Top War Movies


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

241. Guadalcanal Diary

Year of Release: 1943
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lewis Seiler
Actors: Preston Foster, Lloyd Nolan, William Bendix, Anthony Quinn

242. The Cruel Sea

Year of Release: 1953
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Charles Frend
Actors: Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, John Stratton, Denholm Elliott

243. The Long Voyage Home

Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Ford
Actors: John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Barry Fitzgerald

244. Flying Leathernecks

Year of Release: 1951
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nicholas Ray
Actors: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Don Taylor, Janis Carter

245. Children of Hiroshima ( Gembaku no ko )

Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kaneto Shindô
Actors: Nobuko Otowa, Osamu Takizawa, Niwa Saito, Tsuneko Yamanaka

246. Men in War

Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anthony Mann
Actors: Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Robert Keith, Phillip Pine

247. Desert of the Tartars, The ( deserto dei Tartari, Il )

Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Valerio Zurlini
Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Giuliano Gemma, Helmut Griem, Philippe Noiret
Plot: Lieutenant Drogo finds his first assignment is an isolated fortress located on the border of a desert and a mountain range. The fort is designed to halt an attack by the Tartars from the desert, but the men assigned to the fort have never seen any signs of the Tartar forces. Sacrificing everything for a distant military ideal - some men prepare, others further their careers while yet others have given up every seeing action.

248. The Zookeeper

Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ralph Ziman
Actors: Sam Neill, Gina McKee, Ulrich Thomsen, Om Puri

249. The Devil's Disciple

Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Guy Hamilton
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Janette Scott

250. Heavy Metal in Baghdad

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Suroosh Alvi, Eddy Moretti
Actors: Eddy Moretti, Suroosh Alvi, Faisal Talal, Firas al Lateef
Plot: Follows the members of Iraq's only heavy-metal band, Acrassicauda, from 2003, just after Saddam's ouster, through 2008 as they struggle with life in Iraq to becoming refugees.

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