Top 10 Movie Battles
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Warriors, soldiers, tanks, explosions... these are the scenes that inspire shock and awe. WatchMojo picks the ten best battles in cinematic history.
List Entries and Rank:
#10. Battle of Mogadishu “Black Hawk Down” (2001)
#9. Battle of Metapontum “Spartacus” (1960)
#8. Battle in Germania “Gladiator” (2000)
#7. Battle of Rourke’s Drift “Zulu” (1964)
#6. Parachute Drop “A Bridge Too Far” (1977)
#5. Castle Attack “Ran” (1985)
#4. Attack on Pearl Harbor “Tora! Tora! Tora!” (1970)
#3. ? - Zábava
One Word: "Waterloo". The 1970 film is probably the best battle sequence ever filmed. With more than 40 minutes long is also one of the most historically accurate depictions of battle.
tens of thousands of russian soldiers as extras. Epic in its scope and a superb example of pre cgi awesomeness
@@mrpirate3470 so true.
I want modern remake
Yesss thank you.
@@Prussian31 Why it is already perfect.
The British army was not defeated at Rorkes Drift 'Zulu' they won the battle. They only got beat at Islandlwana
James Mcmurrough CORRECT MOJO IS FULL OF UN-EDUCATED TURDS!
correct
+James Mcmurrough And in our defense, we lost Isandlwana because we forgot to bring screwdrivers to open the ammunition boxes... Our bad.
you could bash open an ammo box with one blow of the but of your rifle
+James Mcmurrough They got the boxes open eventually, but the idea of not distributing the ammo in preparation for a fight was a terrible call.
"Why aren't you shooting at them?!"
"They're not shooting at us yet!!"
"How can you tell?!"
This cracked me up xD
SAME! XD
There needs to be a Top 20 of this. Along with the sci-fi and fantasy editions......
Your right
No
Hands down. Battle of Endor is by far greatest space battle in cinema history.
I remember when Saving Private Ryan was on t.v and this seen was on, my father (R.I.P) -who had no interest in "new" American movies and who was in the war against IRAN back in the 80s - was breathless and didn't blink until the seen was over, then he said "that's exactly what war looks like" ... he left the room and never completed the movie.
While I have never been in a war ( and I hope I will never have to go to one ) what I said once I saw this movie was that it resembled some old soviet war movies, yes some of them had heavy propaganda in them but others were more honest about the cruelty of war. What I want to say is either the title of this video should be Holywood top 10 movie battles, or they should see some movies outside of Holywood. Peace to all.
The D-Day scenes from Savinging Private Ryan and The Longest Day are probably the best battle scenes ever made, in my opinion, of course.
The British army were not defeated at Rorkes drift... It was the battle the day before at Isandlwana -
+Richard Stroud Exactly. There are a number of flaws in the facts and descriptions of the battles in this video. I expect better from WatchMojo.com.
Richard Stroud they also defeated in first anglo-maratha war,first n second anglo-mysore war
They also weren't defending a field hospital, it was a Catholic mission, what field hospital consists of a small barn and an outhouse lol
@@mathewaverill2018 The British had converted the mission into a supply depot and hospital. Much of the battle occurred around the hospital and many of the VC's awarded went to the men who defended the hospital and got the patients out of there after the Zulu's had got into the hospital and set fire to the roof.
@@dabido65 yeah but it wasn't a hospital only a makeshift first aid post and it's primary function was still Catholic mission.
I think you're confusing Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift. While the two were part of the same British campaign the former has been called the greatest defeat ever suffered by a modern army by a native force while the latter was actually a British victory stopping Zulu incursion into Natal.
Rorke's Drift might have turned ugly if the Zulu hadn't outrun their supply lines. But with hundreds of wounded and no food retreat back across the river was their only option after encountering the stiff resistance at Rorke's Drift.
Private Ryan's last scene, the battle for the town, was in my opinion the greatest war scene in a movie. Spielberg's use of the sound of battle with incredible scenes of battle deaths made this film a war epic!
bftime1 indeed most always remember the beach because is the longest one but that battle in the end is the most epic depiction.
