy at the Gates The Enemy Below The Execution of Private Slovik Fail Safe A Few Good Men The Four Feathers (1939 version) From Here to Eternity Full Metal Jacket Gallipoli The General Gettysburg Glory Glory Glory La Grande Illusion The Great Escape The Great Escape Hell is For Heroes Henry V (Laurence Olivier) Henry V (Kenneth Brannagh) Inglourious Basterds Inglorious Bastards Kelly’s Heroes Letters from Iwo Jima The Longest Day The Longest Day Memphis Bell A Midnight Clear On The Beach Paths of Glory Patton Platoon Pork Chop Hill The Right Stuff Saving Private Ryan Schindler’s List Sink the Bismarck Stalag 17 Stalag 17 Talvisota (the Winter War) Three Kings To Hell and Back Tora! Tora! Tora! Twelve O’Clock High A Walk in the Sun We Were Soldiers We Were Soldiers The Young Lions Zero Dark Thirty Zulu Zulu Zulu Zulu Zulu Dawn Damn fine list, if I do say so! Thanks. Keep 'em coming. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-all-time-military-movies-pre-poll-data-gathering/720835/28 "2015-05-26T03:27:36Z")
The Big Parade. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-all-time-military-movies-pre-poll-data-gathering/720835/29 "2015-05-26T03:27:38Z")
Hamburger Hill The Eagle Has Landed ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-all-time-military-movies-pre-poll-data-gathering/720835/30 "2015-05-26T03:27:42Z")
Not all of these are necessarily movies that I would vote as “Best”, but ones which I could conceivably view as gaining a few votes (plus a few joke entries). Counts: **GI Jane Fury The Hurt Locker** Probably Counts: **Ran Kingdom of Heaven 300 Good Morning, Vietnam Braveheart Snow White and the Huntsman Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland** Maybe Counts: **Grave of the Fireflies Doctor Zhivago Jacob’s Ladder** Probably Doesn’t Count: **Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS** ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-all-time-military-movies-pre-poll-data-gathering/720835/31 "2015-05-26T03:33:20Z")
Does A Few Good Men really count or should it be kept to movies where some sort of major conflict is in progress which provides the back drop to the story being told . The list could get quite long if you include any movie with people in uniform . If so add Stripes and an officer and a gentleman and top gun to the list (I quite like those movies but maybe stretching the definition of military movies) ---
**Author:** ![JKilez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-all-time-military-movies-pre-poll-data-gathering/720835/32 "2015-05-26T03:34:36Z")
[_Where Eagles Dare_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065207/) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-all-time-military-movies-pre-poll-data-gathering/720835/33 "2015-05-26T03:40:09Z")
M_A_S\*H ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-all-time-military-movies-pre-poll-data-gathering/720835/34 "2015-05-26T03:47:52Z")
> [@Precambrianmollusc](#): > > Does A Few Good Men really count or should it be kept to movies where some sort of major conflict is in progress which provides the back drop to the story being told . The list could get quite long if you include any movie with people in uniform . > If so add Stripes and an officer and a gentleman and top gun to the list > (I quite like those movies but maybe stretching the definition of military movies) My attitude toward this listing process is that if you think of it as a “war movie” or whatever synonym that conjures up for you, then go for it. If it gets votes, so much the better. At the very least it might trigger somebody else to think of yet another good War Movie. I’ll add them to the list for the giggles anyway! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-all-time-military-movies-pre-poll-data-gathering/720835/35 "2015-05-26T03:48:35Z")
Some that I don’t think have been mentioned The Best Years of Our Lives Father Goose 49th Parallel The Four Feathers (1977) Fury The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp MASH Mrs Miniver Operation Petticoat ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-all-time-military-movies-pre-poll-data-gathering/720835/36 "2015-05-26T04:07:10Z")
What does the house think of _Europa Europa_? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-all-time-military-movies-pre-poll-data-gathering/720835/37 "2015-05-26T04:10:22Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > What does the house think of _Europa Europa_? Looks like it ought to qualify to me: > **[Europa Europa (1990) ⭐ 7.5 | Drama, History, War](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099776/?ref_=nv_sr_3)** > > 1h 52m | R I think I’ll attach the IMDb link for all these movies before posting the updated list. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Burden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@Jack\_Burden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Burden)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-all-time-military-movies-pre-poll-data-gathering/720835/38 "2015-05-26T04:10:48Z")
Great list so far, here’s a few more: In Harm’s Way They Were Expendable The Boys in Company C And just because I saw it very late last night: The Conqueror Worm ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-all-time-military-movies-pre-poll-data-gathering/720835/39 "2015-05-26T04:30:06Z")
Lawrence of Arabia War Horse For Whom the Bell Tolls A Farewell to Arms Catch-22 The Alamo 55 Days at Peking The Guns of Navarone ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-all-time-military-movies-pre-poll-data-gathering/720835/40 "2015-05-26T04:43:17Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > The Alamo Which one? Or all of them? 🙂 > **[The Alamo (2004) ⭐ 6.1 | Drama, History, War](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318974/?ref_=nv_sr_1)** > > 2h 17m | PG-13 > **[The Alamo (1960) ⭐ 6.8 | Adventure, Drama, History](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053580/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2)** > > 2h 42m | Approved > **[The Last Command (1955) ⭐ 6.3 | History, War, Western](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048287/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)** > > 1h 45m | Approved There’s even the Davy Crockett (Disney) version 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-all-time-military-movies-pre-poll-data-gathering/720835.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-all-time-military-movies-pre-poll-data-gathering/720835.md?page=3)