Army, Airforce and Navy related Movies.

[rajupaki]

Gys i am currently in search of some great movies related to Militery i hope that i could get some great stuff through this forum.

BTW i personally like "Behind Enemy Lines", "Top Gun" and " US Marshals".
;)

[neel24neo]

"saving private ryan"is pretty realistic war movie.i liked it a lot.it gives you the feel of a real war,atleast glimpses of it.also "crimson tide".i haven't seen "enemy at the gates"but heard its a good one too.i have heard of two classic war movies-"bridge on the river kwai"and "apocalypse now"but havent seen either of them till now.another movie that is good is "wind talkers".

[rajupaki]

How is "Star wars" I really wanted to see that movie but unfortunately unable to see it till now.

[Gremlin29]

For a modern war movie, Blackhawk Down is very very good. It's a true story, and the 160th SOAR (that's the spec ops aviation unit that was actually involved in the story) provided the aircraft and all of the flying in the movie.

An oldie but a goody is Hunt For Red October, has to be my favorite Navy movie followed very closely by Crimson Tide.

A great movie that isn't very popular that is a must see is The Beast. This is a movie about a Russian tank crew in Afghanistan who are being hunted down by the Mujahidin.

[mysterious]

Yup! You got a fan in me for Black Hawk Down and The Beast!! I've seen some other interesting ones too but have a hard time remembering their names. I'll probably post 'em if I come across them again. This other day I was watching some movie which showed real nice flying of US Navy F-18 and how the Serbs fire SAMs from a de-militarized zone and the aircraft (which was on a recon mission) is taken out by one of the two SAMs launched at it. But the whole scene, of about 3-5 minutes is just breath taking! :smokingc:

[Red aRRow]

I don't know about the best military movies...but the Iron Eagle series could definitely qualify for being the worst! :D:

[neel24neo]

This other day I was watching some movie which showed real nice flying of US Navy F-18 and how the Serbs fire SAMs from a de-militarized zone and the aircraft (which was on a recon mission) is taken out by one of the two SAMs launched at it. But the whole scene, of about 3-5 minutes is just breath taking!

that should be "behind enemy lines".

[Gremlin29]

Agreed, the Iron Eagle movies were as bad as bad gets! Mysterious just reminded me of another cool movie, Flight of the Intruder. It's a tad bit corny but definately some cool flight scenes and plenty of action.

[rajupaki]

This other day I was watching some movie which showed real nice flying of US Navy F-18 and how the Serbs fire SAMs from a de-militarized zone and the aircraft (which was on a recon mission) is taken out by one of the two SAMs launched at it. But the whole scene, of about 3-5 minutes is just breath taking!

that should be "behind enemy lines".

Ya that movie really showed me the rely of US airforce on setellite technology, when the commander of the Aircraft Carrier use's setellite to search for the Lost Pilot in the enemy teritory and first time I sawed F-18 in any action. ;)

[Aegis]

Top gun is terrible! They use a F-5E fighter and claim as a Mig-28 in the movie! Lame....They shall at least buy a Mig-21 and claim it as soviet modern jet!
Iron eagle worst,get a F-4 Phantom and make it a soviet aircraft against F-15!
Pearl Harbour is bad too! Get a Modern Midway class carrier and make it an Akagi flight deck! In some bombing scene,u can see oliver perry class frigate in the back ground!

[neel24neo]

i am not a fan of top gun or pearl harbour and certainly not iron eagle series,but you have to give some thought to the constraints faced by the film crew,especially in making a period film...

[Aegis]

i am not a fan of top gun or pearl harbour and certainly not iron eagle series,but you have to give some thought to the constraints faced by the film crew,especially in making a period film...

If they think they r not capable ,DON"T MAKE! Blackhawk down is v realistic! Everything is so real! We w soldier is also good! Trying to cheat many aviator fan with a F-5 freedom fighter as Mig-28 is v upsetting! Do u know that?

