24 October 2012

My Top 10 war movies

Just for fun, this is my Top10 Top13 favourite 19th century wars movies. Wasn't easy to make, but I think I made a pretty good list. If you haven't seen one of those, you're missing something... What's your Top10?

1. Come and See, 1985
After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet Army and experiences the horrors of World War II.

2. Patton, 1970
The World War II phase of the controversial American general's career is depicted.

3. Apocalypse Now, 1979
During the on-going Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.

4. Jarhead, 2005
Based on former Marine Anthony Swofford's best-selling 2003 book about his pre-Desert Storm experiences in Saudi Arabia and about his experiences fighting in Kuwait.

5. Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957
After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it. 

6. Paths of Glory, 1957
When soldiers in WW1 refuse to continue with an impossible attack, their superiors decide to make an example of them.

7. The Longest Day, 1962
The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.

8. The Tin Drum, 1979
Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy.

9. Hurt Locker, 2008
Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.

10. Underground, 1995
The story follows an underground weapons manufacturer in Belgrade during WWII and evolves into fairly surreal situations.

11. Great escape, 1963
Allied POWs plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.

12. Full metal Jacket, 1987
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow Marine recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting set in 1968 in Hue, Vietnam.

13. The Thin Red Line, 1998
Director Terrence Malick's adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.

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