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Top War Movies

Maybe a bit odd at Christmas time, but most involve a theme of sacrifice for a greater good, so there’s that. My first really successful post here, waaaay back in July 2008, was a Top Ten list of war movies. The Moron Horde from AoSHQ invaded, and shared their thoughts. Our cousins across the pond…

Maybe a bit odd at Christmas time, but most involve a theme of sacrifice for a greater good, so there’s that.

My first really successful post here, waaaay back in July 2008, was a Top Ten list of war movies. The Moron Horde from AoSHQ invaded, and shared their thoughts.

Our cousins across the pond at Think Defence are posting their Top 20 list. A movie a day:

Chosen not on their artistic merit, historical accuracy or 100% Britishness but just because I think they are great and well worth a watch.

Seems a pretty good metric to me.

Today’s entry, The Way Ahead, released in an edited form here as The Immortal Battalion.

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  1. elizzar

    I don’t know why it is but it has become a bit of a tradition for the tv channels to show old war films at Christmas here in the UK, especially black and white WW2 ones. I’d like to think it’s to remind us of a more noble time in our history, but I suspect it’s really because they are cheap and everyone is drunk so we don’t notice anyway! 🙂
    Have a Merry Christmas everyone.

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  2. Ron

    A very good movie about World War I concerning British officers being treated for shell shock is “Behind the Lines” from 1998. It did not have wide release in the United States and is based on the Poet Siegfried Sassoon’s time at a military hospital in Scotland. Just watched it this morning and now watching “Battle of the Bulge” which is not a great movies, but was shown every December on TV while growing up in the late Sixties and Seventies.

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  3. M1A1TrkTrror

    Your omission of “Kelly’s Heroes” amazes me.

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