say your top three favorite military movie and why. The ones I know of or I remember right now are:

Big Parade
Farewell to Arms
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1961 and 1921)
The Lost Battalion
The Trench
Bataan
Best Years of our lives
Big Red One
Das Boot
The Bridge
Bridge on the River Kwai
Burmese Harp
Caine Mutiny
Catch 22
The Cockpit
Contraband
Dirty Dozen
Enemy At the Gates
Flying Tigers
Great Escape
Hart's War
Hope and Glory
The Longest Day
The night of the shooting stars
Objective, Burma!
Patton
Pearl Harbor
Sands of Iwo Jima
Saving Private Ryan
Stalingrad
The thin red line
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Windtalkers
M*A*S*H*
Apocalypse Now
A bright shining lie
Casulties of War
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Rambo (lol)
We were soldiers
The Peacemaker
Blackhawk Down
Behind Enemy Lines
No man's Land

My top three with my fav on top at number one is:

1: Saving Private Ryan
2: Blackhawk Down
3:Apocalypse Now

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HTH,

Shaun

but i have a list. lol

I really like Where Eagles Dare, Platoon, and finally Battle of Britain.

~Chip

The Great Escape XLNT story and great actors

Where Eagles Dare A good story that moved along nicley

Guns of Navaronne Another good movie with a good story and great actors.



And the rest

The Longest Day
Battle of Britain
Kellys Heros
Dirty Dozen
Gung Ho!
Audey Murphy story
Sgt. York

1. Tae Guk Gi
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Sands of Iwo Jima

Well, for action I will go with Saving Private Ryan. For whole hearted entertainment, Kelly's Hero's. "Q"

I am not sure if this counts but Band of Brothers is eccelent, alot better than saving private ryan. Das Boot is also very good.

cheers

Philip

I forgot one, it is not in the list but is a very good movie that shows how war can completly mess up everything you every knew, the pianist.

cheers

Philip

I loved the Pianist, Brody was such a good actor in that! I also loved that the German officer gave him a helping hand. I think it set an example that most of these guys aren't bad, which they werent they were just doing their job.

~Chip

the longest day was a great moive,

Well my favourite films are

Longest Day
Bridge to Far
Dambusters
633 Squadron

My Favourites:
Great Escape
Bridge Too Far
Patton
Full Metal Jacket
Saving Private Ryan

I thought one of the best military movies was "Garden of Stones". Also some others are "Once an Eagle" with Sam Elliot and the "Pentagon Wars".
Great war movies have already been listed.
brian

We were Soldiers, Zulu, 300 Spartans or is this just limited to World War 2

Everybody forgets about Full MEtal Jacket

full metal jacket

hmmm does "Schindlers list" count? its in war time

AAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!
LOL
you forgot Gettysberg!!!
Ron

1. Platoon
2. Full metal jacket
3. We were Soldiers

My List is similar to yours really:
For WW2, its Savinf Private Ryan.
For more modern warfare, it would be Blackhawk Down.

Tears of the Sun isnt too bad either but it certainly cant compare with the first 2 i mentioned.