War movies are men's favorite, men want to be heroes, want to be generals, so they have heroic dreams since they were young, even if they are thirty or forty years old, they have not given up this dream, they think that Jiang Ziya was in his seventies to become a military division, only to begin to show the mountains and dew, we are younger than them, there is still hope. Here are ten classic Hollywood war movies that you can watch slowly.
1. War Horse
In 1914, in the small town of Devon, the boy Albert (Jeremy Irvine) witnesses the birth of Joey the Foal. At the bazaar, it was frequently priced, and eventually it was acquired by Albert's father, Ted (Peter Mullan), for a sky-high price of 30 guineas, and the lame man offended the landlord. Albert and Joey have fun and share with friends. However, the good times did not last long, and the landlord came to visit and said that if Joey could not plow the ground, he would take him away immediately, so Ted gambled on all his belongings. So, under duress, Albert put a saddle on Joey, forced it to plow the ground, and even used a leather whip, but could not make it submit. In order to pay off the debt, Ted personally ploughed the ground, and the kung fu paid off, and the hard work was exchanged for the harvest, but a heavy rain destroyed everything. When the Germans attacked, my father was forced to sell his horse to the cavalry corps for 30 guineas. Although Albert could not give up, he could only tearfully bid joey farewell to the battlefield with an uncertain future. In the war, Joey's master is constantly changing, from the British captain, the French old farmer and granddaughter, to the German cavalry, but what it really waits for is Albert, can they be reunited...
2. Field Platoon Platoon
Taylor (Charlie Sheen) was an American college student during the Vietnam War who went to the Vietnam front for military service and was assigned to an infantry unit. There are two men in the army who have always influenced him a lot – Elias (William Dafoe) and Barnes (Tom Berenger). The two of them have very different views on war, the former can't bear to kill innocents, while the latter is murderous, and Taylor is very confused, who is right in the end.
Barnes unleashed a brutal massacre that turned entire villages in Vietnam into rivers of blood. Elias tried to persuade his friend not to be so cruel, but was caused by a rift in their relationship. Barnes was more suspicious of Elias's small report to his superiors, and the friendship turned to jealousy. So, in a jungle war, he carried everyone behind his back and pulled the trigger on Elias.
Taylor saw all this, and he finally had the answer in his heart.
3. Full metal jacket
During the Vietnam War, the U.S. military recruited heavily. A large number of young people were conscripted into the army and received "cruel" training in the new barracks. The "fool" Bill has an underdeveloped motor nerve and often makes mistakes and punishes everyone together. The "Joker" (Matthew Modine) is ordered to help Bill, but Bill keeps making mistakes and involving others. Everyone couldn't bear to beat him up, and Bill became delirious, shooting the instructor on the eve of the new barracks graduation and swallowing a gun to kill himself.
The Joker was then assigned to the Army News Group. In the interview, he saw that his companions at that time had become numb and cruel. Once, when the "Joker" was on a mission with the "Cowboy", he was ambushed by Viet Cong snipers, and the "Cowboy" was unfortunately shot and killed. After some searching, the crowd wounded the sniper. The "Joker" discovers that the sniper is actually a young girl. Someone proposed to leave her struggling to die, and the "Joker" pulled the trigger amid the girl's pleas to "kill me".
4. Enemy at the Gates
During the Battle of Stalingrad, Vasily (Jude Law) was a sharpshooter in the Mighty Shock Force. His good marksmanship was a hundred shots, which made the enemy feel frightened.
In order to boost morale and set an example, Vasily's comrade-in-arms, Danielov (Joseph Fiennes), an officer in the Soviet Army's Propaganda Department, published a large number of Vasily's heroic deeds in the newspapers, making Vasily's image even higher. However, the appearance of Tanya (Rachel Weisz) makes both Vasily and Danilov fall in love with the sassy female soldier at the same time. But Tania liked Vasily, much to Danilov's jealousy.
On the other hand, the Germans sent their sniper, Connie (Ed Harris), to pit fellow sharpshooter against Vasily. On the battlefield filled with smoke, Vasily and Connie began a duel of wits and courage.
5. Flags of Our Fathers
In February 1945, the Iwo Jima War, known as the "meat grinder of the Pacific", ended. On the fifth day of the battle, five U.S. Navy soldiers, a medic, and an accompanying journalist "created" a photograph of a hero, a photograph of national victory: they planted the American flag on the commanding heights of Iwo Jima.
