US WW2 TOP 5 MOVIES

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I love The Longest Day of 1962❤

This movies is very very good thanks fir tour Recommendations

The battle of Britain movie is one of my favorites, the filmmakers had access to many real aircraft for the filming

Грязная дюжина хороший.

Not trying to be too patriotic here, but the Unknown Soldier (2017) from Finland is often listed by critics as one of the best WW2 movies of all time, despite it being from a relatively small and unknown (no pun intended) country. It’s often seen as ”the Finnish Saving private Ryan”, and similarly many of the veterans who saw it said that its depiction of the combat was extremely accurate and realistic and some veterans had to leave the theatres because it triggered their PTSD too strongly.

Tienes que ver "Come and See"(1985)! Es soviético y es interesante ver el estilo muy distinto de cómo la URSS hace cine bélico (o anti bélico en este caso)

The big red one, saving private ryan, midway, a bridge too far, the great escape, where eagles dare (not really a wwii film but great to watch).

All good recommendations: My favorite is Tora Tora Tora 1970 because it was told from the perspective of both the Americans and the Japanese-very accurately concerning the code breaking, the mistakes in decision making for both sides, and captures the thinking of those in charge. I also give an honorable mention to 12 O’Clock High that shows the huge stress an attrition of a bomber squadron in the earlier stages of WW2.

Man, i LOVE objetive burma, its the favorite ww2 film of my grandad and literaly we see ir every week

Awesome! Please do for other countries as well 🙏

There is a really good movie about 2 British soldiers in 1917 the movie is called in 1917.

Now I know which movies I didn't watch, thank you 😁
UPD: now i want to share my top-5 films about Great Patriotioc war:
5)На войне как на войне / At war as at war (1968) - a movie about SU-100 crew, pretty good story and i liked it when watched first time so much.
4)Сын солдата / Son of the soldier (1964) - this film is awesome and story so sad, i cried for real after watching.
3)А зори здесь тихие / Dawns here so quiet (1972 and 2015) - there's two editions of this film, old and modern - both based on eponymous book, wroten by Boris Vasilyev. I just recommend watching it.
2)Брестская крепость / Brest Fortress (2010) - in my humble opinion, this is the most historical accurate modern movie about Great Patriotic war.
1)Освобождение / Liberation (1967-1971) - the series of films about each key events and battles in Great Patriotic war. No modern Russian film on the WW2 topic can compare to it. That's all😁

My grandpa was a US tank captain in the Burma campaign

I offer Von Ryan’s express. It’s a true classic and fun ride

Love the thin red line

Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima was sobering to watch.
The Thin Red Line had a phenomenal cast and a realistic approach.
Coastal Command, about British flying boat operations in WWII.
The Password is Courage, based on a true story, the film even has some lighthearted moments about a British soldier trying to escape from Nazi captivity.

I would add A Bridge Too Far, though it would be hard to decide which one it replaces, my favorite 2 would probably be A Bridge Too Far, and The Longest Day, but there are so many good ones. A couple others I really enjoy are Merrill’s Marauders, The Sea Wolves which is very underrated, and To Hell and Back, to name a few

The Iron Cross

1965年製作
太平洋奇跡の作戦キスカかな

A bridge too far!!! Mezcla de peli bélica y peli de desastre típica de los años 70.

1. The Bridge at Remagen
2. Battle of Britain
3. The Dirty Dozen

Stalag 17 over Great Escape

What about "The keep" ?
Directed in 1983 by Michael Mann.

(5.) Bridge on the River Kwai-1957 (4.) Hacksaw Ridge-2016 (3.) Fury-2014 (2.) Flags of our Father, and Letters from Iwo Jima-2006 (1.) Saving Private Ryan-1998

Richard III from 1995 directed by Richard Loncraine.

The first battle in the intro and the final one at the end.....

Masterpiece.

"Talvisota" of 1989 and "Tuntematon Sotilas" of 2017.

Two finnish war movies, two masterpieces.

