TasmanianDevil Posted June 12, 2013 Share #1 Posted June 12, 2013 Growing up in Tassie, I'd say the three main movies that got me hooked on war films would be, Gallipoli - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082432/?ref_=sr_1 Platoon - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091763/?ref_=sr_1 and The Lighthorsemen - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093416/?ref_=sr_4 Which films did the same for you? I would love to know, I promise I will watch every one that is posted, if it is available. Kane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted June 12, 2013 Share #2 Posted June 12, 2013 http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/178639-the-longest-day/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garandomatic Posted June 12, 2013 Share #3 Posted June 12, 2013 Not a war film, but seeing Tank with James Garner when I was 4 had a distinct impact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TasmanianDevil Posted June 12, 2013 Author Share #4 Posted June 12, 2013 Definitely some variety in those two films, Thanks lads. Will watch them both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted June 12, 2013 Share #5 Posted June 12, 2013 Not a war film, but seeing Tank with James Garner when I was 4 had a distinct impact. Tanks for the memories? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry K. Posted June 12, 2013 Share #6 Posted June 12, 2013 Most of the war movies that I saw when I was young were B&W and off the television as I was not allowed to go to movies. Most were about the Korean war and WW2. Newer ones I remember would include Tora, Tora, Tora, Platoon, When Trumpets Fade, The Beast, Glory, etc... I can't list the many great movies I have seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willysmb44 Posted June 13, 2013 Share #7 Posted June 13, 2013 My brother is 5 years older than me and he saw several war movies a long time ahead of me. In a pre-home video era, I used to hear him talking about how good, "Kelly's Heroes" was but never saw it until i was a teen. Loved it ever since. I remember seeing ads for "A bridge too far" when it first came out and my parents saying I was too young to see a movie like that (didn't stop me from buying the magazine they put out about the movie, which I have to this day, and years later I walked up the same steps of 'Arnhem' bridge from the movie - actually in Deventer - that the Brit flamethrower team did). On TV, I clearly recall seeing 'Guns of Navarone' and being bored to the very end. "Force Ten from Navarone," I did see in the theater, even though I didn't understand a lot of it (or know what a bad movie it really was, I still have a soft spot for that move to this day). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasonK Posted June 13, 2013 Share #8 Posted June 13, 2013 A few classics (I'm 33, so these may not be classics to you!) that I must watch whenever they are on (even though I have most of them on disc) would be have to be: Kelly's Heroes Where Eagles Dare The Big Red One Hell in the Pacific The Dirty Dozen The Great Escape Stalag 17 Bridge on the River Kwai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted June 13, 2013 Share #9 Posted June 13, 2013 A few classics (I'm 33, so these may not be classics to you!) that I must watch whenever they are on (even though I have most of them on disc) would be have to be: Kelly's Heroes Where Eagles Dare The Big Red One Hell in the Pacific The Dirty Dozen The Great Escape Stalag 17 Bridge on the River Kwai Eric...all of those were made before you were born!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasonK Posted June 13, 2013 Share #10 Posted June 13, 2013 Indeed, Ian! With the exception of The Big Red One, which was released 4 months after I was born (although techinically it would have been made before I was born...) I can, however, remember watching most of these when I was younger on two UHF channels in my area (17 and 57), obviously heavily edited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunkerhillburning Posted June 13, 2013 Share #11 Posted June 13, 2013 " A midnight clear " the original story was written by a US WWII combat vet. It can be viewed on Youtube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted June 13, 2013 Share #12 Posted June 13, 2013 Several years ago, a company in the UK published a part work called "Great War Movies". Each month for about two years they issued two classic war movies on DVD and each one was accompanied by magazine full of facts about the movie in question. I subscribed to it and, as a consequence, have almost every war movie of note on DVD...all of the famous ones, plus some not quite as famous, but not half bad either! It was a worthwhile investment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted June 13, 2013 Share #13 Posted June 13, 2013 By way of a PS...I watched "The Battle of Britain" (again!) yesterday. One of my all time faves and, being British, it means a lot to me. The aerial sequences have never been bettered. Forget the GCI of "Red Tails"...this was the real McCoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted June 13, 2013 Share #14 Posted June 13, 2013 Some of "The few".... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottG Posted June 13, 2013 Share #15 Posted June 13, 2013 Farewell to the King The Pacific ( I know its a series) Cross of Iron We Were Soldiers Objective Burma Patton and just about any other war movie ever made! Scott. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
