Top War Movies


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

311. El Alamein: In the Line of Fire

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Enzo Monteleone
Actors: Paolo Briguglia, Pierfrancesco Favino, Luciano Scarpa, Emilio Solfrizzi, Thomas Trabacchi, Giuseppe Cederna
Plot: War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa.

312. Free Men ( hommes libres, Les )

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ismaël Ferroukhi
Actors: Tahar Rahim, Michael Lonsdale, Mahmud Shalaby, Lubna Azabal, Christopher Buchholz, Farid Larbi
Plot: An Algerian immigrant strikes up an unlikely friendship with a Jewish man in Paris during WWII and that because of that bond, he finds himself involved with the resistance movement.

313. Captains of the Clouds

Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Curtiz
Actors: James Cagney, Dennis Morgan, Brenda Marshall, Alan Hale, George Tobias, Reginald Gardiner
Plot: A bunch of excellent pilots enter into the Royal Canadian Air Force during WW2... for different reasons, though.

314. The Big Lift

Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Seaton
Actors: Montgomery Clift, Paul Douglas, Cornell Borchers, Bruni Löbel, O.E. Hasse, Captain Dante V. Morel

315. The Devil's Arithmetic

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Donna Deitch
Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Brittany Murphy, Mimi Rogers, Louise Fletcher, Paul Freeman, Shelly Skandrani
Plot: Powerful TV-movie about holocaust, from the modern Jewish teenage girl's perspective.

316. The Lion Has Wings

Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Adrian Brunel, Brian Desmond Hurst, Michael Powell
Actors: Merle Oberon, Ralph Richardson, June Duprez, Flora Robson, Robert Douglas, Anthony Bushell

317. Home of the Brave

Year of Release: 1949
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mark Robson
Actors: Jeff Corey, James Edwards, Lloyd Bridges, Douglas Dick, Frank Lovejoy, Steve Brodie

318. Force of Arms

Year of Release: 1951
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Curtiz
Actors: William Holden, Nancy Olson, Frank Lovejoy, Gene Evans, Dick Wesson, Paul Picerni

319. Fixed Bayonets!

Year of Release: 1951
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Samuel Fuller
Actors: Richard Basehart, Gene Evans, Michael O'Shea, Richard Hylton, Craig Hill, Skip Homeier

320. Destination Gobi

Year of Release: 1953
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Wise
Actors: Richard Widmark, Don Taylor, Max Showalter, Murvyn Vye, Darryl Hickman, Martin Milner

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