[pakcamando14]

The Lost Battalion is a good movie. Its about a US battalion on the western front fighting the Germans in WWl

[highsea]

A couple more classics not yet mentioned, "Midway" and "Tora Tora Tora".

In the unrealistic but funny category, "1941" with John Belushi.

[tatra]

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"Stalingrad" (1993)
Directed by Joseph Vilsmaier

A depiction of the brutal battle of Stalingrad, the Third Reich's 'high water mark', as seen through the eyes of German officer Hans von Witzland and his battalion. "Stalingrad" follows the progress of a German Platoon through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After having half their number wiped out and after being placed under the command of a sadistic Captain, the Lieutenant of the platoon leads his men to desert. The men of the platoon attempt to escape from the city which is now surrounded by the Soviet Army. After this movie, the Hollywood storyline of "Saving Private Ryan" is very conspicuous.

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"Battleground" (1949)
Directed by William A. Wellman

December, 1944. The Nazis, in the face of the onrushing Allies, turned and pushed into the Ardennes Forest in Belgium and Luxembourg for what would be their last major offensive of World War II. During the Battle of the Bulge, as it is now called, they surrounded the town of Bastogne, Belgium, trapping the US Army 101st Airborne Division in the town. To make matters worse for the 101st, thick clouds covered the area for most of the battle. This prevented the Allies from providing air cover and air-dropped supplies to their troops on the ground.

The movie follows a band of American soldiers of the 101st as they engage the Germans in a snowy, foggy winter near Bastogne in World War II. They're low on fuel, rations, and ammunition; the Germans are constantly encouraging their surrender via radio and leaflets, and most importantly, the pervasive thick fog makes movement and identification difficult and prevents their relief by Allied air support. This film focuses much more on the psychology and morale of the soldiers than on action footage and heroics.

[SABRE]

Enemies At The Gate..

[ajay_ijn]

What about "Bridge Too Far" with good actors like Sean Connery and anthony hopkins.
Its about operation Market Garden during ww2.

U-571,K-19 and "Das Boot" are some good sub movies

[tatra]

Not to long ago, somebody was shooting a movie on the PQ17 convoy. May have been russians. Anybody hear about/see this?

Enemy at the gate: great stalingrad scenery!!!
Bridge too far: great movie, but complex and scattered story line
Das Boot: awesome
U-571: hollywood knock off
K19: not seen yet.

[rajupaki]

K-19 is a great movie based on a true story of Russian first Nuclear Submarine. Seriously it is a must see.
btw can any one provide a list of Airforce related movies, based on modern fighter aircrafts. and please also tell which movie is the best of them.

[omegasigma]

Yup! You got a fan in me for Black Hawk Down and The Beast!! I've seen some other interesting ones too but have a hard time remembering their names. I'll probably post 'em if I come across them again. This other day I was watching some movie which showed real nice flying of US Navy F-18 and how the Serbs fire SAMs from a de-militarized zone and the aircraft (which was on a recon mission) is taken out by one of the two SAMs launched at it. But the whole scene, of about 3-5 minutes is just breath taking! :smokingc:

You are talking about the Owen Wilson, Gene Hackman movie 'Behind ENemy Lines' released in 2001. Yes, I agree the scene in which the missle was chasing the F-18 was awesome! But all in all the movie had too many holes.

[corsair7772]

Some good ones:

The thin red line
U-571
Battle for Britain

Tom Clancys novel based flicks are pretty good 2.
Check these out:
Patriot Games
The hunt for the red october
The sum of all fears.

Theres a must see seen in the Hunt for the Red October when the russian Alfa pops up behind the Typhoon and Los Angles. The sum of all fears also has an awesome seen showing Tu-26s slaggin an American Aircraft carrier.

[ajay_ijn]

The most Surprising thing about Sum of All Fears is,It was during post Cold War.
I never knew tension level will be So high even after Cold war.

It this was situation during post-Cold war then imagine during the Cuban Crisis,The peak of Cold war.


