Best post WWII Military Films

[Aeraaa]

Blessed_by_Fire is an interesting Argentinian film about the Falklands War, depicting events from the Argie side. The harsh discipline, the poor living conditions and the uncertainty and tension of the warfare in the Falklands are depicted in this film. I think you can find it in youtube (with subtitles), I've watched it there 5-6 years ago.

[wulfir]

Three movies I watched in my youth that might fit in the good, but less well known, category:

Tumbledown (1988) - Falklands
The Bridges at Toko-ri.(1954) - Korea
La 317e Section (1965) - Indochina

[IronDuke99]

My idea of 'Good' tends to be reasonably accurate in a military sense, since anything else just annoys the hell out of me.

The problem with 'The Hurt Locker' is that (leaving aside some stuff that seemed a bit unlikely, to say the least, from a 'bomb disposal' bloke) these, very brave men, are high value assets and they get protection and cover in everything they do from infantry and other soldiers. Engaging the enemy with small arms is not their job and they would not do it except in extreme exceptional emergency.

The best, and most realistic, scene in the film, in my view, is the bit in the supermarket back in the US.

A okay film/mini series is 'Bravo Two Zero' (1999) based on the fouled up first Gulf War SAS Op.