Saturday, January 24, 2009

Throwback Movies WWII Edition

The recent glut of World War 2 movies has inspired me to comb through the collection.  This month's throwbacks are my top 5 favorite WWII movies.
  1. Band of Brothers - While technically not a movie, the series is the best 10 hours of the genre.
  2. Dirty Dozen - Military inmates sent on a suicide mission.  What's not cool about that?
  3. Sahara - Not the Matthew McConaughey movie, but The 1943 classic with Humphrey Bogart about a small platoon holding off a Nazi battalion in the middle of the Sahara desert.
  4. Saving Private Ryan - Packing a star-studded cast, this movie still holds up as the best war movie in the last decade.
  5. Kelly's Heroes - Clint Eastwood convinces a group of rogues to follow him into enemy territory for the promise of finding stolen Nazi gold.
Disagree?  Feel free to leave a comment and plead your case for your favorite I may have snubbed.

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