Memorial Day Weekend: Best War Movies

One way to honor those who gave their lives protecting ours is to watch a really good war movie.

Here is a list, for the most part, of family-friendly war movies. Some do contain rough language. The list tries to avoid films with gratuitous violence. The violence in the films listed clarifies the horror of war while indicating the necessity to battle evil in order to preserve the good.

MIDDLE EAST

• BROTHERS AT WAR (2009)
• AMERICAN SNIPER (2014)

SOUTHEAST ASIA

• WE WERE SOLDIERS (2002)

WWII

• PATTON (1970)
• THE LONGEST DAY (1962)
• MRS. MINIVER (1942)
• THE GREAT ESCAPE (1963)
• THE FIGHTING SULLIVANS (1944)
• SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998)
• RED TAILS (2011)
• NEVER SO FEW (1959)
• THE SCARLET AND THE BLACK (1983)
• BATTLEGROUND (1949)
• THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957)
• TORA! TORA! TORA! (1970)
• 12 O’CLOCK HIGH (1949)
• THE GREAT RAID (2005)
• CAPTAIN NEWMAN, M.D. (1963)
• IN HARMS WAY (1965)
• VON RYAN’S EXPRESS (1965)
• VALKYRIE (2008)
• RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP (1958)

WW I

• DAWN PATROL
• A FAREWELL TO ARMS
• THE FIGHTING 69TH
• THE LOST PATROL
• PATHS OF GLORY
• WINGS
• SARGENT YORK

THE HOLOCAUST

• SCHINDLER’S LIST (1993)
• THE HIDING PLACE (1975)

BEST AFTER-THE-WAR MOVIES

• THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946)
• JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961)
• THE SCARLET AND THE BLACK (1983)

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