Theres a must see seen in the Hunt for the Red October when the russian Alfa pops up behind the Typhoon and Los Angles.

Another most interesting Scene would be,When the Sean Connery orders the typhoon to directly head towards Torpedo and asks the Hero Alec Baldwin that what books he has written.
Baldwin would be Sweating becoz of fear and gets Surprised.When Baldwin says Names of books
Connery replies "I read those books they were having Wrong Conclusions"
I was biting my hand becoz of Suspense at that point.

Red october looks like too Hypothetical.
An SSBN Captain Defecting.

[pasukangeraktjepat]

How about Thirteen Days ? it show us how big the tension JFK face in Cuban Missile Crisis.And the scene when the U-2 spyplane get shooted by Soviet missiles is good.

[rajupaki]

Thirteen Days is Also a good movie based on the Cuban Missile Crises b/w US and Russia.

[pasukangeraktjepat]

Had any of you see Das Boot? i heard it is good movie about german submarine or the U-BOOT in WW 2.But i can't find the movie here in Indonesia.

[yasin_khan]

I like the World War II movies like :-
1. Pearl Harbour.
2. The Great Escape.
3. The Eagle Has Landed.
4. Kelly's Heros.
5. The Von Rayan Express.
6. The Dirty Dozen.
7. D-Day Invasion.
8. Tora Tora Tora.
9. Desert Rats.
10. Raid On Rommel.
11. Behind Enemy Lines.
12. Platoon.
13. We Were Soldiers.
14. Black Hawk Down.
15. Full Metal Jacket.
16. The Beast.
17. Border.(Indian)
18. LOC.(Indian)

[ajay_ijn]

I like the World War II movies like :-
1. Pearl Harbour.
2. The Great Escape.
3. The Eagle Has Landed.
4. Kelly's Heros.
5. The Von Rayan Express.
6. The Dirty Dozen.
7. D-Day Invasion.
8. Tora Tora Tora.
9. Desert Rats.
10. Raid On Rommel.
11. Behind Enemy Lines.
12. Platoon.
13. We Were Soldiers.
14. Black Hawk Down.
15. Full Metal Jacket.
16. The Beast.
17. Border.(Indian)
18. LOC.(Indian)


How come Saving Private Ryan is not in the List.
Its is the best ww2 eurpoean campaign movie.
Yasin all if them are not ww2 movies.
Black Hawk,Behind Enemy lines,we were soldiers are not ww2 movies.

About LOC(Indian),Frankly speaking half of the movie
fellow soldier/wife/mother cry.
I am not saying they should not show that but they could have reduced the emotion scenes.Too much emotions makes the movie boring.
For example in Saving Private ryan,Tom hanks cries only in one scene and that too he does it in a lonely place.
Becoz if he cried before his soldiers then there morale would be downed.

The scene of destroying Tiger Tank was exaggerating becoz Tiger Tank is not something to be destroyed by Infantry,Its a far more powerful tank.
Forget the infantry,even number of shermans could not face a single tiger.

[pasukangeraktjepat]

I like the World War II movies like :-
1. Pearl Harbour.
2. The Great Escape.
3. The Eagle Has Landed.
4. Kelly's Heros.
5. The Von Rayan Express.
6. The Dirty Dozen.
7. D-Day Invasion.
8. Tora Tora Tora.
9. Desert Rats.
10. Raid On Rommel.
11. Behind Enemy Lines.
12. Platoon.
13. We Were Soldiers.
14. Black Hawk Down.
15. Full Metal Jacket.
16. The Beast.
17. Border.(Indian)
18. LOC.(Indian)

Yasin,is Full Metal Jacket directed by Oliver Stone ?What is the story about?,i've seen Platoon and i think it is quite 'enlighten',compared with chuck norris vietnam movie,when single man with rambo-style kill all VC :rolleyes:

[rajupaki]

