# What is the best “war movie”? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [May 1, 2021, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-war-movie/941184 "2021-05-01T23:21:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 214
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-war-movie/941184/214 "2022-04-25T04:11:09Z")
No love for _Windtalkers_ (2002)? _The Guns of Fort Petticoat_ (1957) is pretty good, mainly thanks to Audie Murphy’s experience with drilling raw Texas National Guard recruits. Murphy’s character, a fictional lieutenant serving under [Col. John Chivington,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chivington) recognizes the harm that [attacking the settlement at Sand Creek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Creek_massacre) would do and goes AWOL to warn his hometown of reprisal from the natives. Virtually all of the men in the Texas town are off fighting the Civil War and the women they left behind are highly suspicious of Lt. Hewitt, due to his joining the US Calvary instead of the rebels. After one of the women turns up as being killed in a Cheyenne raid, Hewitt convinces the rest of the women to hole up in a nearby mission and drills them in defending themselves. Of course, the film takes some liberties with the real history, notably Chivington’s fate. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-war-movie/941184)._