I understand the reaction of some to "Saving Private Ryan", but it is in the same class as "Thin Red Line" as being a not-to-subtle invocation to some concept or other. Both films were excellently crafted and acted, however.

Carrying over from the Crappy movie thread, both "Gettysburg" and "Gods And Generals" restore an American defect in historical cinema that I thought we were beginning to get over: having all the characters show up in their Sunday best for a few weekends of play acting. The Brits are just as good at the preparation, but they at least throw a little dust and cobwebs over everything before they start filming. In addition, the Ted Turner financed epics advance not so much a Southern frame of reference, which would be okay, but a bowdlerized version of the causes of the Civil War, They come off as a White Nationalist's dream of 'whut wuz lost'. Also written and acted as if the characters were Disney animatronix.

I'm amazed that no Brit has nominated "U-571", though I recall it being denigrated on an earlier thread. I defended it against denigration, but it wasn't a very good flick.

I'll throw in a couple-three TV Shows:

Hogan's Heroes (need I say more?)
Rat Patrol (depicted how easy it was to defeat Rommel's troops in the desert, all ya needed was a couple jeeps and four Yanks: 'c'mon, what's keepin' ya Monty?')

Guilty pleasure: McHale's Navy (who can resist the gap toothed McHale, pet prisoner, and Tim Conway? Fightin' the Japanese seemed to be the last thing on their minds...)