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And movies for any patriotic day dedicated to remembering Vets. \u00a0There are others that aren\u2019t mentioned that are every bit as essential. \u00a0Tora, Tora, Tora<\/i> leaps to mind, but I typically keep that for December 7th. \u00a0Stalag 17<\/i> and even the historically over the top The Battle of the Bulge<\/i> have always had a \u2018Christmas feel\u2019 to them. \u00a0But the following are ones that are shown, or to me are worth watching, whenever the flag goes up and our thoughts turn toward those who gave that last measure of devotion.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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The Longest Day<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Staring almost every male actor in the film industry at the time, The Longest Day<\/i> is the war movie where everything works. \u00a0It has that old time patriotism, mixed with just enough moments of terror and loss and honesty to remind everyone what war is all about. \u00a0Made in 1962, after the first wave of Rock and Roll but before the British Invasion, it was a mere 18 years after the event. \u00a0That\u2019s as long ago as the Oklahoma City bombing to us. \u00a0And yet already there was that tension, that anti-war, increasingly anti-American liberalism vying with those still lifting up what America and its allies had done to defeat evil. \u00a0This splendid movie, superstar packed to the hilt, won the match and gave Americans and free people a reason to look back and be proud.<\/p>\n

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Patton<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

One of the most iconic images in motion picture history right there. \u00a0George C. Scott\u2019s magnum opus performance as the ivory handled pistol wielding, cussing and slapping general of WWII is the stuff of legend. \u00a0It\u2019s a reminder of how in those war years, generals and military leaders held the public in as much awe as Hollywood celebrities and musicians and athletes. \u00a0Scott\u2019s performance is in the spotlight, but also Coppola\u2019s masterful screenplay which avoided the controversies surrounding Patton that would bog down a modern movie. \u00a0Instead, he focuses on Patton\u2019s quirks and little traits, his poetry and his belief in reincarnation, his religion and his mouth. \u00a0He says \u2018this is Patton, you decide.\u2019 \u00a0A tendency no longer near alive in modern movies. Except\u2026<\/p>\n

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HBO\u2019s Band of Brothers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

In one of the greatest mini-series or television events ever produced. \u00a0Band of Brothers<\/i> is right in every place that the theatrical Saving Private Ryan<\/i> was wrong. \u00a0The reason SPR isn\u2019t in this list is that, apart from the brutal opening scene, the movie is a Baby Boomer retelling of WWII through Boomer eyes. \u00a0Mostly, SPR is a bunch of foul mouth fellows walking around and whining about how unfair everything is. \u00a0In ten episodes of Band of Brothers<\/i>, you never once hear the phrase \u2018this isn\u2019t fair!\u2019 \u00a0Based on Stephen Ambrose\u2019s book of the same name, BoB leans on actual interviews with the real vets, and allowed their input during production. \u00a0It was their story told by them. \u00a0What we have is not something that dwells on vast, geopolitical controversies, or anything really. \u00a0It just says \u2018here\u2019s these guys, here\u2019s what they did, let\u2019s watch.\u2019 \u00a0The link to the real interviews adds an extra dimension that cannot be reproduced anywhere. \u00a0A definite watch for those losing site of America\u2019s greatness and just why that generation was once called the greatest.<\/p>\n

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Gettysburg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Based on Michael Shaara\u2019s book The Killer Angels<\/i>, Gettysburg<\/i> started as a made for TV movie, but the powers that be thought it might be better for a major theatrical release. \u00a0Not perfect, and sometimes bogs down as one after another, the cast must have its chance to stand and give a ten minute speech explaining to the audience what it\u2019s really all about. \u00a0But when the action starts, and the historical reenactors have their chance to replay that fateful day, it can\u2019t get much better. \u00a0The star power alone is worth its weight, and Jeff Daniels gives one of his best performances as one of the most fascinating war heroes in American history.<\/p>\n

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The Bridge on the River Kwai<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This isn\u2019t American! \u00a0No, it\u2019s David Lean\u2019s great tribute and analysis of an oft-forgotten part of WWII, namely the Pacific War that didn\u2019t happen over Pearl Harbor or Hiroshima. \u00a0It showcases, albeit in sanitized fashion, the brutality of one of history\u2019s most murderous empires. \u00a0But more than that, it looks into the mentality of the men who fight, what can go right, and what can go so wrong. \u00a0Sir Alec Guinness\u2019s award winning portrayal of a man who is the best and worst of war is unforgettable, as are all the performances, not the least of which is Sessue Hayakawa\u2019s scene stealing Colonel Saito. \u00a0The movie is also noteworthy as a lesson not to put too much faith in Hollywood versions of history more interested in making points than telling the history. \u00a0Though with modern historical studies, there\u2019s not much difference.<\/p>\n

