No comedians please.
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There’s no way 1941 can land on a list of worst movies. 
You have to question the decision to even consider Heston and Wayne for a project like that. Apart from McClintock, neither of them ever got much comedy experience in their resumes.
BTW, are we still on the list of good movie or bad ones? I lost track 
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Agreed, 1941 was fun stupid comedy, loosely based upon some actual events: I-19 did actually shell California, but it was Santa Barbara, not Santa Monica. And one has to look up the mysterious LA Air Raid of early 1942 where all the local AA batteries fired at who knows what one night… throw in the Zoot Suit riots of mid war and…
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The Navy did shoot at Venus in 1945.
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War nerves 
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Khartoons?
There’s a lot of violence in them (especially applied to an innocuous Coyote) but I don’t count them as war films (although there is an animated instruction movie on the use of the Boys anti-tank rifle…).
The chap played by Larry Olivier in the movie “Khartoum” is known simply as “The Mahdi”. The great-great -grandson of the real Mahdi is Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abdurrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi, better known by his current stage name Alexander Siddig (previously Siddig El Fadil) who portrayed Dr Julian Bashir in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. That’s not his only connection to the “Star Trek” universe, his maternal uncle played THE MAN WHO KILLED KIRK (Malcolm McDowell as Tolian Soran in Generations). Siddig also appeared in Peaky Blinders, as did Tom Hardy, THE MAN WHO KILLED DATA. Small universe, isn’t it…
Cheers,
M
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1941
Good comedy and satire. How many films show you how to load and operate an anti-aircraft gun.
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I never knew how the Bofors 40mm worked until I watched that movie.
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Oof. The inaccuracies in that movie…
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I don’t know if it’s been mentioned, but one of my favorites from ‘82 (I think) was The Final Option with Lewis Collins.
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Very recently mentioned on the bad movie thread.
Oops, my bad. Another sentence fragment.
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Uh oh lol, I thought it was pretty good as a young teenager. I was fascinated with Special Forces as a kid (and still am).
I believe Lewis Collins passed SAS selection but was turned down because his face was too well known in Europe as an actor. Interesting
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Bridge Too Far
The Battle Of Britain
Empire Of The Sun
Platoon
Saving Private Ryan
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Mine 
1 Starship Troopers（1997）
【My favorite man-fought-alien war movie】
2 Das Boot（1981）
【Shows submarine war in detail】
3 Panfilov’s 28 Men（2016）
【Unparalleled panzer III/IV models in the films】
4 The Bridge （1969）
【Lacking somehow in combat design，but a perfect Italian song：bella ciao 】
5 Stalingrad（1993）
【Realistic city debris】
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I thought it was good then, and I still rather enjoy it now.
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I only mentioned Final Option in the bad movie thread in regards to a photo of Ingrid Pitt from Where Eagles Dare. Final Option is not a top five favorite of mine, but it is still a favorite after all these years.
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Yeah not a top five fav for me either but I still like it. Hell I still like some of the crappy old war movies like Battle of the Bulge, Midway and a few others lol.
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I’m not sure if anyone has mentioned the Railway Man. Sort of a war movie. I liked it.
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Now that’'s a really good film, great suggestion… 
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