"Top ten WARGAMING related films" Topic

After the Top Ten Films poll as suggested by Willtij was shot down by the editor as not being "wargaming related" I will steal the idea and suggest one that is.

So what are your top ten "WARGAMING related" movies. Those films that either inspire you to game or started you in a new period or you like to watch while conducting any wargaming function from research thru painting to playing.
Historical accuracy and good acting are optional.

For me in no particular order:
Gettysburg
Glory
Waterloo
Master and Commander
The Patriot
The Longest Day
A Bridge too far
The Lord of the Rings (entire series)
Star Wars (both series)
Brave Heaart

the above plus

Gladiator
13th warrior
Conan (old version)
Troy

Cross of Iron
Battleground
Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
Zulu
Zulu Dawn
Khartoum
Big Red One
Lawrence of Arabia
Saving Private Ryan
Winter War
Last of the Mohicans
The Light Horsemen
Horatio Hornblower
Das Boot
The Enemy Below
Sands of Iwo Jima
El Cid

And certain parts of the following:
The Thin Red Line
Revolution
Barry Lyndon
Cleopatra

Gunda Din, Bengal Lancers, Charge of the Light brigade, Kingdom of Heaven, Sharpe series for skirmish, Battle of the Bulge, Desert rats, Winter War…

to toss in a few.

WR

The Four Feathers

Alatriste

i'm just making a list of these that I haven't seen yet, this is useful intel…

Pirates of the Caribbean (pirates)
Patton (Western European WW2)
Flying Tigers (1/300 ww2)
The Shadow (pulp)
Indiana Jones (pulp)
Open Range (western)
John Carter of Mars (VSF)
Any of the Universal Monster movies (Chaos in Carpathia)
Solomon Kane (Witch Hunter AWI gaming)
Season of the Witch (Witch Hunter gaming)
Death Race (Car combat)

To name a few…

African Queen????
horse soldiers
enemy at the gates
tora tora tora
all quite on the western front
300
633 squadron
company K
ice cold in alex
blood diamonds (civil war)
black hawk down
…………..must go

Sink the Bismarck
Midway
Battle of Britain
The Magnificent Seven
The Buccaneer

A walk in the Sun
The classic ww2 infantry film

ice station Zebra
Sahara
lord of the rings
Star Wars
Terminator
Alien franchise
Predator Franchise
War of the worlds ( george Pal version)
Capt america
army of darkness
Jason and the Argonauts
Sinbad franchise
28 days ..later

Ran
The Seven Samurai
Red Cliff
The Quick and the Dead
A Fistful of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Zulu
Saving Private Ryan
The Warriors
13th Warrior
Starship Troopers
Wizards
Fire and Ice
John Carter of Mars
The Seven Samurai
Jason and the Argonauts

Seven Samurai (for skirmish gaming)
Alexander Nevsky
Gallipoli

I'm surprised "Kingdom of Heaven" hasn't been tossed out here yet

The Odd Angry Shot – Aussies in Vietnam

Zardoz…

Yeah, this is a well-worn topic. I'd like to note that this year's John Carter movie came up independently in three conversations at Historicon with various people, all noting the movie was pretty good, on the whole.

March or Die
Any number of the Beau Geste films.

Did a few posts on my blog a while back giving my top ten with some reasons
link

Anyway, just so you know:
Le Bossu
Ice Station Zebra
Empire Strikes Back
Zulu
Tombstone
Black Hawk Down
Aliens
Glory
A Bridge Too Far
The Seven Samurai

Ok, lets try-

Paths of Glory (WWI infantry assualt)
All Quiet on the Western Front (WWI trench warfare)
Waterloo (Napoleonic, I mean, they used the Red Army as extra's)
Tombstone (Wild West Gunslinging)
Cross of Iron (WWII combined arms attack and skirmish actions)
Go Tell the Spartans (Early Vietnam with attack on a base)
The Messenger (late medieval attacks and sieges)
Battle of Britain (WWII aerial combat, pick your scale)
Ben Hur (Ancient naval combat and chariot races!)
Last of the Mohicans (FIW skirmish)

300
Kingdom of Heaven
Waterloo
Zulu
Gettysburg
Battle of Japan Sea
Sgt. York
Tora, Tora, Tora
Kelly's Heroes
Saving Private Ryan

Even if this doesn't make a poll I am making a list of wargamer recommended movies. As always the collective intell of TMP is reliable, and I really enjoy the comments with reasons.

