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Well, the results are in, and there’s been a surprise victory for the Germans: Das Boot has been voted the best war film ever made by Reel Life readers.
The film’s realism was commended above all: “You can almost smell the Diesel,” commented ‘retired’.
The subject of realism divided opinion in the case of Saving Private Ryan, with ‘aeiou’ saying it’s “the most reallistic war film that has ever been made” and ‘BlackArrow’ objecting that “those guys walking out in the open yakking away would have been cut down before the film was half over”.
Films from the World Wars featured heavily in general (though oddly very few people voted for popular classics such as The Great Escape and The Bridge on the River Kwai), but Vietnam only just made it into the top five.
There were also questions raised about what exactly constitutes a war film, with a couple of votes for films like Casablanca and Gone with the Wind thrown in. I counted these, as war certainly does play an important part in them, but there can be no disputing that the films that made it into the top five list are ‘war films’ through and through:
1. Das Boot
2. Zulu
3. Saving Private Ryan
4. The Dam Busters
5. All Quiet on the Western Front and Apocalypse Now
And the best war film of all time is... : November 2007 : Reel Life : Arts : Telegraph Blogs
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