Best / Favorite war film

fancied watching one this afternoon...settled on the great escape in the end

 

This Happy Breed - not really a war film but set before and during WWII - Early John Mills
Battle of Britain, of course,
Gallipoli
The Lighthorsemen
We Were Soldiers
A Bridge too Far
Saving Private Ryan

 

Empire strikes back.

 

schindlers list

 

Von Ryan's express
The dambusters
The one where David Niven is killed but allowed back to earth like an angel? I forget what it's called

 

Das Boot. Easily the best.

 

Starship troopers

 

Inglorious Basterds

 

The Dirty Dozen

 

Oklahoma.

 

Ice cold in Alex - the Carlsberg ad was class , watch the film and it`s the same scene with Carlsberg glasses on set

I`ll get mi anorak ....

 

All the above except Oklahoma (sounds like a musical) .

Plus:
The Deer Hunter
Full Metal Jacket
Hamburger Hill
The Hurt Locker

 

All quite on the western front (without a shadow of a doubt)

 

This happy breed (Coward at his best) hurrah the Surreys

 

Great film

 

What about The Cruel Sea?

 

Not for me i`m afraid . Great film but i could never relate to the Naval side of things , being brought up playing war in the local woods must have been a massive influence . Didn`t have many boats in t`woods i suppose ..

 

And then there`s Dunkirk ...

 

The Niven film I mentioned is called "a matter of life and death" reading the plot it sounds poo now yet I recall thinking it great years ago?