Any one into these? I like the ones that are basically historically accurate, why make things up when there are so many great true stories which have largely gone untold? With Memorial day coming up, it it's a good time to remember the fallen and honor those who served.
Some of my favorites:
We Were Soldiers - The Story of America's first battle in Vietnam, starring Mel Gibson as LTC Hal Moore. Hal Moore once said that the movie was about 80% reality and 20% Hollywood, which is probably about as good as it's going to get in a feature film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Were_Soldiers
Lost Battalion - Rick Shroder gives a great performance as Maj.Whittlesey, whose battalion held out for 5 days after being cut off by the Germans in the Argonne forest in 1918.
The Light Horsemen - True story of the Australian Light Horseman's role in the capture of Beersheba in 1917.
Black Hawk Down – Accurate portrayal of a tragic U.S. Army Delta Force/Ranger raid in Somalia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hawk_Down_(film)
Bat 21 – Gene Hackman stars as Iceal Hambleton a 53 Year old LTC shot down in enemy territory and Danny Glover as Capt. Clark who shepherded him to safety. The end of this movie was pure Hollywood, because at the time the amazing details of Hambleton's rescue by U.S. Navy SEAL LT. JG Thomas Norris and South Vietnamese SEAL petty officer Nguyễn Văn Kiệtwere still classified.
https://archive.org/details/Bat21
The Great Escape – I watched this a bunch of times as a kid and never realized that it was a true story (basically, there is a lot of Hollywood in this one and Steve McQueen's character is fiction), though many of the actors where vets themselves. Unfortunately, it is true that Hitler had 50 of the escapees executed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Escape_(film)
Some of my favorites:
We Were Soldiers - The Story of America's first battle in Vietnam, starring Mel Gibson as LTC Hal Moore. Hal Moore once said that the movie was about 80% reality and 20% Hollywood, which is probably about as good as it's going to get in a feature film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Were_Soldiers
Lost Battalion - Rick Shroder gives a great performance as Maj.Whittlesey, whose battalion held out for 5 days after being cut off by the Germans in the Argonne forest in 1918.
The Light Horsemen - True story of the Australian Light Horseman's role in the capture of Beersheba in 1917.
Black Hawk Down – Accurate portrayal of a tragic U.S. Army Delta Force/Ranger raid in Somalia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hawk_Down_(film)
Bat 21 – Gene Hackman stars as Iceal Hambleton a 53 Year old LTC shot down in enemy territory and Danny Glover as Capt. Clark who shepherded him to safety. The end of this movie was pure Hollywood, because at the time the amazing details of Hambleton's rescue by U.S. Navy SEAL LT. JG Thomas Norris and South Vietnamese SEAL petty officer Nguyễn Văn Kiệtwere still classified.
https://archive.org/details/Bat21
The Great Escape – I watched this a bunch of times as a kid and never realized that it was a true story (basically, there is a lot of Hollywood in this one and Steve McQueen's character is fiction), though many of the actors where vets themselves. Unfortunately, it is true that Hitler had 50 of the escapees executed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Escape_(film)