I can't help myself. I'm a guy. I like books and movies about the military.
I just finished reading We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young by Harold Moore (retired Lt. Gen.) and Joseph Galloway. I probably wouldn't have read it except that I remembered it had been made into a movie starring that australian guy. Mel I think his name is. This was a great book in that it showed war in it's most unfavorable light. Ugly, bloody, destructive.
I'm curious how the community feels about this book/movie and others with the military prominently featured. I give a big thumbs up to The Thin Red Line by James Jones. A fiction book. Also, Band of Brothers (the HBO series, I haven't read the book yet, although I usually like Ambrose's stuff, it's in the stack of books-to-be-read).
Pretty much any John Wayne war movie is crap, although I admit a soft spot for Sands of Iwo Jima. Saving Private Ryan was good as far as not sanitizing the gore, but the story wasn't that great.
I can't think of any other war books/movies that really struck me as something I would recommend to others.