When the photograph made headlines in major American newspapers, three of the six heroes at the time died before they knew they had become heroes. The other three who survived the war did not say a word about it after the war, as if they had not participated in it.
Because they didn't go to the battlefield to become heroes, they fought for the country, and when they saw their partners fall one by one, they felt that the meaning of life was also lost little by little...
6. Saving Private Ryan Saving Priority Ryan
Ryan (Matt Damon) was an American paratrooper during World War II who was trapped behind enemy lines. Even more unfortunately, all three of his brothers died in the war, and if he had also been killed, the old mother in the family would have no one to rely on.
The U.S. General Command of Operations learned of this situation and decided to organize a small detachment to the rescue, including Captain Miller (Tom Hanks) and the translator Urban (Jeremy Hanks). Davis Jererry Davies). However, the enemy is in danger, and they are always dealing with death along the way. They wondered if it was worth risking the lives of eight people to rescue one.
Everyone went all the way to find Ryan, and some people were dissatisfied, some were enthusiastic, and some were curious about this rescue operation. Everyone smelled death again and again, and Ryan paid a heavy price for his rescue.
Letters from Iwo Jima
The defeat at the Battle of Midway directly announced the defeat of the Japanese army in the Pacific Theater, and the recalcitrant Japanese army still held on to Iwo Jima, the southernmost island in Japan. This seemingly inconspicuous island staged the worst war in the Pacific in World War II.
Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe) is the commander of the Japanese army on Iwo Jima and is in charge of the last line of defense for the Japanese army. Lieutenant General Kuribayashi vigorously reformed the bad habits and deficiencies within the Japanese army, and devised a set of combat plans to deal with the American army, mainly delayed. Although he and the 20,000 officers and men of the Japanese army were united, in the face of 40,000 American soldiers who had exhausted air superiority, Kuribayashi knew that this would be a war with no way back.
Before the final war, Kuribayashi wrote his last family letter...
8. Pearl Harbor pearl harbor
Leif (Ben Afflet) and Danny (Josh Hartnett) were good brothers who had been playing together since childhood, both of whom had a keen interest in flying, had learned to fly airplanes together, and joined the U.S. Air Force together in the early days of World War II. During his training, Leif fell in love with Evelyn (Kate Beckinsale), a female nurse at the military hospital.
In order to help European countries resist the aggression of Nazi Germany, the U.S. army decided to send elite troops to the European continent, Leif volunteered to participate in the war, and entrusted Evelyn to Danny's care, and soon, bad news came, Leif's plane was unfortunately shot down by the German army in the air battle, and there was almost zero survival. Evelyn and Danny fall in love in the pain of mutual encouragement. To their surprise, Leif did not die, and when the three reunited, they were embarrassed. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor helped them break the siege, and Leif and Danny decided not to be lovers and comrades-
The Thin Red Line
In 1942, World War II had entered a white-hot phase. In the South Pacific, Japan and the United States fought fiercely, and the bottom line of humanity was completely destroyed by the sound of gunfire. The "Charlie Infantry Company" under the U.S. Army was given a difficult task, and they were ordered to land on Guadalcanal and retake 210 positions occupied by the Japanese. The Japanese army took full advantage of the geographical advantage and the defense was impregnable. However, the military orders were like mountains, and even the soldiers of the Charlie Infantry Company of the Sword Mountain and the Sea of Fire had to march forward bravely. This group of young lads throws themselves into this brutal flesh-and-blood battlefield for so-called justice...
10. ApocalypseNow
Later in the Vietnam War, U.S. Captain Willard (Martin Sim Martin Sheen) is ordered to travel up the Mekong River to search for Colonel Coates (Marlon Brando), who has broken away from the U.S. military and established his kingdom in Cambodia, bringing him back or killing him. Captain Coates was once a hero of the U.S. Military in the Vietnam War, and his achievements were outstanding. Suddenly, however, one day, he disappeared. Subsequently, intelligence pointed out that he had established his own kingdom in Cambodia, his own army, specifically against the U.S. army.
Willard and several soldiers went all the way up the river, and on the way they witnessed all kinds of atrocities, killings, and witnessed the various abnormal behaviors of both American soldiers and locals in the long war, and Willard was greatly shocked.
Willard was eventually captured by the locals in the kingdom of Coates, Cambodia, and met Coates. However, Coates wanted to die and asked Willard to blow it to the ground...