| The "Best" film hasn't been made, I hope. I say that because I'm still hoping somebody is going to make a really first rate film. With all it's faults SPR is probably as close as it has really come. I've spoken to a lot of vets, both of WWII and more current wars, who say it is the one that comes closest to showing what war can really be like.
Others bests films are:
The Great Escape
Patton, also flawed but very good.
Das Boot
The Longest Day
Battleground
The Cruel Sea
Twelve O'Clock High
Battle of Britain
Guilty pleasures. (I like who thought of this, it's a good category)
Kelly's Heroes, see my signature line
Operation Petticoat. More based on fact than many people give it credit for. For instance the bit about sinking the truck kind of happened.
The Dirty Dozen
1941. also based very much on fact, see Kiwiwriters post. Plus the M3 Lee is one of my favorite tanks.
NO redeeming social value at all.
Pearl Harbor
U-571
Escape. That's the POW soccer game one. Michael Caine should be ashamed of himself for being in that POS.
The Thin Red Line. One of the very few war movies I've never been able to sit all the way through.
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"To a New Yorker like you a hero is some kind of weird sanwhich, not some NUT who takes on three Tigers."
Oddball, France 1944.
Rodger
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