The Greatest War Movies of the Generation (1975-Present)

Submitted by podizz on Tue, 10/14/2008 - 10:39
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  1. Schindler's List
  2. Apocalypse Now
  3. Saving Private Ryan
  4. Platoon
  5. The Deer Hunter
  6. Braveheart
  7. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
  8. Full Metal Jacket
  9. The Hurt Locker
  10. Blood Diamond
  11. Born on the Fourth of July
  12. Downfall
  13. Hotel Rwanda
  14. The Patriot
  15. Glory
  16. Flags of Our Fathers
  17. Letters From Iwo Jima
  18. Life is Beautiful
  19. The Pianist
  20. A Thin Red Line
  21. Das Boot
  22. The Hunt for Red October
  23. U-571
  24. Crimson Tide
  25. Good Morning, Vietnam
  26. Black Hawk Down
  27. Rambo: First Blood Part II
  28. Courage Under Fire
  29. Three Kings
  30. Enemy at the Gates
  31. Jarhead
  32. Heartbreak Ridge
  33. Empire of the Sun
  34. Salvador
  35. Casualties of War
  36. Rescue Dawn
  37. 300
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comments welcome...

dashforcover12/09/2008

Dances with Wolves and The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly are NOT War Movies. They are Westerns. Two which could replace them are Battle of the Bulge and Kelly's Heroes. Or Gettysburg.

I don't like U-571 because the US had NOTHING to do with the capture of the German Enigma machine. It was the Polish. Its insulting to get it THAT wrong and demean the brave Polish in this way.

suspension08/12/2011

How'd you like Black Hawk Down?

AfterHours08/12/2011

Imo, Kusturica's Underground is superior to all of these and is the greatest war film ever made.

Also, I feel Life is Beautiful should be much higher. I have no qualms with Schindler's List at #1, especially considering the parameters, though several great war films came before 1980.