List good war movies...

Pressure (2026), very good.
Apocalypse Now (1979), excellent
Conspiracy (2001), excellent
The Dirty Dozen (1967), excellent
The Enemy Below (1957), excellent
Enigma (2001), excellent
The Exception (2016), very good
...
long list
 
You can find "Im Westen nichts Neues" on YT, in the old B&W silent movie version. That version is much more realistic than the next version, it was done by people who were there and had that, actors and extras.

To fully get "Das Boot", check how it was made. They ate the provisions from the set, nothing else. And they lived indoors for the time. The body transformations of the crew are real. And yes, that skipper at the start was drunk as a skunk when they filmed that. And I heard the set build was actually a few % bigger than the original, so nothing for a claustrophobic.

And ofc Full Metal Jacket. A movie whose production had to be halted for the rest of a day because one of the battle scenes had blown up a rabbit and the director was emotional about that.
 
"Paths of Glory" of Stanley Kubrick is by far my preferred. It has everything: wars, hierarchy of power, a trial, a profound ending, etc..

The only missing part of "Paths of Glory" are the political decisions, and in these regards I liked very much "Darkest Hour" of Joe Wright, also if it is not strictly in the war gender.
 
I like to add:

"A Bridge Too Far", UK, USA 1977
"1917", USA, UK 2019
"The Guns of Navarone", UK, USA 1961
"Waterloo", I, SU 1970
"Run Silent, Run Deep", USA 1958
"Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World", USA 2003
"The Dam Busters", UK 1955
"Full Metal Jacket", UK, USA, 1987 already mentioned above
"Kingdom of Heaven", USA, E, UK, D 2005
"The Deer Hunter", USA 1978
"The Monuments Men", USA, D 2014
"Churchill", UK 2017
"Crimson Tide", USA 1995
"Body of Lies", USA 2008
"Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", UK 1964
"MASH", USA 1970
"Mars Attacks", USA 1996
 
blackhole said:
Two of the best "anti war" films ever made in the US. Not really in vogue these days where film making has to support the narrative.
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If it ain't a movie to make the viewer think critically about it, to prevent war, it's propaganda BS.

There are lots of movies not en vogue for today's audience anymore, since today it's less plot, background, development, thinking, critic,... but action, action, action. Many of today's movies could be reduced to ten minutes, because that's all the plot provides. The rest is sentenious sayings, bawl & brawl, pot shooting, explosions, fires, and wreckage of vehicles and buildings. BORING! 😴
(I have a bet running with myself, who's the first one posting about my post, 'That's not a war movie!') 😁
 
The Bridge on the river Kwai - 1957
The Great Escape - 1963 ( Is a "mostly true" WW2 movie - not made up )
The Guns of Navarone 1961 (Agree!)
Midway - 1975 (Longer version of the movie also includes the Coral Sea battle)
The Longest Day - 1963
Apocalypse Now - 1979 (Agree!)
The Alamo - 1960

Many others..

Star Wars fans: The Bridge on the river Kwai (also) stars Alec Guinness - who was the original Obi-Wan Kanobi in Star Wars (Eps. IV to VI)
 
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