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With the current crisis it may be an idea to post your top 3 war movies, others can to take a look at them and catch up in case they missed any of your top 3.

So, my top 3 war movies are:
1. The Longest Day (1962)
2. Battle of Britain (1969)
3. Das Boot (1981)(I suggest to try the mini series of that movie from 1985, NOT the new mini series)

There are many many more I could list but I think these are those that I could regularly watch.

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Lieutenant General Christian Hecht
Commander I Corps, Army of the Potomac

Support adding a AAR SUB-FORUM

Saving Private Ryan
The Dirty Dozen
The Green Berets

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I remain,

Davis, R., Lt Gen.
VMI Class of 2011
3d Cavalry Brigade, 3d Division, III Corps
'Partisan Rangers'
Army Of Alabama
CSA

Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Rough Riders (1997)

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Colonel Blake
Confederate CoS - Deputy Commandant of VMI - General Busybody

The Longest Day
Zulu
The Sharp Series
Honorable mention to: Kelly's Heroes and The Odd Angry Shot

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General Mark Oakford
Commander,
1st Division, Ist Corps,
Army of the Potomac.
http://campcromwell.blogspot.com/

"Zulu"
"Big Red One"
"Gettysburg"

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Your Obedient Servant,
Lt Gen Dwight McBride
Ist Division/1st Brigade
V Corps/AOP/USA

Can I add a couple of mini series?

Enemy at the Gates
Generation War
Band of Brothers

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General Cam McOmish

Army Commander
Confederate Army of Tennessee
CSA

Saving Private Ryan
Glory
Enemy At The Gates

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Col. Jason "Skedaddle" Campbell
2nd Inf. Brigade, Third Divison, XV Corp
Army of the Tennessee
"Let's fill up our canteens, boys. Some of us will be in hell before nightfall and we'll need the water."

An Aussie friend of mine asked me for my opinion of The Odd Angry Shot. Being a Vietnam veteran I hadn't watched any fiction about the war but I'd made some Aussie friends there and thought I'd have a look. It's still the only Vietnam war movie I've seen all the way through and it would be in my top dozen. Das Boot would be there, Cross of Iron, Gettysburg. So many others. Dark Blue World, The Longest Day,

It's impossible for me to name the top three.

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Maj. Gen. Steve Sober, ACWGC
1st Division "Vincit Qui Patitur", XV Corps
Army of the Tennessee
UMA Chief of Staff

Garsh Darnnit! To Many to mention!

The Pacific (2010)
The Blue Max (1966)
Battleground (1949)

Etc., etc., etc.................................

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Brig. Gen., L. D. Drummond,
Commanding, I Division, XIV Corps
Army of the Cumberland, U.S. Army

"We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it."
William Tecumseh Sherman

Band of Brothers
Battleground
The Pacific
Just picking just three is hard. I would also have to add
Zulu and Gettysburg to my list.

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Col. Lynn Newell
VI Corps, 1st Division
Army of the Shenandoah

"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on."
Ulysses S. Grant

In no order:

Anthropoid
The Train
Waterloo
Beneath Hill 60

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"J.R." Rossbach
A below average wargamer.

Bridge on the River Kwai.
A Bridge Too Far.
Zulu.

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Brigadier-General Swanson
7th Brigade, 2nd Division
II Corps
Army of Northern Virginia

Glory
Platoon
Tora! Tora! Tora! or A Bridge Too Far!

Some esoteric choices, A King's Choice and Downfall. There are some decent Russian movies on their war as well. They're very proud of what they did.

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Respectfully, your obedient servant,

Col. Lyle Smith
2nd Bde, 4th Div (Early's), II Corps (Jackson's)
Army of Northern Virginia