Author Topic: War Movies on DVD (Read 6523 times)

koba · « **on:** Mar 08, 2002 at 07:19 PM »

What war movies would you recommend? Is there any WW II movie highlighting the Eastern European theater of the war other than Enemy at the Gates (depicting the Battle of Volgograd)?

Phobos · « **Reply #1 on:** Mar 08, 2002 at 07:34 PM »

Related Thread:

Here Come the Military Movies...

utoy · « **Reply #2 on:** Mar 09, 2002 at 04:16 AM »

Yup, Here Come the Military Movies thread is a good read, but it discusses new and coming war/military movies. If I may suggest to our moderators that this thread be moved to the DVD Discussion Forum where we can all appropriately respond.

Homeland · « **Reply #3 on:** Mar 09, 2002 at 04:45 AM »

Moving thread to DVD Discussion. Mods Phobos, Gonz & Benny: your call!

slowhand · « **Reply #4 on:** Mar 21, 2002 at 12:45 PM »

Don't know about Eastern European war films, but the war movie I would recommend is Gettysburg.

For me, nothing captures all the different aspects of war like this one does. Horror, heroism, courage, leadership, futility, folly, and so forth, they're all here, recreated with the help of true civil war history buffs as extras.

Glory is also good. A bit more Hollywoody.

utoy · « **Reply #5 on:** Mar 21, 2002 at 02:27 PM »

Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line got me started in my War-Themed DVD collection.

The others that followed:

Glory
Patriot
U-571
Das Boot
Full Metal Jacket

War as backdrop:

Three Kings
The English Patient
Empire of the Sun

Starwars 1: The Phantom Menace (he he)

I didn't regret buying any of these, as a matter of fact, I want more!

utoy · « **Reply #6 on:** Mar 26, 2002 at 10:56 AM »

Also, Bridge On The River Kwai

Geoffrey · « **Reply #7 on:** Apr 01, 2002 at 05:36 PM »

I recommend TORA TORA TORA it's better than Pearl Harbor.

PATTON is also good

jay_cee_em · « **Reply #8 on:** Apr 02, 2002 at 04:45 PM »

Check out also A Bridge Too Far..

benny · « **Reply #9 on:** Apr 03, 2002 at 01:52 AM »

This might be a good starting point too, specially for old movies:

Fox War Classics

Paltik · « **Reply #10 on:** Apr 04, 2002 at 06:05 PM »

nice link benny,

here are my personal war movie choices:

Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Uncommon Valor
Saving Private Ryan
Red Dawn
Toy Soldiers
The Killing Fields
Hamburger Hill
Casualties of War
Bat21

bently · « **Reply #11 on:** Apr 05, 2002 at 01:41 AM »

just got my war documentaries from DDD, the price was just to good to pass up.

FIREPOWER 2000 4-PACK (Box Set)$6
Volume 1: High-Tech Battlefield
Volume 2: Digital Dogfight
Volume 3: High-Tech Navy
Volume 4: Fast Strike

Top Guns #1-3: Thunder From Above (Box Set) $6
Volume 1: Fighters
Volume 2: Bombers
Volume 3: Attack Aircraft

total of $12 shipped! for both box sets...comes to $1.70 per dvd..sweet!

electronic70 · « **Reply #12 on:** Apr 05, 2002 at 12:26 PM »

Don't forget the Michael Cimino epic Deerhunter; acadamy award winner and an AFI Top 100 film, about the Vietnam war and its toll on the American psyche

nerveblocker · « **Reply #13 on:** Apr 06, 2002 at 05:19 AM »

Add to the list Behind Enemy Lines!

Paltik · « **Reply #14 on:** Apr 06, 2002 at 11:57 PM »

Quote from: bently on Apr 05, 2002 at 01:41 AM

just got my war documentaries from DDD, the price was just to good to pass up.

FIREPOWER 2000 4-PACK (Box Set)$6
Volume 1: High-Tech Battlefield
Volume 2: Digital Dogfight
Volume 3: High-Tech Navy
Volume 4: Fast Strike

Top Guns #1-3: Thunder From Above (Box Set) $6
Volume 1: Fighters
Volume 2: Bombers
Volume 3: Attack Aircraft

total of $12 shipped! for both box sets...comes to $1.70 per dvd..sweet!

hi bently are you serious? that firepower boxed set is priced at $35 over at amazon!

Mo®pHeOu$ · « **Reply #15 on:** Oct 28, 2002 at 03:40 PM »

Bumbing this up for the upcoming Band of Brothers

...now that's what I call a war movie

nuninu · « **Reply #16 on:** Oct 29, 2002 at 02:35 AM »

but... isn't band of brothers a tv-series on hbo?

btw, what was K-19(the widowmaker) all about?