History Man Posted June 14, 2013 Share #16 Posted June 14, 2013 My dad introduced me to war movies when I was quite younger about 8 years ago, here are some that I will make sure to watch every so often. Patton MidwayKelly's Heroes Tora! Tora! Tora! Bridge Over the River Kwai A Bridge Too Far Devil's Brigade Dirty Dozen The Great Escape Memphis Belle Battle of Britain Where Eagles Dare PT-109 The Bridge At Remagen The Big Red One Just to name a few... Philip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
78CARg Posted June 15, 2013 Share #17 Posted June 15, 2013 When I was younger I didnt watch many war movies, so now I am playing catch up. 2 That I watched recently and realy enjoyed is Kelly's Hero's and the original Inglorious Bastards. I originally watched the Tarentino version and had no idea it was a remake, till I seen the orginal on my cable guide. I do have to point out tho that collecting militaria has ruined watching war films for me. I find myself paying more attention to the the uniforms and equipment, then the actual movie. LOL A few others I really liked Black Hawk Down We Were Soldiers Full Metal Jacket Flags of our Fathers Hart's War Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claymore Posted June 15, 2013 Share #18 Posted June 15, 2013 Amen to the Battle of Britain Ian-one of my favorites. Pretty accident free too as I recall. Made when they actually had vet advisers for the movie. Galland was one. Also In Harms Way They Were Expendable Saving Private Ryan Letters From Iwo Jima Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m1 lover Posted August 20, 2013 Share #19 Posted August 20, 2013 I too love Saving Private Ryan World War 2 in color tv series Patton Battle of the Bulge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USA.mil.history Posted October 24, 2013 Share #20 Posted October 24, 2013 I guess I am more than a little late to this forum but as a kid I was very influenced by a 1943 movie called "The Purple Heart", a fictionalized account of those Doolittle Raiders that were captured and tried by the Imperial Japanese as war criminals. While it was blatant pro US and anti Japanese propaganda (they didn't even really know the true fate of the captured Raiders at that point in the war) it is still very moving. Dana Andrews, Richard Conti and all the others give outstanding performances. All the prisoners have to do is admit they flew from a carrier.... but the won't. The message is one of honor and self sacrifice over self preservation. Ironically it turns out the fictional story was pretty close to the real historical facts. The lessons I learned from that movie are with me to this day. I wish kids today had positive stories like that to inspire them to greater things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
namvet Posted November 1, 2013 Share #21 Posted November 1, 2013 I guess I am more than a little late to this forum but as a kid I was very influenced by a 1943 movie called "The Purple Heart", a fictionalized account of those Doolittle Raiders that were captured and tried by the Imperial Japanese as war criminals. While it was blatant pro US and anti Japanese propaganda (they didn't even really know the true fate of the captured Raiders at that point in the war) it is still very moving. Dana Andrews, Richard Conti and all the others give outstanding performances. All the prisoners have to do is admit they flew from a carrier.... but the won't. The message is one of honor and self sacrifice over self preservation. Ironically it turns out the fictional story was pretty close to the real historical facts. The lessons I learned from that movie are with me to this day. I wish kids today had positive stories like that to inspire them to greater things. I remember that flick. in real life one of the captured Raiders remained in Japan after the war. he became a Christian and preached the word there for many years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOLO Posted November 1, 2013 Share #22 Posted November 1, 2013 When I was younger I didnt watch many war movies, so now I am playing catch up. 2 That I watched recently and realy enjoyed is Kelly's Hero's and the original Inglorious Bastards. I originally watched the Tarentino version and had no idea it was a remake, till I seen the orginal on my cable guide. I do have to point out tho that collecting militaria has ruined watching war films for me. I find myself paying more attention to the the uniforms and equipment, then the actual movie. LOL A few others I really liked Black Hawk Down We Were Soldiers Full Metal Jacket Flags of our Fathers Hart's War I remember in the movie The Green Berets, they didnt show much use of the M1 helmet until the very end of the movie when troops are shown arriving in Vietnam wearing Mitchell camo covers on their M1 they looked like real soldiers that were from Fort Benning , GA where most of the movie was filmed in the summer of 1967 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabre117 Posted November 1, 2013 Share #23 Posted November 1, 2013 Favorites (Not by order of best to worst) ------------------------------------ 1.) Red Dawn (1984) 2.) Apocalypse Now 3.) Full Metal Jacket 4.) Jarhead 5.) Zero Dark Thirty 6.) Pork Chop Hill 7.) Hamburger Hill 8.) Act of Valor 9.) The Hurt Locker 10.) Jet Pilot 11.) Sands of Iwo Jima 12.) Platoon 13.) Enemy at the Gates 14.) Saving Private Ryan 15.) Kelly's Heroes 16.) Strategic Air Command Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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