 20thmaine  | 27 Mar 2020 4:18 a.m. PST |
And I'm ruling out Westerns unless they are set in a genuine conflict. Arbitrary ? Hell yes! Anyway – can there be anything nicer than a steam train puffing through gorgeous landscape whilst being shot at? Of course not. My first two suggestions – North West Frontier (also get Lauren Bacall thrown in for good measure) Young Winston And just to show that it doesn't have to be Colonial Von Ryan's Express |
| Florida Tory | 27 Mar 2020 4:22 a.m. PST |
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| Glengarry5 | 27 Mar 2020 4:33 a.m. PST |
"A Fistful of dynamite" (AKA "Duck you sucker"). The Mexican Revolution featuring a Loco-loco (crazy train) exploding train! |
| 4DJones | 27 Mar 2020 4:38 a.m. PST |
The General, BUster Keaton. |
| Huscarle | 27 Mar 2020 4:43 a.m. PST |
The Horse Soldiers
Doctor Zhivago
The Train |
| Joes Shop | 27 Mar 2020 4:55 a.m. PST |
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 etotheipi  | 27 Mar 2020 5:33 a.m. PST |
Von Ryan's Express! Skrimish, not big battle, still a great train-battle movie. Also a great wargaming scenario. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly has a great train scene, though not really much of an "epic battle". Still, from a warfare POV, it's a great application of PsyOps and then the tactical battle technology hack. And, of course, The Greatest Movie Ever Made (Blazing Saddles, if you didn't know) doesn't have lots of trains in it, but the whole thing is driven by trains (hee hee). And it does have an epic melee battle scene. |
| jurgenation | 27 Mar 2020 5:59 a.m. PST |
the good the Bad and the Weird and "Dark of the Sun" |
| dBerczerk | 27 Mar 2020 6:16 a.m. PST |
"100 Rifles" and "Treasure of Sierra Madre" both have some great scenes involving battles and trains. |
| 14Bore | 27 Mar 2020 6:27 a.m. PST |
That armoured train in Dr Zhivago only gets a cameo but its awesome.
But The General gets my vote, also The Train is second. |
| Major Mike | 27 Mar 2020 6:44 a.m. PST |
The Train, not often you get to watch a train get wrecked in a town, see a bombing raid on a functioning train yard, see and armored train, watch Burt Lancaster jump onto a running train then get kicked off or watch as a engine gets run off the rails with a bunch of extras on board. Northwest Frontier, good battles, damaged bridges, treachery, it has it all. |
| DisasterWargamer | 27 Mar 2020 6:59 a.m. PST |
100 Rifles and Von Ryans Express |
| Just Jack | 27 Mar 2020 7:15 a.m. PST |
The original "Inglorious Bastards." V/R,
Jack |
| Lascaris | 27 Mar 2020 7:25 a.m. PST |
A skirmish not a battle but "Bridge on the River Kwai." Heck, it's all about a train! |
| Major B | 27 Mar 2020 7:30 a.m. PST |
Buster Keaton's The General(… you did not say historically accurate) |
 Legion 4  | 27 Mar 2020 7:53 a.m. PST |
Just watched Von Ryan's Express again the other night ! Very entertaining ! |
| Hlaven | 27 Mar 2020 8:10 a.m. PST |
The Great Locomotive Chase with Fess Parker |
| David Manley | 27 Mar 2020 9:27 a.m. PST |
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| Giles the Zog | 27 Mar 2020 10:54 a.m. PST |
The Wild Bunch. The Mexican Generalissimo has a train, and obviously the Mexican revolution did happen. They also knocked off the cavalry who arrived on a train. Slightly more fantastical – Once Upon a Time in the West, with frank, and his boss being the railroad barons pushing through the new rail lines that did happen and I am sure there was a bit of bloodshed, though those scenes were more skirmish/Role play type stuff. Also worthy of mention is the Russian Admiral Kolchak film. |
| jedburgh | 27 Mar 2020 11:02 a.m. PST |
The Professionals – movie not the TV series. |
| Ranger1275 | 27 Mar 2020 11:51 a.m. PST |
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| dragon6 | 27 Mar 2020 12:18 p.m. PST |
Rustlers Rhapsody you've got a train, Railroad Baron (Fernando Rey), Cattle Baron (Andy Griffith) and Patrick Wayne as Bob Barber the heavy |
| Schogun | 27 Mar 2020 5:23 p.m. PST |
The Good, the Bad and the Weird 2008 South Korean western action film based in 1930s' Manchuria. |
| khanscom | 27 Mar 2020 5:49 p.m. PST |
"Reds" has a great scene with a tachanka debussing from a soviet train. |
| Martin Rapier | 28 Mar 2020 2:31 a.m. PST |
Dr Zhivago. I love Strelnikovs train. Also Hannibal Brooks and Von Ryan's Express. |
 enfant perdus | 28 Mar 2020 12:34 p.m. PST |
If you like battles and trains you may want to check out "Convoy 48", cuz that's what it's all about. It begins when the Soviets crack the encirclement of Leningrad enough to allow hasty rail lines to be built to resupply the still besieged city. The first part of the film focuses heavily on the young women who were rapidly trained to crew the trains, as well as build the new lines. Then of course comes the dangerous job of running the gauntlet of enemy fire as they make their runs in and out of the city. I'm not a huge fan of modern Russian films and this is no exception. It's very well done in terms of effects, etc., so if you just like war flicks it will probably appeal. I got half-way through it before stopping for bed and I still haven't finished it. |
| Gunfreak | 29 Mar 2020 12:58 a.m. PST |
Thomas the tank engine: the war years |
| etotheipi | 29 Mar 2020 4:08 a.m. PST |
Does Mad Max Fury Road count? The gas convoy is not a "train" per se, but it is a big, predictable hulking logistics target that lacks stealth, maneuverability, and significant options to pick another route. |
| 20thmaine | 29 Mar 2020 5:18 p.m. PST |
It does not ! Nasty smelly lorries can't be compared to elegant, friendly, steam powered engines. The very thought.  |
| gounour | 02 Apr 2020 2:19 a.m. PST |
Star Wars 8…
well, it's about a war, and the story is very much railroading us!
->[] seriously, in order:
-La Bataille du Rail 1946 (even if it's a covert PCF Propaganda film) The only war film ever where every round was fired with real live ammo (blanks were too expensive…)and a real train was thrown off the rails
-the Train
-Von Ryans Express
-Viva Maria (for the babes)
-Snowpiercer (it's The Smallest World War Ever) |
checks out some 10/15mm railroad tracks for wargaming.
