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In Reply to: Best war movies? posted by edta on August 04, 2000 at 18:13:41:
This subjects pops up at regular intervals. Just a few to ponder:Paths of Glory
Grand Illusion
Canal
The Seven Beauties
Ashes
Waterloo
Train
Judgment at Nuremberg
The 300 Spartans...and I will yield to Steve (in the best convention tradion) to nominate that special one...
Follow Ups:
Paths of Glory is a great film. I saw it when I was ten or so and it had a great impact although I didn't know who Kubrick was and I never remembered the title. As an adult I wanted to find it again but couldn't. I heard a radio talk show host mention it as his #1 all time war movie so I rented it and was so happy to find this wonderfull film again. War is not just tragic it also has no sense of fair.
Steve
Guns of Navarone
Heaven Knows Mr.Allison
Enemy Below.
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.there were others I particularly enjoyed but don't remember which ones. There are so many.
Never seen Heaven knows... but liked the other two a lot. Also Apocalypse Now, Das Boot, Lawrence of Arabia (well, WWI) and there was one that I'm totally spacing the name of... it was about the Boar war... bunch of Brit soldiers against Africans. Fail Safe comes to mind for a cold-war film along with Dr Strangelove.
Breaker Morant is about the Boer War. However, this war involved no natives. It was between the Dutch Boers (who had been in South Africa for several generations) and the fairly recently arrived British.There are two superb films that deal with the Zulu War (where the British invaded the Zulus, the most powerful and hostile tribe Africa has known). The first film is Zulu from 1964, and it deals with the battle of Rorkes Drift where 4,000 Zulus were repulsed by 100 entrenched British soldiers. The other Zulu movie is Zulu Dawn from 1979. This film flopped, but I find it to be Zulu's equal, albeit in a different way. Zulu Dawn deals with the first battle of the war, the worst defeat ever inflicted upon a European power by natives. Both are fascinating films that showcase the height of both the Zulu and the British Empire.
Thanx, I'm pretty sure it was Zulu Dawn that I was thinking of.
Justin--Isandlwana wasn't the worst defeat Europeans suffered at the hands of Africans. An Italian army was defeated by an Ethiopian one at Adowa in the late 1800s, much bigger disaster than the British one at Isandlwana. If you want to count Asia the British retreat from Kabul in the 1st Afghan War was much worse too as was the British defeat at Maiwand in the 2nd Afghan War, though the Afghan forces at Maiwand were more in the nature of a proper army, with very well served artillery no less.
Heaven knows Mr.Allison is about a marine stranded alone on a deserted pacific ilsand with a nun during WWII. The island suddenly is no longer forgotten as the war finds them.
Two south african movies which you may be referring to and that come to mind are Zulu and Breaker Morant.
a walk in the sun, go for broke and battleground.
Should we consider also:Stalingrad
Big RedOne
Duel in the Sun
Birth of a Nation
The Desert FoxDes
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