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The Guns of Navarone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

With a cast like this, what can go wrong? \u00a0A fan favorite, and one of the most influential war movies that established the whole \u2018those poor suckers don\u2019t have a chance\u2019 story line. \u00a0Oddly, David Niven was the only one of the main cast to serve in WWII, and do so heroically. \u00a0His \u2018I don\u2019t want the responsibility\u2019 Corporal Miller, an explosives genius, matched against \u2018whatever gets the job done\u2019 Captain Mallory, played by Gregory Peck, is the crux of the movie\u2019s theme. \u00a0As Peck lamented many times, the movie is so fun, people forget it\u2019s supposed to be an anti-war movie. \u00a0In many ways, just like Bridge on the River Kwai.<\/i> \u00a0A mere decade and a half after the war, and already that generation was beginning to take a second look at what happened. \u00a0Something the Boomers often overlook.<\/p>\n

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Operation Pacific<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

John Wayne? \u00a0Really? \u00a0Yes, really. \u00a0Sure, many of his movies stretched the boundaries of realism, but no worse than many war movies today, which often err on the opposite side, where everything is lousy, everyone sucks, nothing is worth anything. \u00a0Same lack of realism, different reasons. For Wayne, a patriot through and through, the Americans were the good guys, end of statement. \u00a0And his movies showed it. \u00a0There were many of course, not the least of which the aforementioned Longest Day<\/i>. \u00a0But in terms of Wayne vehicles, not only does this show a side of warfare often forgotten, but it was one of the best in terms of showing it for what it was, with as few embellishments as possible. <\/p>\n

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Platoon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Send the kids to bed with this one. \u00a0One of the earliest \u2018just cuss every few seconds to make the point\u2019 movies, Platoon <\/i>doesn\u2019t suffer from Stone\u2019s utter hatred of Capitalist America as much as most of his later films. \u00a0This is Stone telling his story. \u00a0There\u2019s enough commentary, in the part of Berenger\u2019s Barnes and Dafoe\u2019s Elias to remind us of the controversies of America\u2019s first lost war. \u00a0But he also makes it about the people, and brings in the little details he knew from experience to make this one of the best war movies of all time. \u00a0Dale Dye\u2019s commentary on the DVD is perhaps one of the greatest such commentaries ever. \u00a0In some ways, it moved me more than the movie itself. <\/p>\n

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Charles Kuralt\u2019s The Revolutionary War<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Not a Hollywood production, but a series produced in the heyday of Cable channels, when The Learning Channel meant learning. \u00a0Still enough of Americana to make it worth watching, the emphasis is certainly on showing some of the meaner, shadier sides of America\u2019s war of independence, while unpacking some of those famous villains and giving them a human side, Arnold being the most obvious. \u00a0The reproductions are well produced, Kuralt\u2019s narration is worth gold, and there\u2019s still enough of a balance between the bad which needs told as well as the greatness that needs remembered, to make this a far better series than most of what is produced today, most of which sadly emphasis the bad to the exclusion of anything. \u00a0A good watch to remember just why we have this country to slap around in the first place.<\/p>\n

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The Dirty Dozen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

How did this get here? \u00a0A fictitious movie that nobody really knows what to do with. \u00a0Part Boomer rebellion, part callous who cares about human life, part in your eye to the establishment, The Dirty Dozen<\/i> was a major hit in the Summer of Love, when so many were singing All You Need is Love<\/i>. \u00a0The cast makes it work. \u00a0You can\u2019t go wrong with talent like that. \u00a0Even though you get the feeling there is plenty of commentary about war, its ugliness and its brutality, the movie never quite goes over the line to outright preaching like so many today. \u00a0It\u2019s also worth remembering that many of the attitudes of this time, rethinking the greatness of the war and those who fought it, were being held by those who back in their day were landing on the beaches of Iwo Jima and Anzio. <\/p>\n

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Kelly\u2019s Heroes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Even the name can\u2019t be taken seriously, inspired as it obviously was by the surprising hit TV series Hogan\u2019s Heroes<\/i>. \u00a0And even then, the movie Kelly\u2019s Heroes<\/i> takes Hogan\u2019s Heroes<\/i> and knocks it down another notch. \u00a0These heroes aren\u2019t out to save the world in some crazy POW camp. \u00a0These guys are out for loot! \u00a0A fictitious sixties inspired yarn in which a ragtag bunch of soldiers stop caring and decide to break the rules, not to defeat Nazism, or save the world, or defend freedom, but just to nab some gold from a bank behind enemy lines. \u00a0Fun stuff to be sure, but also a reminder of just how far we\u2019d come as a nation. \u00a0In college, it was these movies or John Wayne that led many of my classmates to conclude WWII was no big deal after all, not like Vietnam, which was really bad. <\/p>\n

