What is your favorite war movie?

Gaer

"Angel whisperer"
Do you have a favorite war movie? I don't usually don't like war movies but I loved "Rough Riders", mainly because I'm a big fan of Teddy Roosevelt, and I liked "Saving Private Ryan" with Tom Hanks. I thought Matt Damon was great in that movie.
 

I agree about "Saving Private Ryan." I also enjoyed the movies I saw with my dad, like "The Longest Day" and "Bridge on the River Kwai."
 
Would you consider "Casablanca" a war movie, or was the war just a backdrop for a Romance? Must all war movies have battles, guns, dying, etc?

I loved "300." Very exciting.
 

Would you consider "Casablanca" a war movie, or was the war just a backdrop for a Romance? Must all war movies have battles, guns, dying, etc?

I loved "300." Very exciting.

Yea! Let's count it! I'm amazed so many women are responding! I thought the ladies would say, "Yuk,NO!" Have you seen "Rough Riders" though? It's really, really good!
 
@Nautilus
"The Guns of Navarone" 1961
Yes, saw that with my dad! If it weren't for me, he would have seen these movies alone, as my mother would ask him "Are there any women in it?" and the answer was many times, NO.
As a little kid, I was shocked, badly, when the woman spy was executed, on the spot! I was a very sensitive kid. Then, of course, all of the ultra violent movies that followed numbed me out to the point of absolute desensitivity. I can only imagine how kids today are way past being emotionally numb. Sad, and scary.
 
Just saw 1917 today. Wow, pretty gripping.
I agree but my all time favourite has to be the Light Horsemen.

A retelling of the last 'cavalry' charge although technically the Australian Light Horse was not a cavalry unit. They were mounted infantry men, and my grandfather was one of them.

This unit charged the machine guns defending Beersheba (near Gaza) during WW I as the sun was about to set. It was literally a do or die effort because if the town and the wells were not captured that day the horses could not be watered. They would perish and so would their riders.

The charge was successful and this particular scene provides some of the most exciting footage I have ever seen. There is also a back story, a love story based on a real nurse and real member of the Light Horse ambulance.
 
Warrigal: This was the Boar War? Wow! I've heard so many stories about how a nurse went to the battlefield to find her husband, just as he was dying. That was an extraordinary time!
Nautilis: OMG!!! Gregory Peck! Wow! Was he sexy!!!!
 

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