Favorite Military movies

[FX4 SAPPER]

Id have to say mine is the older WWII classics, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Midway, Sands of Iwo Jima, Patton etc.

 

[Dock Rocker]

George C Scott in Patton for the win.

Dirty Dozen is good but it is a bit dated.

Midway is great as well

 

[Root1022]

Saving Private Ryan, Full Metal Jacket, Platoon

 

[txyaloo]

The first half of Full Metal Jacket and Saving Private Ryan.

 

[Bloostd]

Rambo...


Jk


Black hawk down, Behind enemy lines, we were soldiers, & A few good men!

 

[giz93cobra]

The Guns of Navarone, Apocalypse Now, Platoon, Dirty Dozen, The Deer Hunter, Hamburger Hill, the Sand pebbles, Midway, Sands of Iwo Jima. I love those older war movies and The Smell of Napalm in the morning :rockon:

 

[EBBS_03_Cobra]

The Great Escape

The Guns of Navarone

 

[BDF8]

The Great Escape

The Guns of Navarone

Great post. The great escape will always be a classic.

 

[CobraRed01]

For message and realism...
The Sand Pebbles with Steve McQueen.
The Band of Brothers HBO series.
Saving Private Ryan
Platoon
All Quiet on the Western Front
Bridge Over the River Kwai

For Fun...
Anything with accurate period aircraft (Tora, The Battle of Britain, 633 Squadron, Flying Leathernecks (gun-camera stuff)) acting and plot line be damned.
Apocalypse Now (for surrealism)

For the history...a bit too Hollywood...
The Longest Day and A Bridge Too Far
Patton
The Great Escape

The Old Classics...
Guadalcanal Diary
A Walk in the Sun
Battleground

 

[97desertCobra]

The Kingdom. It may not be a military movie per say, but it always motivates me and reminds me why I joined the military in the first place.

 

[tomustang]

Don't forget Good Morning, Vietnam

and Alexander

 

[FX4 SAPPER]

Alexander was a bad ass movie. Kingdom of Heaven was great as well, had some badass battle scenes in it.

 

[97desertCobra]

Oh no! If we are going to allow non U.S. military movies and middle ages era moives, then I will throw out 300.

 

[99navert]

Black Hawk Down & 300

 

[Monster14]

Generation Kill..HBO series was good

 

[BDF8]

Alexander was a bad ass movie. Kingdom of Heaven was great as well, had some badass battle scenes in it.

I don't understand how you think Alexander was a good movie.

 

[exdeath]

Fat Man and Little Boy.

The scene with the criticality accident put chills in my spine, made me lose my breath, and made me cringe so hard and I even muttered out a "fu.......k...." through my teeth.

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Ugh, just thinking of the tingling heat wave they would have felt...

 

[CobraRed01]

Fat Man and Little Boy.

The scene with the criticality accident put chills in my spine, made me lose my breath, and made me cringe so hard and I even muttered out a "fu.......k...." through my teeth.


Ugh, just thinking of the tingling heat wave they would have felt...

+1. That was the memorable scene in that movie...especially since it really happened. Scarey sh--.

 

[thomas91169]

Crimson Tide
Hunt for the Red October
U-571
Das Boot
Master and Commander: Far side of the World
Gladiator
Troy
300
Band of Brothers
Saving Private Ryan
Black Hawk Down
A Few Good Men
Pearl Harbor
Platoon
Glory
The Patriot
Top Gun

just looking at my list, i think im more suited towards a Naval career than Air Force if i were to ever go. Boats n Hoes ftw!

 

[Spitfire_GT]

In Harms Way.

Stellar cast and a great story. It's like the SWO version of Top Gun, hahaha. JO's will appreciate when the LTJG CDO gets the ship underway during the PH attack and ignores the small boat with the CO/XO trying to catch up and get back aboard. :lol: