The good, the bad, and the ugly
The grand illusion
Oh! What a lovely war
Johnny got his gun
Did someone one mention paths of glory?
Lawrence of Arabia, if you can stomach david lean
The African queen (German war in east Africa)
Alexander Nevsky (a favorite of Stalin's, the Teutonic Knights wear coal scuttle helmets)
Saving private Ryan, if you can deal with that great generation bullshit, good battle scenes
Dr strangelove, on Tom Lehrer's theory that if there are going to be WWIII moves we better start making them now (he said it about songs but the point carries over)
Red dawn, in which kansians get to play Vietcong. I mean the john Melius original. I guess this is sort of a WWIII movie,though what the Cubans want with Kansas is not plausibly explained, nor how the Russians and Cubans get here. Maybe they all took boats to Miami, evaded the coast guard, and drove down the interstates in their tanks and half tracks. With all the SUVs on the road, who'd notice? Or maybe that was before suv's.
Spartacus
Seems to me there ought to be a good movie of the Iliad, but that thing with brad Pitt was awful, likewise the movie of Alexander the Great, and the 300 was a comic book
Baron munchausen (terry Gilliam)
I understand that there is an excellent soviet era series or multipart war and peace, many a t. Series
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On Oct 29, 2012, at 12:26 AM, andie_nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The Dirty dozen
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> A bridge too far
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> The seven samurai
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> Stalingrad (German, anti war)
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> Casablanca (hey, it's about the occupation of Paris and the war in North Africa)
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> The battle of Algiers
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> Open city
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> Gone with the wind
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> Clint eastwood's us and japanese Iwo Jima set
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> The sands of Iwo Jima (john Wayne, camp)
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> The pianist (not camp)
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> The big red one
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> The bridge over the river Kwai
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> Henry V (Branagh)
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> Glory
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> Apocalypse now
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> On Oct 28, 2012, at 7:35 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
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>> My faves:
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>> --Zulu (introducing Michael Caine, based on actual event)
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>> --Paths of Glory (banned in France for a while, based on actual event)
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>> --Forbidden Games
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>> --Ballad of a Soldier (Russian)
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>> --The Cranes Are Flying (Russian)
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>> --Battle of the Bulge (for pure camp, with the immortal Robert Shaw)
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>> --The Wild Bunch (for philosophizing, gore, and Robert Ryan)
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>> and folks tell me, haven't seen it yet
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>> --All's Quiet on the Western Front
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>> Joanna
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