What is the best war movie of all time?

There are many great war movies. The one that had a visceral response in me, being a medical person....and many Veterans cannot see scenes like this without re-living their own experiences was:

The opening scene were amphibious craft landed on Omaha Beach in the movie: Saving Private Ryan.

Medically speaking, I felt it was pretty accurate of how capillary the human body is. I get chills just thinking about it.

I will check out "The Great Escape" Fat Oprah.

There are several GREAT ones....

1) Saving Private Ryan

2) Apocalypse Now

3) Black Hawk Down

4) Full Metal Jacket

5) The Hurt Locker

The Great Escape is a good movie but is more of an action flick than a true war movie. It's really watered down and doesn't show any of the true horrors of war like the 5 listed above do.

If you want a GREAT Intellectual war movie then try....

The Thin Red Line

1. 8.9 Schindler's List (1993)

2. 8.7 Casablanca (1942)

3. 8.7 The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)

4. 8.6 Apocalypse Now (1979)

5. 8.5 Paths of Glory (1957)

6. 8.5 Saving Private Ryan (1998)

7. 8.5 The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959/I)

8. 8.5 Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

9. 8.5 The Pianist (2002)

10. 8.5 Das Boot (1981)

11. 8.5 The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959/II)

12. 8.4 Life Is Beautiful (1997)

13. 8.4 The Great Dictator (1940)

14. 8.4 The General (1926)

15. 8.4 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

16. 8.4 Full Metal Jacket (1987)

17. 8.3 Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

18. 8.3 Braveheart (1995)

19. 8.3 Downfall (2004)

20. 8.3 Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

21. 8.3 The Ascent (1977)

22. 8.3 The Big Parade (1925)

23. 8.3 The Great Escape (1963)

24. 8.3 Ran (1985)

25. 8.3 Inglourious Basterds (2009)

26. 8.3 The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

27. 8.2 The Battle of Algiers (1966)

28. 8.2 Hotel Rwanda (2004)

29. 8.2 The Great War (1959)

30. 8.2 Come and See (1985)

31. 8.2 The Deer Hunter (1978)

32. 8.2 Andrei Rublev (1966)

33. 8.2 Grand Illusion (1937)

34. 8.2 Platoon (1986)

35. 8.2 Rome, Open City (1945)

36. 8.2 Gone with the Wind (1939)

37. 8.2 Army of Shadows (1969)

38. 8.2 The Dawns Here are Quiet (1972)

39. 8.2 Ballad of a Soldier (1959)

40. 8.1 Stalag 17 (1953) 24,767

41. 8.1 A Man Escaped (1956)

42. 8.1 To Be or Not to Be (1942)

43. 8.1 Ivan's Childhood (1962)

44. 8.1 Devils on the Doorstep (2000)

45. 8.1 The Cranes are Flying (1957)

46. 8.1 Incendies (2010)

47. 8.1 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

48. 8.1 Battleship Potemkin (1925)

49. 8.1 The Shop on Main Street (1965)

50. 8.1 Fires on the Plain

Brave Heart

Apocalypse Now

Runner up is Platoon

Apocalypse Now