My Favorite WWII Movies
Like many people I have a collection of my favorite movies on DVD. Because they are my favorites I can enjoy watching them again and again and still not tire of them.
Here are some of my favorite World Ward II movies, in no particular order. I have most of them on my bookshelves.
1. The Longest Day (1962), directed by Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton and Bernhard Wicki, starring John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Richard Burton and Henry Fonda
2. The Great Escape (1963), directed by John Sturges, starring Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, James Garner, James Cockburn and Charles Bronson
3. The Dirty Dozen (1967), directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas and Ernest Borgnine
4. Patton (1970), directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, starring George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates and Karl Michael Vogler
5. Where Eagles Dare (1968), directed by Brian G. Hutton, starring Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton
6. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), directed by David Lean, starring William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins and Sessue Hayakawa
7. Casablanca (1942), directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid, Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet
8. Kelly's Heroes (1970), directed by Brian G. Hutton, starring Clint Eastwood and Telly Salvalas, Don Rickles and Donald Sutherland
9. The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), directed by George Stevens, starring Millie Perkins, Shelley Winters, Joseph Schildkraut and Richard Beymer
10. Saving Private Ryan (1998), directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Hanks, Matt Damon and Tom Sizemore
11. Memphis Belle (1990), directed by Michael Caton-Jones, starring Mathew Modine, Eric Stolz, Harry Connick, Jr.
12. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), directed by William Wyler, starring Frederick March, Dana Andrews and Harold Russell
13. The Thin Red Line (1998), directed by Terrene Malick, starring Jim Caviezel, Sean Penn, Elias Koteas, Nick Nolte and Woody Harrelson
14. The Big Red One (1980), directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, and Robert Carradine
15. From Here to Eternity (1953), directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Donna Reed, Deborah Kerr and Ernest Borgnine
16. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), directed by Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda, starring Jason Robards, Joseph Cotten, James Whitmore and Sho Yamamura
17. Stalag 17 (1953), directed by Billy Wilder, starring William Holden and Peter Graves
18. The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960), directed by Richard Murphy, starring Jack Lemon and Ricky Nelson
19. Schindler's List (1993), directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley and Caroline Goodall
20. Enemy at the Gates (2001), directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Jude Law, Ed Harris, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz and Bob Hoskins
21. Mr. Roberts (1955), directed by John Ford, starring Henry Ford, Jack Lemon and James Cagney
22. Empire of the Sun (1987), directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson and Nigel Havers
23. A Bridge Too Far (1977), directed by Richard Attenborough, starring Sean Connery, Ryan O'Neal, Michael Caine, James Caan and Laurence Olivier
24. Sahara (1943), directed by Zoltan Korda, starring Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, Lloyd Bridges and J. Carrol Naish
25. The Enemy Below (1957), directed by Dick Powell, starring Robert Mitchum, Curt Jurgens, David Hedison and Theodore Bikel
26. Murphy's War (1971), directed by Peter Yates, starring Peter O'Toole and Sian Phillips