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One could argue that United 93 is a combat movie, although very different from the conventional combat movies listed above.

One old movie Spielberg and a lot of critics like is Battleground. Of the post-war WWII movies, that one is supposed to be the most accurate, though it's a far cry from modern films where a lot more gore is allowed.

If you go really, really old, the the German film Westfront 1918 is pretty realistic for WWI. You'll have to really try to dig up a copy, but TCM did run it a few months ago and I recorded it.

And finally, I have never seen it, but I suspect the all time winner for realism may be the 1916 documentary The Battle of The Somme. It's hard to beat guys actually dying by the hundred for realism. No place I know of has a copy, but it was recently digitally restored, so it's bound to show up somewhere. Although almost unknown today, an incredible percentage of the British population saw this when it was released. It may still hold the record for most tickets sold for any UK film, but I'd have to check on that.

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It's available on amazon.uk for 9 pounds.

Some of those WWI stories are amazing. They still find artillery shells piled 20 feet deep, one atop another, in parts of France. That's incoming, unexploded dud shells. Imagine charging 300 yards through that in an overcoat.