Top 20 Most Accurate War Movies

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  • @WatchMojo
    @WatchMojo  Год назад +95

    Were there any war movies left on the cutting room floor of this list? Let us know in the comments below.
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    • @ElikongIsLit
      @ElikongIsLit Год назад

      Ok

    • @frednich9603
      @frednich9603 Год назад +16

      the fact that tora tora tora isn't on this list makes the rest of it invalid.

    • @stephaniedouglasaviewfroma9596
      @stephaniedouglasaviewfroma9596 Год назад +5

      The Battle of Waterloo!!! Saw it as a teenager. Forty five years later, it’s still impactful.

    • @Prussian_Forever
      @Prussian_Forever Год назад +11

      I personally believe that Gettysburg (1993) should have made the list.

    • @EJAbacco
      @EJAbacco Год назад +9

      Midway

  • @codyhiginbotham6616
    @codyhiginbotham6616 Год назад +590

    The D-Day scene is a major example of why they say “You can take a man out of the war, but you can’t take the war out of a man”

    • @dandann8237
      @dandann8237 Год назад +10

      my father in law was on sword beach (British) on D-day, he said it was pretty close to his experience

    • @ShawnJamms-uk9gi
      @ShawnJamms-uk9gi Год назад +3

      That's why Rambo said it too.

    • @nicolelawless9942
      @nicolelawless9942 7 месяцев назад +1

      The Normandy scene is very intense and it took me a week to get past the beach scene, it calmed down so much

    • @terrymajewski8028
      @terrymajewski8028 6 месяцев назад +2

      A neighbor and D-Day vet the only thing missing was the smell!

    • @chrisfelan2665
      @chrisfelan2665 6 месяцев назад

      Which war were yall fighting in?

  • @thomasblersch6839
    @thomasblersch6839 Год назад +333

    Eastwood telling the story of Iwo Jima from both perspectives in two completely different films shot nearly simultaneously and released back-to-back is one of the most brilliantly ambitious pieces of film-making I can remember.

    • @ecoideazventures6417
      @ecoideazventures6417 Год назад

      Wow! how was the reception to these two movies? Never heard of them here in India!

    • @terrenceolivido741
      @terrenceolivido741 6 месяцев назад +4

      Eastwood is a legend for all the best reasons.

    • @DarthTrader707
      @DarthTrader707 4 месяца назад +1

      Flags of Our Fathers was very good. Ironic that the author of the book, writing to honor his father, one of the flag raisers, created a sensation for the flag raisers that ended up leading to an investigation that proved his father was, in fact, NOT one of the flag raisers, after all. I loved that the movie shone a light on the tragic story of Ira Hayes, one of the flag raisers. Heck, his story was so compelling, Bob Dylan actually wrote a song about him...."The Ballad of Ira Hayes."

    • @Andrew-df1dr
      @Andrew-df1dr Месяц назад

      Letters from Iwo Jima is extremely underrated. It is far more interesting, enjoyable and has a better cast and script than Flags of our Fathers.

  • @joeandpaulacorsi3693
    @joeandpaulacorsi3693 Год назад +47

    As a veteran that served in the Marines as a radio operator in Viet Nam in 1967/68 I watch movies about Nam and judge them for accuracy like I suppose many vets do, Most movies get a lot of life {and death} pretty accurate. The one area they fall short in is the age of the warriors. Most movies the actors are in there late 20s or 30s. The vast majority of soldiers were 18 to 20. Much younger than portrayed. Try to picture kids that young thrown into that chaos. I am thankful every day I am here. So many didn't get a life at all. Semper Fi.

    • @NateWhitelock
      @NateWhitelock Год назад +4

      Welcome home

    • @joeandpaulacorsi3693
      @joeandpaulacorsi3693 Год назад +2

      @@NateWhitelock thanks

    • @but24God
      @but24God 2 месяца назад +1

      You're right about the age of troops. I was "the old guy" in Army Basic in 1971 at age 20. Most in my training company were 18 & 19. Five months later, I was diverted from my orders to Vietnam as a Radio Operator and reassigned to that transfer point working with soldiers returning after their RVN tour. Many were still under 20 when returning. Yeah, Hollywood does miss ages big time.

  • @batR2
    @batR2 Год назад +146

    I’m shocked that Waterloo, Tora Tora Tora, or Gettysburg didn’t make the list, all 3 are incredibly accurate, especially Tora Tora Tora

    • @mikebrase5161
      @mikebrase5161 Год назад

      The charge of the Scots Grey's in Waterloo will never be seen in that form on screen again. They were actual Cossacks riding as the extras.

    • @crunkwhitey59
      @crunkwhitey59 Год назад +10

      I was going to name all of these myself. Never seen Waterloo, but Tora Tora Tora, Gettysburg, and Gods and Generals are ones that should have been on the list or at least considered more heavily.

    • @Pospolite-Ruszenie
      @Pospolite-Ruszenie Год назад +14

      A bridge too far is also a great and historically accurate film.

    • @theend9494
      @theend9494 Год назад +13

      Waterloo, Zulu, Zulu Dawn, Sink the Bismark, The Dam Busters, The longest Day ,A Bridge too Far, The Heroes of Telemark to name but a few

    • @KK-fi6ms
      @KK-fi6ms Год назад

      @@crunkwhitey59 Gods and Generals is about as historically accurate as 300.

  • @codyhiginbotham6616
    @codyhiginbotham6616 Год назад +367

    With the Saving Private Ryan D-Day scene, you know it’s accurately recreated when veterans walk out of the theater because it reminds them too much of the real thing

    • @chassan10
      @chassan10 Год назад +25

      3 of my great-uncles (2 in WWII Pacific theater, 1 in WWII European theater) and my grandfather (Korean War special operations) did just that.

    • @lisakaz35
      @lisakaz35 Год назад +5

      Except bullets don't act like that under water, I believe.

    • @coco2.2
      @coco2.2 Год назад +2

      we all heard the stories but I still don’t get why they would wanna go see it 😵‍💫

    • @lisakaz35
      @lisakaz35 Год назад +5

      @@coco2.2 I think it's akin to that Stan Lee scene in the Avengersfilm where he, a WWII vet (he really was one) scoffs at Thor warning him about a certain alcohol and drinks it (for the humor, of course).

