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Post your favorite war movie of all time and tell why. Only post one it can be from any war and any countries involvement. To start it off mine is got to be "Battle Ground" from 1949. I like it so much because the movie is almost 100% accurate on uniforms and equipment wise and also many of the extras actually served in the war. And at the beginning it states the background men are in the 101st.

 

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Von Ryan's Express

 

My parents and I used to watch this when I was a kid growing up. I liked Frank Sinatra in this role as Colonel Ryan..

 

Leigh

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For what it took to bring it all together, without the benefit of computers and modern advancements, in it's time I'd have to say The Longest Day.

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Battle Cry,Hell is For Heroes,Stalag 17,12'Oclock High,The War Lover.and a host of other Black and whites that only come on around Memorial Day on TV are all favorites.Add in Kellys Heroes,3 Kings,Apocolypse Now,Blawk Hawk Down,BoB,Full Metal Jacket, and a host of others

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Von Ryan's Express

 

My parents and I used to watch this when I was a kid growing up. I liked Frank Sinatra in this role as Colonel Ryan..

 

Leigh

 

:D

You'll get your Iron Cross now Von Ryan!

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I was looking for a way to foto shop a IK 1st Class on to his jacket before posting :lol:

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Does it have to be about the USA ?

 

ZULU was my first and still favorite war movie.

 

I remember the night my parents went to the theater to see "Longest Day" and left me with a baby sitter.

 

Yea I'm still upset about it !!! :blink::lol:

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Does it have to be about the USA ?

ZULU was my first and still favorite war movie.

 

NO manny! No movies that are non US, or have politics it them! BAD Manny.....BAD Manny!! :o

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A movie that doesn't have politics in it ?

 

On what alternate universe does such an animal exist ?

 

I know.... the one that I'm not in. :(

 

JS I stand by the Zulus.

 

It was my 8th birthday present and a 2 year later consolation prize for not seeing The Longest Day.

 

Rorke's Drift was just after a major British defeat by the Zulus January 23rd. 123 which tied into my birthday and I was born in Africa.

 

So I'm emotionally involved and nothing I say will make sense.

 

If loving this movie is wrong I don't wanna be right.

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Objective Burma is my favorite old school B&W WWII movie

 

That movie was such a distortion of the truth with regard to the campaign in Burma it caused outrage and was banned from British cinemas for many years after its release. Easy to see why!

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That movie was such a distortion of the truth with regard to the campaign in Burma it caused outrage and was banned from British cinemas for many years after its release. Easy to see why!

 

what about the movie U-571 ?

 

I heard that was another movie the British were not too happy about since the true story is the British Royal Navy captured the first enigma in 1941 before the US was involved

 

they kind of stole the glory from the Brits in that movie too

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Last of the Mohicans....I love the French and Indian war and James Fenimore Cooper. Fiction, but, set at Fort William Henry

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Fred Borgmann

Hard to say which one to list here but I think the one I like best is "Advance and Retreat" ( if I got the title right) is about the Italians who got suckered into going into Russia with the Germans. Only saw it once many years ago but it was epic.

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"A Walk in the Sun." Also, "Kelly's Heros," probably pretty close to the truth on how the WW2 US Army worked according to at least one WW2 veteran's opinion.

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