Well as Far as Indian and Paksitani movies are concern they are far much from the real life. The hero which could be a Solger,pilot,officier etc is been shown as a professional dancer, more intrested in his girl friend than the country's defence :) . I think smoking, wine etc are restricted for army navy and airforce personal(at least in Pak army) but in those movies A solger can be seen doing all of this. A recent Indian film"ab watan tumharay hawaly", an indian solder jumps from a mountain and while falling he takes the bomb from a boy's hand throw it in air and the bomb explodes nearly to the hero but the hero has saved and more interestingly all of this has been done while hero was in air:confused: . This is the reason that why i hate Indian and Pakistani movies so much. They put romence every where and songs are atleast a dosen of songs are must for every film.

[yasin_khan]

How come Saving Private Ryan is not in the List.
Its is the best ww2 eurpoean campaign movie.
Yasin all if them are not ww2 movies.
Black Hawk,Behind Enemy lines,we were soldiers are not ww2 movies.

About LOC(Indian),Frankly speaking half of the movie
fellow soldier/wife/mother cry.
I am not saying they should not show that but they could have reduced the emotion scenes.Too much emotions makes the movie boring.
For example in Saving Private ryan,Tom hanks cries only in one scene and that too he does it in a lonely place.
Becoz if he cried before his soldiers then there morale would be downed.

The scene of destroying Tiger Tank was exaggerating becoz Tiger Tank is not something to be destroyed by Infantry,Its a far more powerful tank.
Forget the infantry,even number of shermans could not face a single tiger.
First 10 movies in my list are of WW II.Behind Enemy Lines is based on Serbia.
Platoon,Full Metal Jacket and We Were Soldiers are based on Veitnam.The Beast is based on Soviet invasion on Afghanistan and the remaining two are based on Indo-Pak war of 1971 and 1999.

[yasin_khan]

Yasin,is Full Metal Jacket directed by Oliver Stone ?What is the story about?,i've seen Platoon and i think it is quite 'enlighten',compared with chuck norris vietnam movie,when single man with rambo-style kill all VC :rolleyes:I forgot the name of the director but it is good movie.It starts with the training of personals who are going to Veitnam. The training session is very interesting and shows the brtulaty of there instructor.

[Raven_Wing278]

WIND TALKERS!!!>_<

IMO the best WW2 movie after saving private ryan

[pasukangeraktjepat]

I've talk about this in other thread, but it seem missing so i try to start in this thread.It is a new Navy Sci-fi Plane movie 'Stealth', has any of you look this?
The movie plot : In the near future, the Navy develops a fighter jet piloted by an artificial intelligence computer. The jet is placed on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific to learn combat manuevers from the human pilots aboard. But when the computer develops a mind of its own, it's the humans who are charged with stopping it before it incites a war.. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0382992/plotsummary)

[wittmanace]

theres an awesome new film about the soviet union in afghanistan, called "the ninth company". its very very good and has a big budget, the biggest film russia has ever made.........it was amazing (came out in russia in december 2005 i think). i got to see it, and it was amazingly good....id say its "platoon" level....shockingly enough. i didnt expect it to be very good, but damn, it was very very good.


its now my fav war film, just above der untergang, platoon, full metal jacket and the beast......though a bridge too far deserves a high mention....

[Izzy1]

Band of Brothers TV series - based on Stephen Ambroses excellent books. Speillberg is Exec Producer on it, so quality is pretty much guarenteed.

Sorry if anyone has already mentioned it, but also the classic Where Eagles Dare...

Das Boot is also a personal fave.

[mysterious]

Ok, the movie Stealth was pathetic! Apart from the hi-Sci-fi content, there was nothing else in the movie! No storyline and not even proper acting. It seemed like a sequel to I, Robot; just that the robot has now taken the form of a fighter jet.

