Top 3 War Films

[Charles 'Charley' Charles]

Ok there are a few threads with favourite films at the mo. I love all genres of film and would find it very difficult to name just 3, so to seperate the genres, what are your top 3 war films? By the way Band Of Brothers isn't a film, fantastic television, but not cinema. Mine are

1 - Zulu, have always loved that film, very stirring stuff.
2 - Where Eagles Dare, ok, fictional I think but still a very good film, with a few twists in it the first time you see it.
3 - Battle Of Britain, excellent film, and would advise anyone to view the documnetries on the DVD special edition

 

[Grendel]

The Great Escape
Zulu
Kelly's Heroes

 

[n1 gull]

Damn busters
Cruel Sea
Top Gun

 

[Marc]

Top Gun

made me laugh that did

 

[jonny.rainbow]

1. Too late the Hero
2. Escape To Victory
3. Dad's Army

 

[Louisjpbacon]

made me laugh that did

Top gun is my fav film of all time

Also very powerful film was shaving ryan's privates

3rd would have to be full metal jacket

 

[London Irish]

Paths of Glory - Kubrick at his best

 

[Billy the Fish]

Platoon
Black Hawk Down
Shaving Ryans Privates

 

[Man of Harveys]

The Cruel Sea
Das Boot
Star Wars

 

[Marc]

Top gun is my fav film of all time

also one of mine, just dont think it falls properly into the War film category as they were in a war scenario for the last 20mins of the film..hardly worth it!

 

[keaton]

Paths of Glory
Kelly's Heroes
Where Eagle Dare

 

[Basil Fawlty]

Saving Private Ryan

Kelly's Heros

Desert Rats

 

[Trufflehound]

Stalag 17
Das Boot
Kelly's Heroes

And possibly Babe. At least I think that must count as a war film - the only time I watched it it made me so angry I wanted to go out and invade Poland straight afterwards.

 

[Giraffe]

Where Eagles Dare
The Great Escape
Escape To Victory

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

A bridge too far
The Longest day
The thin red line - liked this more than Private Ryan

 

[Icy Gull]

Das Boot...by a distance followed by
Cross of Iron
The Deer Hunter - christ that film depressed me

 

[Publius Ovidius]

Das Boot...by a distance followed by
Cross of Iron
The Deer Hunter - christ that film depressed me

Cromwell
Battle of Britain
The Blue max

 

[Jam The Man]

1.Where Eagles Dare
2.The Great Escape
3.Operation Crossbow

 

[Bombardier]

Depending on whether or not you like fiction / non fiction it's really a case of personal taste. Now I have nearly 100 on DVD / tape. Personally:

Where Eagles dare (easily the best but totally fiction)
Band of Brothers - OK not a war film more of a war documentary / series.
Dunkirk - making something positive out of a negative and suitably led by the all time great Sir John Mills!

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Where Eagles dare (easily the best but totally fiction)

A ripping yarn which my dad used to love ripping apart for it's historical inaccuracies - "Those buses weren't in service in the WWII era, that helicopter wasn't invented until the late 1950s, the women's make-up is more 1960s Twiggy than the 1940s"