Top War Movies


The Top War Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top War List". Lists are calculated daily.

101. The Young Lions

Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Actors: Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Hope Lange, Barbara Rush, Maximilian Schell

102. Jarhead

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Mendes
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Jamie Foxx, Lucas Black, Brian Geraghty, Scott MacDonald
Plot: While enlisting in the Marines, "Swoff" finds out that things are as easy as them seem and that war is not always fighting with a lot of action. He makes some good friends, but is it worth what they are supposedly fighting for?

103. Cuckoo, The ( Kukushka )

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Actors: Anni-Kristiina Juuso, Ville Haapasalo, Viktor Bychkov, Aleksei Kashnikov, Aleksei Panzheyev, Vladimir Matveyev

104. Two Mules for Sister Sara

Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/War
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Don Siegel
Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Clint Eastwood, Manuel Fábregas, Alberto Morin, David Estuardo, Ada Carrasco
Plot: A nun is rescued from danger by Hogan, a man who is looking to recon a
French fort. He soon learns she is a fugitive from the French herself, and
helps her in exchange for knowledge of the fort. Even as they form a bond
- there is a secret that still needs to come out.

105. The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ken Loach
Actors: Cillian Murphy, Liam Cunningham, Gerard Kearney, William Ruane, Padraic Delaney, Orla Fitzgerald

106. Battle of the Bulge

Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Action
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ken Annakin
Actors: Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews, George Montgomery, Charles Bronson
Plot: In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent this occurrence, Hitler orders an all out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp. "The Battle of the Bulge" shows this conflict from the perspective of an American intelligence officer as well as from a German Panzer Commander.

107. The Desert Rats

Year of Release: 1953
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Wise
Actors: Richard Burton, James Mason, Robert Newton, Robert Douglas, Torin Thatcher, Chips Rafferty

108. The Horse Soldiers

Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Ford
Actors: John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers, Judson Pratt, Hoot Gibson, Ken Curtis

109. Casualties of War

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Brian De Palma
Actors: Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Don Harvey, John C. Reilly, John Leguizamo, Ving Rhames
Plot: During the Vietnam War five American soldiers come across a young woman from a village. Four of the men participate in the rape and killing of her while the fifth refuses, and what's more, demands justice for the crime. Through the lens of this one action, the film depicts the brutality and reality of war.

110. Drums Along the Mohawk

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Ford
Actors: Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver, Eddie Collins, John Carradine, Dorris Bowdon

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