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Letterboxd Showdown: Platoon

Life is beautiful, war is hell. Who loves the smell of napalm in the morning? Whether you’re on the frontline or the home front, we want you to advance your 10 greatest war films. From satirical comedies to dam-busting schemes, doomed romances to epic homecomings, the war movie canon is an incredible cross-genre minefield. Base your list on any criteria: strength of character, evilness of enemy, realism of military life, implausibility of plan… and tell us why in the notes. They may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom.

  • Apocalypse Now

    1

  • Inglourious Basterds

    2

  • The Thin Red Line

    3

  • Full Metal Jacket

    4

  • Paths of Glory

    5

  • Lawrence of Arabia

    6

  • Grand Illusion

    7

  • Army of Shadows

    8

  • Waltz with Bashir

    9

  • Saving Private Ryan

    10

  • Ivan's Childhood

    11

  • Rome, Open City

    12

  • Das Boot

    13

  • The Hurt Locker

    14

  • All Quiet on the Western Front

    15

  • M*A*S*H

    16

  • Invasion

    17

  • War for the Planet of the Apes

    18

  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    19

  • Dunkirk

    20

  • The Bridge on the River Kwai

    21

  • Jarhead

    22

  • The Last of the Mohicans

    23

  • Overlord

    24

  • Fury

    25