Top War Movies


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

61. Battleground

Year of Release: 1949
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William A. Wellman
Actors: Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Jerome Courtland
Plot: Just outside Bastogne - WWII - a group of Americans, low on supplies and constantly bombarded by German propaganda, must somehow find the will to go on. With think fog preventing air support and making it difficult to track anything, the men battle their own selves as much as the enemy.

62. Turtles Can Fly ( Lakposhtha parvaz mikonand )

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Other
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Actors: Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Feysal, Hiresh Feysal Rahman, Abdol Rahman Karim, Ajil Zibari
Plot: Near the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of an American invasion, refugee children like 13-year-old Kak (Ebrahim), gauge and await their fate.

63. Two Women ( ciociara, La )

Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Actors: Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi, Andrea Checchi, Pupella Maggio
Plot: An Italian woman and her teenage daughter are alone in the waning days of WWII. They are trying to survive; trying to find a safe place. They are both raped by allied Moroccan soldiers and left to die.

64. Ashes and Diamonds ( Popiól i diament )

Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Polish
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Actors: Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewska, Waclaw Zastrzezynski, Adam Pawlikowski, Bogumil Kobiela, Stanislaw Milski

65. Where Eagles Dare

Year of Release: 1969
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/War
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Brian G. Hutton
Actors: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure, Donald Houston, Patrick Wymark, Michael Hordern
Plot: A group of soldiers must rescue a important General held in a German
Castle but all is not what it seems.

66. Bataan

Year of Release: 1943
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tay Garnett
Actors: Robert Taylor, George Murphy, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Nolan, Desi Arnaz, Lee Bowman
Plot: Thirteen men are chosen to destroy a bridge on the Bataan peninsula in the Philippines. The Japanese, with an overwhelming force keep trying to rebuild it. Will the men choose honor and duty?

67. Coming Home

Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Hal Ashby
Actors: Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford, Robert Carradine, Robert Ginty
Plot: A woman left alone after her husband goes to Vietnam decides to volunteer at a local veteran's hospital. There she meets Luke, an old high school friend, who has been paralyzed from the waist down with an injury. But as she helps him heal, it opens the door for romance, forcing her to make a life-altering decision.

68. Unbroken

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Angelina Jolie
Actors: Jack O'Connell, Takamasa Ishihara, Domhnall Gleeson, Jai Courtney, Finn Wittrock, Garrett Hedlund
Plot: The true story of Louis Zamperini - an Olympic runner who went from glory on the track, to WWII hero as he survived not only being stranded in the ocean, but also a Japanese POW camp.

69. Merry Christmas aka Happy Christmas ( Joyeux Noël )

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Christian Carion
Actors: Diane Kruger, Natalie Dessay, Benno Fürmann, Rolando Villazón, Guillaume Canet, Gary Lewis
Plot: On Christmas Eve during WWI, the Scottish, Germans and French fraternize and get to know the men who fight on the opposite side.

70. Johnny Got His Gun

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Dalton Trumbo
Actors: Don 'Red' Barry, Timothy Bottoms, Kathy Fields, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland, Byron Morrow
Plot: Joe, a young American soldier, is hit by a mortar shell on the last day of World War I. He lies in a hospital bed in a fate worse than death - a quadruple amputee.

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