A Bridge Too Far - star studded cast!

The Battle of Britain - great film!

If you're looking for something a little more fanciful I'd suggest the following:

The Eagle Has Landed - again a star studded cast. Bit of a yarn but fun for sure.

Where Eagles Dare - how could you go wrong with Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood.

So many good flicks come to mind.some familiar,some obscure,not in any particular order

Band of Brothers,Zulu and Zulu Dawn,Kingdom of Heaven.Gettysburg,The Alamo-2004,Blackhawk Down,Andersonville,Patton,The Winter War,Platoon,Das Boot,PT-109,Sharpe Series,Hornblower Series,The Crossing,Hacksaw Ridge,Letters from Iwo,Sahara-both versions.

I'm sure i'm leaving out many of my favorites

The Cruel Sea

In Harm's Way

John Wayne and Kirk Douglas

It's my all-time favorite.  

Band of Brothers hands down.

The Pacific is ok, but I never could bond to any of the characters in that series.

Generation War - this is a foreigh film (spoken in German but does have English subtitles)but tells the story on the German side of WW2. Think Band of Brothers in Germany. A good film to watch. 

In Harm's Way, Midway, Operation Pacific, Run Silent Run Deep, Longest Day, Sands of Iwo Jima, Windtalkers

Can't remember the title, but modern carrier is transported back to WWII, and just as about to alter the outcome, is returned to the present.

Tough call. So many I enjoy seeing over and over again.

Twelve O'Clock High, God is my Copilot, Air Force, Captains of the Clouds, They Were Expendable, and on and on. Waiting in the DVR right now are Jimmy Stewart in "No Highway in the Sky" and a Japanese movie "The Burmese Harp." I'm not too tough to please. Especially if the movie is in black and white. Oh yeah, Back to Bataan and Flying Leathernecks.

Tora, Tora, Tora!

Battle of the Bulge - For sure

The Dirty Dozen

The Big Red One

The Great Raid

Hamburger Hill

Band of Brothers / The Pacific

Enemy at the Gates

Behind Enemy Lines

Kelly's Heros

Just some of my favorites

BoB, for sure!

I watched it as it came out, got the dvd box set and have watched it all on 3 more ocassions...start to finish! That's a long day!

Gen. War, mentioned by blacksheep, is a good flick. There was another...I believe it was called "The Wild Blue"..."Wild Sky"...something like that. I wanna say it was Chek, or maybe Romanian. It was about a few pilots that escaped and went to join the Eagle Squadron. It's all subtitles. I watched it twice in a row, 1st time was spent reading, by the second time, I could watch and already knew basically what was being said. Despite the language barrier, I was thoroughly entertained.

goldhammer

In Harm's Way, Midway, Operation Pacific, Run Silent Run Deep, Longest Day, Sands of Iwo Jima, Windtalkers

Can't remember the title, but modern carrier is transported back to WWII, and just as about to alter the outcome, is returned to the present.

 

Final Countdown,Tomcats dueling Zeroes

Thanks Tojo72, was back in there somewhere, just wouldn't come out.

When I was in high school (about '69) did a short story for my English class that was close, CV-65 went back in time and was at the surender signing in the Pacific, in place of her namesake, who was under repair.

Many of those mentioned above are favorites of mine along with Dresden, Das Boot, Sink the Bismark, the Dam Busters and 633 Squadron.

 Das Boot. The original 3 1/2 hour Epic !

                                                  OR...

Monty Python, And The Holy Grail.     That's history .... Right??

For a full list of what movies I will sit through, please check my Profile page.

Platoon, Too Late the Hero, Cross of Iron.

The header implies one movie,a tall order considering the topic so I'll say if one, I'd put on Catch 22. But,following precedent , here's a few more: for this time of year Merry Christmas,Mr. Lawrence and Midnight Clear. How bout The Light Horsemen,Gallopili, or The Thin Red Line.

"Hamburger Hill" was one of my favorites too!

I would say Kelly's Heroes is one of my favourites

Band of Brothers.  Years ago binge watched the entire series renting them.  2 episodes per disc, watched a couple discs each day.

Saving Private Ryan.  That opening scene on the beach was instense and enough to make it a great movie.

Apocalypse Now.  Even though it was cheesy, I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

Patton.  Epic!

Platoon.  Another great movie, and Charlie sure channeled Martin.

fermis

BoB, for sure!

