Top 50 War Movies

[Seeker of Truth]

Top 50 War Movies

Rank Title
1 Schindler's List (1993)
2 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
3 Pianist, The (2002)
4 Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
5 Paths of Glory (1957)
6 Apocalypse Now (1979)
7 Boot, Das (1981)
8 Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)
9 General, The (1927)
10 Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)
11 Ran (1985)
12 To Be or Not to Be (1942)
13 Great Escape, The (1963)
14 Saving Private Ryan (1998)
15 Grande illusion, La (1937)
16 Vita è bella, La (1997)
17 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
18 Stalag 17 (1953)
19 Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925)
20 Braveheart (1995)
21 Patton (1970)
22 African Queen, The (1951)
23 Glory (1989)
24 Deer Hunter, The (1978)
25 Full Metal Jacket (1987)
26 Battaglia di Algeri, La (1965)
27 Gone with the Wind (1939)
28 Hotaru no haka (1988)
29 Andrei Rublyov (1969)
30 Platoon (1986)
31 Mister Roberts (1955)
32 Henry V (1989)
33 From Here to Eternity (1953)
34 Kumonosu jo (1957)
35 Aleksandr Nevsky (1938)
36 Caine Mutiny, The (1954)
37 To Have and Have Not (1944)
38 Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The (1943)
39 MASH (1970)
40 Killing Fields, The (1984)
41 No Man's Land (2001)
42 Sergeant York (1941)
43 'Breaker' Morant (1980)
44 Kagemusha (1980)
45 Barry Lyndon (1975)
46 Cabaret (1972)
47 Napoléon (1927)
48 Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with his Battell at Agincourt in France, The (1944)
49 Roma, città aperta (1945)
50 Little Big Man (1970)


Source - imdb.com (http://www.imdb.com/Charts/Votes/war)

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Longest day???
Green Berets??

[Timberwolf]

Midway??
Tora, Tora, Tora??
The Final Countdown??

[Dash_Riprock]

Grave of the Fireflies

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Hell is for heroes????
Sands of Iwo Jima???
The Great Escape???

Who did that poll???

[Dash_Riprock]

The Great Escape is ranked 13th.

Where the heck is "The Dirty Dozen"???

[Timberwolf]

Methinks this is a list to make war "kinder and gentler"...maybe not...

Kelly's Heroes?
Force 10 from Navarone?

[wolfplus3]

Apocalypse Now was only #6?

and Full Metal Jacket barely made #25?



'zup wid dat, homey?


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[ducktapehero]

What about "Enemy at the gates." Thats a hell of a lot better than MASH.

[Radical-Conservative]

John Wayne's Green Berets didnt even make the list :mad:

[Dash_Riprock]

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

Hey, it's a western, but there are some tremendous Civil War scenes in it.

[ThomasMore]

Sounds like a popularity contest run by snobs. What did "To Be or Not To Be" or "Cabaret" really have to do with war? In both, Nazis were the backdrop for stories about "show folk". "The Caine Mutiny" was an excellent film, but it was more a courtroom drama than a movie about war. "Mr. Roberts" a war picture?


I did like:

2 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
4 Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
5 Paths of Glory (1957)
7 Boot, Das (1981)
8 Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)
16 Vita è bella, La (1997) (Life is Beautiful (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0118799))
17 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
18 Stalag 17 (1953)
19 Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925) (Battleship Potemkin (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0015648), a communist polemic).
20 Braveheart (1995)
21 Patton (1970)
32 Henry V (1989)
35 Aleksandr Nevsky (1938)
42 Sergeant York (1941)
43 'Breaker' Morant (1980)


How did these get missed?

Battle of Britain (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0064072)
Sink the Bismarck! (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0054310)
In Harm's Way (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0059309)
Twelve O'Clock High (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0041996)
Night and Fog (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0048434)
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0046806)
The Sand Pebbles (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0060934)

[TheRealLobo]

We Were Soldiers (http://www.weweresoldiers.com/)

[Large_Al]

Run silent run deep??

[DesertFox]

The Bedford Incident

[Bluemoon_Rising]

I like these:

1 Schindler's List (1993)
2 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
3 Pianist, The (2002)
4 Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
6 Apocalypse Now (1979)
7 Boot, Das (1981)
8 Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)
9 General, The (1927)
10 Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)
14 Saving Private Ryan (1998)
21 Patton (1970)
22 African Queen, The (1951)
23 Glory (1989)
24 Deer Hunter, The (1978)
25 Full Metal Jacket (1987)
26 Battaglia di Algeri, La (1965)
27 Gone with the Wind (1939)
42 Sergeant York (1941)
43 Breaker' Morant (1980)
50 Little Big Man (1970)

I give Cabaret the back of my hand . . . and a saliva sample.