I really enjoyed "the eight hundred" although not particularly accurate from that particular battle it does accurately portray the sorrownding battle of Shanghai

1 Sands of iwo Jima
2 battleground
3 saving private Ryan
4 bataan
5 the old midway

The gund of Navarone, and The Bridge on the river Kwai are my top 2

Mine would be the pianist, I know that is a non combatant POV but it's my favorite film of all time so (2nd place would be Schindler's list yet again non combatant film)

Do you have a Soviet/Russian top?

My neighbor was a WW2 vet who liberated the Philippines and he told me that Objective Burma was the most realistic war movie

Hacksaw Ridge (2016). A Mel Gibson movie with Desmond Doss's true story.

There is also Pearl Harbour !

The Pianist as well, although it's not a soldiers war movie.
Roberto Benigni's academy award winning 'Life is Beautiful' was also brilliant, but not a traditional war movie. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Then there is 'Whisky Galore', a humerous look at wartime Scotland after whisky is rationed, but a cargo ship full of whisky is sunk, and the bottles wash up on Scottish beaches, only to quickly dissappear into the general community.
The authorities try to recover the cargo.

"That’s a great selection of WWII movies. I’ve seen The Longest Day—it’s impressive. Scale-wise, it’s definitely comparable to Yuri Ozerov’s epic "Liberation", though it falls a bit short in terms of dramatic intensity. By the way, since you do Soviet Army reenactments, I highly recommend checking out some Soviet films about the Eastern Front. The essential ones are "Battle of Moscow", the "Liberation" epic I just mentioned, and "The Dawns Here Are Quiet"(A zori zdes' tihie) . There are also a couple of modern ones that are actually pretty good: Fortress of War (Brest Fortress) and Battle for Sevastopol (about the sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko).

Bridge on the river Kwai is a personal favorite of mine.

Excellent list, I would add The Bridge at Remagen.

Do you have a favourite Soviet or Yugoslav ww2 movie?

Saving Private Ryan is an excellent movie in part because it’s just a storytelling exercise, rather than trying to strictly stick to a true story. That way, it manages to touch on several different aspects of the overall post-D-Day story.

Another excellent movie is A Bridge Too Far. It’s a great movie, showing how the desperate hope to end the war in Europe in 1944 clashed with real world capabilities. The shortage of gliders and aircraft forcing a much smaller first wave. The reality of relying on sequential attacks to secure routes etc… Obviously it took some liberties, but overall a good movie.

The movies are really good, . But my top 5 movies are the following:
1- The Misfit Brigade (1988)
2- When Trumpets Fade (1998)
3- Windtalkers (2002)
4- Stalingrad (1993)
5- Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

The Great Raid from 2005 is still the best war film for me, featuring the most successful raid in history (still remember your loadout as the participant of the Cabanatuan POW camp raid). I definitely recommend watching this film.

I also recommend Heneral Luna since this is the most historical film and a must try on Netflix (with English or Castillan Spanish subtitles).

For me it isn't films, it's two miniseries: Band of Brothers and The Pacific. If I had to choose movies specifically, it would either be Windtalkers, the Thin Red Line, Hacksaw Ridge, or Letters From Iwo Jima.

Edit: Honorable mentions would be Enemy at the Gates, Come and See, the Big Red One, Saving Ryans Privates, Midway, and Peatl Harbor.

Recent movie: Greyhound with Tom Hanks. 2020. Great film.

Yooo, an Eagle from the 82° parachute divission, so cool man!

