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Band of Brothers trumps Saving Private Ryan in my books. Feels more real plus episode 2 at the beginning. Wow. Always fills me with awe. I make it a point to watch it at least once a year.
The same could be said for Kingdom of Heaven... filled with historic BS, and hollywood slant thrown in for good measure, but still a decent watch every so often.
I moderately liked that movie (not worth to spend money on), but as far as historical accuracy goes I kept thinking: "Why can't hollywood stick to what these people really were and did? Were they really so boring in reality? (no, of course not)" Only Saladin was accurately depicted (considering what is known of him and HW's typical attitude to history and "the enemy"). Again an example of character decay and personality swaps/alterations.
Michael Collins(1996)
The treaty(1993)
The wind that shakes the barley(2006
Insurrection(1966)
In the name of the father
Hunger
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Ahtman wrote: Some good ones already tossed out but I guess I'll add a few more to the bonfire.
Lawrence of Arabia
MASH (not for accuracy but the stress's/ridiculousness of war)
All Quiet On the Western Front (1930)
Jarhead
The movie adaptation of Jarhead sucked balls in my opinion. But it was a damned good book.
As for the topic of thread, there are a lot of good war films out there, both accurate historically, and those that just use the historical as a backdrop.
I also like movies set in the era of the African bushfire wars of the 1960's and 1970's. Two of my favorites are The Wild Geese and The Dogs of War (the last one is a decent film, and a spectacular novel).
I also enjoy obscure war films like Beach Red (1967) and The Steel Helmet (1951). Also, anything with John Wayne in it.
Looks like Saints and Soldiers was never put here though. Ignore its two awful sequels. It's not a war movie for everyone, but I rather liked it for its juggling of the trials of a man of faith in war.
1. Stalingrad
2. Full Metal Jacket
3. Saving Private Ryan
4. Band of Brothers
5. Apocalypse Now
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9th Company, Soviet Afghanistan
(not fully historically correct, but It gives a view of the entire war)
Yeah, 9th Company is overly dramatized at parts (especially the ending), but there's some memorable scenes in there (the bit when they capture a Mujahedeen fighter for instance). Its nowhere near as bad as Burnt by the Sun II though.
California Dreamin' springs to mind. Its technically a "war" film. Well its set in Yugoslavia from the perspective of Romanian & US troops and civilians, but the troops are stuck miles from the war in a small town for a week because they don't have the right customs papers. True story.
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Freakazoitt wrote: How about "Fury"? An interesting idea to make living photograph scenes.
As a work of fiction is alright, but it throws out historical accuracy too often and is a bit too grim (everyone is a git 100% of the time) for my liking. Tanks have locking hatches FFS.
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Yeah, 9th Company is overly dramatized at parts (especially the ending)
In reality, all crew and passengers of the stinger-shot aircraft were survived. Most of the 9th company were survived. Fighting was during night and it was firefight. And some other differences.
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Easy E wrote: I would love to see a movie about Jutland.
So of my favorites in no particular order:
Paths to Glory
Apocalypse Now
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Blue Max
Spartacus (Kurt Douglas)
I also use to really enjoy the old Tour of Duty TV show, and Combat! I think Combat! is one of the greatest shows about war set to film.
Two more for you:
Battleground-one of the best war movies I've ever seen. If you like Band of Brothers, here's another take. Eerily similar.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041163/
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Historical war movies in no particular order
Stalingrad (1993)
Das Boot
Der Untergang
All Quiet on the Western Front (1979) - this one in particular is screaming for a quality remake for the centenniary.
Beneath Hill 60
Master and Commander
Last of the Mohicans
Saving Private Ryan
Full Metal Jacket
These ones have some cool battle scenes/period costumes which I enjoyed but had limited historical value
The Patriot
Braveheart
300
Brotherhood of War
The Beast is fantastic. Russian tank crew lost in Afghanistan, hunted by Mujahadeen. Gripping.
Cuckoo. Not really a war movie, but a story of a Russian and a Finnish soldier, wounded and stranded on a very remote Finnish farm with the widowed farmer.
Battle of Britain. Really, really well done aircraft porn. Spitfires vs Bf-109s. Maximum dakka.
Hope and Glory. Another not really war movie, but a story about a boy growing up during the London Blitz. Great fun.
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Wow thanks for breaking the Da Vinci code there guys I had no idea
Lol, as someone who studies history "professionally," I thought it necessary to point out that the issues with "300" were due to it being based on the comic book version of events, not the Herodotus version of events (and, while it's been a long while since I've done it, I remember Herodotus is boring, even for someone who loves history as I do).
Wow thanks for breaking the Da Vinci code there guys I had no idea
Lol, as someone who studies history "professionally," I thought it necessary to point out that the issues with "300" were due to it being based on the comic book version of events, not the Herodotus version of events (and, while it's been a long while since I've done it, I remember Herodotus is boring, even for someone who loves history as I do).
We both have a love of history in common then. When the movie was announced as in production over a decade ago it was common knowledge that it was basically an adapted comic. It also included mutant war rhinos, super-Xerxes, samurai Immortals etc. Considering I listed it alongside titles such as The Patriot I kinda felt the `no gak sherlock` comment was warranted.
No one watched 300 for historical accuracy. We watched it to see manly men being manly in a manly battle against less manly men. The 80s style of manly, filled with homoerotic suggestions because where your that manly you need men to match your manliness
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LordofHats wrote: No one watched 300 for historical accuracy. We watched it to see manly men being manly in a manly battle against less manly men. The 80s style of manly, filled with homoerotic suggestions because where your that manly you need men to match your manliness
Precisely! And there's nothing wrong with that either.
youbedead wrote: i wish someone would make a movie about the bttle of wizna
750 polls holding off 42,000 german soldiers for thee day has got to make a good movie
Well, most of the time was spent building a ponton bridge after the Polish army destroyed the only bridge to cross the Narew, while most of the 40k Wehrmacht were waiting to come across, so if you are an engineering enthusiast it could be the movie of your life!
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