My top 11 favorite war movies
The line i decided to draw for whats war related, is right between best years of our lives and taxi driver, the existential veteran was a little out of bounds in my opinion, whilst the radical change of pace and impossibility of fitting in barely makes it. I might include spoilers in here so, watch out.
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- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMartin SheenMarlon BrandoRobert DuvallA U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.Although i don't wish to say that my list is absolute in what is the most artistic and well thought out of these movies, the exception comes with Apocalypse now, if you disagree that it is the greatest war movie ever made, from the doors soundtrack to the spectacular performances and scenery... you are wrong.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsLiam NeesonRalph FiennesBen KingsleyIn German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.This movie should be watched in conjunction with Judgement at Nuremberg. This movie is great because of the light in which the German perspectiveis portrayed, not done this well in any other movie. The idea of maintaining morality when morality is extinct is just...
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsAdrien BrodyThomas KretschmannFrank FinlayDuring WWII, acclaimed Polish musician Wladyslaw faces various struggles as he loses contact with his family. As the situation worsens, he hides in the ruins of Warsaw in order to survive.Although i was not the biggest fan of the acting and the "graphic shots" were a little cheesy, i think this movie takes the cake for its great cinematography, and deserves to be here just for that. + i am a big fan of classical piano pieces=bias
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsWilliam HoldenAlec GuinnessJack HawkinsBritish POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.The pinnacle of this movie is the choice of the British colonel to not only do their work as prisoners, but to excel at it, and make the bridge a work of Art, which they end up loving... and that love intersects with their duty for their country...
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsWilliam HoldenDon TaylorOtto PremingerAfter two Americans are killed while escaping from a German P.O.W. camp in World War II, the barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsSteve McQueenJames GarnerRichard AttenboroughAllied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsTom HanksMatt DamonTom SizemoreFollowing the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.
- DirectorDanis TanovicStarsBranko DjuricRene BitorajacFilip SovagovicBosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man's land, whilst a third soldier becomes a living booby trap.If you get too close to your enemy... you find out he is a much more like you than you anticipated... and then you hate him even more.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsMyrna LoyDana AndrewsFredric MarchThree World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
- DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsGeorge C. ScottKarl MaldenStephen YoungThe World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsCharlie SheenTom BerengerWillem DafoeChris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.