Best battle films

[Spartacus]

Could not see that this has been covered, So here goes.

1-Kingdom of Heaven--Orlando Bloom.
2-The Alamo-----John Wayne.
3-Taras Bulba---Yul Brynner.
4-El Cid---Charlton Heston.
5-Northwest Passage--Spencer Tracy.
6-Khartoum--Charlton Heston.
7-Kagemusha--Toshira Mifune.
8-Waterloo--Stieger/Plummer
9-300 Spartans--Richard Egan
10-The Holy Grail---Pythons
11-Charge of the Light Brigade--Flynn/Niven
12-The Vikings--Widmark.
13-Mongol--Asano the 2012 one.

Oops--Went over 10 and I am sure there are loads more.

Terry

[Colonel Kilgore]

#14 - Black Hawk Down
#15 - Master and Commander
#16 - Platoon
#17 - The Eagle has Landed
#18 - Ran
#19 - Apocalypse Now (obvs)

Simon

[John Watson]

A Bridge too Far.
John

[pbeccas (Paul)]

#21 The Lighthorsemen
#22 Saving Private Ryan
#23 Midway
#24 Danger Close
#25 Gallipoli
#26 Windtalkers
#27 The Last Samurai
#28 Kokoda
#29 The Battle of the River Plate
#30 Glory
#31 Battle of Britain
#32 Once were Soldiers

[Spartacus]

Doh!

#33 Spartacus

Yes Simon--Ran=Brilliant! As is any film by Akira Kurosawa.

Terry

[Sean Clark]

If talking just about the battle scenes...

Gettysburg and to a lesser extent God's and Generals. Just cut out the talky bits in between.

[Sean Clark]

Also

Danger Close (for me the best war film for some time)

[Sean Clark]

Sorry... I see Danger Close has already been mentioned... But it's so good it deserves a second mention

The 60's Charge of the Light Brigade was good.

[sjwalker51]

No-one has mentioned 'Zulu' or even 'Zulu Dawn' yet?

And if we're just talking about the battle scenes:

Gladiator
Saving Private Ryan (Omaha)
Barry Lyndon
Lawrence of Arabia
Lord of the Rings (charge of the Rohirrim)
Last of the Mohicans

[Moggy]

How about

Flags of our fathers

and

Letters from Iwo Jima

Both produced from Clint Eastwood

[Antioch (Bob)]

Agree with many here but lately I was blown away by "They Shall Not Grow Old"  .....by Peter Jackson.... and how they made things come alive with that film using 100 year old footage.

Totally agree with Seans picking of Gettysburg....   having walked the grounds where they filmed Gettysburg is amazing how they got those shots (and cut out all the monuments of those shots) and yet get the background they did.....all in a nationally protected park. Amazing work.

Bob

[Big Mike]

Yes, All Of The Above!
Also,
The Last Valley
Cross of Iron
Zulu and Zulu Dawn
Mike

[Spartacus]

@ mike

Yes--The Last Valley--Totally Brill film Michael Gothard cropped up in it. Deffo missed from my list. As was Zulu.

Terry

[Smoking gun]

When Trumpets Fade set in the Hurtgen Forest.

I agree with many of the ones above.

Best wishes,
Martin Buck

[Andoreth]

Flesh and Blood starring Rutger Hauer, the opening assault is gripping.

Knights of the Teutonic Order in Polish: Krzyżacy, has a great depiction of the battle of Grunwald (!410).

The Deluge, in Polish Potop, features the battle of Prostki (1656).

A vote for Ran but also one for Kagamusha.