Attention! WE WANT YOU... To Try Our War Movie Quiz!
Test your courage under fire with this war movie challenge.
War is Hell. But it's also inspired some damn good films. From Apocalypse Now to Zulu, battlefields have provided the setting for some of the greatest movies of all time.
Beginning with the WWI epic Wings -- the very first film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture -- war flicks have captured plenty of Oscars and thrilled audiences worldwide. Over the years, many of Hollywood's biggest stars enjoyed career-defining roles playing soldiers, including Mel Gibson (Braveheart), Daniel Day Lewis (Last of the Mohicans) and George C. Scott (Patton).
Additionally, storylines have covered a wide swath of topics, such as the tedium of military life, dark humor, captivity, psychological damage and the brutality of combat.
So put on your helmet, lace up those boots and get ready to go to battle!
1. In Stanley Kubrick's Vietnam War Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket, How Does Gunnery Sgt. Hartman (R. Lee Ermey) First Greet His Recruits?
"From now on, you will only speak when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be 'Sir.' Do you maggots understand that?"
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
"I've drunk more beer and banged more quiff and pissed more blood and stomped more ass that all of you numbnuts put together."
"I come from behind the moon, out of the dark, unannounced. I am the eye of the storm. Watch out!"