All good but I would like to suggest movies that have wargaming actually mentioned or better yet have miniatures/units represented.

Anthony and Cleopatra (E. Taylor version of course)

Ronin (at least I think this was the movie where the guy had the Samurai figure diorama he was painting)

Any others along this vein?

Don't forget "The Living Daylights" The main villain playing Gettysburg in miniature, then being dispatched on top of the battlefield of Waterloo.

Star Wars (Star fighter battles and man to man sci fi skirmish)
Top Gun (Modern Air Combat)
Lord of the Rings (Fantasy Skirmish)
Terminator movies and TV show ( Sci-Fi Skirmish)
Star Trek (Starship battles)

Duelists.

As nobody has mentioned it yet – Red File for Callan, where the hero (or was he more of an anti-hero) wargames Gettysburg with the 'villain'. Figures and terrain by, I think, the late Peter Gilder of Hinchliffe fame.

One of my favourite bits of this film is when Callan's unofficial sidekick, Lonely, hears that the bodyguard (a big, muscle-bound character) of a sub-villain has been killed. He asks what happened. Callan explains that he hit him. Lonely, in astonishment, says 'You hit him Mr. Callan!" to which Callan responds 'Yes, I hit him and he died of it." Cool, very cool.

I have most of these, and watch/listen to while painting, converting, etc.

Noone has mentioned Band of Brothers.

Great list tho. Must get the ones listed that I have not seen and add to the collection. Keep them coming.

Movies that actually have miniatures in them that I have seen…

Young Winston
Four Feathers (Beau Bridges version)
Murder at 1600
Callan – "A Magnum for Schneider" (Really every episode had a mini)
Gettysburg in Miniature
Ronin
One of the James Bond movies (Name??)
And there was an episode of "The Equalizer" too

Kagemusha
Ran
Samurai Banners

war of the roses
thin red line
windtalkers

richarDISNEY, good one, hehe. But if I was going to game Zardoz I would have a mercenary band from an alternate universe show up during filming and shoot all the actors and filming crew. Making sure to get the director would garnish extra victory points.

Great lists, think I have seen every one so far.

Didn't see The Warlord or The Vikings on any lists so far.

There was an episode of The Avengers where Mrs Peel went off to save the world and Mr. Steed was left to protect some handsome young lady. They killed time by playing out Trafalgar and Waterloo, with Steed, as the British, getting trounced both times. At the end the lass chirpily declares "Daddy was a military historian!"

The real thing's obviously funnier than my description…

The 40 Year Old Virgin featured some prominent miniatures painting.

The Postman has the villain painting minis at the beginning, if I recall correctly.

Ah, beat me to it I also remember Callen I don`t think every episode had miniatures but several did
The last Samurai
Green berets
Platoon
Full metal jacket
Apocopoplse now

9th Company – Sovs in the Stan
We were soldiers – Yanks in the Nam
Bridge at Remagen
Battle Los Angeles
Dr Strangelove – the battle scenes of the attack on Burpulston airbase are impressive
Avatar
Dog Soldiers
Starship Troopers
The Blue Max
The Flashing Blade – "you've got to fight for what is right….."
Heat – the shoot out at the bank
Tombstone
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Suckerpunch
Inception and OHMSS – attacks on snow bases
Iron Sky

Planet of the Apes
Dr. Strangelove
Wargames
The Magnificent Seven/Seven Samurai
From Dusk Til Dawn
Prince of Darkness
Get Smart
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikni Machine
The Last Man on Earth
Green Hell

Casablanca
Dr Strangelove
The Wargame
The Odd Angry Shot
Oh! What a Lovely War!
A Bridge Too Far
Zvezda
The Longest Day
Harry's Game
The BAttle of Britain

In no particular order

The Battle of Britain
A Bridge Too Far
Sharpe – any/all of them
Zulu
Khartoum
55 Days at Peking
Gettysburg
Cromwell
Master and Commander
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn)