I have watched it more times than I can count.

Das Boot I watched only once, but it has stayed with me through the decades ever since.

1. "Twelve O'clock High"

2. "Bridge On The River Kwai"

3. "In Which We Serve"

4. "Schindler's List"

5. "Saving Private Ryan"

1) Is Paris Burning?
2) The Great Escape
3) 12 o'clock High
4) The Train
5) Run Silent, Run Deep

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Dam Busters
Bridge over the River Kwai
Das Boot
Battle of Britain (except the dog)
Great Escape

Dear valued customer,

After our 2024 restoration and 4K release of A Bridge Too Far, we knew that following up with Battle Of Britain was the next logical step! It has been a joy watching this mammoth restoration come together, and we are very thankful for the work from the wonderful team at Fidelity In Motion for making it happen.

Our initial scan discovered a short two-minute section of the film was not present in the negative, instead replaced with white space in the middle of the reel. This, of course, sent us in hunt of the missing footage, to ensure our restoration is complete and uncompromised.

We are happy to say that a superior source for this two-minute section has now been found, and we are thrilled to see this scanned and built into the restoration.

While this means a disappointing further delay, we know that there is no other option for this key release - our proud #500 for Imprint Films.

Our new release date will be 18 February 2026. Your order, including any other titles, will be shipped together on or before this date.

Thank you for your patience and for your ongoing support of Imprint Films.

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Operation Petticoat

and there were players involved named Zaitsev and Kulikov.

The Longest Day
The Battle of Britain
A Bridge Too Far
Sink The Bismarck
Das Boot
Enemy at The Gates
Tora, Tora, Tora
Memphis Bell
Triump of the Spirt (Willem Dafoe Defoe Holocaust film)

South Pacific

The Monuments Men (I'm an Art Historian, it's not a great movie, but I'm a sucker for the subject matter)

Here's a few I like:

Fury
The Guns of Navarone
The Hill
Father Goose
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

My choices from the Pacific Theater.

From Here To Eternity
24 Eyes
Grave of the Fireflies
Tora Tora Tora
Unbroken

Inglourious Basterds

The Pianist



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Based on the true story of Allied Forces attacking a Japanese prisoner of war camp holding over 500 Allied prisoners in occupied Philippines. The surprise raid in January of 1945 inflicted heavy casualties on the Japanese while Allied Forces had minimal losses. The successful raid freed over 500 prisoners.

I've watched it many times.

Mel Brooks and Ann Bancroft and the Jack Benny one.

Casablanca
Star Wars: New Hope (WW2 disguised as Sci-fi)
Wizard of Oz (preceded WW2 but uncannily prescient)
Hope and Glory

"Fires on the Plain"

"Das Boot"

"The Burmese Harp"

"The Bridge on the River Kwai"

"The Dirty Dozen"

Ultimately for me, the only good war movie is an anti-war movie.

Saving Private Ryan.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence.
Casablanca.
The Winter War.
White Tiger.

Objective Burma

I don't think I could name five

I love Full Metal Jacket but that ain't no WWII

Midway (Henry Fonda version)
The Longest Day
Tora, Tora, Tora
Sink the Bismarck
Night of the Generals

…fascinating.

Very good film with a great cast, including George Clooney (as director and actor)

Midway
Longest Day
The Big Red One
Patton

I need to rewatch it for the zillionth time. I'm a sucker for the part with Dunkirk and what happened while Mr. Miniver was gone.

That was what Winston Churchill said about the profound effect of "Mrs. Miniver" on the allied war effort. No slap in cinematic history had more influence than the one Mrs. Miniver laid on that arrogant downed Luftwaffe pilot.

Atonement
Bridge on the River Kwai
All the Light We Cannot See
Schindler's List

Longest Day
Guns of Naverone
PT 109
Dirty Dozen
The Great Escape

Were these the best, no but seeing them with him was special.

Squadron 303
Zone of Interest
The Imitation Game
Hacksaw Ridge
Churchill

Casablanca is the greatest movie ever made!

Full Metal Jacket is about Vietnam.

I would add The Thin Red Line to your list. And Letters From Iwo Jima.

I just saw The Thin Red Line (again) a couple of weeks ago

Letters from Iwo Jima is a Japanese film directed by Clint Eastwood.
Does it have subtitles?

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One of a few war movies the doesn’t glorify war.

"The Americanization of Emily" was a great WWII movie.

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Possibilities include:

"A Time to Love and a Time to Die," based on Erich Marie Remarque's novel and featuring a cameo by Remarque
"Western Approaches," a British wartime flick that is a virtual forerunner of Reality TV, as it employs no actors, but just working sailors
"The Way Forward," one of David Niven's propaganda pieces
"The North Star" (aka "Armored Attack" ) because of its chequered propaganda history: it is the story of plucky Ukrainian partisans fighting off the Blitzkrieg in 1941, but after 1945 was edited for Cold War purposes to remind the viewer that those plucky Ukrainians were Commies and thus the evil bad guys after all
"Kelly's Heroes," because it is one of the better anti-war films I've seen
"The Fighting Lady," a docudrama about USS Yorktown (CV-10)
"Stalag 17," because it is just a good POW movie without the kind of bullshit in "The Great Escape."
"In Which We Serve," another British wartime flick about the RN. It juxstaposes scenes aboard ship with scenes on the home front, depicting the challenges faced by the sailors and their families
"Mr Roberts," because it features some great acting by Henry Fonda and Jack Lemmon, to say nothing of Jimmy Cagney and William Powell
"Operation Mad Ball," because it stars Jack Lemmon and is actually hilarious
"Red Ball Express," because it deals with a vital part of the war virtually ignored by film

Honorable mention to "Teahouse of the August Moon," because while it deals with the Occupation of Okinawa and not directly with WW2, it features Marlon Brando playing an Okinawan houseboy, and you can't get funnier than that.

Others may come to mind. I tend towards the relatively obscure and older films, made either during or immediately after the war when memory was still fresh. There are a number already recommended that I am not including in this list.

-- Mal

The Bridge on the River Kwai
Come and See
The Pianist
Hope and Glory
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Das Boot
The Longest Day

1) Defiance
2) Sisu
3) Kelly's Heroes
4) Enemy at the Gates
5) Saving Private Ryan

~no particular order.