Peter, I think you must have missed the start of the thread, because Little Hawk gave "Gallipoli" and honourable mention and I linked to a review of "Objective Burma". If we are drifting into the good films as well, I am a little surprised no one else has mentioned "Stalingrad" - or wasn't that shown outside of this country?
The low budget British films of the fifties and sixties were not so bad on the whole. The real stinkers seem to come about when you have big budget films, with a creative input, which is in inverse proportion to the money spent on it. That is why I think "Pearl Harbour" could well walk away with the prize this time around.