Does it have to be accurate?  Or do you prefer a good story, regardless?

Zulu is always a winner for me!

Historical inaccuracies aside, you can't beat the Battle of Rorke's Drift on an Easter Sunday.

Barry Lyndon

Seven Years War and a Gainsborough painting come to life - Lovely!

Land and Freedom, a good dose of politics never hurts

"Went The Day Well" for me!

There's some interesting choices coming out here, I've never heard of some of these!  I'll have to get down to Blockbuster methinks...

I'm gonna throw in a vote for 'Saving Private Ryan'.

In no particlular order...

Zulu
Stalingrad
Das Boot
A Bridge Too Far
Jarhead
Band of Brothers [ok,it's a series...]
Generation Kill [ditto...]
We Were Soldiers
Black Hawk Down
The Deer Hunter
Apocalypse Now
Alexander
Tears of the Sun
Troy
Gods and Generals / Gettysburg
Full Metal Jacket
Hamburger Hill
Platoon
Waterloo
Casualties of War
Kingdom of Heaven
Enemy at the Gates
Aliens [whaddya mean that's not real... ]

There's probably more...

Quote from: nikharwood on 10 March 2010, 11:05:40 PM
Jarhead

Black Hawk Down

Apocalypse Now

Full Metal Jacket

Kingdom of Heaven

I enjoyed these as well, except Kingdom of Heaven, which is one that I keep missing whenever it's on.

Are you gonna be watching the new Spielberg/Hanks collaboration, 'The Pacific', when it starts next month?

Oh yes...it's supposed to be stunning...horrifc, but stunning.

Certainly will.  However, its such a disappointment that they always do the Americans.  How about a 'band of Brothers' for the British?

My favourites are Band of Brothers, Gettysburg, some excellent film about Napoleon I saw the other day and Blackadder goes forth 

Quote from: Leon on 09 March 2010, 01:09:19 AM
Does it have to be accurate?  Or do you prefer a good story, regardless?

I liked Zulu, The Eagle has landed and (I think this is the name: The Immortal Battalion)
with David Niven.

Quote from: Pruneau on 12 March 2010, 02:17:48 PM
My favourites are Band of Brothers, Gettysburg, some excellent film about Napoleon I saw the other day and Blackadder goes forth 

Blackadder goes forth! How could I forget that?! SImply brilliant. 

Quote from: Luddite on 12 March 2010, 02:00:33 PM
Certainly will.  However, its such a disappointment that they always do the Americans.  How about a 'band of Brothers' for the British?

Nah, Hollywood would never fund that!

Quote from: Leon on 12 March 2010, 02:36:49 PM

Quote from: Luddite on 12 March 2010, 02:00:33 PM
Certainly will.  However, its such a disappointment that they always do the Americans.  How about a 'band of Brothers' for the British?

Nah, Hollywood would never fund that!

Sadly true.  Even for WWI they had to do it about the Canadians...i guess Hollywood sees the British as the bad guys now...


On a wider note aren't all the films so far war films rather than historical films?

For historical films i'll put foward;

JFK - a good stab at the festering wound in American history.
Charlie Wilson's War - similar to JFK but on a different topic.  Enjoyable but not enough focus on US funding of what they now term 'terrorists'.
The Killing Fields - a hard watch but a brilliant protrayal of the insanity of the Khmer Rouge
Schindler's List - Another hard watch but a surprisingly unbiased protrayal of the unfolding of the Nazi 'final solution'.
The Longest Day (or as my wife terms it 'The Longest Film') - Probably the best of those 'docu-films' of the post-war period.  Excellent again for its relatively objective view of D-Day...
Kagemusha - Kurosawa's masterpiece about the Battle of Nagashino.  Perhaps more a war film?