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In no particular order:

Band of Brothers (if you have time). This was a great series, I need to get it on DVD.

Saving Private Ryan - the best WWII movie I have ever seen

Gettysburg - Jeff Daniel's finest hour, and fairly accurate

Patton - George C. Scott's finest hour

Honorable mention: The Patriot. Although Mel Gibson played fast and loose with history (as he is wont to do) the battle of Cowpens at the end is just about the way I had imagined it after having visited Cowpens.
 
In no particular order:

Band of Brothers (if you have time). This was a great series, I need to get it on DVD.

Saving Private Ryan - the best WWII movie I have ever seen

Gettysburg - Jeff Daniel's finest hour, and fairly accurate

Patton - George C. Scott's finest hour

Honorable mention: The Patriot. Although Mel Gibson played fast and loose with history (as he is wont to do) the battle of Cowpens at the end is just about the way I had imagined it after having visited Cowpens.

The Vietnam War, Ken Burns documentary
 
I'm going to watch my kids play on the playground. That strikes me as a good way to spend it.
 
Always liked a few semi auto biographies....

To hell and back.......Audie Murphy

Sergeant York.........Gary cooper

And if I just want to have fun....and laugh.....the dirty dozen is a great movie any day
 
I'm going to watch my kids play on the playground. That strikes me as a good way to spend it.

I'm so glad you used this thread to share that with us.
 
A Bridge Too Far

Some names even the young uns might recognize:

The ensemble cast includes Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Hardy Krüger, Laurence Olivier, Ryan O'Neal, Robert Redford, Maximilian Schell and Liv Ullmann. The music was scored by John Addison, who had served in the British XXX Corps during Market Garden.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bridge_Too_Far_(film)
 

Prelude to Taps.


A documentary produced by the Army, 1962. It states its purpose directly and nobly: For those who wore the uniform through many generations, "We do well to remember."






The thread has focused on films about the military in various settings which is excellent. Many of us have seen these and may others due to their value and values portrayed, and we've seen 'em more than once. If I may do a lighter take on the superb Gettysburgh film produced by Ted Turner of Atlanta, it was said to be standard fare on the movie set that Turner had to be constantly talked out of changing the ending.

The Prelude to Taps quality production is far less known and it has its own particular virtues. It was done before Vietnam and during conscription, before the JKF assassination, the killing of MLK and RFK, Watergate and the rest of it.

The production is strong on celebrating the American soldier in an upbeat fashion yet it concludes by offering a solemn tribute. The Guard Spec 4 Richard Azzaro at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery, presented as the finale, recently retired from a career at the Pentagon. After his separation he got a degree in physics, got a law degree and specialized in nuclear arms law.

So it is presented for for the consideration of all and for those who wore the uniform in particular.
 
Bridge on the River Kwai

Three Came Home (starring Claudette Colbert, based on her memoir in a Japanese prison camp)

Pearl Harbor

U-571

Black Hawk Down

We Were Soldiers (Mel Gibson)

Enemy At The Gates

Platoon

The Great Escape

Defiance (Jews guerillas - based on true story)
 
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Bridge on the River Kwai

Three Came Home (starring Claudette Colbert, based on her memoir in a Japanese prison camp)

Pearl Harbor

U-571

Black Hawk Down

We Were Soldiers (Mel Gibson)

Enemy At The Gates

Platoon

The Great Escape

Defiance (Jews guerillas - based on true story)

I forgot about Blackhawk Down, great flick. The Great Escape and The Longest Day are two WWII movies with everybody in the world in them.
 
How about a 20th century trilogy?

THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES - 1946 - directed by the incomparable William Wyler - and its about WW2
PATHS OF GLORY - 1957 - directed by Stanley Kubrick - its about WW1
THE DEERHUNTER - 1978 - directed by Michael Cimino - its about Viet Nam
 
How about a 20th century trilogy?

THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES - 1946 - directed by the incomparable William Wyler - and its about WW2
PATHS OF GLORY - 1957 - directed by Stanley Kubrick - its about WW1
THE DEERHUNTER - 1978 - directed by Michael Cimino - its about Viet Nam

The. Deer Hunter was a good flick, but too depressing, and I generally don't like Vietnam war movies anyway. Fine for those who like them, just not for me.
 
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One of the better movies on Vietnam, IMHO.
 
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