    • @PiratDunkelbart
      @PiratDunkelbart Год назад

      @@lisakaz35 I dont remember the exact working distance, but they tested this in a TV show once. The bullets stop after 1 or 2 meters, so you can survive being shot if you dive deep enough.

  • @krisfrederick5001
    @krisfrederick5001 Год назад +40

    "Downfall" is absolutely stunning. Few films have ever portrayed Hitler on screen beyond just the portrait on the wall of generals desk. It's so intimate you forget you're watching a film and not a documentary, or even in the room yourself. The fact that it was actually made by the Germans themselves lends it an authenticity that can't be matched by anyone else, almost an admission of guiltiness. It's on par with Saving Private Ryan in every way. "When Trumpets Fade" is also great, BUT it had the misfortune of being released the same year as SPR. We have to mention Band of Brothers, it's not just a show, it's a 12 hour SPR.

    • @MrPomdownunder
      @MrPomdownunder Год назад +5

      I agree that downfall is a great film . Remember that Hitler was played by a Swiss actor...

    • @thetf8142
      @thetf8142 Год назад

      @@MrPomdownunderwho did the best portrayal of Hitler out of anyone ever
      Him being Swiss isn’t relevant

    • @Andrew-df1dr
      @Andrew-df1dr Месяц назад

      Downfall is much better than Saving Private Ryan.

  • @BastionMainHere
    @BastionMainHere Год назад +407

    Bro the original "all quiet on the western front" had ACTUAL GERMAN WAT VETS both direct,star and play as the background characters. The original movie was so powerful that the NAZI REGIME BANNED IT. The original all quiet on the western front SOLOS NO QUESTION.

    • @dylansalazar1226
      @dylansalazar1226 Год назад +25

      It shows are poorly researched this channel is

    • @suzybean13
      @suzybean13 9 месяцев назад +8

      I think all quiet on the western front should be top 3. Gruesome and it really shows how war is hell

    • @dgcingo1563
      @dgcingo1563 5 месяцев назад +1

      Sorry but if you refer as the "original" movie to that of 1930 (the novel from E. M. Remarque was just written in 1929), that is really a very fine and "powerful" classic but an American production (Universal Studios) casting american actors... (Lew Ayres and Louis Wolheim as leading actors) and directed by Lewis Milestone... some real veterans were actually used only as advisors or for background roles in mass scenes..

    • @davidbarr9343
      @davidbarr9343 5 месяцев назад

      Agree.😀

    • @bowelrupture
      @bowelrupture 5 месяцев назад

      @@dylansalazar1226 top 4 all American. of course.

  • @Flyinghigh888
    @Flyinghigh888 Год назад +50

    I think "Das Boot" was the best war movie, every single moment was a sense of mystery and horror. Not much fighting actions but the fear of sunken to the ocean floor made audience very uneasy!

    • @ATtravel666
      @ATtravel666 4 месяца назад +1

      Watched it with my grandfather, a British WWII submariner. He said it was pretty accurate, for the crew being allowed to get away with drunken behaviour on shore leave to being depth charged. Though he did criticise the scene in which Joann the Ghost gives in to panic and heads for the main hatch because he said simply as he was a danger to the boat, any captain would have shot him dead and even though he had stopped himself for going to the hatch, the Joann the Chief Engineer would never be trusted on another boat.

  • @SirNerdTheThird5143
    @SirNerdTheThird5143 Год назад +474

    Movie Stamps:
    0:41 All Quiet on the Western Front (20)
    1:34 The Thin Red Line(19)
    2:34 Hacksaw Ridge(18)
    3:30 Master and Commander(shortened to save time)(17)
    4:30 Rescue Dawn(16)
    5:24 Full Metal Jacket(15)
    6:25 Lone Survivor(14)
    7:26 Paths of Glory(13)
    8:29 Stalingrad(12)
    9:27 Downfall(11)
    10:19 Dunkirk(10)
    11:19 Das Boot(9)
    12:24 1917(8)
    13:28 "We were soldiers"(7)
    14:23 Glory (6)
    15:21 Come and See(5)
    16:25 Platoon (4)
    17:34 Black Hawk Down(3)
    18:32 Letters from Iwo Jima (2)
    19:49 Saving Private Ryan(1)

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      @Rvj.12 Год назад +43

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      @ashwinidesai4051 Год назад +9

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      @maimayoush3285 Год назад +7

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    • @rolando6962
      @rolando6962 Год назад +2

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    • @hamster5158
      @hamster5158 Год назад +1

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  • @wwecoltsfan
    @wwecoltsfan Год назад +47

    Just like Platoon, Dale Dye served as the military technical adviser for Saving Private Ryan as well as for the miniseries Band of Brothers in which he also played the character Colonel Sink.

    • @Grandizer8989
      @Grandizer8989 Год назад +1

      And made LOT Mohicans one of my favorite movies ever thanks to his expertise

    • @lawsonjames1639
      @lawsonjames1639 Год назад +1

      He also used his training group for the making of "the Great Raid" which he portrayed General Kruger.

    • @joegibson4946
      @joegibson4946 Год назад +3

      I had the pleasure of meeting Capt. Dye during a joint military exercise a few years after he retired from active duty.

    • @nicolelawless9942
      @nicolelawless9942 6 месяцев назад

      @@Grandizer8989
      And then Oliver stone nailed the 9/11 movie decades later, i love his movies because they’re so accurate

  • @trinaq
    @trinaq Год назад +82

    I appreciated that Jarhead subverted expectations by not having much violence depicted on screen, compared to most war movies, and this portrayal is rather realistic.

    • @Ziko577
      @Ziko577 Год назад +7

      Other than the dark humor, I liked that movie a lot and even people who've I've spoken to online who are veterans have seen the film and they all agreed that it's as realistic as you can get.

    • @crobeastness
      @crobeastness Год назад +1

      that was not on the list

    • @And_rew92
      @And_rew92 Год назад +5

      ​@@Ziko577you can't have military without having dark humour.

    • @ancrm1147
      @ancrm1147 Год назад +2

      @@Ziko577 Dark humor is part of military culture.

