So you must be enjoying weekend at your home and thinking what to watch next, as we have already posted two articles on movies that inspire defence aspirants and Indian defence movies, this time we are posting 12 top Hollywood war movies every Indian defence aspirant must watch, these movies do not only entertain us, but also give us knowledge and teach us different lessons. These movies are also published in IMDb as 12 Top War Movies
Here is the list of 12 Top Hollywood War Movies;
- Fury (2014) (Releasing 17 October 2014 (USA)): April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Out-numbered, out-gunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany. (135 mins.)
- Apocalypse Now (1979): During the U.S.-Viet Nam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe. (153 mins.)
- Das Boot (1981): The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth, and sheer terror. (149 mins.)
- The Deer Hunter (1978): An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam war impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania. (182 mins.)
- Downfall (2004): Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator’s final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII. (156 mins.)
- Full Metal Jacket (1987): A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue. (116 mins.)
- The Grand Illusion (1937): During the First World War, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German POW camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are sent to a seemingly impenetrable fortress which seems impossible to escape from. (114 mins.)
- Inglourious Basterds (2009): In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner’s vengeful plans for the same. (153 mins.)
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962): A flamboyant and controversial British military figure and his conflicted loyalties during his World War I service in the Middle East. (216 mins.)
- Paths of Glory (1957): When soldiers in World War I refuse to continue with an impossible attack, their superior officers decide to make an example of them. (88 mins.)
- Platoon (1986): A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man. (120 mins.)
- Ran (1985): An elderly lord abdicates to his three sons, and the two corrupt ones turn against him. (162 mins.)
- Saving Private Ryan (1998): Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action. (169 mins.)
Which movie did you like the most out of these? Please share other best war movies with us in the comment section below.
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