Best All-Time Military Movies -- Pre-Poll Data Gathering

For King and Country

Sailor for the King with Jeffrey Hunter

The Heroes of Telemark with Kirk Douglas

633 Squadron with Cliff Robertson

***Tunes of Glory ***with Alec Guinness and John Mills

Another vote for The Train. Superb!

Decision at Dawn

13 Rue Madeleine

Orders to Kill

The Devil’s Brigade

Play Dirty

Captains of the Clouds

Gung Ho!

Fighting Seabees

Von Ryan’s Express

The Wooden Horse

Three Graves to Cairo

***Bataan

Thirty Seconds over Tokyo

Destination: Tokyo

The Purple Heart***

***Perilous Journey

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

49th Parallel

The Seventh Cross*** with Spencer Tracy

Does Errol Flynn’s The Sea Hawk (English privateers in the time of ER I) count? :dubious:

***Lives of a Bengal Lancer

The Charge of the Light Brigade***

***The Desert Rats

The Desert Fox***, both with James Mason as Rommel! :o

Light comedy: Operation Petticoat with Cary Grant and Tony Curtis!

Father Goose with Cary Grant *and *Trevor Howard!

More light comedy: A Private’s Affair.

Check out that cast:

Jim Backus, Bob Denver, and a smokin’ hot 20-something Barbara Eden! Grrrrrrawr! :o

OK - I may be giving a repeat or not:

Battleground Battleground (1949) - IMDb

Tuskegee Airmen The Tuskegee Airmen (TV Movie 1995) - IMDb

Midway Midway (1976) - IMDb

And while its more a light-hearted look at the Cold War
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming (1966) - IMDb

And I know its a stretch but
The Invisible Agent (with Peter Lorre as a Japanese intelligence officer)
The Bunker - a really thrilling horror movie (2001) The Bunker (2001) - IMDb

If Starship Troopers makes the cut, I think Aliens should be on the list too.

Some of these are borderline, but it looks like we’re using a wide border

Seven Days in May
Iron Eagle
WarGames
Red Dawn
Casablanca
Beau Geste
Born on the Fourth of July
The Manchurian Candidate
Forrest Gump
Excalibur

***Guadalcanal Diary

Objective: Burma

The Stage Door Canteen

To Hell and Back***, the true story of CMH winner Audie Murphy.

***Spitfire

Stairway to Heaven

The Demi-Paradise

A Walk in the Sun***

Has All Quiet on the Western Front (1931) been mentioned yet? :confused:

A military courtroom drama: Town without Pity with Kirk Douglas and a scrumptious Christine Kaufmann. :o

Another tangentially military courtroom drama: Anatomy of a Murder, one of the best movies ever made. Jimmy Stewart, George C Scott, Ben Gazarra (whose character was an Army lieutenant), Lee Remick, Arthur O’Connell. Directed by Otto Preminger. They just don’t make 'em like that any more!

Another Preminger war flick: *** In Harm’s Way***. John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia O’Neal.

Have ***Sink the Bismarck ***and ***The Dam Busters ***been mentioned yet? :confused:

Cockleshell Heroes

Went The Day Well? - Doughty British villagers take on a German advance invasion force…

The Password Is Courage - Would be ludicrous if the exploits of the inappositely named Charles Coward weren’t true…

A Matter of Life and Death AKA ‘Stairway To Heaven’ - Not a war film as such, but set in the war. I always seem to get something in my eye when I watch it…

King Rat

The Bofors Gun

The Hill
I remember a film I watched quite a few years back about German POWs in a Scottish prison camp, some eventually escaping on a U Boat. Great film, but the title escapes me. Does anyone know it?

The MacKenzie Break, starring Brian Keith of ***Parent Trap ***and Family Affair fame.

Crossbow and Overcast, about the Allied campaign against Germany’s V-weapons.

The McKenzie Break - The title popped into my head as soon as I pressed ‘submit’…

Edit: Thanks Terentii… too quick for me!

A somewhat obscure movie, but one well worth watching: Battle of the Bulge with Henry Fonda and Robert Shaw. This scene alone makes it worthwhile:

The dude in the grey uniform with the overseas cap was a German in just about every war movie made in the '60s, including The Great Escape and Kelly’s Heroes.

This movie was my introduction to classical music:

To this day, I can’t listen to Tannhauser without thinking about it!

King of Hearts with Alan Bates

Cross of Iron with James Coburn and Maximilian Schell

Fail Safe with Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, and Larry Hagman

I love this movie, but unfortunately my suspension of disbelief is rocked every time I see the 50-star US flag hanging in Larry Hagman’s office. (Yes, you CAN tell the difference, even when the flag is folded!)

Of all the stellar performances in this movie, my favorite will always be Donald Pleasance as Heinrich Himmler. I knew he was just an actor playing a role, but he still scared the crap out of me! :eek: