Well, since i saw worst being posted, lets hear the best.
My vote is for saving private ryan and black hawk down. How about you guy???

Jay

Bogie - Sahara
Erroll Flynn - Operation Burma
Randolph Scott - Gung - Ho
Robert Taylor - Bataan
Erroll Flynn - Charge of the Light Brigade
William Bendix, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy, Richard Jackel - Wake Island
David McCallum - The Long and the Short and the Tall[?]
Steve McQueen [ and just about everyone else ] - The Great Escape [ all time best ]
Clint Eastwood - Where Eagles Dare
Belushi - 1941
Spencer Tracy - Northwest Passage
Henry Fonda - Drums Along The Mohawk
Bogie - Action in the North Atlantic
Cary Grant - Gunga Din
Gary Cooper - Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Mel Gibson - Z Force [?]
Steve McQueen - The Sand Pebbles
Mel Gibson - We Were Soldiers
The list goes on and some mentioned are not historically correct but hey I grew up on most of them and I love all of them.
I also have missed alot so help me out.
Cheyenne

Cheyenne;
you missed:
The Longest Day
Flying Tigers
A Walk In The Sun
Full Metal Jacket
Battle Cry
Go For Broke
Sink The Bismark
Run Silent, Run Deep
Das Boot
and my all time fav;
Kelly's Heroes.

Art

Gene Evans, Robert Hutton - The Steel Helmet
Gregory Peck - Pork Chop Hill
Martin Sheen, Sam Elliot, Tom Berrenger, - Gettysburg
William Bendix, Lloyd Nolan, Anthony Quinn, - Guadacanal Diary
Mel Gibson - Braveheart
Mel Gibson - Patriot
Zanuk and all of Hollywood - The Longest Day
Robert Shaw - The Battle of Britain
Hannibal Lecter - A Bridge to Far
Gary Cooper, Brian Donlevy - Beau Geste
Everyone saw Old Yeller, and yes everyone cried [ I did ] Hey that's not a war movie [ T.S. everyone still cried ]
Come on guys whats your favs.
Cheyenne

Adding to Cheyenne's list, which I all still enjoy seeing:
Breaker Morrant,
Galippoli, (sp?)
The Caine Mutiny (the original one, although the book was 100 times better)
Casablanca
A Midnight Clear
CastleKeep
Go tell the Spartens
Corvette 225
The Immortal Battalion
The Silent Enemy
The Pride of the Marines
A Farewell to Arm.
Since we already have Bataan.... I'll tose in:
Back to Bataan..... !!!!
And of course- Sacha Guity's --Napoleon..... although it does lose something on the smaller screen, and with out the 100 piece orchestra.......but I can now watch it in my bloody skivies :-) :-) :-)

Oh this has to be the 4th or 5th time this one has gone around.

Thanks Art, was posting the recap when you joined in and yes they are all my favs also.
Spent many a Sat. & Sun. as a lad watching the good old b&w flicks on an old b&w t.v. L.O.L.
Cheyenne

Tora Tora Tora (anytime above Pearl Harbour)
Escape from Sobibor.
Stalingrad ( Besides the really goovy English the Germans speak there a very good movie with original uniforms)
The Uprising (very good movie about the warschau Uprise)
The Pianist (absolutely brilliant movie from Roman Polansky)
Schindlers List
M*A*S*H (Donald Sutherland in a very good role)
Hitler the rise of evil (more a miniserie but historically very accurate about the Uprise of Hitler and how he became the person he was with a really convincing role of Robert Carlyle)
Guns of Navarone


Just a couple that sprung to mind which I have not seen written down in this post

Excellent Grumpy,
How about a recent one [ well not too recent ] was very impressed with Ricky Schroeder [ ? ] in The Lost Battalion.
Cheyenne

I remember our first TV was the size of the refrigarater, and had a screen the size of a walkman...... and every night all the neighbors would come over to watch it. That it took about 20 minutes for it to "warm up" (like my freakin scanner does today) and Pop, with the rabbit ear trying to get a clear reception........ :-) :-) :-)
Remember the Early Show, The late Show, and the Late,Late Show? How about Million Dollar Movies?

Yep a good one....
And I can't remember the name of the one he was in, years ago, where he played this 15 year old kid, who lied to get into the Navy, worked in a gun turret, and got kicked out when they found out he was only 16....... of course he became a "Cheated Hero" inbetween...... Never got to see the whole thing due to work, and never saw it again, and forgot to record it.....
How about the old Edward G Robinson, pre WW2 - Destroyer film, can't remember that ones name either.
And the one where Cary Grant's the skipper of an experimental destroyer, developing the use of steam turbines.
What was the name of the one with Walter Brennan, where he played the old WW1 sailor, (again a lying bastard, about his age to get back into the fight for WW2)........ Hell, Walter Brennan seems was always OLD...... like Gabby Hays.... :-) :-) :-)
and how can anyone forget...... Operation Pettycoat..... yes boys and girls there really was a pink sub.

Faust, I don't think my computer has enough memory nor my fridg. enough beer to list everything, I'm only on my third Miller Light and my memory sucks to begin with. L.O.L. [ and no cracks about us american types drinking cold tasteless cat pee, I save the Dabs, Dortmunders and Weiss beers for the weekend L.O.L. ]
Cheyenne

Cheyenne;
The Eagle Has Landed

Grumpy;
Let's go back further, to the TV without the tube, AKA radio;
The Shadow
Fibber McGee's Closet
The Buster Brown Show
Amos & Andy
The Green Hornet
Inner Sanctum
Duffy's Tavern
Your turn..........

Art

Radio was before my time........ Rolling on floor........ :-) :-) :-)
But I remeber the majority of that list when they came to TV...... LOL

Grumpy, Million Dollar Movie was the greatest.
And yes we had a t.v. the size of a fridg. with a small screen and when it got cold out the tubes would warm up the living room.
Clifton N.J. in the very early 50's
Cheyenne

Art, whats a radio [ yeah I remember ] but only a little, why I'm only a child of 53.
Cheyenne

Oh thanks alot Dave, now I'll be up all night trying to remember the flicks you mentioned that I also saw but have the same blockage in - between me ears. L.O.L.
Cheyenne

The radio was the thing the size of the refrig, without the screen........... rolling on floor :-) :-) :-)
Union City, Weehawken and North Bergen during the early 50"s....... :-) :-) :-)

Dave, Sundays were great, Abbott & Costello [ movie ] on WPIX channel eleven than 3 Million Dollar Movies at 1, 3 , and 5 p.m. To quote Edith and Archie Bunker " Those Were the Days "
Cheyenne

My absolute nr. 1: UPRISING
(Saw it 30+ times :-) )

Other favourites:
Band of Brothers (actually a series)
When trumpets fade (this movie made me go visit the Hurtgen Forrest)

Well I think it is The war of beast is the best film I ever saw.
A lot of action with a original T55a russian tank(s)

very good movie.

The best war movies for me are :

Cross of Iron
The longest day
Full metal Jacket
The Deerhunter
A bridge too far

Just thought of another I enjoy watching:
Jame Witmore---- Battleground......
Bob Mitchum, and Kurt Jurgens........ The Enemy Below......
John Wayne----- On Wings of Eagles.
and how about---- On a Wing and a Prayer? Again the book was 100% better...LOL
I'm sure I'll come up with a few others...... but don't wish to overtax my senile brain....... :-) :-) :-)

Hilbert, I think it's: The Beast of War
(BTW: The T55 used for the movie is in fact an Israeli T55 Tiran)

Nobody mentioned Platoon yet. I love the music score of it aswel.
Appocalipse Now. Another one with a good score. love those choppers with Flight of the Valkyries in the background.




I know that things were grim in the Cauldron, but that's taking it to far :-)

Don't know if anybody has heard of these, as they are Dutch, but 'Het meisje met het rooie haar' ( I hoop I remember the title correctly) is a true story of a Dutch resistance worker who was eventualy caught and executed and another one is 'Soldaat van Oranje' (also about the resistance) with Rutger Hauer, who even our American cousins would have heard of.

Cheers
Henk