See "The Best Years of our Lives." One of the best pictures ever made about the troops coming home from WWll, in fact one of the best pictures ever made bar none. You won't forget it.

Thanks, Hank.
That is a powerful movie: considering when others are out partying & carousing,
they are having thier intestines ripped to shreds by bullets -- sometimes on orders.
And I know how memorable the scene is when the veteran with hookhands thrusts them through a window in closeup.
but I'm looking for actiondramas more along the lines of the ones on the list

I still laugh at the comment made by my friend as we walked to the car after seeing U-571. "That was the best WW2 movie I ever saw." I was dumbfounded. I doubt he's ever seen Das Boot.




If you can find it, there's a movie called Black Rain. (Not the Michael Douglas thriller) It's a Japanese movie based on events just after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I had to have the rental house special order it, but it was worth seeing.

A couple of cold war ones.

Fail Safe

The Bedford Incident


Wheels

I can't believe I missed them in your first post.

Band of Brothers is one of those movies that will change your life. Be careful when you watch it as it will affect you forever afterwards.

"Day After Tomorrow" (1983) for Cold War Nuclear Holocaust Goodness.

"Valkyrie" -Like it, despite the cast.
"Come and See" -- Russian Film I think
"Sahara" - w/Bogart
"Defiance" -not bad for a newer film
"Midway" - Classic
"Inglorious Bastards" -Original
"Saints and Soldiers" - Good
"Miracle at St. Anna" -eh..ok
"To Hell and Back - Audy Murphy (sp?)"
"Bridge over the River Kwai" -Despite it's innaccuracies still a classic.
"Empire of the Sun" -Spielberg Classic in my book.. (see if you can find ben stiller)
"The Great Raid" - recent, and pretty good..if you read the book..even better
"Enemy at the Gates" - meh..but satisfies the itch.
"The Winter War" - Finnish Film about Russo-Fin war..
"To End All Wars" - Jack Bauer at his best..j/k Keifer Sutherland.
"The Longest Day" - If not already mentioned...

I didn't see Saving Private Ryan mentioned.
I can't believe the movie is 11 years old.

Wheels

Thanks so much, guys !

[And yes, I forgot to put "Saving Private Ryan" on the ALREADY SEEN list.

Keep 'em comin' !

Time sure does fly doesn't it? I cant believe it's now been almost 8 years since 9/11.

Memphis Belle isn't as bad as some people make out. Good cast too.
If you fancy Das Boot, get the uncut miniseries with subtitles, not the terrible dubbed and heavily cut movie version.
Raiders of the Lost Ark. It has God, Nazis, Gestapo, subs. It's a war film
Kelly's Heroes
Midway (not nearly as good as Tora, but still watchable)
The Young Lions (Marlon Brando, Monty Clift, Dean Martin...)

Here's a curveball - P�tain - about the political intrigues that lead to the French surrender and Vichy government. It's an interesting counterbalance to some of the more action-oriented stuff - almost like a French Downfall.

is memphis Belle the one with a group of black afro descendent americans pilots of p51 ?
i saw one movies very good, but i dont know its name, i bought a memphis belles but it was a documentary camouflage as movie in the cover

You're thinking of The Tuskeegee Airmen. Although there was also a (semi factual) Memphis Belle movie released around the same time, IIRC. I think they were HBO productions.

If you want a good movie, don't forget "Taking Chance":

http://www.hbo.com/films/takingchance/

Thanks again, guys !

*sigh*
These suggestions remind me that I've left yet a few more off of the ALREADY SEEN list .... lol

WORLD WAR II
Kelly's Heroes [How Can I Forget That ?!? lol]
Memphis Belle

COLD WAR
Ice Station: Zebra [Really Really Underrated, IMHO]

A few more'd be nice.

I know you said that you only wanted recommendations for movies that were made later than 1960 but that seems to be a fairly arbitrary cut-off and means you'll miss out on some really exceptional films. There have already been a lot of good recommendations, to which I would add:

In Which We Serve (1942)*
The Way Ahead (1944)
The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944) (documentary)*
The Way to the Stars (1945)
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)*
The Cruel Sea (1953)*
The Dam Busters (1955)*
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)*
Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)*
Die Br�cke (1959)*
633 Squadron (1964)
The Train (1964)
Nebest� jezdci (1968)
The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
Idi i smotri (1985)*
Talvisota (1989)*
Stalingrad (1993)*
When Trumpets Fade (1998) (TV)
Rukaj�rven tie (1999)
Dark Blue World (2001)
Framom fr�msta linjen (2004)
Yamato (2005)

* must see

And these are a little more offbeat:

Hell in the Pacific (1968)
Catch-22 (1970)
Murphy's War (1971)
Au revoir, les enfants (1987)
Piece of Cake (1988) (TV miniseries)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988) (animated)
Europa Europa (1990)
A Midnight Clear (1992)
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)

Two of my favorites

The Aviator with Leonardo DiCaprio and the Carpetbaggers with George Peppard.

The story of Howard Hughes.

Lots of aviation stuff.

I've got a lot of obscure or foreign language WWII stuff, I'd certainly recommend Talvisota which has been mentioned a couple of times already, real in your face grit and realism made 9 years before SPR and if Speilberg had told me he had'nt seen it I'd say he was lying. plenty of youtube clips on this if you look them up.
El-Alamein in the line of fire, Italian move mostly about simple survival in retreat, beautiful little movie, a real gem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6X4geGcc90
Zvezda, Russian movie about a recon platoon who actually behave realistically and avoid contact, lot of tension, worth a look if you are interested in Eastern front,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr538OuRruk

I really like this film. It's definitely unique and a bit surreal.

Here's one they would sell War Bonds with after the film was over. Sahara with Bogart as a tanker sgt. fighting off Rommel's army in the desert.

The real star of the show is the short lived M3 Medium Tank that preceded the Sherman. An early P-51B stands in for the Nazi fighter in a strafing scene. Also in use is a Thompson with a drum magazine, a time capsule of a movie.

Very patriotic film with a few messages of the time, 1943.