well there is a difference between ww2 movies like navarone and ww2 movies like saving private ryan.
i’d call the second kind more “real” or “anti-war” and the first (like navarone) more pro-war or just entertainment.
now i love both. my recommendations are:
- The Thin Red Line (beautiful movie set in the pacific)
- Stalingrad (the most realistic ww2 movie ever, hard and brutal)
- Force 10 from Navarone (of the “first” kind, good actors, good story, just fun)
- The longest day (first big epic battle movie about the D-Day, great movie)