Add a Dawn Patrol vote as my fifth.
A period where I only had to exclude a couple I’ve seen unlike some of the likely later time periods. There’s none where I felt like I was voting for something merely okay. I suspect some great but relatively unseen will suffer in later eras as well. I doubt my nomination for 84C Mopic goes anywhere for example.
Duly noted. Thanks.
Here’s the whole group (at this moment) with current votes and the ones not even in the poll. This is teaching me to wait for more nominations in the other decades before starting another thread for voting!
View Poll Results: Which are your preferred War Movies from this period?
This poll will close on 06-26-2015 at 10:22 PM
All Quiet on the Western Front 12 40.00%
The General 8 26.67%
Alexander Nevsky 8 26.67%
Wings (1927) 6 20.00%
La Grande Illusion 5 16.67%
The Battleship Potemkin 4 13.33%
Beau Geste 4 13.33%
Lives of a Bengal Lancer 3 10.00%
The Four Feathers (1939 version) 3 10.00%
For Whom the Bell Tolls 2 6.67%
OTHER War Movie before 1940 (post and identify) 1 3.33%
For King and Country 0 0%
The Big Parade 0 0%
Allegheny Uprising 0 0%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 30
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The Birth of a Nation http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004972/?ref_=fn_al_tt_4 (1915)
The Fall of Babylon http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0010108/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 (1919)
Tell It To the Marines http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018471/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 (1926)
The Dawn Patrol http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020815/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2 (1930)
Bonnie Scotland http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026126/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 (1935)
Blockheads http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029923/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2 (1938)
The Dawn Patrol http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030044/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 (1938)
Gone with the Wind http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 (1939)
For King and Country http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160109/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2 (1913) POLL
The Birth of a Nation http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004972/?ref_=fn_al_tt_4 (1915)
The Fall of Babylon http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0010108/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 (1919)
The Battleship Potemkin http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015648/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 (1925) POLL
The Big Parade http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015624/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 (1925) POLL
The General http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017925/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 (1926) POLL
Tell It To the Marines http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018471/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 (1926)
Wings (1927) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018578/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 (1927) POLL
All Quiet on the Western Front http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020629/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 (1930) POLL
The Dawn Patrol http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020815/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2 (1930)
Bonnie Scotland http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026126/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 (1935)
Lives of a Bengal Lancer http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026643/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 (1935) POLL
La Grande Illusion http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028950/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 (1937) POLL
Alexander Nevsky http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029850/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 (1938) POLL
Blockheads http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029923/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2 (1938)
The Dawn Patrol http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030044/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 (1938)
Allegheny Uprising http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031033/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 (1939) POLL
Beau Geste http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031088/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 (1939) POLL
For Whom the Bell Tolls http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035896/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 (1939) POLL
The Four Feathers (1939 version) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031334/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2 (1939) POLL
Gone with the Wind http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 (1939)
I’m pleased to see comedy ranging from the gentle to the absurd alongside drama in these polls. Also, there’s a distinction here between war and military that I like.
It’s a shame some of the more obscure films will likely get few (if any) votes, because they are superb indeed (e.g., Alan Bates’ King of Hearts, as has already been noted elsewhere).
Best of all, there is now a great database for future reference.
PLEASE SEE this update for more voting.
Thanks!
Here’s a progress report on both polls:
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View Poll Results: Which are your preferred War Movies from this period?
This poll will close on 06-26-2015 at 10:22 PM
All Quiet on the Western Front 15 42.86%
Alexander Nevsky 10 28.57%
The General 9 25.71%
The Battleship Potemkin 7 20.00%
La Grande Illusion 7 20.00%
Wings (1927) 6 17.14%
Beau Geste 5 14.29%
Lives of a Bengal Lancer 3 8.57%
For Whom the Bell Tolls 3 8.57%
The Four Feathers (1939 version) 3 8.57%
OTHER War Movie before 1940 (post and identify) 1 2.86%
For King and Country 0 0%
The Big Parade 0 0%
Allegheny Uprising 0 0%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 35
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View Poll Results: Your favorite/best War Movies Prior to 1940 -- Part 2
This poll will close on 06-28-2015 at 07:35 AM
The Charge of the Light Brigade 5 83.33%
The Dawn Patrol (1930) 2 33.33%
The Dawn Patrol (1938) 2 33.33%
Drums along the Mohawk 1 16.67%
Gone with the Wind 1 16.67%
The Birth of a Nation 0 0%
The Fall of Babylon 0 0%
Tell It To the Marines 0 0%
Bonnie Scotland 0 0%
Blockheads 0 0%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 6
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For another update on both polls click here.
True. Even with the generally knowledgeable SDMB audience.
No doubt. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop and to learn that one of my all-time favorites has yet to be mentioned.
If fact, I wonder how much of a dent our 299 (and counting) makes in the total number of “war movies.”
Is there some “official” listing of ALL of them somewhere?
Gance’s Napoleon is well up there. The night-time Siege of Toulon segment is one of the best battle sequences I’ve ever seen.
Napoleon Napoleon (1927) - IMDb (1927)
will be added to the “overflow” file.
See http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18403558&postcount=216