    • @Matt-vs4zz
      @Matt-vs4zz Год назад +3

      That was my thought exactly. Jarhead was masterfully made. I wish it had found a spot on the list. I get they were going for movies that accurately depicted the brutality of combat. But that's not every warfighter's experience.

  • @MadIIMike
    @MadIIMike Год назад +21

    None of those even comes close to "Die Brücke" (The Bridge) from 1959. It's based on the Novel of the same name, written by Gregor Dorfmeister, describing his experiences when he was 16 and a Member of the "Volkssturm" (a hastily recruited Militia with little or no training, mostly used as cannonfodder).
    If other war movies told you about honor, glory and what-not to be found on the Battlefield, this one won't tell you the opposite, it will pound it into you to the point you'll tear up after it shows a blackscreen and the message appears:
    'This event occurred on April 27, 1945. It was so unimportant that it was never mentioned in any war communique.'

    • @terrenceolivido741
      @terrenceolivido741 6 месяцев назад +3

      god bless you.

    • @nachtschadedoggerbank1089
      @nachtschadedoggerbank1089 5 месяцев назад

      One movie that could also be mentioned about normal people put in war (crimes) situation I would mention is the movie Hasenjagd (Quality of Mercy). Ordinary people volunteerly or forced to hunt down Russian POW's after a mass escape from Mauthausen Concentration Camp.

  • @gooner72
    @gooner72 Год назад +28

    The Thin Red Line is highly underrated actually, the combat scenes are absolutely stunning.

  • @rhiannonelizabethirons
    @rhiannonelizabethirons Год назад +18

    Gallipoli deserves a mention. The arrival of the ANZACs on Turkish soil in 1915 combined with the sense of adventure that most Aussie soldiers saw war as makes for a truly powerful feature. Mark Lee and Mel Gibson were superb in selling the story.

    • @paulboger3101
      @paulboger3101 Год назад +4

      It's remarkable that this film is not mentioned here, as well as Danger Close, and the Odd Angry Shot.

    • @rhiannonelizabethirons
      @rhiannonelizabethirons Год назад +3

      @@paulboger3101 Odd Angry Shot is phenomenal. Although, I'm not surprised that an Australian film misses out. We miss out on a lot unless it's something really mainstream.

    • @paulboger7377
      @paulboger7377 Год назад

      @@rhiannonelizabethirons It’s always the Americans can only tell war stories. They seem to forget there is the rest of the world.

    • @anthonyeaton5153
      @anthonyeaton5153 6 месяцев назад +1

      Gallipoli again. Anything to mention the Aussies who were not in NORTH West Europe on the ground which bugs then no end. Give us a break.

  • @codyhiginbotham6616
    @codyhiginbotham6616 Год назад +206

    Saving Private Ryan should’ve won Best Picture. Period

    • @timothyivey5497
      @timothyivey5497 Год назад +16

      You got that right. When Shakespeare in Love was announced the winner, I damn near threw up my dinner.

    • @roxy5588
      @roxy5588 Год назад +2

      Absolutely. 🙌 Its that simple and why it did not two words: Harvey Weinstein. 😠

    • @ashwinidesai4051
      @ashwinidesai4051 Год назад +1

      @@roxy5588 He had something to do with it?? 😲😲

    • @Idiotwriter711
      @Idiotwriter711 Год назад

      ​@@timothyivey5497 so did my grandpa. He was there in real life

    • @ronstallworth9421
      @ronstallworth9421 Год назад

      Not Weinstein in Love.

  • @richardmack4905
    @richardmack4905 Год назад +11

    "When Trumpets Fade" is an underrated and brilliant movie about the horrors that the Americans faced in the Battle of the Hurtgen Forest. Well worth watching for any War Buff. Very accurate and authentic.

    • @JesusMagicPanties
      @JesusMagicPanties 7 месяцев назад

      I mentioned this film here, too before seeing your entry.

  • @Puntobaby1
    @Puntobaby1 Год назад +67

    I know Fury wasn’t on the list but I remember seeing it in theaters and a veteran started having flashbacks. He started shouting “no! no!” during the scene when the Germans overtook the tank. He was escorted out by his family/friends. It shook the whole theater up so bad that the manager offered everyone a refund or free tickets for another showing.

    • @SonicGamerGirl2006
      @SonicGamerGirl2006 Год назад +5

      Youch... 😬😬😬
      I can already imagine how that scene brought back a LOT of painful memories of his experience... I hope he's doing okay. 😬

    • @sandwormgod4771
      @sandwormgod4771 Год назад +4

      We who've never served just don't know or understand.

    • @Vick_Lagina
      @Vick_Lagina Год назад +5

      This is in my top 3 war movies.

    • @gouravsingh520
      @gouravsingh520 Год назад +5

      My 2nd most favourite war movie after Saving Private Ryan. Fury was just wow

    • @patrickbrinkmeier2691
      @patrickbrinkmeier2691 10 месяцев назад +5

      @@gouravsingh520...Fury was completely unrealistic in it's story line. The implied forced sex scene, the combat scenes, the tank all alone scene. It was complete hogwash which is why so many veterans groups have trashed it. For non military people it's great Hollywood entertainment however. As a Marine Veteran my top list includes both war movies and tv series including Saving Private Ryan, Generation Kill, Band of Brothers, Midway ( the original version ), Full Metal Jacket, Gettysburg, Tora, Tora, Tora, Das Boot, The Pacific, We Were Soldiers, Downfall, Lone Survivor ( even though the ending is completely false and isn't what happened ), Letters from Iwo Jima, Black Hawk Down, Patton, Platoon, The Thin Red Line, and We Shall Not Grow Old all in no specific order.

  • @jmcg518
    @jmcg518 Год назад +60

    My grandad was there on D-day, he was a royal engineer. He cried whilst watching saving private Ryan, it was that accurate

    • @Spiralredd
      @Spiralredd Год назад +6

      My Great grandfather was one of the few soldiers that survived the battle of the bulge

    • @orgefen1300
      @orgefen1300 Год назад

      Only 27 minutes into the film. From then on its just regular Hollywood.