I would have certainly given an honourable mention to the climactic battle (or the Adler Tag battle) from 'Battle of Britain', purely for the astonishing feat of assembling two air armadas of real fighters and bombers, and then filing it all in mid-air from a flying camera-ship. A dizzying, swirling action set-piece which is unrivaled in movie history and impossible to replicate now, to the point that footage from the movie is borrowed and used in many other productions; testament to its authenticity and high quality.
Made even better considering how some of those aircraft actually flew during the war.
Indeed, the score by Walton in the climactic fight is very lyrical and replaces the need for speech; what little dialogue there is serves to highlight the danger as the rookie pilot is led into his first & last battle...
Yep. "Battle of Britain" is repeatedly and criminally overlooked.
What no honorable mentions? Surely, Gettysburg is worth an honorable mention.
Francine Price No ww1 battles yet :(
MA1K0 T.A.B they could have mentioned Verdun.
Francine Price watchmojo didnt do honorable mention back then
Francine Price ya
The 1970 film Waterloo should be number 1 on the list, the battle scenes are absolutely incredible.
Saving Private Ryan's opening scene is one of the most memorable scenes in cinema history in my opinion. It just broke everything in me, and that was just the beginning. It set the tone for a very well made movie, one of the best I've seen.
My favorite of all time.
Yeah. A brilliant piece of american propaganda
Completely exagerated. The landing was not that bloody
camilo carena
Oh really? Please, do tell how everything happened seeing how you were apparently there.
Omfg is this comment for real? You can google the number of losses from each side. The germans suffered more losses on D-Day
camilo carena
As it was shown in the movie too...the Allied forces won...
Don't see how couldn't have been a blood bath. It was a suicide mission to be one of the first soldiers to be dropped off on that beach.
I watched "Saving Private Ryan" once and Never EVER could watch it again. It was that good.
WOW, when i was 9 i watched it over and over first time i could barely watch i watch it every year now (mostly to get used to death bc I'm joining the corps at 19)
luke carlson I don't Need to watch it again to know what death is like. Evidently you needed to be reminded of what that it is like. It's easy, see someone get shot and they fall down dead... I get the idea.
luke carlson Please understand that war is never something to get into unless absolutely necessary. No one wins and alot of people die. I hope u join the corps for the right reasons.
I WILL join to fight for our country not for death or killing.
luke carlson Lets hope so.
'Gettysburg'. 7,000 soldiers on-screen at the same time.
Well not as many of waterloo mate
No, but they reenacted Pickett's Charge on the same field as the actual charge. Little Round Top was filmed on Little Round Top.
I've been watching Zulu for as long as I can remember (I'm almost 26 now). Probably my favorite scene in that movie is the final battle, where the British hear the Zulus chant eerily, and then they sing "Men of Harlech" in response. That in turn gets the Zulus more riled up, and their chants get more aggressive as they start banging on their shields. It's so dramatic, and a battle in itself, so much chills! Truly a spectacular scene! It also kinda reminds me of "We Will Rock You" by Queen. * BOOM BOOM CLAP * LOL
Roarke's drift was a separate battle from the defeat handed to the british earlier. 150 men stood against 4000 Zulus that were heavily armed with the weapons they had captured. It was a perfect picture of discipline and courage under extreme odds. Unlike the 300 Spartans many of these men survived.
I believe its the battle of Isandlwana :p
I own the movie and have watched it many, many times, The movie that portrayed the British getting butchered was called Zulu Dawn.
Yeah its a good film, preferred the original Zulu though.
Shadowace724
I said the same thing a few months back. The defeat happened at Isandlwana and was depicted in the movie Zulu Dawn. The fact that a much smaller group of men turned back the Zulu army is a testament to British doggedness. BTW they were stationed at a Dutch mission not a field hospital. I like Mojo but I wish they would be more accurate. I mean they can look stuff up, it's not like there isn't an internet.
