There's a lot of stuff here for me to wade through!  I'll be starting with Band of Brothers once The Pacific has finished.

BARRY LYNDON

I quite enjoyed The Madness of King George.

As I've had a rant on the 'Worst Historical Film'  I think it's only fair I join in this one.

Tora, Tora, Tora. -
Unusual, at least for the time, to see both sides get a say in the making of the movie.

Das Boot. -
Always watch this with subtitles rather than dubbed.

Talvisota. -
Finnish war movie about the Winter War.

Gettysburg. -
Fix bayonets.  Not as syrupy as Gods and Generals.

Gandhi, -
Inspirational film

The Alamo, (2004)-
Interesting and fairly accurate retelling (from Disney???). Except for the combat fiddle playing.

Windtalkers, -
Underrated film about the Navajo radio ops in the Pacific.  Well worth a look.

Waterloo, -
No matter what anyone says about it, still visually stunning and a favourite.

Go Tell the Spartans, -
Vietnam war movie, set when the US were only there as advisers.

And here's something a bit different

Oh What a Lovely War, -
Dickie Attenborough's first directorial  outing.  The First World war as a musical.  Very clever use of metaphor, allegory and war time songs.

Hum, well I really loved these ones :

"Letters from Iwo Jima" and "Flags of our fathers", by Clint Eastwood.
"Flesh and blood", by Paul Verhoeven.
"Fanfan la Tulipe", by Christian Maudet (1951).
And of course "Barry Lyndon".

Among others.

QuoteOh What a Lovely War, -
Dickie Attenborough's first directorial  outing.  The First World war as a musical.  Very clever use of metaphor, allegory and war time songs.

I love this film but it is responsible for a lot of WW1s bad PR.

I also have a softspot for Kingdom of Heaven, the history is pretty ropy but the photography is lovely.

I also enjoyed the TV series ROME although the first series was much better than the second.

Colditz...does that count?
Waterloo... oh the charge of the greys - which is why I do cavalry re-enactment (or did) unfortunately I did take the part of the lancers (well okay they were the wrong ones in the film).
Cross of Iron ....
kingdom of Heaven especially the cavalry charge - bit of a theme here
Zulu Dawn & Zulu
Band of Brothers
Bridge Too far
The Great Escape
Das Boot
Cabaret
Downfall - I have a love hate relationship with this one
Letters from Iwo Jima
Sea of Sand
Long and the short and the tall

Lord of the rings (Not historical at all but I love it) Guess which is my favourite bit!!!!

Letters from Iwo Jima was far better than Flags of our Fathers in my humble opinion.

Barry Lindon

Most of what's been mentioned already plus:
'Hurt Locker',
'Generation Kill' (TV, I know),
'Come and See',
'All Quiet on the Western Front'

Top 3

The alamo(the new one)
Gettysburg 4+ hours of joy
A bridge too far, best ww2 movie made.

Others are Waterloo, the longest day, glory, the duelists, alatriste.

"The Light Horsemen"  - I only saw it last night and most of the film up to the end was fairly average but the final cavalry charge (or mounted infantry) at the end made up for it. A dramatic scene and especially impressive as before the days of CGI

Barry Lyndon overlaps a few wars, but it's hardly a war film in itself.

Quote from: Dickie255 on 23 October 2010, 07:40:23 AM
"The Light Horsemen"  - I only saw it last night and most of the film up to the end was fairly average but the final cavalry charge (or mounted infantry) at the end made up for it. A dramatic scene and especially impressive as before the days of CGI

oooh forgot about this one, yep very good charge

Most of the Historicals films are totally inaccurate but still great to watch.

Many of course are just great war films 

The best recent one has to be Saving Private Ryan.

Zulu my old time fave. Just superb start to finish.

Cromwell the best of this period which seems to have almost nothing else about it although a huge part of our history. Once again the srcipt bears almost no resemblance to the truth. I mean, Setting off the guns at Edgehill, Do me a favour!

Finally, Waterloo, my favourite period and yes a good film to watch but could have been so much better. Apart from the wooden acting in parts, the stupid slow motions of that period and dodgy horse/car shots lol, and the most irratating bit, the anti-war drivel !.... the main sadness is that most of it ended up on the cutting room floor.. The first cut was about 7 hours, then reduced to about 4, and then hacked to death again to what we get now. They filmed Ligny etc and we see about 10 seconds of it..

What a shame 

Cudders