neilmpenny

Two good ones: Deer Hunter and Das Boot.

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leib10

Yeah, that scene was classic.

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xerxes

the most inaccurate would be 300

the three most accurate IMHO would be

Japan's Longest Day
Tora, Tora, Tora
The Longest Day

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Longest Day was probably helped by the fact that a number of the cast had been in the same roles in the real one. Bill Millin, for instance, the piper who landed with 1 Commando Brigade on Sword Beach played himself in that film.
Same applies (probably to a greater extent) in A Bridge Too Far, although as that operation wasn't a success there was probably a bit of reputation-polishing going on there with people trying to airbrush out some of their less good decisions.

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SnowLeopard

What I always remember as a great example of Hollywood inaccruacy was a seen from "Rat Patrol" where the hero for that episode approaches a German tank with a heck of a potato masher and blows it up.

Add to that the various sci-fi military shows that either cross terms right and left without regard, such as Jordi being the commanding officer of engineering in ST:TNG, CO's berating members of their crew as essentially lousy scum on a constant basis like it was accepted that it was just the way it is, or the star doing massive military mistakes that should get him relieved but the next show, they are still in charge. Granted, it is sci-fi, it is a different military, perhaps, system, but what is done for the story does stretch the creditbility of it.

And I HATE JAG with a passion.

That said, let's see, movie wise? Well, leaving out the movies that were horribly made to begin with such as "The Soldier",

Well, saw a lot of WWII movies when I was a child and they were fun ...... for a child. These days, however, they seem questionable such as

Mosquito Squadron (could one really have long hair like that)
The Last Escape (train pacificists as a commando unit, skills is one thing, but the spirit or the will?)

But these days, the ones I would put at the top (or is it the bottom) of the list are:

WarGames .... when the movie opens up with a missile silo officer openly talking about, essentially supporting, that his girlfriend (or former) grows weed with the other silo officer ...... you know the film was done by someone with a quite interesting view of the military.

AND

any military style movie with Michael Dudikoff in it. He's okay for a bouncy crime movie, but after seeing Crash Dive, I've learned to avoid any movie with his name on it like the Plague. Which, in a way, is unfortunate, because the secondary cast usually consists of familar, well liked faces. But with all the attention applied to him and things written so he comes out the hero regardless (which is often the story with a lot of movies), it becomes very painful to watch.
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TopHatter

If you should happen to watch that movie again, very carefully note the scene where David (Matthew Broderick) is locked in the NORAD dispensary and uses that tape recorder to mimic the door's keypad tone and escape.

When he first pulls the tape recorder out of the drawer, he clicks it on for a second or two and you hear what is apparently a physician (actually director John Badham) giving a medical report about somebody, either Air Force or civilian contractor (assuming that they have them at NORAD). The doctor is detailing symptoms that he says are consistant with heavier drugs than pot. (like PCP)

Michael Dudikoff

I envy the guy for making a steady career in film, but still...

soutie

yeah zulu was fairly accurate except that the zulu,s disputed one fact that it was the men with the white lines on their arms the NCO,S that organised the defence of rorkes drift,but i geuss we will never know.

soutie

i do not think this was a hollywood movie but after meeting someone who had survived a japanese prisoner of war campThe Most inaccurate was the bridge over the river kwai.

glyn

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soutie

yeah i know plus a six shooter that holds about 20 rounds ,plus you never see him reloading

glyn

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tankie

The one where the Americans supposedly captured the Enigma Machine .

the great escape ,

and anything with John Wayne and James Cagney in em

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leib10

There's a great one of those in Open Range; he fires his Colt SAA at least 10 times.

TopHatter

Well, technically the Americans did capture an Enigma machine, one of many captured (by the RN) during the war. I've seen it in person and also "manned" the periscope of the U-Boat that it was captured off of.

But I know you mean, and don't worry, thanks to things like The History Channel, many Americans are aware of places like Bletchley Park