Recommend Me Some Good War/Battle Movies

I'm looking for more war and battle movies...it can by anything from stone age to modern (however I'm particularly looking for war movies based in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries).

This is what I've seen:

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Apocalypto
Braveheart
Kingdom of Heaven
Platoon
Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
We Were Soldiers
Enemy at the Gates
Gladiator
The Messenger
Band of Brothers
Saving Private Ryan
The Thin Red Line
Letters From Iwo Jima
Flags of Our Fathers
The Patriot
300
Gods and Generals
Cold Mountain
When Trumpets Fade
Saints and Soldiers
Tai Guk Gi
No Man's Land
Downfall
The Longest Day
...there has to be more but I can't recall them at the moment

I'm mostly looking for films made from the '70s till now

Behind Enemy Lines is decent.

You have pretty much covered 'em all.

Braveheart is a disgrace.

Originally Posted by Danny_C_1

You have pretty much covered 'em all.

He is missing a perhaps the best War/Battle movie ever made or at least the most spectacular.

Waterloo

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That one scene is just so epic and you imagine that's what it was like at Waterloo. All real extras, people and horses and no CGI.

Glory

Here's some from my collection that you don't seem to have watched:

Black Hawk Down
LOTR trilogy
Lawrence of Arabia
The Winter War
Patton
Cross of Iron
Das Boot
Spartacus
If you like naval: pirates of the Carribean and Master and Commander

Before '70s (But still good if not better I think)
Battleship Potemkin
Seven Samurai(trust me, this a great one!)
Ben Hur
The Great Escape
The Bridge on the River Kwai.

Got some good foreign war films in there too, you'll probably have a hard time finding them. Some of these, like Spartacus, are purely drama with an epic battle thrown in there.

A Bridge too Far

Originally Posted by Captain Jin

A Bridge too Far

Seconded

Also, Assembly:



Then maybe this, about the chechen war. It seems to be on youtube in its entirety but without subtitles.


And Russia seems to already have churned out a propaganda movie about the south ossetia war last year:


(ok, so that last one probably isn't good at all, but then there aren't that many war themed movies people don't already know)

Originally Posted by Rapax

And Russia seems to already have churned out a propaganda movie about the south ossetia war last year:


(ok, so that last one probably isn't good at all, but then there aren't that many war themed movies people don't already know)

lol

Also is that a british guy, talking to the georgian(?) commander?

If so, it would make the movie a whole lot more awesome.

I know many of you are going to flame me for this, but I think more recent war movies are in fact, better than oldies. NOt just the better effects and filming techniques (which does help the viewer get a more realistic picture of a battlefield), but the Hays Code makes it difficult for a war movie to be good.

Alright well I've seen the LotR films, Black Hawk Down, Patton, and Behind Enemy Lines before (some of the ones I forgot to mention)

I never realized before how very few Roman era and Medieval era films there are, those are usually the most exciting with intense, bloody, and gritty fighting.

There's more interesting books written during that time rather than movie made about the eras you specified.

I'd find documentaries about those era's more interesting personally.

Currently watching, 'Life Under Napoleon'

http://shop.abc.net.au/browse/produc...oductid=753336 - Aussie site (prices too)

Stalingrad is another good one. Other then that, you, or the other posters pretty much have it covered.

"Indigènes" or "Days of Glory" in the English version. Very good film about algerians fighting for France during ww2.
"Gettysburg".
"Ride with the devil". Guerrilla warfare during the American civil war
"Land and Freedom". Ken Loach approaches the Spanish Civil war
Stalingrad and A Bridge too Far are a must.
And Behind Enemy lines is rubbish.

The Last Samurai
To End All Wars
Master and Commander
Pan's Labyrinth
Paths of Glory
Henry V

Are all strongly recommended.

Some might count

Aliens
Starship Troopers

as war movies

Equilibirum has some awesome battle/combat scenes though its on a smaller scale than most war movies.

Originally Posted by Hounf of Culan

Equilibirum has some awesome battle/combat scenes though its on a smaller scale than most war movies.

That's gun kata -_- and not really war or battle. The fights are kickass though .

The Seven Samurai is essential. More recently, Mongol and Bang-Rajan are both pretty great.

have you seen barry lyndon or hornblower?

Has the four feathers been mentioned yet? Its pretty good, starring the late Heath Ledger.