Top Ten Favourite War Films

[SKB]

What are your Favourite War Films' ?

Mine are the old WWII classics that only used to be on the telly at Easter and Christmas (wasn't that weird?). I mostly enjoyed the prisoner of war escape genre. My list in order of the year produced:

1. The Wooden Horse (1950) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043147/
2. The Colditz Story (1954) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047945/
3. The Dam Busters (1955) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046889/
4. Dunkirk (1958) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051565/
5. The Longest Day (1962) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056197/
6. The Password Is Courage (1962) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056335/
7. The Great Escape (1963) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057115/
8. Operation Crossbow (1965) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059549/
9. Where Eagles Dare (1968) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065207/
10. The Battle Of Britain (1969) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064072/

[arfah]

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0098621/

This is the war movie that always wins in these threads!
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[Sunk at Narvik]

1. Bridge too Far
2. Battle Los Angeles
3. Cross of Iron
4. Terminator Salvation
5. In Which we Serve
6. Ice Cold in Alex
7. Where Eagles Dare
8. Great Escape
9. Platoon
10. Pearl Harbor (action scenes only!)

[bobp]

1 Bridge at Remagen
2 Battle of the Bulge
3 A Bridge too far
4 Von Ryans Express
5 Heros of Telemark
6 Sink the Bismark
7 633 Squadron
8 Dambusters
9 Stalingrad
10 Kellys Heros

[Tiny Toy]

I'll give three of my favourites, in no particular order:

Enemy at the Gates
Ice Station Zebra
The Battle of the River Plate

[Pseudo]

Amongst my favourites are Black Hawk Down, Saving Private Ryan, The Hunt for Red October, Starship Troopers, Apocalypse Now, Master and Commander, Three Kings, Das Boot and Empire of the Sun.

[2HeadsBetter]

Am I allowed Dr Strangelove - it is a Cold War film?

"You can't fight in here. This is the War Room!"

[Pseudo]

Am I allowed Dr Strangelove - it is a Cold War film?

"You can't fight in here. This is the War Room!"

Absolutely you can, I love that film and if it taught me nothing else it taught me that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.

[SKB]

[FuNsTeR]

Das Boot
9th Company
Der Untergang
Battle of Britain
a bridge to far
Stalingrad (English subtitles)
Savior
behind enemy lines

[marktigger]

1. In which we serve
2. The Gentle sex
3. Dunkirk
4. The foreman went to france
5. Enigma
6. The Dogs of war
7. An Ungentlemanly act
8. Battle of the River plate
9. the longest day
10.where eagle dare