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Post by spiderwort on Sept 28, 2017 0:37:07 GMT
In war, on leave, coming home or already home and dealing with their military history. Any country, any time. Concentrating on characters and relationships instead of battles in a war.
My few of my favorites :
The Best Years of Their Lives (1946) - soldiers returning from WWII and trying to adjust
From Here to Eternity (1953) - soldiers serving on Pearl Harbor before the Dec. 7 attack comes
The Men (1950) - a paralyzed WW II vet learns to deal with his disability
The Hasty Heart (1949) - Five soldiers and a nurse care for a severely wounded soldier at the end of WW II
Twelve O'Clock High (1949) - A new General must restore his bomber unit's morale in WW II
Coming Home (1978) - a woman falls in love with a disabled vet while her husband fights in Viet Nam
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) - a young soldier is disillusioned by the horrors of World War I (a film with battles, but the characters are the most important)
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Sept 28, 2017 1:57:04 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Sept 28, 2017 2:00:04 GMT
From that era, I think of Sahara (1943). Great war film with a strong lead performance by Humphrey Bogart. Ahead of its time with the international cast.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Sept 28, 2017 2:25:49 GMT
THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 28, 2017 3:37:03 GMT
Pride of the Marines (1945) John Garfield adjusting to blindness. The poster is notorious for making it look like a musical comedy, which it most definitely is not. 
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 28, 2017 3:41:19 GMT
Birdy (1984)After two friends return home from the Vietnam War one becomes mentally unstable and obsesses with becoming a bird. Nicholas Cage and Matthew Modine.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 28, 2017 3:48:21 GMT
Jacob's Ladder (1990)Mourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam War veteran (Tim Robbins) attempts to discover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusion, and perception of death. DO NOT Read any details about this before seeing it. Then watch it again. It's one of those !
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Post by bravomailer on Sept 28, 2017 3:56:21 GMT
The Deer Hunter
Sundays and Cybele
Jackknife (well-intentioned but not as good as the above two)
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 28, 2017 4:08:38 GMT
Although not the lead character, John Garfield is a returning veteran in Gentleman's Agreement (1947) Born on the 4th of July Tom Cruise as Ron Kovic, biography of veteran who became a Viet Nam era political activist. Forrest Gump (1994) Soldier, veteran, businessman who meets just about everyone important in his time. I'll Be Seeing You (1944) A soldier suffering from combat fatigue meets a young woman on Christmas furlough from prison and their mutual loneliness blossoms into romance. Joseph Cotton,. Ginger Rogers and Shirley Temple star. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2017 4:56:12 GMT
American Sniper (2014)
Circles (2013)
My Beautiful Country (2013)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2017 5:24:39 GMT
La Grande Illusion (1937)
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Post by kijii on Sept 28, 2017 6:07:54 GMT
Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
Act of Violence (1949)
Some Came Running (1958)
Libel (1959)
The League of Gentlemen (1960)
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 28, 2017 13:22:46 GMT
Love Me Tender (1956)- Veteran returns from the American Civil War to find things at home are not as he left them. The Searchers (1956)An American Civil War veteran embarks on a journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches. Shane (1953)Set in the post Civil War west, Stonewall Torrey is a veteran with issues. Other settlers are no doubt also veterans.
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Post by koskiewicz on Sept 28, 2017 15:54:10 GMT
...as a Vietnam War era veteran, I can offer that "We Were Soldiers" is the most accurate film made about that war.
"Hacksaw Ridge" also gets high marks for telling the story of the only conscientious objector in US Military history to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor...
"USS Indianapolis" is also excellent but gut wrenching...
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Sept 28, 2017 16:28:13 GMT
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Post by vegalyra on Sept 28, 2017 16:36:34 GMT
There are too many for me to list, but one that is a "Christmas" film is also a pretty good take on soldiers coming to terms with forced retirement is White Christmas. Dean Jagger just portrays the old soldier so well. His letter of rejection from his old war buddy (letting him know discreetly that his services are no longer required by the Army) and the failing resort mixed with the final act of the film is just heart wrenching/warming for me.
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Post by kijii on Sept 28, 2017 17:39:21 GMT
It's funny how we all forget
White Christmas (1954).
The thought when briefly through my mind but while posting last night, I forgot it.
There are probably other films like these where only army buddies get together again.....
Think of this line "_________ is an old army buddy of mine."
Period of Adjustment (1962).
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Post by teleadm on Sept 28, 2017 18:25:40 GMT
I',m sorry if I repeat some here:
The Clock 1945, Judy Garland and Robert Walker
Sunday Dinner for a Soldier 1944, Anne Baxter, Charles Winninger, John Hodiak
The Sullivans 1944, Anne Baxter, Thomas Mitchell, Selena Royle
Hollywood Canteen 1944, All star movie, where soldiers about to go to war meets movie stars.
The Men 1950, Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, Everett Sloane
American Guerrilla in the Philippines 1950, Tyrone Power, Micheline Presle, Tom Ewell
Home of the Brave 1949, Jeff Corey, James Edwards, Lloyd Bridges
King & Country 1964, Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern
The Long Day's Dying 1968, David Hemmings, Tony Beckley, Tom Bell
The Big Parade 1925, John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth
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Post by manfromplanetx on Sept 28, 2017 21:06:01 GMT
Utomlyonnye solntsem , Burnt by the Sun (1994) Russia Director /Writer, starring, Nikita Mikhalkov
Nikita Mikhalkov stars as, Comdiv Sergei Petrovich Kotov. A Red Army veteran and legendary hero of the Russian Civil War, Kotov still carries much authority as a senior Old Bolshevik, he is immensely popular with the common people and local villagers.
An idyllic family retreat is menaced by the suspicious arrival of an old family friend , Mitya, an ex-nobleman and veteran of the anti-communist White Army...
This outstanding film based in fact, it is a harrowing insightful account and tells of a dark chapter in Russian history, of the Stalin Purges of the thirties. As shown with a focus on the veteran hero Kotov, anyone regardless of their standing could be under Stalin's spotlight "burnt by the sun" . The political purge was primarily an effort by Stalin to eliminate challenges from the past and any potential opposition groups, which included including the left and right wings .
A target group were the veteran Red Army Bolsheviks ? , because Stalin feared they would challenge his authority. Following the Civil War and reconstruction of the Soviet economy in the late 1920s, these Red Army veterans no longer thought it necessary that the "temporary" wartime dictatorship, which had passed from Lenin to Stalin remain in place.
Exceptional highly recommended...
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Sept 28, 2017 22:30:05 GMT
Ambush Bay (1966).
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