A Bridge too Far
Alexander (Revisited - The Final Cut)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Richard Thomas & Ernest Borgnine)
Ben Hur
Das Boot
Gettysburg (director's cut)
Heaven and Earth (1990, director Haruki Kadokawa)
Joan of Arch (Ingrid Bergman)
Kagemusha
Master and Commander
Memphis Belle
Midway (Charlton Heston & Henry Fonda)
Ognicem i Mieczem (With Fire and Sword); Poto (The Deluge); Pan Wolodyjowski (Colonel Wolodyjowki) - the Trilogy
Stalingrad (a Joseph Vilsmaier film)
Seven Samurai
The Longest Day
Waterloo (Rod Styger and Richard Plummer)
Carpe vitam.
Don’t forget “The Wind & The Lion.”
Sean Connery and Candice Bergen. (Brian Keith does a great Teddy Roosevelt.). A great period piece and high production value.
I'd add the "Man Who Would Be King" to that list. Extraordinary performances by Michael Caine and Sean Connery.
And it will bring a tear to your eye.
"If brute force doesn't work you aren't using enough brute force." - mTk
War does not determine who is right, but it does determine who is left. - B.Russell
"Turn based games don't need a pause key". - mTk
"Overkill is underrated." - Col John "Hannibal" Smith
Senatus Populusque Romanus- SPQR - The Senate and People of Rome (circa 60 BC)
The Tin Drum aka Die Blechtrommel ( 1979 )
1900 with Donald Sutherland, Dir Bernardo Bertoluci
Both epic...
My apologies I might have forgotten how to read and my submissions may not fall completely under this heading but in my defence they both take part during WWII and yes they are defiantly epic masterpieces of cinema...
Great thread Kandu! Im sure this one will grow and eventually we can ad the movie posters! That will be cool!
Letters from Iwo Jima
Better of the two Clint Eastwood directed movies made at the same time (Flags of our fathers)
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I'd add the "Man Who Would Be King" to that list. Extraordinary performances by Michael Caine and Sean Connery.
And it will bring a tear to your eye.
My top ten of all time.
So many quotes from that movie
Maybe my favorite scene is when the march in to the Ditricht Commisioners office... 'ats off
District Commissioner: It would have been wiser if you'd both gone home at the end of your army service.
Peachy Carnehan: Home to what? A porters uniform outside a restaurant, attainin' tips from belching civilians for closing cab doors on them and their blowsy women?
Daniel Dravot: Not for us, thank you. Not after watching Afghans come howling down out of the hills and taking battlefield command when all the officers had copped it.
Peachy Carnehan: Well said, Brother Dravot.
District Commissioner: I have your records before me. There's everything in them, from smuggling to swindling to receiving stolen goods to bare-faced blackmail.
Peachy Carnehan: Sir, I resent the accusation of blackmail. It is blackmail to obtain money by threats of publishing information *in* a newspaper. But what blackmail is there in accepting a small retainer for keeping it *out* of a newspaper?
District Commissioner: And how did you propose to keep it out?
Peachy Carnehan: By telling the editor what I know about his sister, and a certain government official in these parts.
Daniel Dravot: [Referring to Kipling, the journalist present] Let him put *that* in his paper, if he has need of news.
District Commissioner: The may be no criminal charges against you, but I'll see these files reach Calcutta with a recommendation that you be deported as political undesirables, detriments to the dignity of the Empire and the Izzat of the Raj.
Peachy Carnehan: Detriments you call us? Detriments? Well I want to remind you it was "detriments" like us that built this bloody Empire *and* the Izzat of the bloody Raj, 'ats on!....
I know many will disagree, but I particularly enjoyed Pearl Harbor.
In fact, I only have two CDs (though I no longer have a way to watch them): Saving Private Ryan and Pearl Harbor.
I would had to the top list, Last of the Samurai, Gladiator first one, Dancing with Wolves
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you could say I have earnt my crust
know many will disagree, but I particularly enjoyed Pearl Harbor.
I like Tora Tora Tora better.
Carpe vitam.
I’d also add Kelly’s Heroes — I’ve always loved that movie, especially the opening with the music. It’s unbeatable… well, to be honest, the opening of Saving Private Ryan does beat it, but that’s on a whole different level. I watched A Bridge Too Far recently on Prime, and I remember my wife saying, “Three hours of movie??” I definitely need to add it to my Blu-ray collection. Every year I rewatch my whole war-movie collection at least once, including Band of Brothers. I still remember watching the series premiere with my brother.
I'd add the "Man Who Would Be King" to that list. Extraordinary performances by Michael Caine and Sean Connery.
And it will bring a tear to your eye.
Was just about to add that one: The Man Who Would Be King is a really good movie! The scenery, the setting, the plot, and the acting!
And of course Quest for Fire by Jean-Jacques Annaud. (Should maybe be in the PRE-historical thread/list. 😎 🤣 )