Jake Kelly Isandlwana was a different battle from Rorke's Drift about 150 British held a small town againest about 4000 Zulus, and the British in Real Life actually successfully defended it. Isandlwana had 20,000 Zulus attacking a portion of the British main column of 1,800, even tho the disadvantage in weapons techonogy for the Zulus, the Zulus overwhelmed the British and crushed the Column
2:48 Actually the British won the battle of Rorkes drift. It was another battle you're talking about that happened nearby. But not Rorkes drift. And the Zulu's retreated once British reinforcements were spotted. Yet another example of America ignoring its own defeats while glorifying others losses
"Essentially defeated" is not not defeated.
Studheim12 Is that like a Pyrrhic defeat? Like where you lose, but you force so many losses that you basically win?
No. Rorkes drift had around 140 men and suffered 17 casualties against a force of around 4000. So the didn't have many losses. And the nearby battle i mentioned was a total loss because of the ineptitude of the commander.
It was the Zulus who took the pyrrhic defeat. The British won a tactical victory.
The Rorke's Drift movie is "Zulu" with Michael Caine. The big battle the Brits lost is "Zulu Dawn" with Burt Lancaster.
When saving private Ryan was in the movies, WWll veterans got PTSD at the Omaha beach scene
Glory was pretty awesome and moving.
What the fuck? Didn't the British win the battle of Rorke's Drift?
Yes they did.
Vin Daloo But they only lost 17 British soldiers. Considering how many they were up against that's pretty impressive.
George, why do you care?
Charles Mu I'm assuming he's talking to Michael Johnson.
Vin Daloo The Army doesn't like more than one disaster in a day.
I would put the final charge scene in "We Were Soldiers" in the top five.
That scene in Saving Private Ryan brings me to tears ever time. You can really experience the sacrifice and senselessness of war. It’s so realistic. I was going to be shocked if not #1.
Just watched "Gettysburg" again. Greatest battel scenes ever filmed with the exception of Private Ryan.
And .... Waterloo!
Actually the battle of Rorke's Drift was a British victory, over three quarters of the original Zulu force was wiped out by less than a hundred British soldiers all low on ammunition and only having enough weapons to arm over half of them.
Exactly man, do they not like give Wiki a quick look before they do these?
You wrong, Zulu won finally, they now living in UK under social welfare care :)
It like bunker hill during the American Revolution. Colonial troops were defending a hill and the British kept sending waves apon waves of men up it to be froce to retreat. But the Colonials ran out of bullets and had to retreat. So who won the. The British who took the hill but lost a lot men or the colonials who loss few but had to retreat?
Mad D King I'd say the Brits won, yes they lost a lot of men but they achieved their objectives, where as in the battle of Rorkes drift the Zulu armies lost twice the amount of men and achieved no objectives.
Mad D King Brits won militarily.Colonists won spiritually.
Saving private Ryan was the best for me it was jaw dropping gory and action packed and thrilling on how war seemed like all time favorite war movie ever
I totally agree.
Best
if you havent seen Band of Brothers, id seriously suggest watching it. its like Saving Private Ryan but covers a lot more of WW2
The pacific and band of broth as are good
Tora! Tora! Tora! is much better than pearl harbour
Man that one "safety violation scene" was better than the whole "Pearl Harbour" film
True. Then again, pretty much everything ever put on film is better than Pearl Harbor.
I know Officers like that , worlds foremost authority on everything.
Amen.
Ben McGuinness
My only problem with placing The Battle of Stirling Bridge anywhere on this list, as depicted in the film "Braveheart", is the small, seemingly inconsequential fact that the tactics employed by the Scottish to repel and defeat the English, as shown on screen, were completely and utterly inaccurate. It was called The Battle of Stirling Bridge because there was a bridge that the English had to cross, in order to engage the Scottish who awaited them on the other side of the river. Instead of waiting for the English army to cross and array in battle formation, the Scottish attacked them as they crossed the bridge, thereby negating the English force's numerical superiority. William Wallace's tactics at The Battle of Stirling Bridge were an exact mirror of those employed by King Leonidas and the Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae.