    • @joshgarvinphoto
      @joshgarvinphoto Год назад

      interesting factoid: when the movie came out, the VA had to provide emergency extra staffing to their phone help lines because a ton of WWII vets were triggered and needed to talk to someone

    • @ereinaldy20
      @ereinaldy20 Год назад

      @@orgefen1300 that's a true story too for finding the soldier name.

    • @nicolelawless9942
      @nicolelawless9942 5 месяцев назад

      @@orgefen1300
      I got through the first 30 minutes of Saving private Ryan and I was forever traumatised by it, I recently watched in January 2024 and I’m a very sensitive 21 year old me who has a very soft spot for the war but after being traumatised by Come and See (1985), I knew my bonding with the war was fading away quickly but I did convince the war not to leave my side and it didn’t in the end. I love you war and those who died

  • @sergiofernandez7318
    @sergiofernandez7318 Год назад +175

    Saving private ryan in my opinion, will always be THE pinnacle of war movies

    • @jakealter5504
      @jakealter5504 Год назад +7

      It set a very high standard

    • @Necr0Mancer666
      @Necr0Mancer666 Год назад +6

      Jaw dropping depiction. Even modern war movies dont come close to this movie.

    • @jakealter5504
      @jakealter5504 Год назад +11

      @@Necr0Mancer666 The opening 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan is a rare instance where Hollywood actually tones down the chaos in comparison to the actual event and not the other way around

    • @LeeRenthlei
      @LeeRenthlei Год назад +22

      Most overrated war movies ever made.
      The opening D-Day depiction was a masterpiece but the rest were average Hollywood war movies.

    • @wolfgangmozart187
      @wolfgangmozart187 Год назад +15

      @@LeeRenthlei Ryan is easily the most overrated war movie. The entire premise is so removed from reality that it may as well be science fiction.

  • @joejusto3292
    @joejusto3292 Год назад +11

    Honorable mention: My Way (2011) after the ending, you can start up Saving Private Ryan and it’s perfect.

  • @thewillofabeast9079
    @thewillofabeast9079 Год назад +20

    Still baffles me that Saving Private Ryan lost the Oscars to Shakespeare in Love. One where Gwyneth Paltrow got an award when she had only eight minutes of screen time. Now I love Paltrow for her acting as Pepper in Iron Man and in other films. I think me being unsettled by the award is stemmed from Saving Private Ryan being robbed at the Oscars that year.

    • @raymondhopwood9393
      @raymondhopwood9393 Год назад +5

      At least Spielberg won Best Director, so it wasn't a total loss. BTW, it should have won Best Picture.

    • @seatonmeade5282
      @seatonmeade5282 Год назад +4

      Gallipoli and Kokoda should be on this list.

    • @scott2836
      @scott2836 Год назад +2

      it wasn’t Gwyneth Paltrow that had such limited screen time, but Dame Judi Dench. She won Best Supporting Actress with the 8 minutes of screen time. She was so good, but it felt like the other nominees got cheated.
      I liked Shakespeare in Love. But Saving Private Ryan should have won, no question. The lasting impact of the film is a testament to just how good it is.

    • @Grandizer8989
      @Grandizer8989 Год назад

      Another reason to hate Harvey Weinstein. He made sure that S in Love won

    • @paulboger3101
      @paulboger3101 Год назад

      @@seatonmeade5282 and Danger Close.

  • @BigFella117
    @BigFella117 Год назад +9

    “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
    - George Santayana

  • @ollo71
    @ollo71 Год назад +12

    Regarding accuracy Saving private Ryan should never be on first place because after the really astonishing filming of the invasion at D-Day the movie becomes more or less ridiculous in some scenes. Sad but true.

    • @terrenceolivido741
      @terrenceolivido741 6 месяцев назад +1

      of course, i do not however think the scenes are ludicrous - at all - in any way ... having said that the requisite shilling for the holocaust fable - well it was relatively understated. in my comment above i only mention the first 30 minutes tho ...

  • @MartinXBrina
    @MartinXBrina Год назад +11

    Honorable mentions: Valkyrie, Enemy At The Gates and Battle Of Jangsari

    • @ThomasPalm-w5y
      @ThomasPalm-w5y 6 месяцев назад +1

      Enemy at the Gates is not historically accurate, more a piece of Cold War propaganda. The initial part where only half the Soviet soldiers even get guns when storming the Germans may be good drama, but it has nothing to do with reality. The basis is a description of how Russian soldiers had to share rifles while training before getting sent to the front. Nor were the Soviets quite that quick to shoot their own troops for retreating.

    • @Thomas-qr3zv
      @Thomas-qr3zv 3 месяца назад

      Valkyrie was very underrated

  • @The_Republic_of_Ireland
    @The_Republic_of_Ireland Год назад +17

    I'd add in, even as an honourable mention, The Wind That Shakes the Barley. Very accurate depiction of the Irish War of Independence and Civil War

  • @Nataft
    @Nataft Год назад +56

    Das boot always be the most accurate ww2 movies all the time and you can't change my mind

    • @paulboger3101
      @paulboger3101 Год назад +7

      Damn near perfect if you ask me!

    • @grafsepp7955
      @grafsepp7955 Год назад +1

      absolutely

    • @williamsnell2078
      @williamsnell2078 Год назад +4

      Should be more movies from the Germans perspective

    • @davidperry7128
      @davidperry7128 6 месяцев назад +5

      @@williamsnell2078 There are plenty, but not usually in English nor do they receive the amount of promotion and media coverage of Hollywood films.

    • @johnbiddle1829
      @johnbiddle1829 6 месяцев назад +2

      Kind of invalidates the whole list that it's put so low

  • @OssiLehtinen2005
    @OssiLehtinen2005 Год назад +16

    Missing the unknown soldier.