I watched it as it came out, got the dvd box set and have watched it all on 3 more ocassions...start to finish! That's a long day!

Gen. War, mentioned by blacksheep, is a good flick. There was another...I believe it was called "The Wild Blue"..."Wild Sky"...something like that. I wanna say it was Chek, or maybe Romanian. It was about a few pilots that escaped and went to join the Eagle Squadron. It's all subtitles. I watched it twice in a row, 1st time was spent reading, by the second time, I could watch and already knew basically what was being said. Despite the language barrier, I was thoroughly entertained.

 

Dark Blue World, it has been on my to watch list but I haven't been able to find to watch.

I'll add a few

Mr Roberts, the story about the crew of the supply ship USS Reluctant, sailing from tedium to apathy with an occassional side trip to monotony. It is one of those movies I can watch over and over.

The Blue Max, it has an ok story and some great WW1 aerial scenes

The Bridges at Toko Ri - Korean war carrier jets

Dive Bomber, filmed just before the US entered WW2 with much support from the US Navy so it has some great footage from the end of the yellow wing period. The story is a bit corny but but has some memorable scenes. 

Full Metal Jacket

Griffin25

Platoon, Too Late the Hero, Cross of Iron.

 

Cross of Iron , good flick. Then there was the sequel called Breakthrough which was not so good. Stalingrad is a good one and for a laugh Kelly's Heroes.

goldhammer

In Harm's Way, Midway, Operation Pacific, Run Silent Run Deep, Longest Day, Sands of Iwo Jima, Windtalkers

Can't remember the title, but modern carrier is transported back to WWII, and just as about to alter the outcome, is returned to the present.

 

The Final Countdown.

Aaronw

Mr Roberts, the story about the crew of the supply ship USS Reluctant, sailing from tedium to apathy with an occassional side trip to monotony. It is one of those movies I can watch over and over.

When the plant went overboard, I "CHEERED" ! Also one of my favorite's.

littletimmy

 

 

Aaronw

Mr Roberts, the story about the crew of the supply ship USS Reluctant, sailing from tedium to apathy with an occassional side trip to monotony. It is one of those movies I can watch over and over.

 

 

When the plant went overboard, I "CHEERED" ! Also one of my favorite's.

 

I think anyone who has had an important but thankless job can relate to this movie with or without the addition of a tyranical supervisor and his prized palm tree.  

Aaronw

I walked into my bosses office once to get my performance eval and declared "Captain it is I Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your cruddy palm tree over board".

                                                   HA !!!

" Now,... Whats all this noise about no movie???? !!!!!

Great choices guys! Lot of movies I love there!

If I may point out a few less known movies?

"The Great Raid": US 2005

US Army Rangers and Filipino freedom fighters liberate POWs from a massive Japanese prison camp in the Phillipines. Personally I like it better than 'Saving Private Ryan' and wish it were better known. Sticks pretty close to the actual raid on the Cabanatuan POW camp other than adding a fictional romantic sub-plot (of course!) though it does allow them to show the suffering of the Fillipino civilians during the Japanese occupation. Most of the material was drawn from a great book called 'Ghost Soldiers' which is well worth looking up.

"The Flowers of War": China 2011

During the 'Rape of Nanking' an American freebooter, a dozen Catholic schoolgirls, and a group from the red light district seek shelter in a church. Amazing movie about sacrifice and protecting the helpless and innocent

"Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War": South Korea 2004

A young Korean man signs up for the army to protect his naive and innocent younger brother who has been drafted during the Korean War. As the war rages on he ends up losing his innocence as his brother holds onto his.

"The Eternal Zero": Japan 2013

A listless young Japanese man finds out his grandmother was married to a pilot killed during the Second World War before she married the man he calls grandpa. And her original husband is actually his biological father. The young man seeks out vets who knew his grandpa only to find out he was a coward only interested in saving his own skin. But grandpa was killed on a kamikaze mission. If grandpa was a coward why did he sign up for a suicide mission? Please ignore the horrible music on the trailer, great movie and that gawdawful pop song only pops up for the ending credits...

On a lighter note:

"Railroad Tigers": China 2017

Reminded me of a modern Chinese version of 'Kelly's Heroes.' Jackie Chan and his team of screwball Chinese partisians take on the Japanese Army. I laughed till my sides hurt...