Plus they depict Wallace and the Scots as Picts. Wallace was a landed noble. He would have been in chain and surcoat bearing his code of arms, like the English.
Mark Duncan Precisely, the movie was most certainly not a historically-accurate depiction of events...nor of the relationships between the principle characters. The love story between Princess Isabella and Wallace was the height of ridiculousness, since in the early years of the 14th century, when Wallace was on the run from both the Scottish nobility and the English, she was a child. Isabella was only 10 years old, when Wallace was executed for treason, in 1305.
That wasn't the Battle of Stirling Bridge. It was Bannockburn.
Bannockburn was only shown at the end of the movie. It took place after the death of Wallace. It's a Hollywood movie. The Scottish nobility did not dress as wogs.
Raymond Hainey The first large-scale engagement which was depicted in the movie was supposed to be a depiction of the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
Note I said "supposed to be" because the tactics demonstrated in the film did not accurately represent those used in the historical battle.
But, as was observed, it was Hollywood...what you sacrifice in authenticity, you more than make up for with *MEL GIBSON SPEAKING IN A SILLY SCOTTISH BROGUE!!!!*
...gag...
Spartacus was met by full LEGIONS, not battalions, sorry. The list should have been broken up between small level engagements like Black Hawk Dawn and full scale open ones like the one in Spartacus. The battle scenes from Flags From Our fathers or Letters From Iwo Hima should be on the list, maybe the one from the Russian Film 9th. Company too.
smart man! you need more thumbs
Great points! Also I'd maybe add Stalingrad battle from 1993 German movie of the same name.
You guys forgot Mel Gibson's "We Were Soldiers" and "The Patriot"...
I think he loses points for that battle being absolutely ludicrous.
Colin Welch lol xD
Are you kidding? The Patriot was ludicrous, and clearly a case of a bad director (Emmerich) imitating his lead actor's own work. It was basically Braveheart meets the American Revolution, except far less realistic.
The recent movie Hacksaw Ridge had some pretty intense battle scenes and they were pretty lengthy too
Those weren't that well done. Not like Saving Private Ryan. Just a bunch of people running around shooting at each other.
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It was so absurd.. I'm quite sure that in real life no one ever used a dead soilder that's been cut in half as a shield, while hip firing a BAR with another hand. And human body doesn't even stop rifle bullets btw.
Paschendale. An obscure Canadian film about the WW1 battle of Paschendale in Belgian. One of the best (or should I say gruesome) realistic hand to hand combat scene that you will ever see, and never forget.
82 Luft: I didn't realize it, but the end battle scene can be watched right here on CZcams. Over 550K viewings! Not to be missed.
Really good movie.
its Passchendaele, and that was an awful movie with not a lot of battle scenes. Most of it was slow and romantic
david Kealey I think I enjoyed it because there are so few WWI movies out there even now.
82 Luft completely agree with you old boy, the half hour or so is totally gruesome, best Great War combat movie I’ve seen.
Ok I definitely agree with #1. I'm still traumatized to this day from that movie...
300 should hold a spot in the top 3
***** it is second after LOTR the two towers, battle of helms deep...two great battle scenes
***** but 300 depicts it as a cgi/blue screen fest.
Alexander (2004) Oliver Stone.
The battle of Gaugamela recreated in the movie is really great.
All very interesting battles. Thanks for pulling them together.
what a lot of people don't know is that in Black Hawk Down they used the actual footage from the surveillance birds in the scenes with General Garrison in the TOC
if you ever get the chance watch the documentary. Its epic.
What a lot of people don't know is that one of the helicopters landed on a three year old boy, killing him and that was the main reason they were so hostile.
At Kapooka when I was soing my basic training in the Australian Army we watched 'Zulu" the night before our Battle Efficiency Test as an example of what discipline and tenacity can achieve and to gee us up .
