Recommend me a film with large scale battles

[Zebedee]

There's something about films with big, expansive battles, that I really enjoy!

A few examples of ones that spring to mind (and I have seen);

Saving Private Ryan (first battle)
Last Samurai
Waterloo
Two Towers and Retun of the King
Braveheart
A Bridge to Far

So, can anyone recommend any? I have heard that Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace is supposed to have a few impressive large scale battles, but is the film any good?

Also, I have just recently watched The Last Samurai and somebody said that as I enjoyed it I would probably like Akira Kurosawa's Ran. Would anyone recommend it?

Cheers :thumbs:

[Ono]

Glory
The Patriot (Mel Gibson)

[visitor-q]

Definately recommend Ran. Not only awesome battles but the costumes and colours as well.

[Taq]

Starship Troopers
Zulu

[GavinT]

Ran's battle scenes are very different to those in Last Samurai. Most of the time, you just see large numbers of troops being moblised and sent to different positions.

However...... Ran is still a bloody good film. The middle battle is very good.

Kagemusha is very good as well.

[Zebedee]

Funnily enough I do have Glory, The Patriot, Zulu and Starship Troopers on DVD.

I think I will definatley check out Ran.

[martinb]

Spartacus

[ryonhilluk]

Ran
Empire Strikes Back
Return Of The Jedi
The Two Towers
Starship Troopers

[rodrigo obon]

Check out The Longest Day. Bridge At Remagen has some cool scenes too. Not a great movie but if seeing old european towns get blown back to stoneage is your thing then you can´t go wrong with this one.

[WildThing]

Gladiator
The Last of the Mohicans

[beobrand]

Attack of the Clones?

[Crawf]

Wasnt there a good film about Napolean with massive battles in it? Sorry for being so vague, mabye someone else can help out...

[Dan Druff]

In Patton theres a battle that looks excellent in 2.35:1.

[martinb]

Originally posted by Crawf
Wasnt there a good film about Napolean with massive battles in it? Sorry for being so vague, mabye someone else can help out...

Waterloo, as mentioned above?

[Zebedee]

I think Ran & Bridge at Remagen are the only ones I have not seen as yet :D

[Scoob]

Gettysburg
We Were Soldiers

[kfung]

Lawrence of Arabia.

[kfung]

Also the Jet Li film 'Hero'.

[tft5015]

The Napoleonic film you might be thinking of could be Abel Ganz's Austerlitz. Unfortunately I don't know of any DVD or even VHS.

Alexander Nevsky has an awesome set piece battle on ice and is easy to get on Eureka.

[Just Call Me Wanda]

Hamburger Hill
Black Hawk Down

[Peter Griffin]

Commando