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The Longest Day...the first of the All Star cast big budget war flicks that were done in the 60's and 70's...... D Zanuck did it in Black & White because most of the WW2 film footage was in b&w. Also check out the technical advisors on the film......they were the guys whoses stories were being told on film and D Zanuck was a combat film photographer during WW2 and was at D Day.....So PRyan in my book sucks in comparison... it's revisionist history.

Tora Tora Tora and Battle of Britain were both good.....in BOB they actually used HE111's and ME109's in the film....they bought them as surplus from the Spainish Airforce. TTT was 12/7/41 and the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both the US and Jap point of view. Again both were allstar casts

Das Boot......Directors cut, they built a replica of a U Boot in a sound stage in Hunland. All the filming was done inside the the Boot, they even got it so that water was dripping from a lamp shade in the background. Ultra realistic

King Rat...based upon James Clavels novel of the same title set in a Jap prison camp

Stalag 17.....Billy Wilders semi-comedy wt William Holden about a German prison camp


Bridge over the River Kwai...Will Holden and Alec Guiness... building that bloody RR bridge in Burma for the Nippers during the Second big show.............

All Quiet on the Western Front..... 1930, Eric Remarqus anti war novel brought to the screen..filmed down in Irvine, CA.

MASH......Robert Altmans 1970 Classic...No need to say more.....

The Train.....Burt Lancaster as a French RR man, trys to stop the retreating Huns from stealing a train full of art from Paris during WW2... made in 1965

Gudacanal Diary... Have to throw in a made during WW2 propaganda flick... made in 1943.....Marine action in the SP...William Bendix, Lloyd Nolan and a very young Anthony Quinn.

Battleground....William Wellman director... 1949...Battle of the Bulge infantry in the trenchs ....Wellman during WW1 was a fighter pilot. Again from the guys who just got back from WW2...so the feel is closer to the real deal than PRyan

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Apocalypse Now....Is based upon Joesph Condrads novella "Heart of Darkness" Capola's film is very surreal and is more about a journey into madness than about war. Harrison Ford has a bit part in the film as a young captain who drops a sheaf of papers in the scene where Martin Sheen is talking to the Generals. when Harrison did that bit the assistant director thought Ford was just being clumsy, Capola corrected him saying he was acting. Martin Sheen also suffered a heart attack during the movie. The movie was shot in the Philliphines and the US miltary wouldn't give any logistic help. wonder why. I'm not real crazy about this film BTW

Love Strangelove....but classify it as a Black Comedy

On the Beach.....Greg Peck and Ava Gardner.......the last of the human race down under waiting for the end after a Nuke war.