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I saw "Hamburger Hill" and didn't see what all the fuss was about. Maybe I have to see it again.

Off the top of my head, these are my favorites:
American Sniper
Saving Private Ryan
Glory
Thin Red Line

War-related:
Taking Chance

Full Metal Jacket.

Apocalypse Now

Patton

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Das Boot
The Guns of Navarone
Braveheart (not sure if this counts)
The Patriot
Enemy at the Gates

Blackhawk down
Hurt locker

Kelly's hero's
Dirty dozen
The great escape

Schindler's List
Pearl Harbor (it was good -Kate Beckinsale made it better)
Tropic Thunder
Inglorious Basterds

Where Eagles Dare is one of my favorites. If you haven't seen it, you should.

Dunkirk
Tears of the Sun
Rescue Dawn
The Pianist
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

1917

A bridge too far
Bridge on the river kwai

Kelly's Heroes
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
Ran (1985 Samurai war movie)
Braveheart
Das Boot
Best Years of Our Lives (about three soldiers who return home from WWII)

Lot of good ones already mentioned, I will also add the 2022 version of All Quiet on the Western Front, I have not seen the 1930 or 1979 versions, but heard those are good too.

I 2nd Tropic Thunder

Saving Ryans Privates.

TurboPablo wrote:Saving Ryans Privates.

I remember that one along with James Bondage Pussy Some More.

TurboPablo wrote:Saving Ryans Privates.

*Shaving

Lol

Hamburglar Hill.

Kubrick - Paths of Glory

Maybe check out Peter Jackson's - They shall not grow old. Worth a look.

Ambush 2023 8/10

Not a movie, but Band of Brothers is my all time favorite. Watch it every year.

Enemy at the Gates like Rumpleforeskin said. Badass movie.

Recently, 1917, Dunkirk, Hacksaw Ridge and All Quiet on the new All Quiet on the Western Front, although I enjoy the one with Ernest Borgnine because my grandpa would get into it and start talking about his war experience (obviously not WWI).

Oh, now that you mention Band of Brothers, when I was on leave for my firstborn, I watched another series called Generation Kill. I think I watched it more because I was home all day than because it was great. I binged a lot of shows then. Unheard of.

Isn't "The Pacific" kinda like BoB?

Bonano wrote:Isn't "The Pacific" kinda like BoB?

Yes but everything that BoB gets right tithe Pacific gets wrong.

Do documentaries count? All of Ken Burns' war docs are amazing with The Civil War the best of the bunch. Vietnam is a close second.

Yarbicus wrote:

Bonano wrote:Isn't "The Pacific" kinda like BoB?

Yes but everything that BoB gets right tithe Pacific gets wrong.

Do documentaries count? All of Ken Burns' war docs are amazing with The Civil War the best of the bunch. Vietnam is a close second.

If I get a vote, documentaries are included.

When I was growing up I heard the casualty counts from Walter Cronkite every night, so the Vietnam series was incredibly interesting to me. I'd like to see it from another vantage point to weigh historical accuracy vs opinion, but I think it gets a lot of things right...

Yarbicus wrote:

Bonano wrote:Isn't "The Pacific" kinda like BoB?

Yes but everything that BoB gets right tithe Pacific gets wrong.

Do documentaries count? All of Ken Burns' war docs are amazing with The Civil War the best of the bunch. Vietnam is a close second.

I was excited for The Pacific only to be extremely let down. It felt like a romance movie with bits and pieces of war peppered in. The acting also couldn’t compete with the cast of BoB.

Good call on Ken Burns’ stuff! All of his stuff is well done. Loved The Civil War.

Speaking of which, Gettysburg was another good one. I remember watching it in the mid ‘90s and being blown away as a kid that the guy from Dumb and Dumber could be such a good serious actor.