Recommendation: Top three military/war movies

My favorites are Black Hawk Down, We Were Soldiers and SPR.

Some others I like are Fury, Enemy at the Gates, and Rescue Dawn. Also, Platoon and Full Metal Jacket of course

Civil War - Glory
WW2 - Great Escape
Vietnam - Apocalypse Now
Gulf War - Three Kings

I mean what have you seen what have you not?

SPR
black hawk down
Fury
Hacksaw ridge
All quiet on the western front
1917
Full metal jacket
To hell and back
Kelly’s heroes
Patriot
Glory
Gettysburg

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Obviously Saving Private Ryan is up there.

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Why?

The best WWII movie you've never heard of:



An American airman is dropped into occupied France to assassinate a resistance agent suspected of being a Nazi spy. But he learns that dropping bombs on anonymous specks below is a lot easier than killing a man one-on-one...



The film's tough atmosphere and detail must have originated with writer Donald Downes. Wikipedia: "The film was based on an original story by Downes. He was an important OSS officer involved in numerous operations during the war, according to histories of the era."





Orders To Kill went virtually unseen for decades, but is now available on DVD. Anyone interested in war films should definitely check it out.

Add

Lawrence of Arabia
The Blue Max
Bridge on the River Kwai

Twelve O'clock High
Mr. Roberts
Zulu!

1. Apocalypse Now
2. SPR
3. Black Hawk Down
4. Band of Brothers
5. Full Metal Jacket
6. We Were Soldiers
7. Flags of Our Father's
8. Band of Brothers, the Pacific

Not necessarily in that order.

I've always been a big WW2 fan, I'd go with
Patton
Midway
Guns of Navarone (we had the toy set with the mountain and guns, when I was a kid)

Just adding some I haven’t seen mentioned-

Sgt York
Sahara (the Bogart, though Belushi is not as bad as you’d think)
They were expendable
In Harms Way
Bataan
Back to Bataan
Darby’s Rangers
The Devils Brigade
Attack!
Battle of the Bulge
Battleground
Merrill's Marauders
Battle Cry
Objective Burma

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Honestly, there are a lot of very good movies out there, just depends on your taste.