favorite WWII related war movies

[Nathan]

I know this question gets asked once in awhile. But its fun to hear what everyones favorite WWII related war movies are. Some of these movies don't show on TV much anymore so its nice to hear about them from fellow war movie nuts.

For me there are many WWII war movies that I like so its really hard to try and keep them in a top favorite list. But for me:

-Tora, Tora, Tora.
-Midway(seen so many times can't say I like it as much as I used to.)
-Airforce(one of my all time favorites..great shots of P-39's and early B-17's. Gotta love the shots of the P-43's too!)
-The Great Escape
-Bataan(I enjoy and watch often)
-Battleground
-30 Seconds over Tokyo
-The Purple Heart
-Kelly's Heroes
-God is My copilot(best shots of P-40's in any movie out there-IMHO)
-Wake Island
-Dive Bomber(ok not really war but man lots of good pre war goodies!)
-Objective Burma(me and my dad used to watch it alot when I was a kid always a favorite)

And my favorite actor that played in many a war movie...Van Johnson.

[mustangdriver]

Air Force
12 o'clock high
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Band of Brothers(mini series)
Memphis Belle
The War Lover

[bipe215]

Battle of Britain

[A36pilot]

Fighter Squadron

[Steve S]

Fighter Squadron
Dive Bomber
Air Force

[tom d. friedman]

amongst others......& i can name many more....
633 squadron
p.t. 109
father goose
the war lover
king rat
patton

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[Zachary]

I'm kind of fond of Dark Blue World myself, and Empire of the Son has been a long-time favorite.

Zack

[TonyM]

The Wolfgang Peterson work

DAS BOOT

is a favorite.

TonyM.

[michaelharadon]

After you see Das Boot, watch The Cruel Sea. Probably as close to bookends as you can get.

[Steve Nelson]

Battle of Britain
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Patton
Saving Private Ryan
Band of Brothers (not exactly a movie..but still one of my faves)
Enemy at the Gates

I understand "Enemy at the Gates" isn't all that historically accurate, but I don't know that much about the details of the siege of Stalingrad. Sometimes being too close to the subject matter can ruin your enjoyment of a film..that's why I hated "Pearl Harbor" so much. I just couldn't get past the fact that they got almost everything wrong..particularly the character of Doolittle and the execution of the Tokyo Raid.


SN

[warbird1]

Some of my favorites:

Dark Blue World -one of my favorite all time W.W. II aviation movies. I bought it on DVD when it first came out several years ago.

Battle of Britain - The Blu-ray version is now out, but it doesn't have all of the extra's or bonus materials that the 2 disc Collector's Edition has on DVD.

Piece of Cake - the entire series is on DVD and is really nice. It's worth acquiring just for the fact of having the video footage of the Spitfire flying underneath the bridge!

Black Sheep Squadron - Jack Cook's favorite television series! Yes, even though it's hokey and totally unrealistic, I enjoyed this show when I was young and really like all of the flying scenes in it. The last volume of the series should be coming out fairly soon. The first two volumes are nice, even though Vol. 2 has no extras or bonus material. Vol. 1 has two short video interviews of the real Pappy Boyington, though!

Dive Bomber - This movie is absolutely spectacular in widescreen on a HD t.v.! I have the DVD and there is nowhere else in the world that you can get color movie footage of so many Devastators and F3F's! Visually stunning!

Captains of the Clouds - On DVD as well! A visually stunning color movie with lots of footage of RCAF Harvards, Yales, and Hudsons. Not a bad storyline either!

The Hunters - On DVD, great color Korean war film with loads of awesome F-86 and Mig (F-84) footage. This was the film that inspired Steve Hinton at a very early age to get into warbirds!

633 Squadron/Mosquito Squadron - On DVD, spectacular color footage of the Mossie. Need I say more?

War and Remembrance - this made for T.V. mini-series is available on DVD. It has some nice aerial scenes for the Battle of Midway which were done by the Planes of Fame with Hinton and crew.

The Purple Plain - a nice color Gregory Peck movie with a Southeast Asia Mosquito fighter theme. Some good Mossie action and an awesome storyline! On DVD.


I'm sure there are others that I'm forgetting, but these are the ones I thought of off the top of my head!

[ZeamerB17]

"The Best Years of Our Lives"

"Twelve O'Clock High"

etc ...

[6trn4brn]

Band of Brothers
12 O'clock High
Saving Private Ryan
The Big Red One...Lee Marvin was always da bomb!
Liked the aerial scenes in Pearl Harbor...story was pathetic
Midway and Tora, Tora done by the same people?
War and Rememberance
...so may others...

[T-6G Pilot]

Fighter Squadron
Empire of the Sun
12 O'Clock High
Bridges at Toko-Ri
Midway
Jet Pilot (I know, I know, its bad, but who can help but wanna watch Janet Leigh, yeowza)
The War Lover
Wing of Eagles
The McConnell Story
30 Seconds Over Tokyo

I'm sure I've left a few out, but those are some of my favs that come to mind.

[RickH]

Task Force