51. Restrepo
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger
Actors: Juan 'Doc Restrepo, Dan Kearney, LaMonta Caldwell, Aron Hijar
Plot: A pair of documentary filmmakers spent one year with the Second Platoon - a group stationed in one of the most strategically important and deadly valleys in Afghanistan.
52. Defiance
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Edward Zwick
Actors: Daniel Craig, Jamie Bell, Liev Schreiber, George MacKay
Plot: Three Jewish brother escape from Poland as the Nazis invade. They join forces with the Russian resistance in an attempt to build a village to house themselves and others being pursued and persecuted.
53. The English Patient
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Anthony Minghella
Actors: Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Kristin Scott Thomas
Plot: Towards the end of WWII a burn victim is tended to by a nurse who learns of his romantic story as he tries to recover from a mysterious accident.
54. Flags of Our Fathers
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey
Plot: One picture taken at Iwo Jima changed the way the American Public viewed the WWII. The three survivors of the event must cope with being labeled heroes while living with the reality of what truly happened.
55. The Hill
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sidney Lumet
Actors: Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Ossie Davis
Plot: In a British disciplinary camp in the middle of the Libyan desert, Staff Sergeant Williams delights in persecuting his prisoners by constantly making them climb a man-made hill in the middle of the camp. Five new prisoners arrive and will deal with authority in their own ways.
56. Hiroshima, My Love ( Hiroshima mon amour )
Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alain Resnais
Actors: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud
Plot: A French actress in Hiroshima, for a film about peace, spends the night with a Japanese man. It reminds her of an earlier relationship she had in WWII with a German soldier.
57. The Train
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Frankenheimer
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon
Plot: A railroad boss and the French Resistance join forces in Paris during the German occupation, to thwart the Germans' plan.
58. Darkest Hour
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Joe Wright
Actors: Gary Oldman, Stephen Dillane, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Mendelsohn
Plot: Mere days after becoming the new Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchhill faces one of his most daunting and defining trial: as Nazi Germany subjugates Western Europe, Great Britain is clearly in its sites. An unprepared public, a skeptical king and with his own party plotting against him, Churchill will have to figure out how to rally his nation, and, in doing so, change the course of history.
59. Megan Leavey
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite
Actors: Kate Mara, Tom Felton, Bradley Whitford, Common
Plot: The true story of a young Marine corporal who is charged with cleaning up a K9 unit following a disciplinary hearing. She forms a strong bond with a particularly aggressive dog, Rex, and turns that bond in to an incredible tour of duty in Iraq where they complete over 100 missions and save countless lives.
60. Da 5 Bloods
Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Spike Lee
Actors: Chadwick Boseman, Jean Reno, Paul Walter Hauser, Delroy Lindo