[noovie]

The top 15 best war movies:

1. Apocalypse Now
2. Der Untergang (Downfall)
3. The Deer Hunter
4. Full Metal Jacket
5. Saving Private Ryan
6. Catch-22
7. Band of brothers
8. Hamburger Hill
9. Platoon
10. Jarhead
11. Das Boot
12. Patton
13. Paths of glory
14. Stalag 17
15. The Caine Mutiny

[crazypole]

Not sure about a top 10/15/whatever, but favourite films of mine in this genre include:

-Longest Day (a bit long and story is constantly skipping to different parts. This covers the D-Day landings),
-Black Hawk Down (really realistic feel to it),
-Apocalypse Now (who can't love that attack by the Air Mobile Regiment, with Ride of the Valkyries music?),
-Kelly's Heroes (one of my personal favourites for it's light-hearted approach),
-Battle of Britain,
-Bridge Too Far,
-Jarhead (personally, i feel it captured a sense of what the troops in Desert Storm, and US troops in general would have felt like)
-Ice Cold in Alex
-Midway
-Dirty Dozen
-Saving Private Ryan is overrated. After the amazing first landing scenes, it kind of degenerates where from a film watching point of view, a strong feeling of having seen the same scene over and over again sets in.
-I was also disappointed with Enemy at the Gates, I much prefered Stalingrad.

[mysterious]

Lets not forget Behind Enemy Lines and Thin Red Line.

[Berserk Fury]

Lets not forget Behind Enemy Lines and Thin Red Line.
Behind Enemy Lines was pretty good though the beginning fighter scene was totally inaccurate. Thin Red Line was AWESOME, on par with Saving Private Ryan... at least to me.

I've talk about this in other thread, but it seem missing so i try to start in this thread.It is a new Navy Sci-fi Plane movie 'Stealth', has any of you look this?
The movie plot : In the near future, the Navy develops a fighter jet piloted by an artificial intelligence computer. The jet is placed on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific to learn combat manuevers from the human pilots aboard. But when the computer develops a mind of its own, it's the humans who are charged with stopping it before it incites a war.. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0382992/plotsummary)
July 31st, 2005 12:13 AM

Ok, the movie Stealth was pathetic! Apart from the hi-Sci-fi content, there was nothing else in the movie! No storyline and not even proper acting. It seemed like a sequel to I, Robot; just that the robot has now taken the form of a fighter jet.

lol well said, mysterious.
Stealth totally sucked...the plane...sucked... sure the plane was once considered maybe a "prototype" but the idea was demolished a long time ago.
The combat scenes were nearly fake...
a live fire "excersize" where an SAM site got taken out by what looks like a sidewinder to me not to mention the fact that the guy controlling the SAM site got blown up too.
Later on, the guy does a flip, goes mach 2 straight down WHILE launching what looked like a Paveway LGB.
Then he managed to pull out of that dive while blacked out.
Either way Stealth SUCKED.

[mysterious]

Berserk, I'd be interested to know 'why' do you think that the SAM attack targetting the Hornet in Behind Enemy Lines was inaccurate?

[Berserk Fury]

Actually, I think it was one of the missiles launched that was really fake.
I haven't seen the movie since a long long time...by that, I mean years.
Either way, I don't have it; so I'm sorry if I was wrong.

[mysterious]

If you ask me, it was quite real and accurate. The SAMs used were Soviet-era ones I think (even I can't seem to recall properly). Infact, the authenticity of that scene makes the movie stand out for me; just as the authenticity of urban combat in Black Hawk Down did.

[Berserk Fury]

I seem to recall differently... I'm probably wrong either way haha

[commando-1]

saving private ryan and black hawk down are the two best military movies ever made:ar15

[mysterious]

Another good one to keep in mind, IMHO, would be Tears of the Sun. Bruce Willis has the lead role with Monica Belluci and its about the Nigerian civil war.

[Rich]

I believe the greatest war movie ever made was "All quiet on the Western Front". It was not only a remarkable achievement from a movie making standpoint but it was also the first anti-war movie. It was made during what was still the age of Imperialism and was about the ultimate war of imperialism. Most of all the movie was honest about a terrible war.