Highest-Rated Movies about 'U.s. Army', Sort by Popularity
Stripes (1981), West Point of the Air (1935), Arrowhead (1953) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best U.s. Army movies.
#1. Stripes (1981)
Storyline: At the end of a very bad day when he realizes his life has gone and is going nowhere, John Winger is able to convince his best friend, Russell Ziskey, whose life is not much better, to enlist in the army, despite they not being obvious soldier material. In basic training, they are only two of a bunch of misfits that comprise their platoon. However, it is still John that is constantly butting heads with their drill sergeant, Sergeant Hulka. Two of their saving graces are Stella and Louise, two MPs who get them out of one scrape after another. Their entire platoon is in jeopardy of not graduating. But what happens during basic leads to their entire platoon being assigned to an overseas mission in Italy, to test a new urban assault vehicle, the EM-50 project. John and Russell decide to take the EM-50 for an unauthorized test drive to visit Stella and Louise who have been reassigned to West Germany. In the process, the rest of the platoon, Hulka, and Hulka's immediate superior, ...
Plot Keywords: slacker, army recruit, best friend, sergeant, officer, amusing, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!#2. West Point of the Air (1935)
Storyline: A father and son aviation drama, in which a gruff sergeant wants to make a man and a flyer out of his young son.
Plot Keywords: sergeant, son, veteran, girl next door, divorcée, pilot, patriotic ...
Movie Details Click Here!#3. Arrowhead (1953)
Storyline: Chief of Scouts Ed Bannon narrowly avoids an Apache ambush while working with the cavalry stationed at Fort Clark, Texas. The US Army is trying to talk peace with the Apaches and move them to reservations in Florida, and they take Bannon's efforts as detrimental to their new policies, so they fire him. When the Apache chief's son Torinada returns from an Eastern education, Bannon becomes highly suspicious of his motives based run-ins with Torinada in the past. Bannon continues shadowing the proceedings to the chagrin of both the US Army and the Apache warrior.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
Plot Keywords: chief, scout, cavalry captain, apache, native american, native american chief, amusing ...
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