Yeah, Fury was good. For a German perspective, try Generation War, a three parter on Netflix. Apocalypse Now was the best war film ever imo.
Hamburger Hill - came out around the same time as Full Metal Jacket and Platoon and has to a degree been in their shadow but as 80's Vietnam films go worth a look. Stalingrad - released in the 90's about German soldiers sent to fight on the Eastern front if you can past the fact its subtitled an interesting change of perspective on the WW2 Genre. Charlie Wilson's War - Set in the 80's Tom Hanks is a senator who gets involved with the CIA with waging a "secret" war against soviet forces in Afghanistan.
I thought it was a bit too America kicks everyones ass for parts of it. I'm not that big on war films in general though so am not a huge fan of many of them
As for "America Kicks Ass", the worst war film for that has to be: It takes some arrogance to make that film!!!
As an aside, the portrayal of U-Boat sailors is generally terrible and yet they were renowned for being overly helpful to the Allies. Whereas the Allies refused to help German sailors who were injured/stranded as a matter of course the U-Boat sailors almost always supplied them with food, directions and help to get back to where they needed to go if their ship had been sunk. It was not until the Americans entered the war and intentionally air-bombed a group of U-Boat sailors travelling back to port under the flag of the international red cross that the Germans changed their policy and stopped helping Allied sailors. My favourite aspect of war movies (probably any movie) is portraying real people and often the German troops are portrayed in the same way as some of their horrific leaders - generally not fair at all.
I can't recall the name of the movie but is it that one with Andrew Garfield in the main role? Sounds like that one. About some med guy who refuses to use guns or summat
Watched a war movie can't remember the name but it showed Russian soldiers being trained to go into Afghanistan in the 80's The training was based around the mindset of the Afghanis and how they as a people fought. In one scene a Russian trainer was saying how they invite you in for a cuppa and were the best of hosts while you were on an individuals land. But same individual would shoot you in the head once you left his land Loads of lessons to be learnt from that movie on how the afghans are as a people and an enemy.
That was Hacksaw Ridge - brilliant film about a pacifist based on a true story. As you say, he refused to hold or fire any weapons, but won a Congressional Medal of Honour for saving many US (and Japanese) injured.
one of my favourite 'scenery' films, watching it makes me want to go to the Amazon, and Powers Boothe is an under-rated actor imo. Another scenery favourite is 1950's King Solomon's Mines with Stewert Grainger & Deborah Kerr
