re: Top 30 Most Accurate War Movies of All-Time

OP, are you a combat veteran? If you have not actually fought in a war, it is difficult to say what is accurate or not.

I served in Vietnam as a Marine grunt in the Khe Sanh area in 1969. Wounded twice.

No movie has yet to capture the total visceral fear of combat. The adrenaline dump is hard to depict. That said, these are the movies I personally found moving:

1. Hamburger Hill, accurate depiction of daily life, language and the fear and FRUSTRATION of extended fighting.

2. Platoon, aside from the politics of Oliver Stone, it nailed the daily grind and the final assault made me cringe with flashbacks.

3. Thin Red Line, captured the fear and dread of the inner person. Beautiful movie. Elias Koteas and Sean Penn stole the movie but Ben Chapman ripped my heart out. Must see.

4. Blackhawk Down, really accurate depiction of young men fighting for first time in a no-win situation. Special effects among best ever.

5. Forrest Gump, the ambush scene brought tears to my eyes. They nailed the tracers, explosions and cries of the wounded. The look on his face when he found Bubba was timeless.

“That’s all I go to say about that.”

Honorable mention: Saving Pvt. Ryan — first 20 minutes and last 20 minutes were riveting. I actually felt for Cpl. Upham and the German prisoner.

The Pacific — heartbreak, heartbreak, heartbreak. The coming home episode had me in tears. It hit home so hard.

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OP, are you a combat veteran? If you have not actually fought in a war, it is difficult to say what is accurate or not.

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I think he just posted a YouTube video that listed it that way. It's what they do now. My guess is it's a product of cord cutting. Instead of watching TV, I think young dudes watch videos wherever they can find them.

I didn't watch it. I like articles better, but I'm old. High school football is the only thing I regularly watch on YouTube.

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No Patton!?

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The M48 Panzers?

300 and Braveheart should be on here.

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Master and Commander is a great movie, they did a great job. Almost criminal it never got a sequel.

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It really is and I do think Russell Crowe has said in recent years there might be.

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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

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Should be number one for accuracy

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I think it’s supposed to be a prequel not starring him and since Peter Weir retired not directed by him either.

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Sounds like a recipe for the continuation of bad movie sequels.

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7. We Were Soldiers (2002)

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Just take out that ridiculous charge up the hill at the end.

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I mean great movie but it's well-known as a Russian propaganda middle finger picture to Germany.... So it's disingenuous to slap a "most accurate" label on it.

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I detected not a single shred of pro-Soviet propaganda in this movie, in the sense that it tries to promote Communism in any way. It most definitely does make the Soviet partisans out as the "good" guys, but that's to be expected in a Soviet movie. And while it does portray the Germans as vicious marauders, the movie is based on the activities of the Dirlewanger Brigade, a real actual Waffen SS unit who actually did the things that are portrayed in the movie, along with much worse. Seriously, go look up Oskar Dirlewanger if you want to read about a truly evil piece of shite scumbag.

I don't really consider Come and See a war movie so much as an atrocity movie. As the title suggests, the only real message seems to be, "Witness this unbelievable awfulness that actually happened here."