Mo®pHeOu$ · « **Reply #17 on:** Oct 29, 2002 at 05:06 AM »

hey nuninu

it's coming out on DVD kaya I posted it here. you will notice the upcoming word posted in my previous post.

thanks

bently · « **Reply #18 on:** Oct 29, 2002 at 05:47 AM »

Quote from: nuninu on Oct 29, 2002 at 02:35 AM

but... isn't band of brothers a tv-series on hbo?

btw, what was K-19(the widowmaker) all about?

band of brothers was a mini series on HBO and was only limited to 10 episodes.

as for k-19 it is about the nightmare endured in 1961 by the crew of the Soviet nuclear submarine K-19, when an exposed reactor core nearly resulted in a nuclear catastrophe. Several crewmen died, and K-19's captain (played by Harrison Ford) had to assert his command when near-mutiny favored his executive officer (Liam Neeson).
saw this recently ..and i find the story to depressing and slow...my recommendation is to rent this one 1st before buying it.

paeng · « **Reply #19 on:** Dec 13, 2002 at 12:54 PM »

Don't watch *Enemy at the Gates*. *Stalingrad* is better.

Quote from: koba on Mar 08, 2002 at 07:19 PM

What war movies would you recommend? Is there any WW II movie highlighting the Eastern European theater of the war other than Enemy at the Gates (depicting the Battle of Volgograd)?

qball · « **Reply #20 on:** Dec 14, 2002 at 01:35 AM »

Apocalypse Now

xage · « **Reply #21 on:** Dec 14, 2002 at 12:35 PM »

Well despite being not that jam packed in features...
Behind Enemy Lines boast an impressive DTS track which surely blows the hell out the action sequence it got!!

Kings · « **Reply #22 on:** Dec 19, 2002 at 04:36 PM »

Black Hawk Down

Lex Luthor · « **Reply #23 on:** Dec 19, 2002 at 04:57 PM »

How about Oscar's Best Foreign Language film for 2002, No Man's Land?

Mrs. T · « **Reply #24 on:** Dec 19, 2002 at 10:59 PM »

The Final Countdown with Martin Sheen and Kirk Douglas.

jerix · « **Reply #25 on:** Dec 20, 2002 at 07:56 AM »

Hey Guys!

for me i want windtalkers, pearl harbor, saving Private Ryan, Thin red line to name a few. These are war movies produced just recently. I go for the recently produced war movies because of their excellent sound format. If you a have at least the receiver with a 5.1 audio, then i really recommend these movies. M using receiver with a 7.1 audio output capability, meaning it can process ex or es encoded audio signals these signals can mostly be on dvd movies produced just recently.

paeng · « **Reply #26 on:** Jan 03, 2003 at 04:34 PM »

Also,

*The Deer Hunter*
*Grand Illusion*
*Kagemusha*
*All Quiet on the Western Front*
*Au Revoir, Les Enfants*

X44 · « **Reply #27 on:** Jan 08, 2003 at 01:29 PM »

Quote from: koba on Mar 08, 2002 at 07:19 PM

What war movies would you recommend? Is there any WW II movie highlighting the Eastern European theater of the war other than Enemy at the Gates (depicting the Battle of Volgograd)?

Cross of Iron Sam Peckinpah's war movie starring the late, great James Coburn. The combat scenes will put Band of Brothers to shame.

Also

Attack!
The Big Red One
The Train

And of course Full Metal Jacket.

MAXBUWAYA · « **Reply #28 on:** Jan 11, 2003 at 11:27 PM »

"Grave of the fireflies"

Anime na about japanese victims of war
of course in japanese point of view kaya cool
not the typical na hero ang america lagi

also

Mr Kubricks

"Dr. Strangelove"

War comedy about russian american coldwar

X44 · « **Reply #29 on:** Jan 12, 2003 at 02:31 PM »

Quote from: MAXBUWAYA on Jan 11, 2003 at 11:27 PM

"Grave of the fireflies"

Anime na about japanese victims of war
of course in japanese point of view kaya cool
not the typical na hero ang america lagi

Good choice. One of the best,if not the best, war movie post-70s. Probably won't sound as good on a home theater system,though. But very heartbreaking. As opposed to Kubrick's movie, another good call, which shows how absurd and surreal and funny, blackly funny that is, war can be.

(The best way to listen to the clarity and force of gunfire and explosions and of men getting killed, I suppose, is to be right thick in the middle of a war. A real one. Taob ang DTS doon! )