  • @panzerwaffel5281
    @panzerwaffel5281 Год назад +11

    I can't believe Stalingrad 1993 is so low. Do a goddamn historical analysis of entire fight scenes. The first scene is simply beautiful, the soldiers walk in visible groups, as platoons, the scene itself shows the entire battalion and beautifully (although not but) the fate of most German battalions in Stalingrad, the problem of fighting for the Germans. Soldiers also take covers, use smoke grenades and grenades in general, there is even a radio station and a hierarchy with a captain aka battalion commander and artillery and also showing another problem of fighting in Stalingrad, artillery attacks often attacked and German positions because the Soviets tried to be as close to the Germans as possible, an average of 50 meters from them.
    Also the film shows and focuses on the wounded, field hospitals and mainly them. Also on the illnesses of the soldiers late in the film.
    Well and more.
    Sorry, but I don't understand how it got on All Quiet on the Western Front list at all, because this movie has nothing to do with the historicity of fighting. And Stalingrad? Should be #1 or behind Saving Private Ryan.

  • @greggorybaker760
    @greggorybaker760 Год назад +36

    Definitely missed on The Outpost. As an OIF/OEF vet, this was the movie that really took me back. Also, an incredible look at PTSD struggles.

    • @gatormedic90ful
      @gatormedic90ful Год назад +2

      Thinking the same thing. Shows everything you want from a war movie.

    • @danielgranda896
      @danielgranda896 10 месяцев назад

      Could not agree more, The Outpost is a criminally underrated movie that deserves much more praise than it gets!

  • @edjaworski1956
    @edjaworski1956 Год назад +10

    Sam Peckinpah's Cross of Iron is compelling. It's told from the perspective of the German soldier on the Russian Front in the later stages of WW2

  • @patinomaha1
    @patinomaha1 Год назад +11

    I was in the First Infantry Division when Saving Private Ryan came out. The commander had us go as a unit to watch on base.

    • @nicolelawless9942
      @nicolelawless9942 6 месяцев назад

      I only watch it for the Normandy scene and it’s so accurate. The movie gives me Call of Duty WW2 vibes

    • @jamesr4464
      @jamesr4464 5 месяцев назад +1

      I was in the 1st Armored Division when it came out.

    • @jamesr4464
      @jamesr4464 5 месяцев назад +1

      I served in the Big Red One in Desert Storm.

    • @patinomaha1
      @patinomaha1 5 месяцев назад

      @@jamesr4464 Germany or Ft. Riley?

  • @metern
    @metern Год назад +13

    The Norwegian 1948 war movie Kampen om tungtvannet (Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water)
    is the most realistic war movie ever. They even used some of the saboteurs playing them selves in it. Even the filming location was also filmed where the real thing happened.

    • @martindoyle9993
      @martindoyle9993 4 месяца назад +1

      that was excellent... The Norwegians were awesome...

    • @metern
      @metern 4 месяца назад +1

      @@martindoyle9993 The Norwegian resistance fighters are the biggest heroes of the war in Norway

  • @jandreid2023
    @jandreid2023 Год назад +19

    Honourable mention: Greyhound. The sea battle scenes has my retired father who's a former navy captain got nostalgic while watching the movie.

  • @sabrinamuddiman8527
    @sabrinamuddiman8527 Год назад +4

    My Grandad Dennis was a War Hero,in World War 2 all over the world he was a Paratrooper.He was A War Hero,he saved a little girl from being killed.We all really Love Our Precious Grandad,Lot's OF LOVE & Hugs😍💙😇💞❤🤗😘🤗😘🤗😘 🙏🙏🙏

  • @MsUltrafox
    @MsUltrafox Год назад +16

    Missing a great accurate war movie on this list.
    Tora Tora Tora.
    That film is about as accurate as you can make it.
    And it has scenes that are not acted like where a plane goes off course and plows into other planes the men in the scene are truly running for their lives.

  • @randydalmas
    @randydalmas Год назад +7

    It's too bad that Band of Brothers is a mini-series and not a movie, since that is one of the best depictions of military life on film. This list leans towards recent films, which is understandable since CGI and other recent improvements add to the realism compared to older films. I would add the films "Battle of Britain" for its amazing aerial sequences, "Fury" for its use of historic vehicles, and "Decision Before Dawn" for using actual locations (and destruction) in Germany right after the war.

  • @Mortred99
    @Mortred99 Год назад +7

    17:52 I love these archetypes in war movies. Especially knowing the fact that there are actual people like that, who're so used to the firefights, that they appear as if they're just garbagemen on regular work day. Lt. Spiers in Band of Brothers is another great example of this.

  • @nkt0811
    @nkt0811 Год назад +7

    here's my honorable mentions:
    Taegukgi
    The Unknown Soldier
    The Longest Day

  • @LeeRenthlei
    @LeeRenthlei Год назад +15

    Waterloo (1970) deserves a top 10 spot!

  • @mikko_kauhanen
    @mikko_kauhanen Год назад +9

    Im surprised why Unknown Soldier is not on the list!

  • @bobkessler937
    @bobkessler937 Год назад +3

    Although a fictionalization, "Twelve O'Clock High" deserves at least an honorable mention. There's only one battle scene in the film, as it mostly focuses on an Allied air base and the effects of the war on the soldiers.

  • @wojtek1765
    @wojtek1765 Год назад +9

    For someone who loves history and war film I seen all these😂

  • @leviticuspagelus
    @leviticuspagelus Год назад +30

    They need a list like this for television miniseries. Gettysburg, Gods and Generals were amazingly accurate for the Civil War. Band of Brothers and The Pacific are on equal footing with Saving Private Ryan.

    • @stephencooper3583
      @stephencooper3583 Год назад +3

      "Band of Brothers" was amazing. Also, "Generation Kill" was a good portrayal of Marines in Iraq.

    • @SarsTheSecond
      @SarsTheSecond Год назад

      Tora, Tora, Tora!

    • @NoiselessBob
      @NoiselessBob Год назад

      Gods and Generals? Not trying to be a dick but totally absolutely historical garbage, southern revisionist bs, sorry…I do love Gettysburg though

    • @James-zg2nl
      @James-zg2nl Год назад

      Saving Private Ryan is pure propaganda. Highly entertaining propaganda but it’s not at all historically accurate. Ranking it with Band of Brothers and the Pacific is an insult to them.

    • @rechnin6680
      @rechnin6680 Год назад

      Have you ever seen either version of The Dawns Gere Are Quiet? The origina is prebabaly the better of the two.

