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Dakota Jim

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Casablanca!

Oh...that's a different approach. I think most of us are talking combat but you are talking peripheral wartime story. If you do that you can use the glenn miller story, with Jimmy Stewart and June Allison and many other "romance" types including South Pacific. BTW Tora Tora Tora was a good war story too.
 
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LOL well Casablanca is way more my type of movie than any of the others listed.

I liked Hotel Rwanda too. And Gone With the Wind.
 

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Saving private ryan.
Enemy at the gates.
Letters from Ijoma i forget how it spelled....
And many more...
 

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what everyones else sais,........maybe not the breakfast club.


and anything with John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, R. Lee Emery.....George C. Scott....i like just about every war movie i have ever seen
 

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Not everything listed here is my favorite, but deserves mention. Not in any kind of favorite order either. Due to the stupid 1000 character limit- split into 2 replies. :D

Apocalypse Now- Quality, high art value movie- ending too bazaar to be enjoyable.
Dirty Dozen- Outstanding! :thumbup
Where Eagles Dare- Outstanding but requires some suspension of believable! (Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton!!) :thumbup
Dirty Dozen- Outstanding entertainment! :thumbup
Kelly's Heros- Most outsanding entertainment! (Clint Eastwood!!) :thumbup
Platoon- Very good drama. Probably Tom Beringer's best role. Willem Defoe's presence appreciated. :thumbup
Failsafe- Does this count? Nuclear holocaust all most realized with mushroom clouds included! :thumbup
Dr. Strangelove- Does this count? "Well, boys, I reckon this is it - nuclear combat toe to toe with the Rooskies. " :thumbup
 
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Part II
The Longest Day- The classic WWII epic all-star movie. :thumbup
Saving Private Ryan- Tough to watch but the most realistic portrayal of warfare I've ever seen. :thumbup
Full Metal Jacket- Quality, high art value movie but the story fizzled with me.
The Green Berets- Disappointing propaganda movie despite the Duke!
The Great Escape- Does this count? Outstanding all-star movie! :thumbup
The Guns of Navarone- Quality high art value espionage film with Gregory Peck! Outstanding! :thumbup
Deer Hunter- Most outstanding movie on the social/personal impact of war! :thumbup
The Beford Incident- with Sidney Poitier and Richard Widmark, one of the BEST unknown cold war dramas about a duel between a destroyer and a Rusky sub! :thumbup
Seven Days in May- Probably does not count. Attempted coup of the U.S. government by a general who knows a better way! Outstanding with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas! :thumbup.
 
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Part III
Blackhawk Down- Sad, scary movie portraying urban warfare in Somalia. :thumbup

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