Another movie on this list that is near the top of the mountain in the submarine movie genre is the classic Run Silent, Run Deep, starring Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster. A lot of amazing submarine ...

The recruiting video alone puts it near the top of the list of movies about the military in the future, to say nothing of the political overtones and satire of the rest of the movie.

For war movies, this showed what could happen if an auteur director was allowed to rewrite history, and it opened the door for massive creative decisions in the future.