Not historically accurate by any means but my favorites have to be:

1: Where eagles dare
2: Kelly's heros
3: Saving Private Ryan
4: The Guns of Navarone
5: Against the Wind


Extra credit:
Orders to Kill
13 rue Madeleine
The Silent Enemy

Again, not historically accurate by any means but still awesome to watch

Generation War

The British stood alone and absorbed what the nazi's threw at them. The US didn't come to their rescue. The idiot Hitler declared war on the USA. That's what brought the US into Europe. I hold massive respect for allied armed services including the Americans. We are touchy about anyone who makes false claims that throws disrespect on our own. My uncle and my mate's Dad fought in Burma and that matters to me just like the rest. It's so easy to forget the real hero's as we do with our Commonwealth soldiers, airmen and navys. The worst is the disregard for the Soviets who made massive sacrifices to crush Hitler and the Japanese, beating Japan's last standing army in Manchuria and arguably ending that war by removing Tojo's last means of fighting on despite the atomic bombs. The US gets all the credit for pushing Japan back across the Pacific, taking many casualties. That helped protect Australia and New Zealand but no one ever gives credit to the Soviet armies. We must be fair to all sides for the part played by all nations.

The Thin red line was amazing I remember watching it as a kid. Nostalgic movie for sure living with my Dad.

1. Come and see ( 1985).( rus. Иди и смотри). Soviet film about horrors of war.
2. There is no turning back / no way back (1970). ( rus. Обратной дороги нет). Soviet movie about partisans in Belarus.
3. Escape from Sobibor. (1987). Movie made by UK and Yugoslavia. Story about escape from nazi extermination camp.
4. The counterfeiters (2007). ( germ. Die Fälscher). Austrian- german drama about Operation Bernhard.
5. Before the Fall (2004). (germ. Napola -Elite für den Führer). German movie about military academy in Nazi German.

Midway estuvo bien? Yo no la he visto porque sólo he escuchado cosas malas, pero me fío de tu criterio.

Personal top 5:-

Battle of Britain
The Thin Red Line
Downfall
A Bridge too far

And for silly entertainment value;

Where Eagles Dare

Mine is is a mix of fiction and real story.
1. Saving privet ryan
2. Hacksaw ridge
3. Fury
4. Dunkrei

I like the show the liberator (probably won’t count because it’s a show)

Thin red line is underrated, in the Shadow of Saving Private Ryan. It is meditative and scary. A better reflection of the internal life of soldiers. Waiting and waiting with your own thoughts, only to be interrupted with the true horror of war. No super soldier Hollywood bs, just men trying to stay alive on an island so far from home, it might as well be another planet. Also you get to hear Woody Harrelson yelling “ I blew up my butt”. Classic cinema.

Overlord is an amazing d-day movie, with an Evil Dead twist. The action and small squad tactics feel real, even as the undead begin to rise. It is as close to a Wolfenstien movie as we got.

1 salving the private Ryan 1998
2 Hasta el último hombre 2016
3 The capitán 2017
4 Fury
5 Cartas desde iwo jima

I love The Thin Red Line and I consider it to be the superior WW2 movie of 1998. It provides a nuanced view of the war- that many men fighting in it were just young men far from home and fighting for their own survival. They did not find what they were doing to be glorious or heroic.

I also found the depiction of Guadalcanal in that movie superior to that of The Pacific's portrayal. We could actually see what was going on as opposed to The Pacific where you mostly just saw Marines firing into the darkness. It also gives the US Army their respect- that the Pacific war wasn't just about the marines. The Army suffered just as much.

Big Red One

"Come and see" (1985, USSR), "Das Boot" (1981), "Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter" (2013), "Le Silence de la mer" (2004, France)

One of my favorite ww2 movies has got to be Flags of our Fathers

This was my number 1 too

Cross Of Iron.

A Bridge Too Far is pretty good to watch

Coincido.
La Delgada línea roja para mucha gente poco cinéfila no la comprenden.

