OK, so I had this topic on one Croatian gaming forum. Anyways, I've made a list of movies with military thematic. There are all kind of movies, drama, romantic, comedy and so on. If you see something missing post below and I'll edit the list and it. If you don't understand some of the movie names, then those are Ex-Yugoslavian or Croatian made movies and they don't have an English title. They are also in different language.

Alright I hope everything is clear. If not, then ask please.

Here we go:

WWI

Paths of Glory
Shoulder Arms
La Grande Illusion
Wings
Seargent York
Passchendaele
Lost Battalion
Blue Max
Biggles
The Lighthorsemen
Flyboys, Gallipoli
Lawrence of Arabia
Joyeux Noel
The Trench
Deathwatch
All Quiet on the Western Front (color and b/w version)
The Dawn Patrol
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

WWI-WWII

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

WWII

Band of Brothers (miniseries)
Saving Private Ryan
Das boot
Hart's War
U-571
Enemy at the gates
To end all wars
The great escape
Longest day
Where Eagles Dare
The Bridge on the river Kwai
Letters from Iwo Jima
Flags of Our Fathers
Der Untergang
Empire of the Sun
Schindlers List
The Pianist
The Counterfeiters
La Vita e Bella
Five graves to Cairo
The life and death of Colonel Blimp
The desert fox
Von Ryan's Express
The Dirty Dozen
Patton
Schindler's list
Idi i smotri (Come and see)
Marathon man
Bitka na Neretvi
Valter brani Sarajevo
The Big Red One
Novecento
U gori raste zelen bor
Land and Freedom
Ivanovo detstvo
Lili Marleen
Stalingrad
When Trumpets Fade
Sahara
Valkryie
Defiance
A Bridge Too Far
Secret Army (tv series)
Pathfinders TV
Yanks
Devils Brigade
June The Sixth
Indiana Jones Last Crusade
Guns Of Navarone
Force Ten From Navarone
The Eagle Has Landed
Hero's Of Telemark
English Patient
The Last Warrior
Victory
Too Late The Hero
Black Brigade
Windtalkers
Father Goose
To Hell and Back
The Bridge at Remagen
Kelly's Heroes
Guadalcanal Diary
The Great Raid
Tank
Sands of Iwo Jima
Back to Bataan
The Red Beret
Cross of Iron
Murphy s war
1941
ToraToraTora
Rat patrol (TV Series)
Count Down
Sea Wolves
Carve her name with pride
Objective Burma
Kokoda: 39th Battalion
Days of Glory
Come and see
Zvezda
Saints and soldiers
The Bunker

Cold War Era

Thirteen Days
Buffalo Soldiers
Das Leben der Anderen
Fail-Safe
Europa
Assembly (Chinese civil war)
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Strategic Air Command
A Gathering of Eagles

Korean War

Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
MASH
The Steel Helmet
Pork Chop Hill
Welcome to ž
Dongmakgol

Vietnam

Platoon
We were soldiers
Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
The Deer Hunter
Operation Dumbo drop
Good Morning, Vietnam
Streamers
Casualties of War
Gardens of Stone
Born On The Fourth Of July
Bat 21
Hamburger Hill
Saigon
Lost Command
Go Tell The Spartans
The Boys In Company C
Dead Presidents
The Odd Angry Shot
Tiger Land
The Green Berets
84 Charlie Mopic
Uncommon Valor
Fire base Gloria
R-Point

70's

Wild Geese

75-89

Heartbreak ridge
9 rota (9th Company)
The Pentagon Wars
The Beast
The Dogs of War
Taps
Stripes
Private Benjamin

90's - Present (Modern)

Behind Enemy Lines
Black Hawk Down
GI Jane
Top Gun
Navy Seals
Delta Force
Rules of Engagement
The Last Castle
Major Paine
Tears of the Sun
Close To Home
Beaufort

Domovinski Rat (Croatian war of independence [1992-1995])

Lepa Sela Lepo Gore
Rane
Nafaka
No Man's Land
Welcome to Sarajevo
Kako je počeo rat na mom otoku

Persian Gulf War (1990-1991) (aka First Gulf War, Second Gulf War)

Three kings
Jarhead
In the army now
Courage Under Fire

Afghanistan War order of battle

Lions for Lambs

Iraq War (2003-present) (aka Second Persian Gulf War, Third Gulf War)

Over There (miniseries)
Generation Kill (miniseries)
In the Valley of Elah
Redacted
Battle for Haditha
Delta Farce
United 93

very helpful list Marko, i watch a movie or tv series ti get me into the mood of building from that period, thanks to you and your gaming forum for coming up with this

Great list. I think up whatever else I can.

90s
Top Gun (and by extension Hot Shots/Hot Shots: Part Deux
Renaissance Man (military-themed, but not war)
Navy Seals
GI Jane
Delta Force

2000s
United 93 also has a limited military theme but thats a judgement call.
Delta Farce (horrible movie, but you included In the Army Now - a much better horrible movie)

New movie just out in NY and LA and everywhere in a couple months, The Hurt Locker goes under Operation Iraqi Freedom (check out the trailer, amazing and with great reviews). Soon to be released in late 2009-early 2010 will be another Tom Hanks ex-prod/HBO BoB-type series called The Pacific based on Eugene Sledge's book With the Old Breed. It should be in post-production by now.