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MASH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The sixties generation anti-war movie against which all sixties generation anti-war movies are measured. MASH was a Vietnam anti-war movie only loosely set in Korea. \u00a0From the sex, drugs and sex emphasis, to Sutherland\u2019s hopped up flower child Hawkeye, one almost forgets this is supposed to be in the 50s Korean conflict. \u00a0Yes, it\u2019s fun. \u00a0It\u2019s a good watch. \u00a0The gags, the performances, the talent, and the link to the classic and immensely successful TV series of the same name, all make it worth the watch. \u00a0What is especially noteworthy is that this was a major hit the same year as another major hit named Patton<\/i>. \u00a0What does that tell you about the conflicting attitudes in 1970.<\/p>\n

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Stripes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The next generation, born in the wake of the Boomers, had to have its say. \u00a0By now, Vietnam was lost, and movies like MASH <\/i>and Easy Rider<\/i> had a bigger impact on the general mindset than The Longest Day<\/i> or any John Wayne movie. \u00a0Stripes <\/i>was a vehicle for Bill Murray, and set him perched on the edge of the super-stardom he would enjoy three years later battling ghosts. \u00a0A take off of\u00a0Private Benjamin<\/i>, Stripes <\/i>held the basic contempt for most things America that was all the rage by then. \u00a0Breaking rules was the thing to do, and the army was now an industry of buffoons and dolts, at best. \u00a0What is really worth noticing, however, is Murray\u2019s famous \u2018mutts\u2019 speech. \u00a0Almost edgy in its day for poking fun of America\u2019s triumphant diverse heritage, against the utter hatred and contempt for traditional America that comes out in many movies today by the likes of Oliver Stone and others, the speech comes off as almost John Waynish. \u00a0There\u2019s how things can change.<\/p>\n

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Red Dawn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Controversial in its day because of the violence, Red Dawn<\/i> was an anomaly in a cultural landscape that was increasingly concluding that we\u2019d met the enemy and it was us. \u00a0Reagan was president, and we were being told that it was Reagan, not the Soviets, who would doom us all. \u00a0In fact, as a series I\u2019ve seen on PBS points out, the whole Cold War may have been orchestrated by the American Military Complex, and not the fault of those misunderstood Soviets at all. \u00a0That attitude was already taking shape when this odd thing came out. \u00a0Assuming an unlikely scenario in which the Soviets pair up with Hispanic forces to invade the hinterland, Red Dawn <\/i>assumed a bunch of high schoolers of varying backgrounds could bring the Red Army to a standstill. \u00a0Good performances and a captivating story line help. \u00a0Mostly, it\u2019s just interesting to see how a movie with the attitude of \u2018America is great let\u2019s defend it!\u2019 stands out like a sore thumb when set in juxtaposition to other Hollywood fare in recent years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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The Best Years of Our Lives<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

A movie that smacks down the Boomer Myth that they were the first generation to honestly look at the ugly underside of things like war and anything else to do with America. \u00a0Winner of 1946\u2019s Academy Award for Best Picture, and a box office hit, this movie takes an honest look at the cost of war in a way few movies before or since have equaled. \u00a0It\u2019s not at the end of the list because of its stature. \u00a0In fact, if that were the case, it\u2019d be at the top. \u00a0Instead, it\u2019s here to remind us that much of what we\u2019ve bought into in order to forget our country\u2019s greatness was, in fact, a lie. \u00a0And few lies have been more effective than the one that said ours is the first generation to be honest about America\u2019s real history. \u00a0Truth be told, most of what passes for honesty is anything but that. \u00a0Instead, look at the movies from the times, such as this remarkable gem, and see how that generation that came before the Boomers, like most generations, actually dealt with reality. \u00a0Get your hankies, you\u2019ll be glad you did.<\/p>\n

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There are others. \u00a0Some as I said are watched at specific times because of historical accuracy or that\u2019s just how I remember them. \u00a0 Many, like All Quiet on the Western Front, Paths of Glory, The Lost Battalion, The Blue Max, From Here to Eternity, Twelve O\u2019Clock High, Apocalypse Now, My Boy Jack<\/i>, and First Blood<\/i>, among others, are worth their weight, and have a place, though maybe not in a day that\u2019s supposed to be a day to remember the fallen, those who went before, those who died in some faraway land so that we could do what we do best, and that\u2019s sit around and complain about the country we inherited. \u00a0But then that\u2019s why I didn\u2019t list such things as the Deer Hunter <\/i>or Kubrick\u2019s Full Metal Jacket<\/i>. \u00a0After all, why watch those movies when I could watch a modern Stone movie instead?<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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