Sentences with phrase «greatest war films»

There have been many great war films, and any number that have vividly evoked the tension, tragedy and terror of battle.

(Special Effects and Cinematography), The Longest Day ranks as one of Hollywood's truly great war films.

Today, after seeing the film again for the first time in years, I feel that Saving Private Ryan is, if not an absolute masterpiece, an extremely powerful and moving work that stands as one of the greatest war films of this or any era.

It's a pointless endeavor, really, since the movie has already been deemed by nearly every critic as one of the greatest war films (if not the greatest war film) ever made.

And much like many of the great war films to follow, «Apocalypse Now» is less about the actual Vietnam War and more about the social and political ramifications that came as a result of it.

Anthony Mann's Men in War is one of the great war films, and one of the least known.

One of the great war films.

The Thin Red Line, arguably the greatest war film ever made, ended two decades of silence from Terrence Malick, cinema's wandering auteur.

Not only does it have one of the most perfectly shot horizon driven silhouettes reminiscent of a great war film, but it also proves to be a calm before a possible storm adding to the beautiful tension already constricting our hearts and hands.

Samuel Fuller's 1951 Korean war movie Fixed Bayonets does not have impressive special effects, a stylish script, in - depth characterization, or subtle acting, but it's one of the greatest war films ever.