Zulu
Zulu Dawn
Khartoum
The Alamo (John Wayne)
Southern Comfort
The Sand Pebbles
Black Hawk Down
Dr. Strangelove
55 Days At Peking
Beau Geste
Master and Commander
Tears of the Sun
The Patriot
Breaker Morant
Rob Roy
Braveheart
| OFF-Topic / Misc. Discuss Favorite Other/Alternate War Movie in the Current forums; Ok, so we did, WWI, WWII, Vietnam, etc. But how about those other movies that show another war or engagment? ... |
Ok, so we did, WWI, WWII, Vietnam, etc. But how about those other movies that show another war or engagment? Some favorites there. I put what ones I could remember but if anybody has some I missed, I'll add. No Civil War - we'll save that for another polll!
"If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it's English, thank a soldier!"
I chose the movie Patriot because I'm interested in the Revolutionary War...and I chose Zulu because I'm interested in all things Africa.
I can't wait for the Civil war movie poll!
Last edited by Doughboy; 06-30-2009 at 10:04 AM.
"This is the day which the lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it." Psalms 118:24
Voted for Southern Comfort. Interesting movie. Almost has sorta an Apocalypse Now feel to it, kinda dark and foreboding.
Didn't know anybody else had even seen "Southern Comfort" - love everything about that movie, classic Walter Hill.
"If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it's English, thank a soldier!"
Rob Roy & Braveheart?
"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future."
- Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
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Thanks, added!
"If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it's English, thank a soldier!"
Zulu, Zulu Dawn, and Black Hawk Down get my vote. We were allowed a few choices right?
"Never was so much owed by so many to so few"- Winston Churchill.
Red Dawn.
Wolverines!
Not sure if you did a Korean war poll already.
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Pork Chop Hill
Wheels
I'm working on that!
"If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it's English, thank a soldier!"
Sand Pebbles, simply because Steve McQueen is friggin awesome. Period.
Rob Roy, because who doesn't love a cynical, honor-bound highlander?
The Patriot....not very historically accurate (Gibson's character is a mix of like five different generals, I read somewhere), but still a good flick.
Pillage, then burn.
Argue not with dragons, for thou art crunchy and go well on toast.
Zulu stuck out for me - being in tha tposition would just blow IMHO(WIR)!
Sand Pebbles,55 Days of Peking both because they are of a period not well known in this continent and Dr Strangelove is an absolute gas of a movie with classic lines like
"gentlemen no fighting in the war room"
Could have added a few more but...Rob Roy is a real favourite love the highland theme....so Braveheart got a guernsey...er Kilt and particlarly enjoyed The Patriot too.
Zulu, Zulu Dawn for me, Black Hawk Down is also very good. I can never take Mel Gobson's films too seriously, any historical interest they might hold is usually erased by his attempts to make the English look as evil as possible. That's a shame, because as films in the technical sense, they are great
"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind;
and therefore never send to ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee" - John Donne, Meditation XVII
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