+Robert Williams While waiting for something to happen in a QRF exercise at RAAF Williamtown, we all watched Major Paine! :P
+Mick Hawkes I love that movie XD It's one of those movies that never gets old.
Major Paine has one of the most awesomest lines ever 'Must be someone somewhere need some killin' "
Every recruit who underwent basic training at 1RTB, back in those days, watched Zulu, as part of the training curriculum
Tora Tora Tora was the Imperial Japanese Navy...not the Army.
Yeah...guess they couldn't do basic googling on this list.
I've always loved epic movie battles! Awesome video
Gotta love the mature content warning not two seconds before the Colonial soldier gets his head taken off by a cannon shot. Good timing, guys.
True. Lmao!
Were you expecting the Disney version of combat?
Ed Price Definitely not, just thought it was good timing. God, what if the Patriot was directed by Disney...
Jonathan Parker Well, Disney has a specific market niche. (Pekinpah would have done it in slow motion!) OTOH, remember that it was Disney animators who created one of the better sci-fi monsters, the semi-invisible creature from the Id on Forbidden Planet.
The Battle of Borodino from Bondarchuk's War & Peace should have been on the list. 40 minutes long, tens of thousands of extras.
+Shellshock1918 He used tens of thousands of extras from the Soviet Army. The BBC version in the early 70's used the same film. I hope they paid royalties?
Finally a Mojo list I can agree with. Maybe not the placement ,but some of the best most surely.
wow finally a good list from this channel
Came to make sure that the D-Day scene from Saving Private Ryan was in 1st place.
+D - Rob same
Exactly the same
You know any websites to watch SPR for free
D - Rob b
Ayyyyyy yes
The Battle of Rorke's Drift was a victory for the British Army. You can tell, because they are still alive at the end!
The Battle of Isandlwana a day or so before was the defeat!
I re watch Zulu now and then. Must have watched it about 20 times by now.
This is the best list WatchMojo has ever put together. (IMO)
The helicopter attack on a scarcely armed village in Apocalypse Now was not a battle. It was a massacre like Mai Lai or Wounded Knee. Now, I would have put the version of Little Big Horn from Little Big Man on the list and also would not have missed Gallipoli, the movie and the closing battle.
Enemy at the Gates. The scene where the Russian soldiers are forced, even without guns, to rush the germans.
this.
This is the best value of that scene. Robert E Lee said it best. It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.
order 226 i think it was called. you fight until you win or die trying and if you retreat you are gunned down by your own before you reach the trench. and if you reach the trench, those who failed to kill you get executed too
John Smith Except that it didn't. Not in the way the movie portrays it.
Gašper Poklukar ^This
You have examples of the USSR gunning down retreating troops, but generally speaking in situations shown in the film they would usually have been arrested or let through. It was generally to stop troops retreating in normal battle situations, not a complete slaughter. Also while they were allowed to shoot them, generally speaking they would of been arrested, over 600,000 troops were detained due to this, with over 20,000 eventually being arrested and 10,000 sentenced to death. The vast majority of those of those arrested would of been sent to penal battalions with many of those given death sentences later also given the option.
Regarding troops giving a rifle between two troops, with some only getting ammo, while the russians did suffer from supply shortages, I don't think there's many records of this being the case, especially the the time you get to stalingrad. Also such units would not of been expected to realistically hold the line of battle, even by USSR standards.
Yes the USSR was brutal and yes they traded lives for time (rather successfully I may add), but not *quite* as brutal as that film suggests. The film is generally used to feed Nato/US notions of superiority.
This is a great list. Very rarely do I agree with these "Top 10 Lists" but these guys get it right. I don't know about the order, but do agree that Saving Private Ryan first scene is the best in cinema history of its genre. There are a lot of great battle scenes out there and not sure Spartacus would make my list but most of these would. Well done.
Good list. I especially like numbers 1 & 2 those were amazing scenes in both. Any leader that wants to send their troops into war should be required to watch them.
Good choice for number 1.
