The best war movies/series

[LANTIRN]

Rescue Dawn for a Vietnam POW movie.

[mstng86]

It is hard for me to include a TV series as a favorite compared to most war movies. Although as a kid my favorite show was Black Sheep Squadron and I think they did a decent job with that show even though most of the flight footage was canned crap. Tour of Duty was much the same way, I watched it and liked it.

Are you referring to my suggestion of M.A.S.H or something else? Because M.A.S.H. was a movie first.

[Broncojohnny]

It is hard for me to include a TV series as a favorite compared to most war movies. Although as a kid my favorite show was Black Sheep Squadron and I think they did a decent job with that show even though most of the flight footage was canned crap. Tour of Duty was much the same way, I watched it and liked it.

[mstng86]

M.a.s.h

[BP]

Tour of Duty.

If you're bringing that up you might as well mention ABC's answer, China Beach. Unfortunately for both series though we had a real war on TV, people could care less about TV dramas when there is live combat on CNN. They were both pretty good.

[CJ]

No Patton?

I always liked The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare, both are from the 60s.

I had it in my original list.

[BERNIE MOSFET]

Tour of Duty.

Short lived TV series looking at the Vietnam war. The first season was pretty good given their low budget. They had no problems killing off main characters, too, which gave a real sense of consequence in what was portrayed. The series took a wrong turn in the second season, and I didn't find it as interesting - canceled after the third season.

[tribaltalon]

Gone With the Wind set the bar very high for this genre. I'd like to see something that went more in depth into Lee and Grant's personal lives. It'd be really tough to do anything without it being called a western or being compared to one of the greatest films of all time.

You're joking, right? Gone with the Wind was NOT a war movie. It just happens to be based in the same timeframe as the war. Something like Cold Mountain would be along the same genre as Gone with the Wind, (but obviously not on the same scale).

After thinking about it, there was a miniseries called the north and south with patrick swayze in it.. i barely remember it, i havent seen it since the 80s, and also the red badge of courage is pretty good for a 50s movie, the book was one of my favorites as a kid growing up.

[Lason]

black hawk down, my favorite war movie of all time.

[Broncojohnny]

No Patton?

I always liked The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare, both are from the 60s.

[BP]

Civil war hasnt been done enough IMO.

Gone With the Wind set the bar very high for this genre. I'd like to see something that went more in depth into Lee and Grant's personal lives. It'd be really tough to do anything without it being called a western or being compared to one of the greatest films of all time.

[CJ]

If we are going that far out then I have to nominate John Adams. I didn't really want to get into it but after watching it for 10 minutes I was hooked, a recurring trend on HBO shows.

I was going to recommend this also. John Adams is by far the best movie/series/documentary ever made on US revolutionary war.

[BP]

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is set during the Civil War and directly affected the plot.

If we are going that far out then I have to nominate John Adams. I didn't really want to get into it but after watching it for 10 minutes I was hooked, a recurring trend on HBO shows.

[tribaltalon]

IMO the list should go..

1. Band of Brothers
2. The Pacific
3. Saving Private Ryan
4. Glory
5. The longest day
6. Tora Tora
7. Gettysburg
8. Platoon
9. Full Metal Jacket
10. A Bridge too far


There's been alot of great war movies, actually I'd LOVE to see a miniseries in the styling of Band of Brothers about the Civil War. Go through all the battles from start to finish, have half of it be about the north, half about the south, and follow it based on a division that they have the most stuff written about/and or personal letters from soldiers. I'm a huge war buff, and i'm burnt out on WWII movies. Civil war hasnt been done enough IMO.

[LANTIRN]

What about "Gettysburg". I always thought that was a damn good civil war era film.