what are your 3 favorite war movies?(fiction or nonfiction)

what are your 3 favorite war movies?

mine are:

1.starship troopers

2.enemy at the gates

3.red dawn

1. Saving Private Ryan
2. Schindler's List
3. Black Hawk Down

1. Letters from Iwo Jima
2. Der Untergang
3. Stalingrad

1. Black Hawk Down
2. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
3. Saving Private Ryan

Special mention: Starship Troopers

1. Brotherhood
2. Schindler's List
3. Der Untergang

1. The Cranes are Flying
2. Ivan's Childhood
3. Apocalypse Now

1. Apocalypse Now (1979)
2. Paths of Glory (1957)
3. Glory (1989)

1 starship troopers or pearl harbor
2 letters for iwa jima or Schinliders list
3 platoon or full metal jacket

i hate war

For now;
1. Saving Private Ryan
2. Schindler's List
3. Der Untergang

Haven't seen Apocalypse Now yet or the full movie of Full Metal Jacket, so we'll see after that :P

1. Das Boot
2. Paths Of Glory
3. The Big Red One

Films
1. Saving Private Ryan
2. Train de vie (don´t know what´s it called in english)
3. The Pianist

btw:
check out "Generation Kill" and "Band of Brothers"

Saving Private Ryan
Lord of the Rings-does have war scenes
Black Hawk Down

300 - an overly fictionalized fantasy version of the The Battle of Thermopylae but probably the greatest choreographed sword and sandal combat sequences ever depicted on film.

Saving Private Ryan - The opening scenes of the assault on the Normandy beaches are for me the most brutal cinematic depiction of modern warfare I've ever seen. The realism makes it an anti-war film from the off. There's no glory in war just death & if your lucky survival.

Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War - Koream film that again shows the absolute brutality & dehumanizing effect of war. Blood splatters on the camera lense brings close quarters combat in your face.

Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Saving Private Ryan

300
Brave heart
Lord of the Rings

And I always thought 300 is a brilliant documentary.

These popped up to my mind at first so I'll go with them;

Idi i Smotri (Why don't you watch it already)
The Thin Red Line (Maybe it's just me but this is usually overlooked in these topics)
Apocalypse Now

Have to watch The Cranes are Flying and Ivan's Childhood

The Thin Red Line is overlooked because it's always compared to Saving Private Ryan which came out the same year and it's a totally different but superior film. I find Private Ryan to just be too hollow, the camera is always looking around for goring things to show and shock us with. Thin Red Line did it better and so did Band of Brothers.

I meant gory, not goring.

1. Star Wars
2. Enemy at the Gates
3. The Beast

Pearl Harbor

Red Dawn

and Independence Day

Glory, Gettysburg, The Patriot, all epic.

interesting.. im going to check this one out.. thanks a lot

Just saw Twelve O'Clock High (1949), an underrated classic in my opinion. And Pork Chop Hill (1959), also with Gregory Peck. And The Hill (1965) with Sean Connery although it's more of a prison movie.

1. Full Metal Jacket (I've only seen a censored segment of it, but it was hilarious!)
2. Independence Day (Okay, so it wasn't that good.)
3. The Thin Red Line (It would have been better if they cut out the random moments.)

mmm .. like

Tears of the Sun
The Last Samurai
and Saving Private Ryan ...

mine are

1. Glory(1989)
2. A Bridge Too Far(1977)
3. The Big Red One(1980)

I´m really freak about war movies... :)
To be a little more fair with so many good movies about war, I´m dividing according to the "relation to war".

World War 2:
1) Band Of Brothers
2) Letters From Iwojima
3) Saving Private Ryan

Modern War:
1) BlackHawk Down
2) Full Metal Jacket
3) Tears Of The Sun

Ancient War
1) 300
2) Kingdom Of Heaven
3) The Last Samurai

Indirectly war related:
1) Der Untergang
2) La vitta è Bella
3) The Pianist

Idi i smotri-Come and see
Das Boot
No man's land
Before the rain
Merry christmas
La grand illusion
Killing fields
Salvador
Hotel Rwanda
Tuntematon sotilas (1955)
Stalingrad
Voces inocentes
Flammen & citronen

I am not very found of war movies in general, but I appreciate those with a clear anti-war message.

The Thin Red Line - Asking where the evil comes from, a metaphysical look at war. IMO the greatest american film since 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Idi i Smotri (Come and See) - War is hell. Not subtle by any means, but effective.

Apocalypse Now - Displaying the insanity of war. Starts off in an almost satirical manner, but ends up in the inevitable hellhole.

Full Metal Jacket
We Were Soldiers
Platoon

Platoon
Princess Mononoke

A Very Long Engagement
Star Wars
Starship Troopers

1. 300 (I really agree with escafeld)
2. Letters from Iwo Jima
3. Glory

War War:
Full Metal Jacket
Paths of Glory
Love And Death

1.The Bridge (1959)
2.The One That Got Away (1957)
3.Where Eagles Dare (1968)

The Patriot (1997)
The Pianist (2002)
Pearl Harbor (2001)

Gone with the Wind
Gettsyburg
Platoon

1 The Pianist
2. Apocalypse Now
3. 300

1.Pearl Harbor
2.300
3.Troy

I know it says only name 3 but i couldn't leave out the last one
Forrest Gump
The Pianist
Schindler's List
Life Is Beautiful

movielover89 i absolutely agree with your list (Forrest Gump is a personal favorite) but i must add Inglorious bastards, i saw it about two weeks ago and loved it

1. Schindler's List
2. Apocalypse Now
3. Saving Private Ryan

Wow two Spielberg movies on a war movies list...

1. Starwars
2. 300
3. LOTR

I'm not much of a war flick type of gal unless there are aliens and elves involved.

1.platoon
2.starship troopers
3.black hawk down

I wont consider LOTR.

1.300
2.Saving Private Ryan
3.The Hurt Locker

All about WW2:
1. The Pianist
2. Schindler's List
3. Inglourious Basterds