Thanks! I’ll add those, too.
I have no problem adding all that sort of thing, but I do think another thread for that purpose might be better suited. The voting is likely to get weird anyway, assuming there is any! 
And Donald Sutherland as an Irish patriot fighting for the Germans and probably the best Heinrich Himmler of all times - Donald Pleasence.
It seems like a reasonable method. I like chronological by release (since we could be talking about time frame the movie is set in or release). That lumps things together by similar levels of production techniques and cultural limitations on what is shown. It let’s Saving Private Ryan not compete against The Longest Day in the first round. We get to pick the best military movies of the time before we put them head to head.
How about Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Good points. I believe the Conflicts approach would be unwieldy with way too many in one, and way too few in another. Release dates make for similar sized groups by decade, and that makes it feel fairer, too.
I’m still open to an even smarter approach, though.
I really would like a separate thread for that genre. Be my guest.
Filling in eras/wars I offer
Revolution with Al Pacino
It kind of sucks to anyone who really knows the times but ----------- it does have Al.
Suckish as well is Allegheny Uprising (based barely on true events)
Better in a lot of ways is The Devils Disciple
Let’s get this thing going with
Your favorite/best War Movies Prior to 1940
5/27/2015, 10:18 PM
Zeldar
Other polls to come later.
Quite right, thank you. Crossbow and Overcast was the book it was based on.
Thanks to both of you.
Perilous Journey: Errol Flynn and Alan Hale as RAF airmen trapped behind enemy lines. Trivia: The shot of the crashing B-17C in British markings was later used in The Dam Busters (even though all of the planes on that raid were Avro Lancasters).
Might that be Desperate Journey (1942) - IMDb
Desperate Journey (1942)
The Battle of Britain, if for no other reason than the “Luftwaffe March”:
And a thanks to you! 
Outrageous comedy: Laurel and Hardy in Bonnie Scotland and Blockheads (“Remember how dumb I used to be? I’m* better* now!” “You’re ‘better now.’ MMMMMMPH!”)
The Dawn Patrol, both the original with Jimmy Finlayson and the remake with Errol Flynn (not playing the same role!).
Tangentally military: The Great Impostor. Tony Curtis serves in the Royal Canadian Navy.
Don’t know if it’s too late, but I would nominate Kokoda.
Dark Blue World
Great film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244479/
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Alas, this fantastic 1966 anti-war movie set in WWI has probably not been seen by enough people to get many votes.
IMDB link: King of Hearts (1966) - IMDb
And War Is Hell, starring Audie Murphy in the 1961 movie telling the tale of Audie Murphy during WWII.
IMDB link: War Is Hell (1961) - IMDb