Great military films for the Memorial Day 2025: Our picks

The best war films are not those who glorify the war. They are also not necessarily those with an anti -war message.
Here for the memorial day there are some films worth checking it.

No healthy person wants war.

That shouldn’t say – especially at the memorial day, May 26th, if we stop to remember the tribute. Soldiers killed, families destroyed on the ground, the country withdrawn some of its best and smartest.

But sometimes wars are – – – Sometimes – necessary. At least they can appear necessary at the time.

The best war films are not those who glorify the war. They are also not necessarily those with an anti -war message.

They are those who convey – in terms that a veteran recognizable and understand a civilian – how war feels and what types of conflicts and topics he accuses the people who have to fight him.

Here for the Memorial Day you will find some titles that are worth checking it:

“The Big Parade” (1925)

This blockbuster of the First World War, which was staged by King Vidor, delighted the audience in the quiet time, and a lot of it still stays today. The slow march through Belleau Wood-a single row of soldiers who go up to date, with the death of snipers who have an ubiquitous possibility-one of the excited war sequences on the film. The loneliness of the struggle, even in the company of other soldiers, is something that only one veteran would know (writer Laurence Stalling was one). “Although friends are just a helping hand gone, this hand may never be collected,” wrote critic Alistair Cooke. “The line must keep its broken order and the unbroken pace.” Available for streaming on Tubi, YouTube, Apple TV and Amazon Prime.

“Everything calmly on the western front” (1930)

The Was An anti -war film (it was based on Erich Maria’s bestseller from 1929), but he is not sermon, not “intellectual”. It simply shows the horrors of the war from the perspective of a grunt – a German grunt (Lew Ayres) in this case, his head full of school heroism, which discovers the terrible reality of the trenches. This is portrayed by director Lewis milestone with a terrible realism that must have been overwhelming at that time. A look at a dismembered hand that sets a barbed wire fence can still give a run for his money. Available for streaming on Tubi, YouTube, Apple TV and Amazon Prime.

“The red badge of courage” (1951)

It probably helped that the young civil war in Stephen Crane’s story of cowardice was played under the shelling of Audie Murphy – the most decorated fighting soldier of the Second World War. So we know that this young man will ultimately find his Mette. Nevertheless, the representation of what was going on in a soldier’s head in the anxious hours and minutes before the fight was rarely tailored to intensity. The film by director John Huston (who was resumed by the studio) is also one of the most beautiful and authentic feelings of all films in the civil war. Available for streaming at Amazon Prime, Apple, Google Play.

“From here to eternity” (1953)

The “Peace Army” of Hawaii in the weeks before Pearl Harbor is pretty uninspiring. Many small intrigues – from soldiers who have a stubborn recruit (Montgomery Clift) to an Sergeant (Burt Lancaster) with an affair with the wife of a superordinate (Deborah Kerr) to an unfortunate private (Frank Sinatra) victim of a sadistic squad of the stock born (Ernest Bornine) with a superior victim of a supervisor (Ernest Bornine) with a manager (Ernest Bornine), bullying (Ernest Bornine). But then in this adaptation of the James Jones novel of the Japanese attack – and everything changes. Both a criticism as available for streaming on Philo, Amazon Prime, Apple, Google Play.

“The Caine Mutiny” (1954)

Sea wheels on a run-down naval min search against her incompetent, fat-red-tyrannical captain (Humphrey Bogart) rebel, and we are on your side. But then the lawyer at your Court of Justice (José Ferrer) gives us a new perspective: By taking a ship out of operation during the worst Pacific conflict, you have given your own complaints about the country’s need. Who is right? Ferrer makes a convincing argument in this adaptation of the Herman Wouk bestseller. But Bogart’s captain Queeg, who rolls his little steel balls when he suffers his famous collapse in court, suggests another. Available for streaming at Amazon Prime, Google Play, YouTube, Apple.

‘Paths of Glory’ (1957)

The claustrophobia of the Graben War of the First World War was never better depicted than in this Stanley Kubrick film about miscarriage of justice-hungry French general (George MacReady, excellently frightening), who is arranging that Kirk Douglas’ men are impossible to take an impossible goal and then be asked by three. Available for streaming from Amazon Prime, Tubi, YouTube, Apple.

“Bridge on the Kwai River” (1957)

When is heroism not heroism? Alec Guinness is the British colonel in a Japanese prisoner of war that refuses to break his men from the rigid commander (Sessue Hayakawa). But by encouraging his unit to build a railway bridge for the Japanese – to maintain Esprit de Corps and to give her kidnappers a “lesson” – does he not play into the hands of the enemy? This ironic epic directed by David Lean from Pierre Boulle’s book won seven Oscars. Available for streaming at Amazon Prime, Google Play, YouTube, Apple.

‘Patton’ (1970)

Patton is a sob. Patton is a hero. Patton is a sob And A hero. But can wars be obtained from a different kind of guide? Franklin Schafer’s epic in World War II with George C. Scott’s memorable performance (he declined his best actor Oscar) dares to ask the question-and after this three-hour blockbuster, you may not be able to be sure of the answer. Available for streaming at Amazon Prime, Google Play, Fandango, Apple.

‘Glory’ (1989)

War may seem “in vain” if they don’t know what they are fighting for. But the African -American soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts -infanterierierungs – Most of them former slaves – – Do White, absolutely. The topics of the civil war are anything but abstract for Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Andre Brauergher and the others who were ordered to take over Fort Wagner, South Carolina. If you march into death, you are all in – so few soldiers in a few films are ever. One of the most heroic moments in every war film. Available for streaming at Amazon Prime, Google Play, YouTube, Apple.

“Rescue private Ryan” (1998)

The invasion of Normandy, presented in the film “The Longay Day” (1962) as an exciting battle, followed by a happy mop-up operation (for a whistling chorus on the soundtrack) is shown in all unimaginable horror in Steven Spielberg’s Epic. Not to expose, but to show – almost a film can show such things – its true costs. Life is precious, as Captain Miller (Tom Hanks) tells the soldier (Matt Damon), whose life he saved – at the expense of his own. “Earn that,” he says. Available for streaming at Amazon Prime, Google Play, YouTube, Apple.

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Great military films for the Memorial Day 2025: Our picks

ByAmelia Journalton

“The Big Parade” (1925)

“Everything calmly on the western front” (1930)

“The red badge of courage” (1951)

“From here to eternity” (1953)

“The Caine Mutiny” (1954)

‘Paths of Glory’ (1957)

“Bridge on the Kwai River” (1957)

‘Patton’ (1970)

‘Glory’ (1989)

“Rescue private Ryan” (1998)

By Amelia Journalton

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