# What is the best “war movie”?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-war-movie/941184>\
**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:** 238

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-war-movie/941184/238 "2022-04-25T20:00:29Z")

</div>

> [@Asuka](#):
>
> The whole “American tanks are inferior to the German tanks!” is the most notable, as that’s the entire theme of the movie but that whole idea has been disputed in modern academic literature since the 90’s.

Wait, while totally a sidetrack, this is totally not true. Whether or not the strategy or having more, worse tanks, was a good one or not, its 100% true that an individual Sherman tank was inferior to an individual Panther or Tiger tank.

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-war-movie/941184)._