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Kelly's Heroes; The Great Escape; Guns of Navorone just to name a few. http://www.trailerfan.com/movie/kelly_s_heroes/trailer
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Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, Saving Private Ryan

way too many excellent choices in this category

Patton!

And Star Wars!

"Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves, man." - Oddball

We've Never Been Licked........with Noah Berry Jr. and Robert Mitchem........ available on DVD

Oh !!! and ******'s Angels .....a WW I epic by Howard Hughes

I always quite liked "A bridge too far", "Cross of iron"
and "Apocalypse now".

I think every time I went in a helicopter after seeing that film I would be humming ride of the valkyries.

Heartbreak Ridge
Tears of the Sun
The Great Escape

In addition to the ones mentioned....

The Deer Hunter
Battleship Potemkin
The Big Red One
Stalingrad

Band of Brothers
Inglorious Basterds
Last of the Mohicans
The War Lover
The Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan
Twelve O'Clock High
In Harms Way
King Rat
Das Boot
All Quiet on the Western Front

The ****** Busters

The Bridge on the River Kwai

M.A.S.H.

Sargent York.

i will be danged if i can bring up the titles of these movies in my head, but then i have always been terrible with names, but i like the one with Audey Murphy in which they kind of tell his story, and then there is the one that stars the guy that got both arms blowed off and they tell the story of what happened when him and 2 other guys got home and how they became friends, and then there is Sgt. York with Gary Cooper, then i like the one with John Garfield where he loses his sight after being in an intense battle at night and he talks to his machine gun untill a grenade lands in the foxhole. see i am terrible with names but i think those are some good movies.

oh i almost forgot....The Green Beret's with the man the legend Mr. John Wayne!!!!! any war movie with John Wayne is worth watching again!!!!!!!

U-571

We Were Soldiers was another good one

Kelly's Heroes
Das Boot
Dirty Dozen

No particular order.

Plenty of good ones already mentioned.
Here's a couple that i thought were very good and not that well known:

The Boys in Company C

Bat*21

Rescue Dawn

The Great Escape
Tora Tora Tora
Red Dawn
The Hunt for Red October

300
FMJ
and parts of Forrest Gump

Enemy at the Gate, Zulu

The Light Horseman, Gallipoli and Breaker Morant... The Light Horseman has one of the most intense Cavalry charge scenes ever filmed.

+1 on Kelly's Heroes.
"You the American Army"
"No baby, we ain't"
I love that song at the closing credits as well.

Old - Full Metal Jacket
New - Inglorious Bastardss

Quote:

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"Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves, man." - Oddball

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Star Wars

Catch-22
Sands of Iwo Jima
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

In Harm's Way
Operation Pacific
Das Boot
Launch Em (Available on You Tube and TOO Funny!)

Hmmm...no mention of Stalag 17. Great movie.

And, if we go into TV series, 12 O'Clock High i saw as a kid (barely remember it, though, and never see it replayed), and the quintessential "Combat" starring Vic Morrow and Rick Jason among others. It was just about as good and sometimes better than most movies about war, and yet it was an ongoing TV series! It finally halted due to expense.
If you've never seen that series then you must check it out.

Yep C.J., when I was a kid I used to watch "Combat" with my Pop, who fought in "Old Blood and Guts"(also known as Gen. George S. Patton)'s U.S. Third Army.

But what I remember MOST about that show is all the times the german soldiers in it would be in a firefight against Sgt.Saunders'(Vic Morrow's) squad, and then for some inexplicable reason one or two of those germans would suddenly stand up from behind the rock and some other cover they were behind and would subsequently then get drilled through by one of the G.I.s.

And almost every time that would happen, good ol' Pop would say to me..."Ya know son, those germans WEREN'T that dumb when I was fightin' 'em over there!!!"

Dr. Strangelove

<<and then for some inexplicable reason one or two of those germans would suddenly stand up from behind the rock and some other cover they were behind and would subsequently then get drilled through by one of the G.I.s.

And almost every time that would happen, good ol' Pop would say to me..."Ya know son, those germans WEREN'T that dumb when I was fightin' 'em over there!!!">>

Right.
There was some of that typical TV 'suspension of disbelief' (?) stuff goin' on...good guys vs bad guys type thing. I think it made up for it with the sets and story lines, some pretty believable looking war action, and some good acting. A few years ago Encore Action channel had a marathon of Combat episodes. They still hold up well.
It was a serious war type show that i took interest in instead of the usual comedy styled war shows like McHale's Navy and Hogan's Heroes, and the frenetic Sgt. Bilko (which i dug quite a bit anyway). I don't think we'll see anything like that again...different times for sure.

No goats, no glory.

Another couple of good films are "waterloo" which had an amazing amount of extras made up of soviet soldiers and "The battle of Britain" which used so many planes that the film makers had one of the worlds largest fleets of warplanes available to them.

I can't believe people have missed "Where eagles dare", "Lawrence of Arabia", "Bridge on the river Kwai" and "The eagle has landed", all of em classics.

Mind you some of the old British black and white films were quite good as well. "The dambusters","cockleshell heroes" and "Dunkirk" were pretty good.

But I guess that quite a lot of old British films don't actually get aired in the US very much.

I like most of the above and would add Hamburger Hill, and can't remember the name but the Nam flick with Michael J Fox and Sean Penn.

I like Clint Eastwood, and I really did like "Flags of Our Fathers". Some of the graphics were a little far fetched, but I liked it.