Quote from: FierceKitty on 19 April 2010, 06:40:38 PM
P.S. Can't stand Kagemusha myself, much as I love wargaming the period. Kurosawa didn't have a clue about what happens on a battlefield. Ran is a better movie, and even there it's annoying that not one shot from a matchlock ever misses. Did Momoyama armies emproy onry Annie Oakries?

Well I have just watched Kagemusha for the first time and enjoyed it. It has almost given me a yen (ahem) for a 10mm samurai army ... And I thought it was worth resurrecting this thread for.

Chris

Bloody Big BATTLES!
https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/BBB_wargames/info
http://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.co.uk/

Zulu Dawn, Zulu
Stalingrad
Downfall
A Bridge Too Far
Gods and Generals
Gettysburg

Take care

Andy

Well I thoroughly enjoyed The Big Red 1 - the newly restored version. Fascinating to watch one US unit from the first gung-ho landings in North Africa and a brief fight with the French, before teaming up with them, through to the grizzled veterans coming across their first Death Camp. Apparently all based on Sam Fuller's wartime experiences, and a somewhat different outing for Luke Skywalker.

Cross of Iron
Saving Private Ryan
Lord of the rings trilogy - Even if the Orcs should not have pikes or crossbows.

If you have a favourite book, piece of music or film you need to read, listen and watch more

I have a favourite etc. It just changes. Constantly. Almost hourly.

I do have books etc that I constantly return to. Are they favourites?

The Last Valley (Michael Caine in spiky hat, what's not to like? )
Kingdom of Heaven (the Directors cut)
The Man who would be King
Waterloo
Gettysburg
Barry Lyndon
The Cruel Sea
Master and Commander

and if orcs can have Lord of the Rings as a "Historical" film, then I will go for Monty Python and the Holy Grail!!!     

Mollinary

Jeez, Chris! 6 years between posts!* Anyhoo ....

Quote from: fsn on 03 October 2016, 11:16:02 AM
I have a favourite etc. It just changes. Constantly. Almost hourly.

It seems most people's favourite is constantly changing also (the heading asks for the singular but most folks are listing reems of favourites). So, in the spirit of popular opinion, here is my list ( .... er ..... which might will probably change).

The Great Race
Young Frankenstein
(heading doesn't say it has to be a war film and these are set in the past)

Glory
Black Hawk Down
Zulu
Barry Lyndon
Das Boot


* on this thread.

Some current favourite military and/or historical films

Defiance
Flags Of Our Fathers
Windtalkers
39th Battalion
Saints and Soldiers
Days of Glory
Saving Private Ryan
Fury
Kagemusha
Red Cliff
The Warlords
Company K
Master and Commander
Unforgiven

Battle of Britain
Longest Day
A Bridge too Far
Waterloo
The Eagle Has Landed
Went the Day Well?
The Malta Story
Sink the Bismark!
They Were Not Divided
A Long Day's Dying

The biblical epic which contains the line, 'The king of the Israelites is outside his tent exposing himself to the Philistines.'

Cromwell which my Dad took me to see when I was about 10. Long war film, ice cream and just me and Dad!

Quote from: Ithoriel on 03 October 2016, 10:53:34 AM
If you have a favourite book, piece of music or film you need to read, listen and watch more

What's he on about now?

If I truss the chronockweir with chicken wire does that demonstrate my intellectual superiority sufficiently?

Quote from: mollinary on 03 October 2016, 11:26:57 AM

and if orcs can have Lord of the Rings as a "Historical" film,

Mollinary

Of course it's Bl**dy Historical.     

How are we actually defining 'historical' ? 

Anyway......

Dambusters.
The Great Escape.
Kelly's Heroes.
The Dirty Dozen.