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lots left out :-

battle of britian

bridge too far (i guess thats bridge at arnham re-named)

dam busters

kellys heroes biggrin_o.gif

forest gump biggrin_o.gif

das boot "the boat" - which is probably the best and most accurate war movie ever made

and many many more.

Yea, Das boot is great!

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yep , the only real movie that reallt attempts to capture war and people feelings. pretty muh every other movies just attempts to show soldiers of a particular country as being heroes.

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yep , the only real movie that reallt attempts to capture war and people feelings.  pretty muh every other movies just attempts to show soldiers of a particular country as being heroes.

Just shows how many non-hollywood war movies you have seen. tounge2.gif

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Christ, this thread is friggin old. I'm digging it out because I'm in the search of modern war movies which I might have missed. Do you guys have any suggestions what to watch?

 

Movies I already know:

 

Black Hawk Down - THE modern war movie :P

Hurt Locker

Lone Survivor

Act Of Valor

Greenzone

Generation Kill

Korengal

Restrepo

Zero Dark Thirty

Armadillo

Jarhead

The Battle Of Haditha

Three Kings (Somewhat...)

Redacted

Over There  (sucks imho)

 

 

Is there any modern war movie I missed and which is worth watching?  

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Is there any modern war movie I missed and which is worth watching?  

 

No Man´s Land

(2001 -  Bosnia War)

 

Turtles Can Fly

(2004 - Iraq, seen through children´s eyes)

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Tuntematon Sotilas naturally hits the heart the most for me. 1955 version is IMO bit better because of the more humor acting. 1985 version is bit more serious but the acting is lacking bit too much. They're ~3h long movies. There's new version coming in 2017 so interesting to see how good it will be.

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"Грозовые ворота", english title "The Storm Gate" originally a miniseries recut into a movie.

I prefer the series but the 4 part series is onyl available in russian.

 

The plot is roughly around the battle for 776 in the second caucasus campaign.

 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Height_776

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You know, I think that there might be a lot of really good Soviet/Russian war movies. The only thing that puts me off is that they are mostly in russian, and/or are very much propaganda (not to say that western movies aren´t, I just don´t like when they overdo it)

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White Tiger, not recommended for the movie itself, but those T-34 and SU-152 engine recordings should give anyone a tank-boner!

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White Tiger, not recommended for the movie itself, but those T-34 and SU-152 engine recordings should give anyone a tank-boner!

 

I must say i enjoyed that movie quite a lot.

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Shit, I forgot Enemy at the gates...

Sorry...

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Enemy at the gates is propaganda made by westerners to make the soviet union look evil... it has almost no historically reality besides for its setting... its the equivalent of duke nukem playing in rambo fighting the predator. enemy at the gates is a disgrace to war movies... i would go so far as calling it a drama movie then a war movie. 

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The longest day-1962 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Longest_Day_(film)#Plot

 

It was the first proper war movie I saw-I watched it on TV with my mother when I was about 8. Spent the next few weeks crawling around our back garden in the dark with black soot on my face and a wooden stick for a rifle:D

 

And Lone Suvivor-after reading the book, that movie really captured me a lot. There are not really any other modern war movies like it.

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Another russian war drama, less action more featuring the desolation of the common russian soldier in the caucasus conflicts.

You often just need minimal (GDR middle school) russian language knowledge to follow the plot.

 

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The movie really seems in plot and making la lot like a russian version of "Platoon"

 

https://youtu.be/Y4ApkELcEng

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Germans can make some damn good war movies. Such as:

 

The german Stalingrad movie from 1993

 

 

Das Boot   (shame on you if you don´t know that movie)

 

 

Both should be available in english 

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Germans can make some damn good war movies. Such as:

Das Boot   (shame on you if you don´t know that movie)

 

 

Both should be available in english 

 

Das Boot is a masterpiece and the techno-dance formation U96 make an music theme based on this movie:

 

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I love a good SciFi battle. Wish these had more operations and less "drama":

 

 

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A Bridge Too Far, Black Hawk Down, apocalypse now, the longest day, saving private ryan are some of my favourites

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