Sands of Iwo Jima
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IMDB rating: 7.10 Plot: John Marion Stryker is the ultimate Marine, a tough rifle squad leader who in 1943 is assigned a squad of new recruits saddled with three veterans and an old enemy of Stryker’s from previous duties in the Far East. One recruit in particlar is a source of friction with Stryker, Peter Conway, whose father was Stryker’s CO at Guadalcanal and who felt his son was too soft and cowardly to be a Marine. The squad grows more and more resentful at Stryker’s increasingly brutal training regimen and his lack of sympathy for the varied personal problems of the recruits, but his determination to mold them into fighting men helps save their lives when the squad is landed at Tarawa in November 1943 and Stryker risks his life to blow up a Japanese bunker that has slaughtered Marines trapped at a log wall. The now battle-tested squad becomes more closely-knit and Stryker’s relationship with the men warms as the squad eventually finds itself in the bloodiest island battle of the war, at Iwo Jima. |
Actors: Wayne John,Agar John,Tucker Forrest,Cassell Wally,Brown James,Webb Richard,Franz Arthur,Holden James,Coe Peter,Jaeckel Richard,Murphy William,Tyne George,Baylor Hal,McGuire John,Milner Martin,Action,Drama,War,Romance,
What's your favorite war movie?
Oldies – Sands of Iwo Jima with John Wayne
Newer – Platoon (obviously) or Saving Private Ryan.
Of course the scene in Apocalypse Now with the speakers on the choppers blaring out "Flight of the Valkyries" is the best scene ever…
Thanks, Monty. Memphis Belle was great.
full metal jacket and/or saving private ryan
enemy at the gates was pretty good as well
.. the part in saving private ryan where "jackson" – played by barry pepper, he is the sniper (who dies by the tank – of course)…. when he shoots that guy in the eye (through his scope).. EPIC!!!!!!
FRNSWRTH | Oct 16, 2008
Patton with George C. Scott is one of the best made.
Michael B | Oct 16, 2008
JARHEAD && PLATOON.
AWESOME!
Daniel | Oct 16, 2008
We Were Soldiers
Solarbird | Oct 16, 2008
Kelly’s Heros
not_prfikt | Oct 16, 2008
its not really a war movie but Forrest Gump had alot of war in it.
But for a real war movie its Full metal Jacket.
Edgar R | Oct 16, 2008
Old- Battle Of The Bulge and Bridge On The River Kwai.
New – Platoon and Full Metal Jacket
Lefty | Oct 16, 2008
Does 300 count? Saving Private Ryan is like my all time favorite though. Oh and Pear Harbor! And We Were Soldiers! I love war movies!
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