Best 'seige' movies?

[Adrian Tullberg]

I just rewatched Night of the Living Dead, and this question came to mind; which films involving a group of people holed up in a small area against an external force do you like?

[moebius]

The last hour of Saving Private Ryan is basically a siege, and it freaking rocks.

[cactusmaac]

Zulu is the all-time king of siege movies.

[Cam63]

Zulu
The Alamo
We Were Soldiers
Fort Apache, The Bronx
Saving Private Ryan
A Bridge Too Far
Under Seige

[Subotai]

Agree w/ Cam63, throw in Last of the Mohicans and Enemy at the Gates.

[moebius]

A Bridge Too Far


Ohhhh, yeah...the book is even better, IMO.

[jessecuster3]

The Two Towers - The Battle At Helm's Deep is the best siege scene ever in movies.

A few of the battles in Braveheart come close.

[Thorlief]

The Two Towers - The Battle At Helm's Deep is the best siege scene ever in movies.


yep, thats definitely my pick. 1000 humans and elves versus 10.000 orks, awesome scene

[Buzz Dixon]

THE WARLORD with Charlton Heston is the best medieval siege movie ever made.
FLESH + BLOOD with Rutgar Hauer is the second best medieval siege movie ever made.
RIO BRAVO has John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, and Walter Brennan holding off a town full of desperadoes from their jail (until the end of the picture when they get to do the besieging).
EL DORADO and RIO LOBO are essentially remakes of RIO BRAVO only with Wayne playing different roles in the story.
ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 by John Carpenter was his take on RIO BRAVO.
LAST OF THE MOHICANS with Daniel Day Lewis goes into great detail about how to lay siege to a fort in colonial times.
ALIENS -- 'nuff sed!
Oops! Almost forgot: TROY.

[zeroEDGE]

I'd go with Two Towers also, and does Shuan of the Dead count? because I'd also pick this lol.

[hoffmandu]

I think 300 is the new champ.

[shades of eternity]

shaun of the dead :D

[marshal99]

Most war movies would have siege scenes , likewise it applies to almost all zombie movies.

Some others

The korean movie "Musa"

Starship Trooper when they were fending off hundreds of critters in the fort

The horror movie "Feast"

Dog Soldiers

Demon Knight

[Dreadstar]

Masada.

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[Tobias March]

Prince of Darkness

[BoosterBronze]

Interestingly enought "The Seige" isn't a siege movie.

I'd go with "Zulu"

[Jim Hall]

Just as a clarification, can we separate siege movies from movies with siege scenes? The Two Towers has a great siege scene, as opposed to Dawn of the Dead, where the entire premise of the movie is a siege.

Oh, and I want to second Dog Soldiers. One of my favorite films.

[moebius]

Interestingly enought "The Seige" isn't a siege movie.

I'd go with "Zulu"

I would imagine "The Seige" isn't a movie at all.

[kalorama]

I would imagine "The Seige" isn't a movie at all.

Actually it is, and not a bad one.

[Buzz Dixon]

I think 300 is the new champ.Technically, however, the Spartans would be the ones besieging the Persians since the Persians were already at the mouth of the Hot Gates when the Spartans and Thesbians arrived. Let's split the different and call it one of the best phalanx warfare movies ever made.

[Buzz Dixon]

Others that come to mind...

WAKE ISLAND
BATTLE OF BRITAIN
HAMBURGER HILL (it says something that there are two movies with this name, one set during the Korean War, the other during the Vietnam War)
THE SIEGE OF FIREBASE GLORIA (like, duh...)
ZOMBIES OF MORA TAU (sucky movie, but the predecessor of all the "zombies besiege the house" movies)
STRAW DOGS
INVISIBLE INVADERS

And what were we not thinking?

HOME ALONE

[GremlinClr]

I just somehow knew no one would remember this little Aussie gem.

Fortress! (http://www.amazon.com/Fortress-Sean-Garlick/dp/B000GAKDP6/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-6830281-0528937?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1173913935&sr=8-1)

No, it's not the crappy Christopher Lambert prison break flick of the same name. It's:


* Tagline: For one teacher and nine children, the lesson of the day is kill or be killed.
* Plot Outline An Australian school teacher and her students are kidnapped. She and the children fight for their lives and try to escape from their captors.
* Plot Synopsis: "Fortress" explores a shocking concept which shows how easily a borderline between a victim and an attacker can be crossed. The children and the teacher, calm and peaceful by nature, when driven beyond their limits by the kidnappers, eventually respond with a cruelty and fury extending that of their oppressors.

It's a really great movie and about the last 1/3rd is a siege.

[CDB]

I think 300 is the new champ.

Seconded. ;) The first battle alone defines seige.