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  • Dog Soldiers (UK)
  • 9th Company/9 Pota (Russia)
  • Platoon (US)
  • R-Point (Korea)
  • The Star (Russia)
  • Enemy At The Gates (US)
  • The Dambusters (UK)
  • Zulu (UK)
  • MASH (US)
  • Battle Royale II (Japan)
  • Grave of The Fireflys (Japan)
  • A Bridge To Far (UK), (perticular significance as my grandfather was a glider pilot in this opperation)

just off the top of my head, no perticular order

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I haven't seen a lot. But ones I've enjoyed are:

The Great Escape

Stalag 17

Platoon

M*A*S*H

Schindler's List

The Pianist

The Deer Hunter

(I guess I tend more toward prisoner of war movies)

I mean to catch some classics some time, like Tora! Tora! Tora! and The Sands of Iwo Jima. I just don't gravitate toward this genre I guess.

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The classics rock.

Yeah, but you really have to be careful how much truth you read into these kinds of films.

I've never been particularly stupid. But when it comes to movies based on historical events, I've been massively naive in believing things as Hollywood puts them to me.

I've had to learn to see the movie, then check out Wikipedia and google searches on the "truth" behind movies.

One of the TV channels had a series for a while that compared the film with the real life event. I wish I'd caught more of those shows.

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Tora! Tora! Tora!

The Green Berets

The Bridge On the River Kwai

The Longest Day

Flying Leathernecks

Sands of Iwo Jima

The Fighting Seabees

Heartbreak Ridge

Kelly's Heroes

The Patriot

Dances With Wolves

Gone With the Wind

African Queen

Saving Private Ryan

Patton

Das Boot

The Guns of Navarone

Midway

M*A*S*H

Platoon

Full Metal Jacket

Good Morning Vietnam

Born on the Fourth of July

Braveheart

Black Hawk Down

And many more that I am not recalling at the moment...

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Band of brothers needs repeating, awesome series...

Uh.. Only one I like that hasn't been mentioned yet is Tears of the sun.

i know. i didnt mention it either which i'm suprised.

when i made my list i just looked at the movie shelf by My PC. now thats sitting atop my TV (where tears of the sun spends most of its time ready for viewing)

new additions:

  • Born on the Fourth Of July (US)
  • 633 Squadron (UK)
the hall of shame contains the following submissions:

Braveheart

Mel Gibson as a downtrodden Scottish rebel decides to kill a lot of English because one killed his wife

fact: william wallace was infact a lord, who wanted to sieze power from his Feudal master and proffit from taxes in the region.

The Patriot

Mel Gibson As a downtroden American rebel decides to kill a lot of English because one killed his wife and child (sound familier, i'm detecting a theme here...)

Fact; the patriot was supposed to be a film about Frances Marion, AKA the swamp fox who held his camp near a church ruins oddle enough. scripts were quickly changed when they realised Frances Marion was a wealthy landowner who had a penchaunt for raping his black slaves, and did not like the idea of not buying any more slaves to rape and run into the ground so took up revolution like others of his ilk. http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Excl...,332358,00.html

the decline of cinema fact (and if anyone has watched King artjur and belives the "new evidence uncovered..." BS, Arturius was a roman officer who Uther Pendragon, father of Arthur Pendragon allied with ffs.) i'm soon expecting this to happen

and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEVJ_48YgTg, mixed with some of Monkey Dust: They All Come Home
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Disturbing and highly compelling war/drama., 8 January 2003

Author: Embalmer from Chyby,Poland

"Casualties of War" is based on a horrifying true accident which took place in 1966.Some American soldiers abducted a teen-age Vietnamese girl and dragged her on a long-range reconnaissance mission.They tortured,raped and finally murdered her.Michael J.Fox is excellent as a the only soldier in the platoon who tries to stop the violent crime.Thuy Thu Le is also impressive as the victim-her performance is so convincing that I'm surprised that she hasn't appeared in the other movies.The rape/murder scene is among the most heart-breaking sequences ever captured on screen.The film is well-directed by Brian De Palma("Sisters","Carrie","Dressed to Kill")and it delivers the message which tells the viewer that war is hell and can turn young men into monsters.A must-see for fans of disturbing and thought-provoking cinema.

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Head Wreck Newbie

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das boot did infact rock like a large granite thing that ACDC stood apon to play.

its a damn shame i cant speak german, the english voice actor for the first mate has an annoying voice.

i liked the fact it didnt glorify any aspect and just was an account of life abourd a submarine, it could have been british, japanese or american. completely non biased.

i liked lots, pride of place along with tears of the sun.

i still have never seen Dr. Strangelove. *hangs head in shame*

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