Top War Movies


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

281. The Cross of Lorraine

Year of Release: 1943
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tay Garnett
Actors: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly, Cedric Hardwicke, Richard Whorf, Peter Lorre, Hume Cronyn

282. The Black Tent

Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
Actors: Donald Sinden, Anthony Steel, Anna-Maria Sandri, André Morell, Terence Sharkey, Donald Pleasence

283. Battle of Okinawa, The ( Gekido no showashi: Okinawa kessen )

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kihachi Okamoto
Actors: Keiju Kobayashi, Yûzô Kayama, Tetsurô Tanba, Tatsuya Nakadai, Mayumi Ozora, Katsuhiko Sasaki
Plot: Told from the Japanese perspective.

284. The Passage

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Actors: Anthony Quinn, James Mason, Malcolm McDowell, Patricia Neal, Christopher Lee, Kay Lenz

285. Fear and Desire

Year of Release: 1953
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Frank Silvera, Paul Mazursky, Kenneth Harp, Stephen Coit, Virginia Leith
Plot: Stanley Kubrik's first, and rarely-screened film: four men survive a plane crash in an unspecified country during war. Six miles behind enemy lines, they must come up with a plan to get back to their own side but complications erupt in the form of a woman who discovers their location and one man's desire to take out an enemy general.

286. Never So Few

Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Sturges
Actors: Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen, Paul Henreid, Brian Donlevy

287. The Red Badge of Courage

Year of Release: 1951
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Huston
Actors: Audie Murphy, Bill Mauldin, Royal Dano, Douglas Dick, Arthur Hunnicutt, John Dierkes

288. Overlord

Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stuart Cooper
Actors: Brian Stirner, Davyd Harries, Nicholas Ball, Julie Neesam, Sam Sewell, John Franklyn-Robbins
Plot: A young British man leaves home and enlists in the army as preparations for D-Day take place.

289. Iron Eagle

Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/War
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Actors: Louis Gossett Jr., Jason Gedrick, Tim Thomerson, Larry B. Scott, Caroline Lagerfelt, Jerry Levine
Plot: An Air Force pilot, along with a Colonel, go behind enemy lines in order to save the pilot's father who was shot down in a radical Middle Eastern state.

290. Gardens of Stone

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Actors: James Caan, Anjelica Huston, James Earl Jones, D.B. Sweeney, Dean Stockwell, Mary Stuart Masterson
Plot: Gardens of Stone concentrates on the trials and tribulations of the Arlington National Cemetery home guard.

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