Top Ten World War II Movies

[RF]

Ice Cold in Alex, now that was a sweaty film

Yes indeed.

[aurora]

My ten in no particular order of preference :-
1 The Cruel Sea
2 Saving Private Ryan
3 The Dambusters
4 Midway
5 Enemy At The Gates
6 The Railwayman
7 Stalingrad
8 When Trumpets Fade
9 Sink The Bismarck
10 Gettysburg.

Of course there are others worthy of note

[RF]

aurora, is this list WW2 (per the thread) or a general list of war films?

If its the latter as the mention of Gettysburg suggests I'm not sure that there aren't a lot of films about other wars better than Gettysburg. The film Lawrence of Arabia starring Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif immediately springs to my mind as a masterpiece of an epic, backed by an atmospheric and haunting theme tune, and makes no false illusions about the scenario or the main character.

[aurora]

I can almost hear you saying "Gotcha"-of course it is about WW2 movies RF- but as I saw it on others lists -I unwittingly inserted it in mine-and yes Lawrence of Arabia was a great movie and ought to have been included in my list- as Gettysburg-which I did like -was American Civil War. Must do better!!!!