| Flat Beer and Cold Pizza | 07 Mar 2012 12:28 a.m. PST |
Out of all the wartime sea epics to hit the silver screen, which are are your top three? Here are mine in no particular order: Master and Commander
Tora, Tora, Tora
The Caine Mutiny |
privateer  | 07 Mar 2012 1:03 a.m. PST |
In no real order, The Cruel Sea, Battle of the River Plate and Das Boot also a In Which We Serve should get a mention |
| Major Mike | 07 Mar 2012 2:46 a.m. PST |
In addition of those mentioned above, I also liked The Enemy Below and the galley battle from Ben Hur. |
| Fish | 07 Mar 2012 3:41 a.m. PST |
Das Boot is the numba one, hands down. |
| Cardinal Hawkwood | 07 Mar 2012 4:01 a.m. PST |
Master and Commnader
Sink the Bismark
The Cruel Sea |
| David Manley | 07 Mar 2012 4:32 a.m. PST |
Battle of the River Plate
Master and Commander
In Which We Serve |
| Joppyuk | 07 Mar 2012 4:36 a.m. PST |
The Cruel Sea
Sink The Bismark
Battle of the River Plate |
| Martin Rapier | 07 Mar 2012 4:50 a.m. PST |
The Cruel Sea
Das Boot
Master and Commander |
377CSG  | 07 Mar 2012 4:54 a.m. PST |
PT 109
Das Boot
Sink The Bismark |
| Florida Tory | 07 Mar 2012 5:01 a.m. PST |
Midway
The Gallant Hours
The Enemy Below |
| OldGrenadier at work | 07 Mar 2012 5:26 a.m. PST |
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Flight of the Intruder
Operation Petticoat |
| Mrs Pumblechook | 07 Mar 2012 5:54 a.m. PST |
Mister Roberts
Ensign Pulver |
| dBerczerk | 07 Mar 2012 6:14 a.m. PST |
Captain Blood
They Were Expendable
Atrogon |
| Given up for good | 07 Mar 2012 6:20 a.m. PST |
Das Boot
The Cruel Sea Stuck for a third as I just watched 'Sink the Bismark' so it's stuck in my mind. |
| Sundance | 07 Mar 2012 6:25 a.m. PST |
Das Boot
Sink the Bismarck
and Tora! Tora! Tora! |
| Wackmole9 | 07 Mar 2012 6:53 a.m. PST |
In harms way
Das Boot
Midway |
| David Miniature Armies | 07 Mar 2012 6:54 a.m. PST |
The Enemy Below
Tora Tora Tora
The Caine Mutiny |
| John the Greater | 07 Mar 2012 6:54 a.m. PST |
Master and Commander
Das Boot
The Sea Chase |
| Tom Reed | 07 Mar 2012 7:25 a.m. PST |
Master & Commander
Midway
In Harms Way |
| 21eRegt | 07 Mar 2012 7:49 a.m. PST |
Tora, Tora, Tora
Master and Commander
Damn the Defiant |
| Old Slow Trot | 07 Mar 2012 7:50 a.m. PST |
Not necessarily in order,but my own faves include,Tora-Tora-Tora,Midway,and John Paul Jones. |
| Allen57 | 07 Mar 2012 8:24 a.m. PST |
An honorable mention should go to Away All Boats. |
| Willtij | 07 Mar 2012 8:38 a.m. PST |
Damn the Defiant
Master and Commander
Enemy Below |
| Yesthatphil | 07 Mar 2012 9:24 a.m. PST |
Master and Commander
Midway … … plus I always quite liked 'The Long Ships' if that counts as a Naval Warfare film … sort of … |
| Patrick Sexton | 07 Mar 2012 9:38 a.m. PST |
Ben Hur, They Were Expendable, The Sea Hawk. |
| Caesar | 07 Mar 2012 9:53 a.m. PST |
Das Boot
Master and Commander
Cleopatra |
| John D Salt | 07 Mar 2012 10:06 a.m. PST |
What Sundance said. All the best, John. |
| vonMallard | 07 Mar 2012 10:12 a.m. PST |
sailor of the king I bombed Pearl Harbor Master and Commander (also liked Hornblower with Gregory Peck) |
| Pictors Studio | 07 Mar 2012 10:14 a.m. PST |
It seems that Master and Commander is doing quite well. I think that is my all time favourite naval movie as well. In my mind it really stands out head and shoulders above any other that I've seen. Pearl Harbor seems to be getting the accolades it deserves as well. |
| Augustus | 07 Mar 2012 10:23 a.m. PST |
Das Boot (super on a rainy day)
Master And Commander (also super on rainy day)
Hunt For Red October (strangely also good on a rainy day with soup) |
| Plynkes | 07 Mar 2012 11:32 a.m. PST |
I too like 'Sailor of the King.' The edition that gets shown on British TV these days has both endings (he dies in the one, lives in the other, gets the VC in both) with the cinema voice-over asking you to choose which one you like best…
…which is kind of odd.
