TOP 10 War Movies (~ the last 40 years):
Das Boot - (1981, W. Ger. Wolfgang Peterson, WWII) (Jurgen Procnow)
Full Metal Jacket - (1987, Stanley Kubrick, V) (Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin)
Kelly's Heroes - (1970, Brian G. Hutton, WWII) (Clint Eastwood, Donald Sutherland)
M*A*S*H - (1970, Robert Altman, K) (Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland)
The Deer Hunter - (1978, Michael Cimino, V) (Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep)
Casualties of War - (1989, Brian De Palma, V) (Sean Penn, Michael J. Fox)
Apocalypse Now - (1979, Francis Ford Coppola, V) (Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, M. Brando)
Platoon - (1986, Oliver Stone, V) (Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen)
Catch-22 - (1970, Mike Nichols, WWII) (Alan Arkin, Richard Benjamin)
The Beast - (1988, Jason Patric, George Dzundza, Stephen Baldwin, Steven Bauer)
warning about Das Boot: there used to be two versions of this movie sold in US (at least when the movies were still on tape). they differ markedly in dubbing quality (the movie is German). the version with bad dubbing really hurts the movie.