La Drang Vietnam- We Were Soldiers (2002)
Battle of Fort Wagner- Glory (1989)
Battle of The Alamo- The Alamo (1960)
We Were Soldiers is pretty damn good, forgot about that one
Samson A lot of people do brother.
You're right. "Glory" should have knocked out "Gladiator" or "Spartacus".
Chamberlain's charge in Gettysburg that's an awesome battle scene
That and the Battle of First Manassas from Gods and Generals - they're both epic and historically accurate.
Josey Wales Yell like furies!!!!
No Rorkes drift does not in reality give an example of a British army being defeated by an "inferior" army. That was isandlawana, fought earlier in the same day. And Zulus aren't what I'd call inferior either. We just had more guns and shiny buttons. We won Rorkes drift.
+James Hooper The Troops won at Rorke's Drift because they had a strong defensive position. The troops at Isandlwana were afforded no such advantage.
+James Hooper I think he meant "inferior" due to the Zulus being more "primitive" in comparison to the more modern British army.
+karlmoles65 I wouldn't say it wasn't that they weren't afforded the advantage; it's that the British leadership, chief among them Chelmsford, vastly underestimated Zulu fighting ability and didn't even order the creation of a laager (that is, defensive encirclement using wagons).
Indeed, the soldiers were not afforded the advantage of a solid defensive position in the battle, but this was due more to the COs' ineptitude and overconfidence than completely unfavorable terrain.
The Battle of the Crater in Cold Mountain really impressed me.It is by far my favorite battle scene ever.
i love that scene to and the music really goes with it.
Agreed. It's easy to forget that the film had a good battle scene in it. Great film in general.
The Longest Day is certainly one of the most ambitious of Hollywood's efforts to capture something from the D-Day invasion.
I'd also have to mention "Gettysburg (Pickett's charge)" as one of the most heart breaking battle scenes in cinema.
oh thank god you chose Tora Tora Tora over the other movie
great video! nice
How could Kingdom of Heaven is not on the list?
Waterloo should have made this list just for the scene where General Nay orders the French cavalry to charge the Allies lines and you get this shot from the sky showing all the British soldiers holding out in giant squares with the French cavalry running between them. This was shot in realtime with no ugly CGI effects, it really is epic they managed to have that many people on screen at the same time.
Tora, Tora, Tora is so fascinating because you literally have both sides depicting the event and what lead up to it. And it's just a epic movie.
How about crossing the Volga, shortly after the start of "Enemy at the Gates" ?
this is shitty movie
true, but a great battle scene.
Apparently, the battle scene in Saving Private Ryan was so effective and realistic that some of the veterans of the real battle who saw the film broke down in tears. Also, I really liked the battle scene from the movie "Four Feathers".
Wow, that's tragic. :( I always have a sick and sad feeling whenever I watch Saving Private Ryan, especially during that D-day battle scene.
Yes those men were true heroes not to say the men and women in combat today are not but that was one of the very few wars that needed to be fought other then the revolutionary the civil and world war one and two i cant think of any that america had to enter and those men knowing that hey were walking into a death trap and still having the guts to go in wow i would pussy out in a second
those was heroes, the soldiers of vietnam was butchers and rapist, most of them
they said the only thing missing from that scene was the smell of death
esteban jimenez over a million went over there. "Most" were butchers and rapists? Why, because they were fighting communists instead of NAZIs? (That's is the correct answer for your warped and unfair comment whether you realize it or not.)
The entirety of We Were Soldiers is a fantastic battle. That's a great movie and should have been considered here, I think.
Also something to be considered: the crossing of the Volga from Enemy at the Gates. Still, some good choices here.
You are so right!!!!
also great battles 300 the first wave,Kingdom of Heaven the siege,El Cid,and many more well directed and believable battles
AN CHE
rember that 300 is 80 percent fiction, King Leonitius was back up by 7,000 other greeks.
i am greek and i know exactly the facts my friend. and the total was not 7000 but 12000 thousand if you include auxilaries according to Pausanias.And when the betrayal was know he stayed on the field along with 800 other greeks a total of 1200 men approximately and he ordered the rest to retreat so that they can take part in other retalliaton attack against Persians...the force that stayed was butchered along with Leonidas himself...the story is fiction nontheless not for the story but for the presentation...still a hell of a good battle scene...the best book for this is Hot Gates from Steven Presfield...