  • @Trey_816
    @Trey_816 Год назад +12

    My dad is an Afghanistan veteran, and he says that Black Hawk Down is very accurate in how it depicts urban warfare.

    • @lordgallo4213
      @lordgallo4213 Год назад

      Black hawk down incident took place in mogadushu, somalia africa,

    • @Trey_816
      @Trey_816 Год назад +5

      @@lordgallo4213 I know that. What I'm saying is that Dad likes how he urban combat in depicted.

  • @mikeurvand1
    @mikeurvand1 Год назад +18

    I woud've included the movie 'Gettysburg' on the list. It's amazing!

  • @awol354
    @awol354 Год назад +9

    Winter War.
    Unknown Soldier.
    Tali Ihantala 1944.

    • @nachtschadedoggerbank1089
      @nachtschadedoggerbank1089 5 месяцев назад

      Unknown Soldier is indeed a good one, both old and new version, but sadly they are series. But I would vote for that.
      For a movie I would vote for one like
      Siege of Jadotville
      The East
      My Way

    • @seppokoponen3836
      @seppokoponen3836 2 месяца назад

      Unknown soldier is a movie, actually there are three versions of it, and all of them are great. Perhaps that newest one is most accurate.

  • @JessCausey
    @JessCausey Год назад +3

    The 5 minute Dunkirk scene in Atonement is allegedly more historically accurate than the movie Dunkirk.

  • @OLICIT
    @OLICIT Год назад +5

    This list is missing Danger Close, the battle of Long Tan and the truly excellent Beneath Hill 60, two brilliant Australian films

    • @paulboger3101
      @paulboger3101 Год назад

      Gallipoli and the Odd Angry Shot as well.

  • @Joel-StevenVoicedude
    @Joel-StevenVoicedude Год назад +1

    My dad was one of the Chosen Few survived the battle at Chosin, Korea (ask a Marine). I took him to see Apocalypse Now at the Cineramadome Hollywood when it opened and afterwards he got as far as the car before he broke down. First time I saw him cry; first time he opened up about wartime. Later he would find healing in a band of brothers survivors group called the Chosen Few, which he would even become President of and deliver the press covered Keynote Address at Riverside National (Arlington West) one Memorial Day. Years later I took him to another war movie: Saving Private Ryan. When it was over he put on his sunglasses before exiting the theater and said - and I have never fogotten this:
    "I think that's the closest you civilians will ever come to experiencing real warfare."
    To his son...

  • @nialloconnor6762
    @nialloconnor6762 Год назад +7

    Hamburger Hill was a brilliant Vietnam movie based on the actual taking of a hill.

    • @andrewnewton2246
      @andrewnewton2246 9 месяцев назад

      It was ruined the character of Doc played by Courtney Vance. The character ruined the film.

  • @kevinhealey6540
    @kevinhealey6540 11 дней назад

    A world war 2 vet told me that the scenario of Saving Private was very true.
    Sometimes it would happen that a unit would be in the middle of nowhere and the unit had to figure out what to do to stay alive.
    And sometimes it did come down to hand to hand. A cook told me that sometimes in France he would be called in and be put on the front line.
    "To hell with warm meals, let em eat MREs." He said that clerks and mechanics would be sent to the front as well when needed.
    Tony Bennett was on the Front in France and he said, "I had a front row seat to hell on earth."
    and "Anyone who has a romantic idea about fighting a war in the infantry, had never been in one.

  • @t-dogtyler3626
    @t-dogtyler3626 Год назад +9

    I did a history project for Saving Private Ryan in high school. Here's some facts about there D-Day scene/real battle as well.
    1) PTSD and the sea sickness was beyond truthful.
    2) Of the 1,500 extras, some were part of the Irish Army Reserves
    3) 20-30 amputees are seen within the D-Day scene. All of whom lost there real limb(s) in a real war.
    4) Two of those landing boats were at the real battle.
    5) Charles Schulz (creator of Charlie Brown) both fought at Omaha beach.
    6) The movie was inspired by a similar true story of the Niland brothers. Their names were Fredrick (the brother James Ryan resembles) and Edward, Robert, and Preston. Edward's plane was shot down, Robert died by a heavy gun fight, and Preston shot and killed the next day as well. However, when the war ended in 1945. Preston was found alive and held captive at a Japanese POW camp. He safety made it back home.
    Those are some facts that I learned about Saving Private Ryan's DDay that I wished to share

    • @matryoshkadoll
      @matryoshkadoll 3 месяца назад

      Originally, the landings were supposed to happen on the 5th of June, but the weather conditions were not right. They needed a clear sky and calmer waters, so they delayed by 24 hours. I think rather than PTSD, you are thinking about the 'shellshock' that To Hanks displayed. PTSD happes later, hence the name Post Traumatic. Other than that... Some really good points. Well done!

  • @Starwars40215
    @Starwars40215 Месяц назад +1

    Would've liked to see, "Gettysburg" on the list. Although unknown to most, I saw it twice at the old Cinedome in Orange, California back in 1993. Great cast, acting, battle scenes, and even filmed on location. Gettysburg is a True Epic!!

  • @retepoteil
    @retepoteil Год назад +6

    Jarhead should be on this list

  • @gobigten01
    @gobigten01 Год назад +4

    Great list! Two things: One, I'm glad you didn't have Apocalypse Now on your list. Though it's a very good movie, I feel like it's a psychological thriller, not a war movie. And two, I feel like Fury should have been somewhere there, but at the same time, I don't know which ranked movie it would replace.

    • @syndicategaming1668
      @syndicategaming1668 5 месяцев назад

      Fury apparently sucks. I liked it, but many critics say it’s incredibly unrealistic

  • @tylerpurta1366
    @tylerpurta1366 Год назад +6

    I like to think the final message of the film when Tom hanks tells Ryan to “earn this” was a message from Spielberg to the audience

  • @davidswift7776
    @davidswift7776 6 месяцев назад +1

    I’ve always regarded “ The Longest Day” as authentic and compelling.

  • @mathewm6294
    @mathewm6294 Год назад +6

    Come and See feels almost like a horror movie, the use of natural lighting and the general feel is just so different. There is no heroic "save the villagers" moment or anything like that. It's just all a gallery of grotesque actions that men take against each other in times of war.

