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Link Posted: 5/17/2024 9:40:15 PM EDT
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Hamburger Hill
Link Posted: 5/17/2024 9:41:28 PM EDT
[#2]
I love Platoon, Tom Berringer was amazing as Barnes... watched it a few months ago and realized I'm so familiar with it it's kinda done a Led Zeppelin effect on me and just couldn't finish..
Link Posted: 5/17/2024 9:43:32 PM EDT
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We were soldiers
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Great list
Add Inglorious Bastards
Link Posted: 5/17/2024 9:46:53 PM EDT
[#4]
I was in awe when I saw Seargent Hartman for the first time with the recruits in the barracks.
Link Posted: 5/17/2024 9:48:39 PM EDT
[#5]
Fiction

Top Gun and Maverick the sequel.

I don't enjoy nonfiction war movies at all.  I can't be entertained by the real events.  

I started feeling this way after watching Blackhawk Down.  (My son is a US Army helicopter pilot)
Link Posted: 5/17/2024 9:49:01 PM EDT
[#6]
The Horatio Hornblower series with Ioan Gruffudd was very good.

Link Posted: 5/17/2024 9:50:58 PM EDT
[#7]
Ive liked this one since I first saw it.

"Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan"

Link Posted: 5/17/2024 10:16:32 PM EDT
[#8]
Zulu,  Kelly's Heroes, Longest Day
Link Posted: 5/17/2024 10:22:02 PM EDT
[#9]
Hamburger Hill
Link Posted: 5/17/2024 10:30:50 PM EDT
[#10]
Das Boot or Full Metal Jacket depending on the day.
Link Posted: 5/17/2024 10:37:53 PM EDT
[#11]
The Longest Day
Hunt For Red October
Master And Commander
The Wild Geese
Link Posted: 5/17/2024 10:45:16 PM EDT
[#12]
From Here to Eternity is one of my favorites.
Link Posted: 5/17/2024 10:47:40 PM EDT
[#13]
Downfall
Link Posted: 5/17/2024 10:50:02 PM EDT
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Ive liked this one since I first saw it.

"Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan"

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Great movie, about a real battle, but also a great movie for FAL/L1A1 enthusiasts. Call it FAL vs AK if you will.
Link Posted: 5/17/2024 10:52:12 PM EDT
[#15]
Lawrence of Arabia
The Longest Day
Zulu


Those are my three favorite war movies.

Honorable mention to all the others here and Force 10 From Navarone.

ETA: Also the cheesy-ass Big Red One movie.
Edit 2: I like Sands of Iwo Jima, I don't remember if it was mentioned. Also, Glory.
Link Posted: 5/17/2024 11:01:40 PM EDT
[#16]
Zulu!
Link Posted: 5/17/2024 11:04:20 PM EDT
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Which suppressor company has her locked in a basement? I kinda miss being psy-op'd
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Link Posted: 5/17/2024 11:04:58 PM EDT
[#18]
The Great Escape
Link Posted: 5/17/2024 11:06:41 PM EDT
[#19]
Bridge Over The River Kwai

Lawrence Of Arabia


/flame suit on/
Link Posted: 5/17/2024 11:12:12 PM EDT
[#20]
Link Posted: 5/17/2024 11:26:29 PM EDT
[#21]
Master and Commander
Blackhawk Down
The Outpost
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Hamburger Hill
13 Hours
Link Posted: 5/17/2024 11:40:14 PM EDT
[#22]
Master and Commander
Link Posted: 5/17/2024 11:44:08 PM EDT
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Because I'm a pogue reservist

In the Army Now.


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As a former Nasty Girl, I can say that movie is the closest to being the real dear story of a weekend warrior unit there is.  
Link Posted: 5/17/2024 11:46:08 PM EDT
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This and Stalag 17.
Link Posted: 5/18/2024 12:07:04 AM EDT
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Because I'm a pogue reservist

In the Army Now.


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I concur.   That and Kelly's Heroes are the most realistic depictions of general life.
Link Posted: 5/18/2024 12:40:09 AM EDT
[#26]
Battleground
Corregidor
Pride of the Marines
Air Force
Blue Max
12 o clock high
All quiet on the western front
Link Posted: 5/18/2024 12:44:22 AM EDT
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[#28]
L'Ennemi Intime
Link Posted: 5/18/2024 1:01:13 AM EDT
[#29]
Couple of my favorites that I haven't seen listed yet.

Bataan
Empire of the Sun
Hell is for Hero's
Gunga Din
Saints and Soldiers ( first one)
Breaker Morant
Gung Ho (1943)
Geronimo (1993)
Link Posted: 5/18/2024 1:04:08 AM EDT
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Lets be honest...maybe one of the best movies ever made.
Link Posted: 5/18/2024 1:05:25 AM EDT
[#31]
Link Posted: 5/18/2024 1:06:05 AM EDT
[#32]
The Patriot or Stripes, one of the two
Link Posted: 5/18/2024 1:16:37 AM EDT
[#33]
Inglourious Basterds
The Great Escape
Patton
Air America
Link Posted: 5/18/2024 1:19:17 AM EDT
[#34]
Tank
Heartbreak Ridge
Link Posted: 5/18/2024 1:21:43 AM EDT
[#35]
Link Posted: 5/18/2024 1:31:49 AM EDT
[#36]
The Deserter

Patton

FMJ

The Green Berets
Link Posted: 5/18/2024 1:38:31 AM EDT
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Ulrich Matthes who Played Joseph Goebbels did and excellent job. I wanted to shoot my TV.

Link Posted: 5/18/2024 1:45:30 AM EDT
[#38]
I think of this. I watched Platoon and Saving Private Ryan….I never want to see a US soldier serving or dying for any foreign entity.

Green Berets - Air Support Scene
Link Posted: 5/18/2024 2:02:24 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 5/18/2024 2:08:04 AM EDT
[#40]
Das Boot
Enemy at the gates.
Link Posted: 5/18/2024 2:27:07 AM EDT
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I've watched it about 25 times.
Link Posted: 5/18/2024 2:58:14 AM EDT
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That is probably mine, though there are many on my fave list. When i was bronze here, Lucky Jack Aubrey was my avatar. Incredible film and even more amazing book series.

My #2 is most likely The Pacific. I know it was a series, but that series really got under my skin. Everything from the anguish of Basilone's sacrifices, to Sledge's father quietly listening to his son's nightmares from the hallway "after" the war.  My mother was adept at calming my father's occasional rough nights.


Link Posted: 5/18/2024 6:39:03 AM EDT
[#43]
The Outpost
13 Hours
Blackhawk Down
We were soldiers
Danger Close
The Covenant
Enemy at the Gate
Hyena Road
Link Posted: 5/18/2024 7:05:09 AM EDT
[#44]



The Last Detail
Link Posted: 5/18/2024 7:07:59 AM EDT
[#45]
Full Metal Jacket
Link Posted: 5/18/2024 8:18:15 AM EDT
[#46]
Link Posted: 5/18/2024 8:23:55 AM EDT
[#47]
Cross of Iron
Link Posted: 5/18/2024 9:23:31 AM EDT
[#48]
Sgt. Bilko (the 90s version)
Link Posted: 5/18/2024 9:30:52 AM EDT
[#49]
The most realistic movie about being in the military and combat, of course: Kelly's Hero's.
Link Posted: 5/18/2024 9:36:13 AM EDT
[#50]
The devil's brigade
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