Not only ZULU, but also check out ZULU DAWN - good explanations of the strategies of each side (if the British could be said to have had a strategy - the Zulus come off quite well).
As someone mentioned, BRAVO TWO ZERO is quite good. It was made for British audiences and the thick local accents and extensive British military slang means American viewers may benefit from use of subtitles.
Hard to find but very worthwhile is the Australian Vietnam film THE ODD ANGRY SHOT - it follows an Australian SAS unit in Vietnam for a year. Realistic patrolling tactics.
BREAKER MORANT - a good Australian film about the Boer War, see also the Australian WWI film GALLIPOLI.
PATTON, of course.
GO TELL THE SPARTANS is an interesting film set in the early days of U.S. involvement as advisers in Vietnam. One of Burt Lancaster's best performances.
THE LOSERS - a real guilty pleasure as outlaw bikers are recruited to rescue a state department official from the Vietcong. Classic biker movie cast.
FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER - John Milius flick about the air war over Vietnam.
Two enjoyable mercenary films: THE WILD GEESE (with Richard Burton, Richard Harris, and Roger Moore together on one movie, I'm sure the hangovers on the set each morning must have been epic.); and THE DOGS OF WAR, with Chris Walken and a cast of then-unknowns (Tom Berenger, Ed O'Neill) excellent in a very downbeat loose adapation of the Frederick Forsythe novel.
THE BIG RED ONE with Lee Marvin in director Sam Fuller's semi-autobiographic film about the 1st Division in WWII.
SERGEANT YORK - Classic Gary Cooper WWI flick as the 82nd Division Medal of Honor winner.
One of my all-time favorites is another John Milius film: THE WIND AND THE LION - Brian Keith is excellent as Theodore Roosevelt, and Sean Connery as a Berber chieftan. Based loosely - very loosely - on an actual incident where an American citizen (who turned out not to be) was taken hostage, it has an amazing scene where the Marines land and seize the presidential palace in Morocco. Milius did a later film about Roosevelt's rise in the Spanish-American war, THE ROUGH RIDERS which is also very enjoyable. Tom Berenger was surprisingly good as a younger TR.
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