Suggestions for good war movies

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

Besides authentic looking equipment, even if it is just a tank shell mounted on a car chassis, if it looks and performs authentically, I'm good. The movie also has to be entertaining enough to keep me interested through the whole thing........

I don't care for Tom Cruise, but The Last Samurai was an entertaining movie. That's just an example.

For Blackhawk Down, it was entertaining, but full of Hollywood compared to the book. Two things I didn't like were because they were Rangers, Bronze Stars were handed out like Halloween candy and the portrayal of LTC Danny McKnight. The movie protrayed him as being somewhat cool and indifferent under fire, the book described him as walking around in a daze most of the time. I would tend to agree with the book. When I first got posted to Hawaii, McKnight was my Bn Cdr. A very sneaky and political kind of commander. Didn't like him then, don't like him now. His replacement was LTC William B. Caldwell, IMO one of the best, if not the best officer I had ever gotten to work for/with. Most recently, I saw him on tv in 2007 as a two star in Iraq, he seemd to be stuck with being the buffer between the military and the media, he was good, but IMO a very HUGE waste of military command talent.