"The scene in Gods and Generals where the Union and Confederate camps are on opposite sides of the Rappahannock River. One soldier from each side meets in the middle of the river and they trade some coffee for some tobbaco. It just puts the whole brother vs. brother thing in perspective."

Agreed, Mike. Problem is it wasn't enough to redeem the rest of the film.

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"It is history that teaches us to hope"
Robert E. Lee

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"When war does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." -General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
"The conqueror is always a lover of peace; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed."-Karl von Clausewitz

Another would be in "Go tell the Spartans"
When Burt Lancaster explains what transpired to get this sorry posting in the jungle hell of no one knows what's going on or is going to happen, or who's who.
When he tells Marc Singer that he did what any good soldier does when he's in the presence of a superior officer......He "Saluted"......
Marc Singer spit up all over the place.

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This one has always been pretty good:

YouTube - MARINES UNLEASHED IN TANGIERS - PART TWO

My favorite scene has always been the part in Saving Private Ryan with the German sniper being shot through his scope.

"I would have greatly enjoyed where Armistead and Hancock left for opposite sides of the war from California."

Agreed

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"It is history that teaches us to hope"
Robert E. Lee

"My favorite scene has always been the part in Saving Private Ryan with the German sniper being shot through his scope."

Was I the only one who noticed that the Barry Pepper character was so awkwardly shooting a right-handed bolt-action rifle left-handed?

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"It is history that teaches us to hope"
Robert E. Lee

I also noticed that and thought it funny.

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"When war does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." -General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
"The conqueror is always a lover of peace; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed."-Karl von Clausewitz

Thanks, Mike. Nice to know I'm not completely losing my mind.

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"It is history that teaches us to hope"
Robert E. Lee

Tie

Bayonett Charge-Gettysburg
Taking of Foy-Band of Brothers

The scene in Der Untergang in which Goebells choses to stay in the Fuhrerbunker and die alongside Adolf Hitler. It is truely a beautiful & moving scene how he stays loyal to the bitter end.

Other than that I like the scene 15 minutes into Stalingrad 1993. In rain German soldiers are marching east, with the good background music playing, and then a long column of Russian prisoners being taken into the opposite direction.

/Kommando

There are several powerful scenes in Talvisota. One of my favorites is from the 4 hour TV version.

On the way to say "Hello" to the 5th Company, Martti meets an anti-aircraft crew. He advises them to put out their campfire, but they don't listen to him. On the way back, Martti finds the bodies of the crew; Russian artillery had spotted the campfire. Martti has feelings of guilt. "I should have stamped out that campfire myself."

From the new "Tali-Ihantala" movie the scene where the Finnish guerillas (with transmitters) left behind the lines notice Soviet trains carrying T-34´s going away from the front after Stalin had decided it was no use "banging the head" against Finnish defence "lines".

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Heres a new one for all. One of my favorite scenes from: Hannible Brooks, is when Brooks decideds to attack the Gebirgejager Blockhouse/Border checkpoint, that has a road leading through it to nearby Switzerland. This blockhouse is made out of Logs and Brooks has help from "his" Elephant in knocking loose the support logs and you see the whole structure fall down the side of the mountain not only taking the defending Jagers with it but more Jagers who are trying to come up the mountain to stop Brooks. This is a real GEM of a movie.

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

That was Lt. Spiers before being promoted to Capt. ---
But, yes, a great scene...

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Hard to choose a #1 overall, but the opening to The Bridge at Remagen has always stuck with me since the first i seen it over 30 years ago & has been a lifelong fave:

YouTube - The Bridge at Remagen opening

For me its gotta be Vassili's 5 kills in the beginning of enemy at the gates.

platoon when charlie sheen's character goes ape and kills the vietcong who ambushed the foxholes
saving private ryan the final battle scene in romelle
enemy at the gates the russian troops being strafed by german aircraft
we were soldiers when mel gibsons charcter and his men kill ambushing vietcong in a night attack

Another one of my favorites is the scene from Band of Brothers, Part 7, where Lipton is promoted to Lieutenant in the church at the near end.

The scene that will live forever: from Platoon, where Sgt. Elias (Willem Dafoe) runs out of the forest, chased by the VC, having been shot several times, he reaches up towards the helicopter, and falls forward dead. Interesting thing is, during that shot, the squibs did not go off on his chest, but Oliver Stone liked the shot so much he had it put in the film, and it ended up being one of the most famous shots in all film history.

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best scene (or moment) when the 20 mm owns the guys of the 101 taking a tank

you may like to put the name of the film there at sometime.......
krieg

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I loved the speech in "We Were Soldiers once" that mel gibson (HAL MOORE) gives to his soldiers before they deploy to vietnam how they were basicly all brothers.. pretty much sums up my feelings toards the men ive led and served under and with for the most part

The very end of "Assembly" (Ji jie hao) Ji jie hao (2007)
but I'll not be putting spoilers in here.