A very good list, but missing:
- Guns of Navarone (sequel was not as good, even with Harrison Ford),
- Where Eagles Dare (Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood do a mostly faithful version of the Alistair MacLean book);
- Final Countdown (fun movie considering the What If of a modern US nuclear powered aircraft carrier showing up in Dec. 1941);
- Defiance;
- All's Quiet on the Western Front;
- Paths of Glory (Kirk Douglas and the problem of mutinies in WWI
My favorites are:
- Guns of Navarone (WW2, 1961)
- Final Countdown (WW2 time travel, 1980)
- A Bridge Too Far (WW2, 1977)
- Catch-22 (WW2, satire, Italy, 1970)
- The Dirty Dozen (WW2, 1967)
- Dr. Strangelove (Cold War, 1964)
- The Great Escape (WW2, 1963)
- Kelly’s Heroes (WW2, comedy, 1970)
- The Longest Day (WW2, Normandy invasion, 1962)
- MASH (Korea, comedy, 1972)
- Patton (WW2, 1970)
- Saving Private Ryan (WW2, 1998)
- The Battle of Algiers (Algeria, urban warfare, 1966)
- Black Book (Netherlands reistance, WW2, 2006)
- The Charge of the Light Brigade (Crimean, 1968)
- Das Boot (WW2, 1981)--seen pieces of it but not the entire movie
- Gallipoli (WW1, 1981)--saw it long ago, but remember none of it.
- Lawrence of Arabia (WW1, 1962)--yes, sad, but true. Have never seen it.
- Zulu (Boer War, 1964)
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Bridge Over the River Kwai?
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