1 For my money, "Band of Brothers" is the best war movie ever made. "All Quiet on the Western Front" is a great one too (the original with Lou Ayres, not the remake). "Saving Private Ryan" is good, some parts of it excellent. Another one you might have missed is "Enemy at the Gates", starring Ed Harris as a German sniper. The opening scenes, including the ones of the Russian troops being forced into the breach at Stalingrad without rifles, are as good in many ways as the opening of "Private Ryan". If you haven't seen it, check it out. Women were snipers in the Russian Army, for what it's worth, and some were worth quite a lot. A woman sniper was the best in the Red Army, killing over 350 Germans by herself in World War II. Wonder if she could cook?

2 Thanks for the recommendations. I do suspect, from my limited experience, that Band of Brothers is the very best, but it may not be fair to compare it with feature-length movies--because of the time limitations they are subject to. I like to watch it over and over because that's how I get to know the men; each time, a new dimension into their character opens up.

3 Keep one thing in mind when you watch Band of Brothers (which is also a book)-late author Steven Ambrose was a confirmed plagiarist. The same as supposedly-hot historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. Something about "neglecting to detail their sources..."

4 It's a cold-war movie rather than a typical hot-war movie, but I strongly recommend "K-19," which happens on a Russian nuclear submarine and is based on a real series of events.

5 I know, Clyde--but given that this project was made with the cooperation of the guys from the 101st, and had Captain Dale Dye as an advisor, I doubt any inaccuracies crept into the mini-series (excuse me: HBO Event) itself, despite Ambrose's sloppiness.