1) Saving Private Ryan
2) Cross of Iron
3) Letters from Iwo Jima
4) Flammen & Citronen
5) Der Untergang
Honourable Mention- John Irvin's "When Trumpets Fade". It was made for HBO, but I think it should have been released theatrically. An good film featuring an amazing Ron Eldard performance.
Good list.
It's hard to keep it at five:
(No particular order)
1)'Saving Private Ryan'
2)'Downfall'
3)'Cross of Iron'
4)'A Bridge Too Far'
5)'Patton'
Honorable mentions (can't fit them all in my top 5):
1)'Das Boot'
2)'Letters from Iwo Jima'
3)'Stalingrad'
4)'Attack'
5)'Hell is for Heroes'
6)'When Trumpets Fade'. Agree with what you say about it.
7)'A Walk in the Sun'
8)'Battleground'
9)'The Big Red One'
10)'The Longest Day'
11)'Japan's Longest Day'
12)'Hiroshima'
13)'Twelve O'Clock High'
Guilty pleasures (still like them very much): 'Kelly's Heroes', 'The Eagle has Landed', 'The Guns of Navarone', and 'Where Eagles Dare'.
Most of these are my favorite films of all time.
Frank: Just a man.
Harmonica: An ancient race.
Here are some possible dark horses
Enemy at the Gates
Between Heaven and Hell
The Bridge(German)
The Winter War(Finish)
Five Women(Yugo)
Come and See(Russian)
and my guilty pleasure, Battle of the Bulge
1. A Bridge too Far
2. Sahara (1943) - Not just a great war flick, a great film in its own right.
3. The Dirty Dozen
4. Cross of Iron
5. Das Boot
6. Battleground (1949)
7. The Battle of Britain
- "Yeehaaa, just like f%^cking Saigon eh slick"?
- "I was in junior high dickhead"!
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1 Come and See
2 The Burmese Harp
3 Der Untergang
4 Kanal
5 The Ascent
99% of all American and British WWII movies are jingoist rubbish.
Stalag 17
Twelve O'Clock High
Bridge On The River Kwai
They Were Expendable
633 Squadron
1. Cross of Iron
2. Downfall
3. Letters of Iwo Jima
4. A bridge too far
5. The longest day