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What is your favorite War movie or series?

May 29, 2012 2:37 AM

I would say Band of Brothers (HBO) and The War (PBS) are my fav's. If you are a true American "The War" will make you wipe your eyeballs. Movies, Full Metal Jacket (first half), Saving Private Ryan, We Were Soldiers, Black Hawk Down and most stuff that is true. I'm a big WW2 buff, it was a time in our history America knew they needed to pull together or we'd loose our Country.

gilfilent gilfilent

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Apocalypse Now, the Redux version. Favorite series...Hogan's Heroes.

rprebel rprebel
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The Revolution... by The History Channel.

bellavampyre bellavampyre
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Apocalypse Now vote here as well.

jsimsace jsimsace
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movies:
The longest day
Patton
Empire of the sun
Enemy at the gates
Hope and Glory
we were soldiers once
A bridge too far
The Beast
12 o'clock high
sands of iwo jima
the great escape
full metal jacket
das boot
bridge on the river kwai
apocalypse now
lawrence of arabia
Casablanca
Glory
dirty dozen
saving private ryan
MASH

series:
Band of Brothers
Tour Of Duty
Mash

kamikazeken kamikazeken
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@kamikazeken: Hope and Glory is a "must see" movie

atd15 atd15
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Does Star Wars count? It has "War" right in the title.

captainsuperdawg captainsuperdawg
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The Great Escape.

ojulius ojulius
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Movie: Full Metal Jacket
Series: M.A.S.H.
Album: Victory at Sea (the LP version)

ruger9mm ruger9mm
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@kamikazeken: The longest day, thank you.

gilfilent gilfilent
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I watched Bridge on the River Kwai again last night. I never get tired of it.

hottubrf hottubrf
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Mash. It was about the people, not the battles.
Something about having been in the military for real makes the other stuff look too fake.
Closest to that real feeling was Saving Private Ryan.

olperfesser olperfesser
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For series Band of Brothers, or maybe The Pacific. I served out in WestPac, and had the opportunity to spend time in the jungles of the small islands where that war was fought. The series (rather uncomfortably) shows what it is like to be there (you just miss the smell, and trust me, you don't want that either).

Movies: Most already named. I'd add Hamburger Hill: expresses the futility of that war (men fighting well and hard in a cause nobody cared about at home, ultimately to leave with nothing to show for it)

wilfbrim wilfbrim
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Yoo guys are making me buy movies form Amazon lol

atd15 atd15
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Midway, one of the best. So many good ones, it's hard to choose. Kelly's Heroes comes to mind as well.

heartlandbaker heartlandbaker

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