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| Jason O Mahony | 07 Mar 2012 12:41 p.m. PST |
The Enemy Below
Das Boot
Tora Tora Tora |
| Mollinary | 07 Mar 2012 1:48 p.m. PST |
Master and Commander
Das Boot Midway
The first two way ahead of all the rest.
Mollinary |
 miniMo | 07 Mar 2012 1:59 p.m. PST |
They Were Expendable
Tora Tora Tora
Atragon |
| Mako11 | 07 Mar 2012 2:20 p.m. PST |
Sink the Bismarck
Tora Tora Tora
Das Boot
Honorable Mention:
The Bedford Incident
They were Expendable
The Enemy Below
Run Silent – Run Deep
Master and Commander
Battle of the River Plate A good Age of Sail movie, surely, but can't think of any titles right now |
| John Armatys | 07 Mar 2012 4:50 p.m. PST |
The Cruel Sea, Master and Commander, Sink the Bismark. |
| Rudysnelson | 07 Mar 2012 5:52 p.m. PST |
I have more than three. All have been mentioned here. |
| jgibbons | 07 Mar 2012 5:53 p.m. PST |
I hate threads like this I always end up poorer after reading them… Off to look up and buy the cruel sea :-) |
| Agesilaus | 07 Mar 2012 6:30 p.m. PST |
I've seen every film mentioned above, and most of them only peripherally involve naval battles. It seems strange to me that noone has taken CGI technology and attempted to give modern audiences a glimpse of a major historical naval battle. There are lots of epic battle against space aliens on film. From Salamis to the Falklands there are many possibilities.
Oh yes and Battle of the Japan Sea. |
| flooglestreet | 07 Mar 2012 8:13 p.m. PST |
Don Winslow of the Navy
Undersea Kingdom
SOS Coast Guard |
| 15th Hussar | 07 Mar 2012 8:40 p.m. PST |
What JoppyUK wrote: Battle of the River Plate
The Cruel Sea
Sink The Bismark Though I place River Plate at the top of the list, the authentic RAF Fighter Pilot talk speak between the ships officers on the open bridges and the darkly humorous second half make it a classic! |
| pphalen | 08 Mar 2012 8:07 a.m. PST |
In Harms Way
They were Expendible
Master and Commander |
| Shagnasty | 08 Mar 2012 8:52 a.m. PST |
Action In the North Atlantic is a good convoy film to match with The Cruel Sea. |
| uruk hai | 08 Mar 2012 10:54 p.m. PST |
Das Boot
Run Silent, Run Deep |
| Huscarle | 11 Mar 2012 12:41 a.m. PST |
The Cruel Sea
Das Boot
The Key (with a 23 y.o. Sophia Loren) |
| vitrier | 10 Apr 2012 12:13 p.m. PST |
Das Boot
The Cruel Sea
In which we serve Celia Johnson's Christmas dinner speech in In which we serve is, I think, my favourite moment in British cinema. |
| Scorpio | 10 Apr 2012 12:24 p.m. PST |
It seems strange to me that noone has taken CGI technology and attempted to give modern audiences a glimpse of a major historical naval battle. There are lots of epic battle against space aliens on film. Hey, Battleship comes out this summer! Heh. Seriously, there's not a big market for historical war movies, and only big markets get all the good CGI work. Maybe in a few years some big-name actor will want to do a movie on one of these classic battles, and then we'll get that. |
| 14Bore | 10 Apr 2012 2:09 p.m. PST |
Master and Commander, Sink the Bismark, Caine Mutiny |