    • @rmarieshen862
      @rmarieshen862 Год назад +3

      this will laways be my number one. I have worked with modern genocide survivors whose families were killed in the same manner in the 80s

    • @aidanberk3333
      @aidanberk3333 Год назад +4

      come and see shook me to my core when I first watched it. Great movie but oh my it's a tough movie to watch

    • @nicolelawless9942
      @nicolelawless9942 6 месяцев назад

      I’ve finally watched it after persuading myself not too. I’m shaken right now and very traumatised by it, i hope i don’t last out later today

    • @nicolelawless9942
      @nicolelawless9942 5 месяцев назад

      @@aidanberk3333
      The way the lead character Floyra I now love aged to 40 by the end. I’ll never forget it

  • @MaxHarrison797
    @MaxHarrison797 Год назад +1

    “The Battle of Britain” should be on here. Fantastic historic piece about the RAF defending the skys

  • @isaacmartinez6904
    @isaacmartinez6904 Год назад +4

    Funny that I saw nearly every movie on this list except Master and Command. That would be on my list of movies to watch.

    • @martindoyle9993
      @martindoyle9993 4 месяца назад

      You'll love "Master and Commander" it's amazing...

  • @MrRonco828
    @MrRonco828 Год назад +4

    I would have to add a movie called"The Boys of Company C " to the list. It had Stan Shaw and F Lee Emery and was pretty accurate in it's telling of the Vietnam War

  • @chrissyswauger5805
    @chrissyswauger5805 Год назад +3

    Hacksaw Ridge should be higher on the list. It's an amazing movie. And yes shows what the soldiers went through

  • @anthonyeaton5153
    @anthonyeaton5153 6 месяцев назад +1

    The Longest Day deserves a mention for its fairly accurate depiction and even spread of the action. Although the senior generals were a generation too old.

  • @wreynolds1701
    @wreynolds1701 Год назад +2

    Sam Fuller’s “The Big Red One” deserves to be included.

  • @tomw377
    @tomw377 5 месяцев назад +1

    The Danish film, April 9th (2015) is also extremely realistic. It covers the actions of a single Danish bicycle company that was ordered to delay the Germans during their invasion of Denmark for as long as possible. It is one of the most accurate and intense movies depicting small unit action that I've ever seen.

  • @leonardogoulart3245
    @leonardogoulart3245 Год назад +9

    Where's Tropic Thunder?!?

  • @glackinator_0459
    @glackinator_0459 Год назад +11

    I think The Outpost should be on this list. It’s incredibly accurate to the Battle of Kamdesh and how the soldiers had to continually adapt to the awful situation

  • @Jindai_Hideo
    @Jindai_Hideo Год назад +6

    You missed Fury. I saw that as. Regal Veterans Day free movie, and though I wasn’t in close combat, it gave ME feelings of PTSD. I wrote to regal about how I felt this was inappropriate for Veterans Day, as those with real PTSD would be traumatized.

    • @jakealter5504
      @jakealter5504 Год назад +4

      Fury was good but most of these movies were better

  • @J.RussellJeffery
    @J.RussellJeffery 6 месяцев назад +1

    After Full Metal Jacket in the 80's, my stepfather's abuse included changing my name to Numb Nuts. Still, I love R. Lee Ermy!

  • @lexkanyima2195
    @lexkanyima2195 Год назад +6

    Every war movie is Oscar worthy and true legit.

    • @jimbo9208
      @jimbo9208 Год назад +2

      you must not watch many movies

    • @zaaya7719
      @zaaya7719 Год назад +3

      @@jimbo9208 you must not get the joke 🤣

    • @lexkanyima2195
      @lexkanyima2195 Год назад

      @@jimbo9208 ohh yes i did

  • @airbrushken5339
    @airbrushken5339 6 месяцев назад +1

    "Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan" An Australian Movie about the battle of Long Tan....

  • @jamescraig6036
    @jamescraig6036 Год назад +3

    R Lee Ermey was a drill instructor at MCRD Parris Island, SC, not in Vietnam.

  • @dj4everplaychillertheater584
    @dj4everplaychillertheater584 Год назад +2

    Let’s not forget the movies of, Schindler list, the pianist, and the hurt locker

  • @carlosdellepiagge
    @carlosdellepiagge Год назад +3

    Great work, guys!

  • @haivenantritt547
    @haivenantritt547 7 месяцев назад +2

    Unbroken not being mentioned is a crime

  • @waittillfamewtf2385
    @waittillfamewtf2385 Год назад +2

    "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957)

  •  9 дней назад +1

    Never let the British and the Americans control the narrative of history, especially when it comes to War movies. Amigo.

  • @adwal1756
    @adwal1756 Год назад +2

    Waterloo (1970)
    La Grande Illusion (1937)
    The Big Parade (1925)
    Gettysburg (1993)
    The Burmese Harp (1956)
    Rough Riders (1997)
    A Bridge Too Far (1977)
    Japan's Longest Day (1967)
    Patton (1970)
    These are more accurate than many on your list. My father was on Iwo Jima and said "Letters from Iwo Jima" was largely incorrect - particularly the morphine scene and the fact it doesn't address the torture of captured Marines. His friends who had served on Guadalcanal felt The Thin Red Line was mostly nonsense ("made by people who've never been in battle, let alone The Pacific" as one told me). My brother served several tours in Vietnam, and while he praised the boot camp section of Full Metal Jacket, said the second half was pure crap.

  • @rossbabcock3790
    @rossbabcock3790 Год назад +3

    The one mini series that struck a deep nerve with me was the Pacific. Not because of all the technical authenticity, etc. It's the 'extinguishing of one's soul' after weeks of combat that these actors got right! Rotten chow, crotch rot, monkey ass, scabies, lice, ringworm, immersion foot...you get it. Intermittent mail, sole of your boot is coming off and the foot of your last sock tore off. Then there's the smells. Rotten flesh, mold, mildew, open bowel, blood and infection. You want to cry and you can't. Try scream, nothing sounds. I could of gone the rest of my life without remembering that.....

  • @timaloha
    @timaloha 5 месяцев назад +1

    Anybody remember " Patton?" Or "A Bridge too Far?"

