<p>My second go round here...Jamzmom look at the third or fourth post that was me! JK but I also liked "Behind Enemy Lines."
How about "From Here to Eternity" ; "In Harm's Way"; "The Purple Heart"; "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo"; "Pork Chop Hill"; "The Green Berets"; "Run Silent, Run Deep." Something for everybody...unfortunately us Coasties are stuck with "Yours, mine and ours." OY...somebody make a movie about Katrina.</p>
<p>There you are! Guess I missed the earlier post. This thread is like wild fire. I'm off to visit Mr. Sandman with the music of The Green Berets STUCK in my head now. Have ya'll seen the newly released Great Escape yet? We watched it over the holidays. Ayyy. It was ok. Nighty night movie buffs!</p>
<p>Good: Guns of Navarone with Gregory Peck and Anthony Quinn - another WWII goodie.<br>
And The Longest Day - with John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchem and a very young Sean Connery.
Run Silent, Run Deep
Sands of Iwo Jima - John Wayne
Catch-22 !!!</p>
<p>middle: Kelly's Hero's, Van Ryan's Express</p>
<p>Bad: Operation Petticoat and what was the dumb one in the Pacific with John Wayne, the nun and the duck?</p>
<p>I forgot - the Fighting Seabees! Another John Wayne movie with a great line, "imminent death is no reason to get sniffly..."</p>
<p>Wayne & the nuns & cute kids: Operation Pacific. OK, it was touching propaganda.</p>
<p>Oh...a another good one..."Heaven Knows Mr. Allison" with Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr.</p>
<p>I love "24" can't wait til the 15th when Super Jack will be back...do hope the show won't go all PC.</p>
<p>Funny, relatively obscure WWII movies:</p>
<p>"Don't Go Near the Water"</p>
<p>"Operation Teakettle"</p>
<p>"Wackiest Ship in the Army"</p>
<p>Let's put it this way; these will not be used as training films at USNA.</p>
<p>kingdom of heaven, gladiator, troy, the last samurai, braveheart, and the patriot are all very good movies about war.</p>
<p>How could we forget to mention "Bridge on the River Kwai" and "Das Boot." Wasn't Grace Kelly in "The Bridges at Toko-Ri"? I also agree that "Master and Commander" was an engaging piece. I remember one of my college professors requiring us to see "Born on the Fourth of July." It's a powerful film dealing with some of the same issues our veterans/nation currently face. The interviews with Robert S. McNamara, former Secretary of Defense under President Kennedy and President Johnson, in "The Fog of War" are quite fascinating. I would guess that might be part of any military history curriculum.
My daughter's favorites generally fall into another genre(s): "The Importance of Being Earnest," "The Sound of Music," "Room With a View," "Bend it Like Beckham," etc., none of them having anything to do with war, except SOM.
I almost forgot to mention two of my absolute favorites that were shown on Public Television years ago: "Mountbattan, the Last Viceroy" and "The Jewel in the Crown," a saga about changes brought about by the end of British colonial rule in India and WWII in Asia.</p>
<p>Twelve O'Clock High with Gregory Peck. </p>
<p>The Navy used to use it in LMET school (Leadership, Management, Education, and Training) when I was an ensign. I've used those techniques from the film as a middle school teacher, too. :)</p>
<p>"I've used those techniques from the film as a middle school teacher."
spidermom</p>
<p>Do those scenes involve corporal punishment or torture?</p>
<p>Last Samurai was great! Actually my son likes Sound of Music because Capt. Von Trap is cool and nobody can mess with him. Not quite as cool as Jack Bauer but...there isn't anyone as cool. Jake is counting down the days.</p>
<p>Uh . . .how about some Navy movies:</p>
<p>Ensign Pulver
Mister Roberts
were the best . . .</p>
<p>Midway
PT-109</p>
<p>Oh, while were at it, my son had a bonus book to read that I am 2/3 through: Flags of Our Fathers.</p>
<p>Amazing story of the battle at Iwo Jima. Talk about the greatest generation!? If you get a chance read this book and find out what 18-year olds of sixty years ago were doing, you will have a sense of awe.</p>
<p>Sand of Iwo Jima
To the Shores of Iwo Jima
The Outsider [The Story of Ira Hayes]</p>
<p>Yeah B0510 - He "Pulverized" the laundry as I remember! (Ya think they named that character that just so they could use that line?).</p>
<p>Just ordered the John McCain books & "The Nightigale's Song" for a little reading before the next election. Not sure if McCain will get the nom, but I'm going to educate myself just in case!</p>
<p>I received McCain's new book for Christmas, and am enjoying it, son can read it after me. It's a collection of stories about character, choices and destiny.</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>usna09mom , don't I wish! I started teaching the year after they outlawed paddling in California. :)</p>
<p>Seriously though, I never did have any trouble with classroom discipline after the Navy experience.</p>
<p>the thin red line is another good one.</p>
<p>Band of Brothers is my favorite.</p>
<p>"I never did have any trouble with classroom discipline after the Navy experience." spidermom</p>
<p>Flogging???</p>
<p>Flogging..... LOL I got the most hysterically funny picture in my head of Black Beard at a chalk board doing sentence structure with a cat o' nine. LOL Works for me!</p>
<p>McHales Navy! (oops- am I showing my age?)</p>