CRAIG'S TOP 10 GENRE SERIES - WAR

“War films are a film genre concerned with warfare, usually about naval, air or land battles, sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training or other related subjects. At times war films focus on daily military or civilian life in wartime without depicting battles.”

#1. SAVING PRIVATE RYAN - 1998

Director: Steven Spielberg

Starring: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Ed Burns, Tom Sizemore

#2. APOCALYPSE NOW - 1979

 Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Starring: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall

#3. PATTON

 Director: Franklin D. Schaffner

Starring: George C. Scott, Karl Malden

#4. FULL METAL JACKET - 1987

 Director: Stanley Kubrick

Starring: Matthew Modine, Vincent D'Onofrio, R Lee Emery

#5. THE DEER HUNTER - 1978

 Director: Michael Cimino

Starring: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Savage, Meryl Streep

#6. WHERE EAGLES DARE - 1969

Director: Brian G. Hutton

Starring: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood

#7. DEFIANCE - 2008

 Director: Edward Zwick

Starring: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell

#8. PLATOON - 1986

Director: Oliver Stone

Starring: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe

#9. ZULU - 1964

 Director: Cy Endfield

Starring: Michael Caine, Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins

#10. THE GREAT ESCAPE - 1963

 Director: John Sturges

Starring: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson

Just about managed to get a great group of films onto this list with some popular choices including Great Escape, Platoon and Zulu. Saving Private Ryan wins here for its thrilling and emotional story arc, another Spielberg film winning a list of mine, though Apocalypse Now wasn't far off. A genre that I do generally like with most of the films well received too. My final genre list (sob) will be the good ole' Western!