Считаю одними из лучших фильмов советские. Во многих из них больше половины актерского состава и иногда еще и режиссер бывшие фронтовики. Да они идеологические, но не вижу в этом ничего плохого, ибо против нацизма они и надо бы выступать против нацизма. Два бойца вообще снимался прямо в разгар войны. Пожалуй любимыми могу назвать: "два бойца"(на английском Two Soldiers), "в бой идут одни старики"(на английском Only "Old Men" Are Going Into Battle), "Аты-баты, шли солдаты…(One-Two, Soldiers Were Going...), офицеры (англ. Officers) и "служили два товарища"(англ Two Comrades Were Serving). Переводы названий взял с википедии. Смотрел их не слишком много, потому что честные фильмы о войне тяжелы, ибо война тяжела, а значит их тяжело и даже тяжко смотреть. Я бы даже сказал что они антивоенные, а не военные. Будь проклята любая война. Больше в последнее время увлекся гражданской войной, ибо там и комедии и боевики и детективы есть, а не только трагедии. Они почти не затрагивают западный и тихоокеанский фронт по понятным причинам, однако очень точно показывают восточный европейский. Актеры не играют роли, а переживают их, переносят свою настоящую молодость. Из иностранных смотрел только французский фильм "старое ружье". Тоже хороший, рекомендую

The hill assault in The Thin Red Line was sooooo well done

Too many to choose from.
I would probably include 'Tora Tora Tora', 'Sink the Bismarck' and 'Ice Cold in Alex' though.
Oh and if you want a very real, traumatising experience, I'd also include ' Come and See'! 😬

Thin red line is the best

Salvar al Soldado Ryan.
Enemigo a las puertas
El aguila ha llegado
Un puente muy lejano
La cruz de Hierro

1. На войне как на войне. 1968
2. Годен к нестроевой. 1968
3. Женя, Женечка и катюша. 1967
4. Sahara. 1943
5. The Beige on the River Kwai. 1957
Такой вот список. "На войне как на войне" пересматриваю как заворожённый каждый год.

A Bridge Too Far. One of my favourite films full stop.

My favorite war movies are
1: Fury
2:1917
3 enemies at the gates
4:the Patriot

Great selection. Thanks for including black and white films, too!

O número 1, Além da Linha Vermelha é o mais excepcional de todos. ❤

Band of Brothers

I always liked Thin Red Line too...a beautiful movie too...they made war into a work of art! Bridge Too Far, Black Hawk Down, Hyena Road (pure yard, but it looked great!) are some of my faves.

Thin red line is kinda like full metal jacket but it’s more ptsd instead of morals and fmj is Vietnam

This isn't a western front movie but Enemy At The Gates is a good movie

Pearl Harbor 😂

I wouldn't even put SPR in my top 5 but it does deserve credit for helping make the best TV series ever made (Band of Brothers)

Saving private Ryan all day
Apocalypse now
The battle of Britain
Full metal jacket
The Great escape

Down fall, enemy at the gates,

Battle for Sevastopol is a fantastic movie

Der Tiger

Dunkirk and hacksaw ridge

My favorite film is week end a zuydcoote with jean paul belmondo. It s about Dunkerque in 1940 and the mess of the french army. Great film with good uniforms and conform weapons...

Where Eagles Dare (1969) Absurd fun with a great amount of action. Not historically accurate, but still a great amount of detail.

Same

Liberation (1967-1971)

De acuerdo contigo. Cuanto más tiempo pasa y más la veo, La Delgada Linea Roja me parece una película mucho mejor que Salvar al soldado Ryan

Try watching the series Освобождения or Они сражались за Родину, there are so many Russian WW2 movies that never have been noticed in the west at all

Not for everyone but some of the scenes from Come and see are absolutely horrifying and I feel like most of the WW2 movies have this bravado rah rah Hollywood aspect to them that improperly portrays war as some grandiose heroic thing while it was actually more just horrific and disgusting

Perfettamente d'accordo: Patton e un capolavoro, Il Giorno più lungo e un film completo, narrativo ma anche storici, Tin Red Line e il film assoluto sulla 2 guerra mondiale!

Finnish film "Unknown Soldier", especially the version from 1985.

Watch the german film Stalingrad from 1993 my favorite war film of all time

Come and see

Фильм "28 панфиловцев"

My absolute top is prolly Hacksaw ridge!

Mine is Downfall