 | Saving Private Ryan (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $5.29 If you can watch this one without both a visceral semblance of understanding of warfare and a sadness for the sacrifices of those who were there, then you're just not human. Spielberg gives us a masterwork.
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 | Go Tell the Spartans
Buy new: $5.98 / Used from: $2.38 Both from long conversations with men who were there, and being a veteran myself, it's hard to find a film that better captures what military life in the Vietnam warzone was like...as well as being an accurate (read: not sensational, just honest) portrait of those early "advisors" in Vietnam.
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 | The Longest Day (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $9.91 An accurate and ambitious film showing both sides of the story of the Normanday invasion; the turning point of not just the war, but of civilization in the 20th century...see how many stars and at the time future stars you can spot...
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 | Midway (Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $5.98 This one did for the war in the Pacific what "The Longest Day" did for the European conflict...excellent writing and performances.
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 | Tora! Tora! Tora! (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.04 An extremely well done version of both opposing viewpoints of what happened at Pearl Harbor.
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 | Gallipoli
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $6.39 A very human and telling tale from World War One...terrific performance from a young Mel Gibson, and moving story of the horror of war.
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 | Das Boot - The Director's Cut
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $2.79 Marvelous telling of a U-Boat story from what to us is the "other side"...striking portrait of the dedication, fear, and humanity of the crews of the "iron coffins".
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 | Sands of Iwo Jima
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $3.72 A tale of one of the pivotal battles of the Pacific...a classic of it's time.
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 | The Big Red One - The Reconstruction (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $25.99 / Used from: $6.56 Follow along the European campaign with the chronicles of the First Division...beautifully acted, well-crafted, and moving.
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 | Platoon (Special Edition)
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $1.73 Oliver Stone's Oscar-winning portrayal of one soldier's experience in the hell of Vietnam...dark and brooding, told from a perspective that's easy to relate to.
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 | Black Hawk Down
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.82 An uncompromising story of courage and dedication, and the bonds stronger than brotherhood that bind men in combat. Highly recommended.
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 | Guadalcanal Diary
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.57 Grueling account of the pressures of holding one of the most strategically important isle in the Pacific.
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