War Films for Veterans Day

[RicInOR]

SEVEN WAR MOVIES FOR VETERANS DAY: Trigger warning: many young cisgender males' safe spaces are violated in these films.

#7 Hell Is For Heroes (1962). Steve McQueen
#6 Sahara (1943). Humphrey Bogart
#5 Missing in Action (1984). Chuck Norris
#4 Kelly's Heroes (1970). Clint Eastwood
#3 The Big Red One (1980). Lee Marvin
#2 Lone Survivor (2013). Marcus Luttrell, (ok, ok, Mark Walhberg)

#1 To Hell and Back (1955). Audie Murphy



What are yours?

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[edslhead]

Pop's old films he shot in Korea. He filmed the local people and some of the goofin off that went on in the Army. He was a heck of a guy.

 

[Oregonhunter5]

Heartbreak Ridge
American Sniper
Lone Survivor
Sands of Iwa Jima
The Fighting Seabees
Red Dawn
Outlaw Josie Wales

 

[No_Regerts]

Act of Valor
Saving Private Ryan
12 O'Clock High
Flight of the Intruder
Lone Survivor
Hamburger Hill
We Were Soldiers

Honorable Mentions:
Hurt Locker
Full Metal Jacket
Top Gun
Iron Eagle

 

[BWH]

Band of Brothers

 

[Medic!]

The Longest Day.

And Saving Ryan's Privates!!

 

[No_Regerts]

The Longest Day.

And Saving Ryan's Privates!!

If you add up all the money US government have had to pay out saving Matt Damon from WW2, Mars x2, it probably equals the GDP of Russia.

 

[clearconscience]

Lone survivor
Act of valor
Platoon
Full metal jacket
Firebirds
Top gun
Memphis bell
Flight of the intruder
American sniper
Rambo! First 3!
We were soldiers
Saving private ryan
Deerhunter
Blackhawk down
The guardian
Navy seals
Hart's war
Tigerland
U-571
Jarhead
Basic
A few good men
Tears of the sun
The recruit
The hurt locker
Restrepo
Body of lies
Traitor
The kingdom

Band of brothers for sure!

And i've gone too far

 

[MikeE]

Thin Red Line - Shawn Penn, Nick Nolte, Jim Caviezel, Terrence Malick Dir.

If you want to get to the core of November 11, which is really ARMISTICE DAY - the 11th day of the 11th month @ 11 hours, when WW1 finally stumbled to a bloody end, read:
All Quiet on the Western Front
by German vet Erich Maria Remarque - best war novel ever written.

 

[Oregonhunter5]

You forgot delta farce

 

[Brutus57]

I am a big history fan so my list isn't all red, white and blue..... Let me just call it military history

Band of Bros of Course
Flight of the Intruder
Black Hawk Down
We Were Soldiers
Patton
Platoon
FMJ
Across the Lips Now
Cross of Iron
Stalingrad
The Winter War
The Eagle Has Landed
Doolittle's Raiders
Battle of Britain
Das Boot
Gettysburg
Rommel
Kelly's Heroes
Jarhead
Bat 21
Go Tell the Spartans
300 Spartans
Zulu Dawn followed by watching Zulu
Midway
Tora. Tora, Tora
Catch 22
Tears of the Sun
Lone Survivor
The Blue Max, both versions
Hamburger Hill
The Patriot
The Hurt Locker
Enemy at the Gates
D-Day
Bridge at Remagen
Bridge over the River Kwai
A Bridge too Far
Force 10 From Navarone
Sink the Bismarck
Sands of Iwo Jima
The Thin Red Line
The Alamo, original
those are off the top of my head.

Brutus Out

 

[salmonriverjohn]

I am a big history fan so my list isn't all red, white and blue..... Let me just call it military history

Band of Bros of Course
Flight of the Intruder
Black Hawk Down
We Were Soldiers
Patton
Platoon
FMJ
Across the Lips Now
Cross of Iron
Stalingrad
The Winter War
The Eagle Has Landed
Doolittle's Raiders
Battle of Britain
Das Boot
Gettysburg
Rommel
Kelly's Heroes
Jarhead
Bat 21
Go Tell the Spartans
300 Spartans
Zulu Dawn followed by watching Zulu
Midway
Tora. Tora, Tora
Catch 22
Tears of the Sun
Lone Survivor
The Blue Max, both versions
Hamburger Hill
The Patriot
The Hurt Locker
Enemy at the Gates
D-Day
Bridge at Remagen
Bridge over the River Kwai
A Bridge too Far
Force 10 From Navarone
Sink the Bismarck
Sands of Iwo Jima
The Thin Red Line
The Alamo, original
those are off the top of my head.

Brutus Out

Ah yes Zulu dawn. Excellent choice.
You also covered my all time favorite WWII movie,, Midway.
What a great cast, subject and movie!

 

[Certaindeaf]

And now for a little sponsor while we make a sammich during intermission..

 

[No_Regerts]

I havent seen The Final Countdown yet. Kind of an interesting movie. The opening F14 takeoff actually sounds real vs the Top Gun engine noises.

 

[rdb241]

Well this is going to show my age. As a kid I would watch war movies on the weekend. Nobody has mentioned "The Dirty Dozen". A couple of newer ones are, "Hunt for Red October", "Jarhead", "Fury", "Unbroken". A couple of more I can think of are, "The bridge over the river Kwai", "Windtalkers".

 

[Scrammer]

I may have missed it being listed, Battleground

 

[Mikej]

Devil's Brigade....It was filmed in Utah, partially in the South of the SLC Valley. An old closed military camp, Camp Williams was used where they had the Brits and Americans together training. Dad and I used to ride our trail bikes all over and there were places up in the foot hills where there were still burned out military vehicles that they'd not removed yet after making the movie.

 

[Scrammer]

Devil's Brigade....It was filmed in Utah, partially in the South of the SLC Valley. An old closed military camp, Camp Williams was used where they had the Brits and Americans together training. Dad and I used to ride our trail bikes all over and there were places up in the foot hills where there were still burned out military vehicles that they'd not removed yet after making the movie.

I was the chef for a catering service and catered a Donny Osmond video shoot at Camp Williams. Fed troops out there during the Iraq windup out there too.
Like the Devil's Brigade too.

 

[beezer66]

For a local documentary, watch Shepherds of Helmand; about the Oregon National Guard in Afghanistan.

 

[rdb241]

For a local documentary, watch Shepherds of Helmand; about the Oregon National Guard in Afghanistan.

Is that on you tube?