"Standing in each other's light" - The Thin Red Line. Look it up, it's an amazing battle scene
When my sister and I watched Saving Private Ryan for the first time with our mom about two years ago she warned us that the beginning of the movie was probably the most intense movie scene we would have ever seen. She was right. I’ve never watched a movie that had me so emotionally invested so quickly. I was crying within five minutes of the movie. I was in awe of the acting and the set.
I liked the battle of Ibelin in Kingdom of Heaven. I thought it was a nice representation of what a battle in the period might have been like, very focused on cavalry
+mema0005 just wanted to point out lad that their is no battle of Ibelin. I think the one you are referring to with the cavalry charge actually took place outside of the castle known as Krak des Chevaliers. But good point why didn't Kingdom of Heaven make this list? The final battle at Jerusalem was one of the most epic battles in cinema
You are correct. I believe Ibelin was where Bloom's character lived in the Middle East. I was misremembering. I love all the fights in KoH, especially the skirmish in the woods in Europe, although it might be pushing it a bit to call that a battle
We were soldiers should be here
Replace gladiator with Gettysburg, since many of these seem based on actual combat events. Pickett's charge is well worth the watch.
Al fin un listado de verdad!!
I'm Spartacus!
I'm Spartacus!
That guy is Spartacus.....
Kingdom of Heaven's final battle? Ironclad, the siege of Rochester castle?
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe battle deserves to be a top 10!!👏🏻👏🏻
We Were Soldiers had a great battle throughout the entire movie. Gets me every time.
I would have to include paths of glory as on of the best battle scene movies
The opening to saving private Ryan has got to be one of the strongest openings to a film ever. Still get chills watching it.
Huh, they skipped Midway, that was a pretty decent war movie with an awesome battle.
This made me watch the Opening Scene of Ryan right after clicking like and posting this comment.
how about the Defense at the Little Round Top in Gettysburg?
Yes!!!!!!
Dude. I love the battle scene so much.
MusicHaven2012 I was just about to re watch that movie.
MusicHaven2012 Pickett's Charge in Gettysburg, too.
MusicHaven2012 Or Gods and Generals at Fredericksburg.
BTW, it's not "paratroop drop" it's operation market garden.
:O another liam!
:D well then
+Thunderbolt747 excellent battle!
are you dutch
.... What, Me?
Good selection, had seen all those, possibly would have included initial battle of 300
Gotta correct you here, the British won the battle at Rourke's Drift... Did you actually see the movie?
they might have got bits confused with zulu dawn, a very similar film depicting the british loss at isandlwana just before rourkes drift
ye thats the one i was thinking of just couldnt remember the name
I was about to say that too, mate.
I think it's pretty hard to argue with the top spot. Nothing had ever come close to that scene before in terms of raw brutality and (according to the actual veterans of it) realism. Although to be honest, as great as it is, I actually preferred the final battle at the end.
yeah, the end battle was amazing.
I never understood the final scene, where Upham executed the German soldier after calling him a "war criminal." First, for that time in the war, it was an anachronistic phrase. Second, some claim that the German soldier was the one released after the assault on the radar site, but to my eye, although the two Germans looked somewhat similar, they had different uniforms and insignia. Has this issue been answered anywhere?
Ed Price
it is absolutely the same guy
Ed Price It's the same man, they not only mutually recognize each other, but he also says "Upham?"
David Gunn But the soldier climbing the stairs, walking past a frozen Upham, gets to the top and hears the gun crew call out "Upham?". It's logical for the German to infer that the crew was expecting Upham, and that Upham was the guy he passed on the stairs. And on coming down the stairs, the German gets a very good look at Upham as he passes him. Thus, as Upham later holds him at rifle point, it's reasonable for the German to try to kindle some personal contact with a soldier who he had just spared killing. And what is the rationale behind Upham terming the German a "war criminal?" This bothered me, not so much for the morality, but as a strange failure of the story line.
