The Best 5 War Movies of the Century — So Far

Great military films are not just a creation of the 20th century. There have been some wonderful ones so far in the 21st.

What makes for a great war movie?

I was once at a screening of Saving Private Ryan (1998) at the Pentagon, sitting next to Lewis Millett. Colonel Millett received a Medal of Honor during the Korean War for leading what may have been the last bayonet charge in American military history. During the scenes of the Americans storming Omaha Beach on D-Day, I …