Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
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This is one of the four or so best original scores I’ve ever heard out of Williams, along with The Cowboys, Jaws, and The Reivers.
Greatest War Movies
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Lawrence of Arabia (tied for first)
The Big Parade
All Quiet on the Western Front
Saving Private Ryan
Mr. Roberts
Battleground
300
Spartacus
Paths of Glory
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The Red Badge of Courage
The Great Escape
Ran
The Alamo (1960)
We Were Soldiers
Gallipoli
The Road to Glory (1936)
Attack (1956)
Patton
Apocalypse Now
Attack and Retreat (1964)
I only included movies where the war is the central dramatic aspect, not those, like The Deer Hunter or From Here to Eternity, where only a small part of the picture takes place during a war. I didn’t consider The Big Red One, because I have yet to see it, or the 1970’s Russian epic, War and Peace, because I did see it and was very impressed, but it was 40 years ago, and I would need to see it again.
Thanks to SoundtrackUniverses for the upload and the table of contents.
Published on Oct 25, 2012
Tracklist:
1. Hymn to The Fallen
2. Revisiting Normandy
3. Omaha Beach
4. Finding Private Ryan
5. Approaching the Enemy
6. Defense Preparations
7. Wade's Death
8. High School Teacher
9. The Last Battle
10. Hymn to the Fallen (Reprise)
I would add The Sand Pebbles and Breaker Morant to the list.
ReplyDeleteTo me Samuel Fuller's earlier lower budget war films The Steel Helmet, Fixed Bayonets, China Gate, and Merrill's Marauders were better than than The Big Red One.
ReplyDeleteDavid In TN
My personal favorite war movies are "EMPIRE OF THE SUN" and "TO END ALL WARS".
ReplyDeleteAs a veteran of the war in Viet Nam, I find the movies that most closely resemble my own experience are, "FORREST GUMP", "CASUALTIES OF WAR", and "GARDENS OF STONE".
You probably wonder about that last one, because it doesn't take place in Viet Nam, but what made the war in Viet Nam so different from all other wars was what transpired HERE, in the United States of America.
Well you may be going for the score, but for me no list of war movies is complete without "To Hell and Back", "Sergeant York", and "The Longest Day". All of these movies were written in the blood of America's youths on the battlefields of Europe.
ReplyDeleteThen there's the movie of the daring and bold raid by Jimmy Dolittle's bombing crews on Japan that let the Japs know what they had in store for them for their sneak attack on the US's 7th Fleet in the Hawaiian Islands.