r/WarMovies

1. Ancient-medieval warfare, where it's mostly hand-to-hand combat
2. Modern warfare, with guns, shrapnel, bombs, grenades, etc

Just got done watching. Pleasantly surprised by this movie. War sucks but WW1 in those trenches for 300+days. Highly recommend.

I recently rewatched the 2019 movie Danger Close about Delta Company 6RAR in Vietnam during the battle of Long Tan in 1966 and i love watching this movie, now i'm wondering are there any other movies about the Aussies and Kiwis in Vietnam similar to Danger Close or just movies about the Aussies and Kiwis in Nam in general?

With every "anti" war film, youre always waiting for some kind of explanation for the horrible things you see. You want the film to tell you why they happen, what they caused or to learn something from it. Just any kind of moral clarity of what you should feel. This film doesnt give you that becouse in the real world, there wasnt any moral clarity.

It shows you exactly what it was like to live in that time, in that war, in that country. It never even hints that theres some sort of deeper meaning or purpose behind anything you see, its just what happened back then and it happened more times than you can fit in your head. The attrocities you come to see are nowhere near the worst of the worst and only a recreating a small fragment of what the whole world went through in 1939-1945.

For all of world war 2, an unimaginably large amount of people, so large you cant even picture it, millions upon millions of innocent and quilty souls, butchered, mutilated, traumatized, dead for no reason at all. Im really having trouble understanding how people can cope with living in this hell realm that hasnt changed a bit since this war. Just fuck this. Fuck this world, man.

(Alright, half of this post became just my views life, sorry)

I've seen several documentaries on the battle of Mortain (I think that's the right town name) and the resulting Falaise Gap debacle. However, I've not seen a movie that focusses on this battle. Has anyone got a recommendation on a film that either focuses on this battle, or at least includes it as a good portion of the movie?

Super random but I finally got around to watching Hamburger Hill and was blown away. I was so mesmerized I bought the brilliant book by Samuel Zaffiri and read it cover to cover the next day. I stumbled on this IMDB review from a Vietnam Vet and thought I’d share:

“This is an excellent depiction of the insanity that was the war in Viet Nam. My view as a naval officer during a scenic tour of the Mekong near the Cambodian border and the Vietnamese city of Chau Phu, permitted me to be a witness to many, many occasions involving the wholesale abuse of humans by humans. The strain on mind, body and soul takes years (if ever) to repair and this film captures it. There are brief glimpses of this agony in some of the other films mentioned here in the reviews, e.g., Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket and Platoon. Each of these films have merit but are deeply flawed. Apocalypse Now is steeped in moral allegory to the expense of an accurate portrayal of the war; Full Metal Jacket is only 2/3 completed; Platoon becomes a Levi-Straussian moral tale with an arch villain and virtuous hero-- the latter heinously slain by the former with revenge exacted by the weary sojourner on the odyssey. OK. What do we have here with Hamburger Hill? A story? Heroic acts? Action? Not really. What we have is the horror and insanity of war. The film ends on the same pointless note as it began. But, you know what? Reading through the detractors of this film who touted the other potential three and slammed this one, I would not hesitate to bet they were never there. I could glance at the reviews and pick out the vets-- not just on the basis of whether they liked this film or not but of how they reacted to it. I know and know damn well. I too was there, brothers. See this film. It's well produced, directed and the cast is damn good. Check it out.”

-artzau April 23, 2001