  • @Childress25
    @Childress25 Год назад +9

    Historians almost unanimously agree that Tora Tora Tora is the most accurate WWII movie and it’s not even on the list. 😂

  • @maddalonefarms
    @maddalonefarms Год назад +2

    I know for a fact “Pearl Harbor” is not here

  • @Roverswelsh
    @Roverswelsh Год назад +5

    The original Dunkirk film is good; The Cruel Sea is also a really hard watch and one of the first films to show characters change as the film progresses.

  • @anhurtorrez
    @anhurtorrez Год назад +2

    When I was in the Army my first sergeant had us watch Glory for a EO class.

  • @Syl141
    @Syl141 Год назад +38

    Saving Private Ryan is probably the most realistic and the best war movie ever made, regardless if it's actually based on a true story or not.

    • @shanetyler9391
      @shanetyler9391 Год назад +9

      The first beach scene is true the rest is not

    • @danooc1
      @danooc1 Год назад +2

      I'll take it, only because it led to Band of Brothers getting made, which really is the pinnacle

    • @Jay-jb2vr
      @Jay-jb2vr Год назад +3

      Band of Brothers is the spiritual successor to SPR. The Pacific was good too.

    • @James-zg2nl
      @James-zg2nl Год назад +6

      Said by those who know very little to nothing about Operation Overlord. In reality the movie is best described as propaganda, it is widely inaccurate to the real history of that campaign.

    • @thetf8142
      @thetf8142 Год назад

      The first scene is the only realistic part lol
      Come and see and all quiet on the western front are way more realistic
      Downfall did the most realistic portrayal of Hitler and Waterloo was a very realistic depiction of the Napoleonic wars

  • @alanmacpherson3225
    @alanmacpherson3225 Год назад +11

    Danger Close about the battle of Long Tan in 1966 during the Vietnam War is a fairly accurate portrayal. I've read a few accounts and the events in the movie are pretty much how it was. During the battle the L1A1 rifles were so fouled that the diggers had to cock them for every shot.

  • @coledavis258
    @coledavis258 Год назад +1

    Enemy at the gate & windtalkers need to be on this list

  • @user-em6ie2be7x
    @user-em6ie2be7x Год назад +17

    Saving Private Ryan, Platoon, & Full Metal Jacket these are the most accurate War Movies I've ever seen.

    • @stuartsteedman1681
      @stuartsteedman1681 Год назад +2

      Not that I'm saying you aren't so, but unless you've fought in a theatre of war, can one really rate something as "accurate"?

  • @johnhazlett3711
    @johnhazlett3711 Год назад +1

    Too many Americans just don't have a clue what the military has gone through.

  • @euphoria1980
    @euphoria1980 Год назад +3

    come and see is the most realistic and by far the most horrifying

  • @matryoshkadoll
    @matryoshkadoll 3 месяца назад

    Thank you for this. I was giving a talk to adult history students about the importance of D-Day for the 80th anniversary, based on experiences all of the allied forces. Obviously, Omaha beach was the worst hit with 90% of the troops dead or severely injured in comparison to the other 4 beaches in the operation. I used the opening clip from Saving Private Ryan to provoke an emotional response. Including the rest of the historical facts, we had an extremely thought provoking discussion.

  • @giannisleontsinis9446
    @giannisleontsinis9446 Год назад +4

    black hawk down and saving private ryan are the best also i have them on dvd

  • @rafanifischer3152
    @rafanifischer3152 Год назад

    My uncle participated in the Ia Drang battle with 1st Air Cav. His helicopter was shot down but all on board survived. He had already 14 years of service and wanted to complete 20. But that battle made him change his mind and he didn't re-up. RIP soldier.

  • @michaeld1170
    @michaeld1170 Год назад +7

    They need to make more movies like this. Black hawk down and Saving Private Ryan are absolute gems

  • @Grandizer8989
    @Grandizer8989 Год назад +2

    There’s been a recent avalanche of great European/ UK war movies in the last few years. Bombarbardment, Operation Mincemeat, and Narvik are very good.

  • @3rdid73
    @3rdid73 6 месяцев назад +3

    With out question, (To Hell And Back) based on real life exploits of Audie L. Murphy during
    WW II. Should at least be in the top 5 of all time. A true and well done story, book then movie.
    Standing 5'- 6" tall, and 140lbs he was turned downed by the Marines and Navy because of his
    size upon trying to enlist. Was accepted as an rifleman (U.S. Army) 1/15th 3rd Infantry Division.
    He became the most decorated solider of WW II and recipient of the (Congressional Metal Of
    Honor.) If you have never seen this movie, I highly recommend you do. I possitivly feel it will not
    only impact you, but then feel like I, why it should be rated as one of the best of all time. Thanks.

  • @loyalistmundicomedentisdux9538
    @loyalistmundicomedentisdux9538 Год назад +2

    There's a saying that no one really knows it better than those who were there. Photos, videos, accounts only form ideas(Factual and Realistic ideas) of what happened compared to experience, the truer determiner.

  • @AnnexF
    @AnnexF Год назад +7

    The best war movie ever is Rambo!

    • @timothyivey5497
      @timothyivey5497 Год назад

      I hope you're talking about First Blood...or just kidding. Rambo: First Blood pt. 2 was a Reagan era wet dream about war. A shirtless Stallone one-man army with an M60 and a bow n arrow mowing down everything that moves ...gmab. That's about as realistic as an MCU flick.

    • @AnnexF
      @AnnexF Год назад

      @@timothyivey5497 First Blood

    • @MegaMbembe
      @MegaMbembe Год назад

      @@AnnexF I think of First Blood as a Survivor movie.

    • @AnnexF
      @AnnexF Год назад

      @@MegaMbembe True

    • @anthonyeaton5153
      @anthonyeaton5153 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@timothyivey5497yes if you like over the top commical movies.

  • @ev1lp1nk
    @ev1lp1nk 27 дней назад

    🎖 _Hacksaw Ridge_ is a stellar film!
    _The Last Full Measure_ (2019) _Danger Close_ (2019) _Devotion_ (2022) _Unbroken_ (2014) should be on this list as well.