Jeff

Thanks for the up-date. I've added the movies you listed.

I've also heard about "The Pacific" and I can't wait to see it. I bet it will be awesome as BoB was. I also saw a trailer for "The Hurt Locker" you mentioned. It looks awesome! This could be just great. Now I can't wait to see it.

How about "Catch 22". At the time they filmed it, they had something like the 16th largest airforce in the world because of all of the B-25's they had flying!
Norm Samuelson

Is that a WW2 era?

WWII
Valkryie

90s
Rules of Engagement
The Last Castle
Major Paine

Jeff

Updated. Thanks a lot Jeff!

Don't forget Defiance for WWII!

For WW1 don't forget "Passchendaele".

HastyP

Both titles added. Keep it up!

WW2

A bridge to far
Secret Army (tv series)
Pathfinders tv
Yanks
Devils Brigade
June the sixth
Indiana Jones last crusade
Guns of Navarone
Force ten from Navarone
The Eagle has landed
Hero's of Telemark
English Patient
Captain's .......mandolin ,,,someone fill the cap please
The last warrior

Korea

Pork Chop Hill

Viet Nam

Born on the fourth of July
Bat 21
Hamburger Hill
Saigon
Viet Nam-Algeria, Lost Command


1970,'s

Wild Geese

WW1

Lost Battalion
Blue max
Biggles

Thats an awesome mini list right there! Thanks a lot.

OK, just off the top of my head;

WWI - The Lighthorsemen, Flyboys, Gallipoli, Lawrence of Arabia
WWII - Victory, Too Late The Hero, Black Brigade, Windtalkers, Father Goose, To Hell and Back, The Bridge at Remagen, Sahara, Kelly's Heroes, Guadalcanal Diary, The Great Raid
Vietnam - Go Tell The Spartans, The Boys In Company C,
75-89 - The Beast, The Dogs of War
modern - Tears of the Sun

BTW, The Big Red One-The Reconstruction is MUCH better than the other version.

A movie called Tank with James Garner and a M4 Sherman.

Forgot:

Viet Nam

Boys in Company C
Go tell the Spartans
Purple Hearts
Dead presidents
The odd angry shot
Tiger Land
The Green Berets
84 Charlie Mopic
Uncommon Valor
Fire base Gloria

Stripes
Private Benjamin
Taps -1980's
Tears of the sun
The Beast ( Afghanistan -1980's)
Sands of Iwo Jima
Back to Bataan ww2
The Red Beret ww2
Cross of Iron ww2
Murphy s war ww2
1941
ToraToraTora
Rat patrol Tv series ww2
Count Down ww2-1980's
Sea Wolves ww2
Carve her name with pride ww2
Objective Burma ww2
The thin red line

Thanks a lot guys. Some titles have been posted two or more times but I tried to avoid that in the list.

List is getting bigger and bigger.

WW1-
All Quiet on The Western Front (both films)
The Boys in Company K

WW2-
Beach Red

Cold War-
The Beast (about a soviet T-55 in Afghanistan)
Firebirds

Three more I liked:

Stalag 17
Jakob the Liar
Memphis Belle

Heres some other titles, I suggest checking them out on IMDB if you havent heard of them.

WW1:
Joyeux Noel
The Trench
Deathwatch (technically a horror, but set in WW1 trench)

WW2
Kokoda: 39th Battalion
Days of Glory
Come and see
Zvezda (or ' The Star' english title)
Saints and soldiers
The Bunker (again technically a horror, set in WW2 German bunker)
To end all wars

Cold war era:
Assembly (Chinese civil war)
Welcome to Dongmakgol ( Korean war)
R-Point (another war based horror, this time set in Vietnam)
Casualties of war (Vietnam war)
9th Company (Soviet-Afghanistan war)

Post cold war conflicts:
Behind enemy lines (Balkans war)
Other there (mini series set during OIF)
Close to home (Israeli territories)
Beaufort (IDF Lebanon 2000 pullout)



Edit: Ok you already got some of my titles, but just add the ones not already listed.

WWI:

All Quiet on the Western Front (color and b/w version)
The Dawn Patrol
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

You forgot the greatest 'Cold War' theme there was for some of us SAC crew members; but not according to SAC! As a 30 year crewdog in SAC we always played "Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb".

Also: Strategic Air Command, A Gathering of Eagles.

Thanks, I'll add all of those.

Please don't forget to say in which age/era/war the movie(s) took place to save me some time.

The Wind and the Lion - Teddy Rossevelt send the Great white Fleet to Morocco. Although not a 'war movie' per sey - the scenes of US Marines capturing the Sultan and fighting it out with the German Infantry and Spanish cavalry at the end are great.