Great War Movies

(List of classic war movies)

WWx

• Dirty Dozen: "Twelve tough criminals are offered absolution if they undertake a suicide mission into Nazi Germany"
• Windtalkers: Navajo soldiers who are "untranslatable" by the Japanese during WW2
• Lawrence of Arabia: "British officer who unites the desert tribes of Arabia against the Turks during World War I"
• Unbroken: Navy pilot survives Japanese POW camp
• Twelve O'clock High: Commander of a US Bomber unit in WWII
• The Pacific (mini-series): Marines fighting in WW2 Pacific 
• Dunkirk: Evacuation of the English from France in WW2
• Letters from Iwo Jima: Japanese in WW2's battle of Iwo Jima
• Hacksaw Ridge: Marine who wont carry a gun saves saves wounded from behind enemy lines
• Fury: Tank fighting in Germany
• Fat Man and Little Boy: Story behind the building of the bomb
• Enemy at the Gates: Russian sniper who terrorized the Nazis
• Das Boot: German subs in WW2
• Inglorious Bastards: Jewish-American guerilla solders kill Hitler
• Band of Brothers (mini-series): 
• The Great Escape: Solders in a German POW camp
• Saving Private Ryan: Solders in WW2 fighting to find someone behind enemy lines
• The Fighting SeaBees: The creation of the SeaBees
• Redtails: The black Tuskegee fighter pilots prove themselves
• Memphis Bell: First bomber crew to survive and make it home
• Pearl Harbor: American fighter pilots in Hawaii during the attack
• Downfall: Hitlers end 
• The Longest Day: Day-Day
• A Bridge Too Far: Allied airdrop behind enemy lines

Vietnam:

• Rescue Dawn: Fighter pilot in Vietnamese POW camp
• Hamburger Hill: American solders fight to take a hill
• Apocalypse Now: American Army assassin is sent behind enemy lines to kill a rouge US Colonel
• Full Metal Jacket: Solders going nuts in Vietnam
• We were Solders: Army commander outnumbered 
• Platoon: Army solder in the jungle

Iraq Wars:

• American Sniper: Navy Seal in Iraq
• Generation Kill (mini-series): Marines during the first 40 days of Iraq war
• Zero Dark Thirty: The hunting of Osama bin Laden
• Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: Journalist in Afghanistan
• Jarhead: Marine sniper in boot camp and then Iraq
• Hurt Locker: Bomb disposal team in Iraq
• Green Zone: Army inspectors looking for weapons of mass destruction 
• Lone Survivor: SEALs get ambushed in Afghanistan

Other:

• Top Gun: Navy fighter pilots
• Glory: Black regiment in the civil war
• G.I. Jane: Woman proving she can fight in the Navy
• Black Hawk Down: Troops survive behind enemy lines