re: First war movie you watched?

My favorite war film. In my top 5 films of all time too

I watched The Guns of Navarone, A Bridge Too Far and The Great Escape with my dad all when I was really young so it's hard to remember. The first war movie I watched on my own was Black Hawk Down

The first one I distinctly remember is the Dirty Dozen.

Bridge Over the River Kwai is the first one I remember. Saw it at a drive in theater when I was a kid. We whistled, and sang the song, changing the words to, "Comet will make you vomit. So get some Comet, and vomit today."

The Guns of Navarone is the second one I remember, and then Von Ryan's Express. Saw both in the theater.

Whatever they were playing on AMC during the Veterans Day war movie marathon back in the 80’s and 90’s.

Hmm...that's actually a good question.

When I was about the age of six, I started catching glimpses of a few war movies on the History Channel. There were films like The Plot to Kill Hitler as well as re-runs of Herman Wouk's War & Remembrance. But the first war movie I remember watching all the way through was Sink the Bismarck.

Grew up in the 50's, so war movies were all over the TV and big screen. I really can't say which one was the very first to be honest because I got a pretty steady diet of them.

Between war movies and westerns, that was what dominated theaters and TV in the 50's.

When I was little I had the flue and was awake late and caught Tora, Tora, Tora on the midnight movie. Probably not the first war movie I ever saw but it definitely left a big Impression on me.

The Patriot.

Sergeant York

"You see, I believe in the Bible, and I'm a believin' that this here life we're living is something the Lord done give us, and we got to be a-living it as best we can — and I'm figuring that killing other folks is no part of what he was intending us to be a-doing here."