1. The Longest Day
2. The Great Escape
3. Von Ryan's Express
4. Enemy at The Gates
5. Sink The Bismarck!

Saving Private Ryan
Come and See
Cross of Iron
A Bridge Too Far
Kelly's Heroes
Check my block list because you're probably on it.

1. Patton
2. The Great Escape
3. Schindler's List
4. Valkyrie
5. Thin Red Line

In particular order:
lemme think
1.
Shoah
(the most historically important film ever made, second is The Act of Killing, inspired by Shoah)
2.
Come and See
(incredibly bleak Belarusian partisan film)
3.
Downfall
(Bruno Ganz as Hitler, can you ask for more?)
4.
The Big Red One
(Mark Hamill, Lee Marvin, Robert Carradine, directed by WWII, Big Red One veteran superdirector Sam Fuller - can you ask for more?)
5.
The Bridge on the River Kwai
(David Lean, Alec Guinness, William Holden, can you ask for more?)
Inglorious Bastards - wrong. Unless you are talking about the original, but still wrong, just not as much. I am not sure if you are unintentionally correcting the illiterate Tarantino's misspelling or intentionally giving the name of the original, superior film.

Kelly's Hereos! I remember that movie. It was recorded on a vhs vefore drop dead fredd that I used to watch as a kid and I used to rewind the tape so much it went back to kelly's heroes lol.

Attack!
Dirty Dozen (up until the actual Mission)
Saving Private Ryan
Battleground
Kelly's Heroes

1. Patton
2. Das Boot
3. Battle of Britain
4. Bridge on the River Kwai
5. Come and See (Idi i smotri)
   If they move, kill em!

My personal favorite World War II movies at the moment are:

1. The Guns of Navarone
2. The Great Escape
3. Kelly's Heroes
4. Saints and Soldiers (even though I'm an atheist)
5. Farewell to the King
   Honorable Mentions:
6. The Big Red One (as of right now, I prefer the original, theatrical cut)
7. Saving Private Ryan
8. FDR: American Badass!
9. Schindler's List
10. Hacksaw Ridge
11. The Longest Day
12. Castle Keep
13. A Midnight Clear
14. Hell Is for Heroes
15. Casablanca (been thinking of giving this one a big boost higher up in my personal rankings, though)
16. The Eagle Has Landed
17. Slaughterhouse-Five

Also, terrific list (BoB would also be on my list, but I'm sticking just with movies)

I have not seen The Cranes are Flying, its been on my watch list for a while. I have Ivans Childhood from the library and plan on watching that, then watching The Cranes are Flying. Come and See is so Haunting, I love it! Its nice to see someone else who also loves it

Come and See is an excellent movie - terrific choice. Have you tried The Cranes are Flying?
My top 5:
Saving Private Ryan
Das Boot
Band of Brothers (yeah, I'm cheating)
Conspiracy
Schindler's List
Honorable mention:
Sophie Scholl
A Bridge Too Far
The Longest Day
Empire of the Sun
The Best Years of our Lives

Probably something like this
saving private ryan
letters from iwo jima
come and see
patton
das boot
hm
grave of the fireflies
bridge on the river kwai
big red one
downfall
thin red line
inglorious basterds
49th parallel

1. Band of Brothers
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Pacific
4. Ken Burns the war
5. Memphis Belle
   Lawrence of Arbia, he was an English guy who came to fight the Turkish

1. Saving Private Ryan
2. The Train
3. The Longest Day
4. The Dirty Dozen
5. Fury
   Edit: I forgot about Fury. I actually like this film and don't really understand all of the hate it gets.

Stalag 17
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Thin Red Line (1998)
The Longest Day
Ken Burns' The War
Does The Best Years of Our Lives count as a WWII movie? Also, nice to see I'm not the only one who dug Malick's Thin Red Line. I seem to remember that movie being decidedly unpopular when it came out. I always thought it was fantastic with some amazing cinematography.

The Dirty Dozen
Cross of Iron
The Great Escape
Bridge on the River Kwai
Kelly's Heroes
The
Spikeopath

Hospital Number
217

Nice thread. I can really pick some good movies of WOII right now!

I actually read the book "To Hell And Back" which was terrific, before seeing the movie. The movie was so disappointing. It won't even be in my top 50 list.

I know there are so many to choose from, but I can't believe no one here mentioned "Battleground". And did I see "To Hell and Back" on anyone's list?

THE STORY OF G.I. JOE (1945)
WENT THE DAY WELL? (1943)
THEY WERE EXPENDABLE (1945)
AIR FORCE (1943)
SO PROUDLY WE HAIL (1942)
I do hope he won't upset Henry

I notice that somewhere in the middle of the list a poster includes All quiet on the Western Front and Platoon among their picks. Huh?!
My favourites, chronologically
Went the Day Well? (1943)
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
Au revoir les enfants (1987)
The thin Red Line (1998)
Others, any of which could make my list if I made it tomorrow:
Casablanca (1942)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Ice Cold in Alex (1958)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Hope and Glory (1987)
A Midnight Clear (1992)
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

By Sub-genre:
Asia - Bridge on the River Kwai / King Rat
North Africa - Play Dirty / Ice Cold In Alex
Historical - A Bridge Too Far / Patton
Western Europe - The Victors / Attack
Pacific - The Thin Red Line [1998] / In Harm's Way
Naval - The Cruel Sea /The Caine Mutiny
Russian Front - Enemy At the Gates / Cross of Iron
Spy/Occupation - Casablanca / 5 Fingers
"Oh God, but I do love being king!"

Top 5 WWII movies - dreaddy2-982-911416
Tough choices here, and I'll take "top 5" as my top five and not an attempt to be "objective" or "authoritative."
Even then, though, it's tough to determine my favorites. The big-ticket ones such as
The Longest Day
,
The Great Escape
, and especially
The Bridge on the River Kwai
(one of my desert island picks) are great but are really taken as given. Then there are the cheeky ones such as
Kelly's Heroes
and
The Americanization of Emily
. Or ones such as
Casablanca
or
Lifeboat
that are set during the war but are not standard war films.
So I'll go with ones whose themes or atmosphere still resonate with me. In reverse order.
5.
The Big Red One
(1980). Not really one of my top favorites, but director Samuel Fuller, who was a World War Two combat veteran, got to put into a big-budget picture the vision and attitude that informed his two modest classics from the Korean war,
Fixed Bayonets!
and especially
The Steel Helmet
.
4.
Sink the Bismarck!
(1960). Taut naval action interspersed with Kenneth More and Dana Wynter directing the action from London. No-nonsense, but the understated approach still works well.
3.
Sahara
(1943). A modest Thermopylae story that still retains force for its plainspoken approach, and for a surprisingly bold attitude toward race. Plus Bogey's speech is pretty good still.
2.
The Best Years of Our Lives
(1946). Probably the first World War Two film to deal with the impact of the war on those returning from war and those waiting for them to return. Still fresh.
1.
Mister Roberts
(1955). One of the best studies of the tedium and monotony that informs much of war, and one that demonstrates that the fighting isn't always on the front line. Unforgettable.
"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." - Noam Chomsky

The Horizontal Lieutenant
(
)

A League of Their Own
based on a women's baseball team which existed during WWII and for a bit afterwards

The Best Years of Our Lives
three soldiers returning home after WWII

Green for Danger
a mystery set during WWII
-HmmmI guess I'll include
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
~~
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