Yes! #7 glad this was in the 10!
Midway was a great movie and even more important battle. So many things went right by timing/luck, talent (code breakers!), and bravery.
I knew Saving Private Ryan would be number 1!
I mean knew
Sabb Dios
thank for spoiling it for me
No problem man, you could also avoid reading the comments as well
Sabb Dios
well i do a thing where i guess what #1 is and see if I'm right. but right before i guessed i saw your comment out of the corner of my eye
Oh, alright
6:50 A friend of my Grandparents who participated in this battle said that it gave him nightmares again.
Eric Taylor Spielberg had to cut out 5 minutes of that part of the movie to retain a PG-13 rating...I wonder what was in the other 5 minutes.
I Know.
Probably just more pictures of people being blown to bits.
Legit assumption
+I Know. but the movie isn't PG-13, it's R
+Canaan B Yeah, my bad. I meant NC-17.
"Tora Tora Tora" made in 1970. That was 47 years ago. Yet everytime I view it; it just seems to get better.
I saw "Bataan" when i was a kid and it scared the hell out of me...still one of my favourites.
I think 300 should have a spot in here!
Probably added too many fantasy elements to be considered a realistic depiction of the battle of Thermopylae.
It wasn't realistic movie battles, it was just non sci fi movie battles
... D: i just said Fantasy
but yea its also non sci fi (jerk)
The British WON the Battle at Rorke's Drift in real life! The nearby, previous Battle of Isandlwana was the one the British lost!
The Battle of Rorke's Drift, in real life, was the classic example of how a well-defended position could be held by a handful of troops against massive opposition. The defense of the field hospital at Rorke's Drift was led by two officers who were considered incompetent misfits (one was clinically deaf) by their (dead) superiors before they managed to hold that hospital with 150 men (many of them patients at the hospital who were themselves already wounded in battle) against a determined assault by 4,000 Zulus . Their superior officers allowed themselves to be defeated in detail by the same force, even though they had many more troops for the defense of their positions at Isandlwana.
So much for historical accuracy. In his book Carnage and Culture, eminent historian Victor Davis Hanson chose the Defense of Rorke's Drift as one of ten exemplary battles where vastly outnumbered forces from Western nations prevailed against their less civilized adversaries.
I watched a documentary a couple of years ago about Isandlwana. The officers got complacent and had their defensive line out too far meaning there were gaps of around 15ft between the defending soldiers. The Martini rifles used were temperamental in this climate and could seize up after as few as 10 rounds due to the breech overheating. When this happened to a few of the troops defending, it left gaps that the Zulus charged through and they then slaughtered the British hand to hand. In the tighter surrounds of Rorke's Drift, the soldiers were shoulder to shoulder and as such the seized rifles did not allow the same gaps
@4:56: Japanese Navy, not Army, come on guys.
4:48
I really do agree with the number 1 on this list.
saving private ryan is gory as hell, and still soldiers ay its nothing compared to the actual battle....damn
Nothing can do justice to the real thing..
Ahem. Rorke's drift was not a defeat! The 24th regiment of foot held the Zulu's off with very few casualties. In the end the Zulu's realized they were losing too many men, over a tiny garrison and moved on. Christ get your facts right!
I know right. They made it sound like the Zulus won handedly against the British...when actually, it was the other way around.
Rorke's Drift was a victory and one of the greatest last stands in history. However, the battle at Isandlwana was the defeat they got mixed up with here.
***** Dunno where you got that from mate, they were part of the British army. And Britannia was never one unified tribe ..
Pretty spot on list. All quiet on the western front and stalingrad could have done with a mention.
I wouldn't say Stalingrad but maybe enemy at the gates.
Also paths of glory
I definitely agree with the pick for the no. 1 spot.
what about the final battle from the last samurai. its not that popular but i love it
I totally agree