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
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. Ivan's Childhood ( Ivanovo detstvo )

Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Actors: Nikolai Burlyayev, Valentin Zubkov, Yevgeni Zharikov, Stepan Krylov
Plot: During WWII, a young boy works as a spy on the Eastern Front - small enough to cross German lines unnoticed. Three soviet officers do their best to look after the boy/spy.

63. Henry V

Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Laurence Olivier
Actors: Laurence Olivier, Robert Helpmann, Gerald Case , Vernon Greeves
Plot: Classic historical epic charting Henry the V's victory at Agincourt.

64. 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
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.

65. My Name is Ivan ( Ivanovo detstvo )

Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Actors: Nikolai Burlyayev, Valentin Zubkov
Plot: A 12-year-old boy, desperate to avenge his parents' death at the hands of he Nazis, becomes a spy for the Soviets on the eastern front. Although some object to a boy so young becoming a tool for war, Ivan not only makes a perfect spy, but his convictions drive him to succeed.

66. 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
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.

67. 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

68. 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
Plot: A group of soldiers must rescue a important General held in a German Castle but all is not what it seems.

69. 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
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.

70. Hell in the Pacific

Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: G
Director: John Boorman
Actors: Lee Marvin, Toshirô Mifune
Plot: A Japanese fighter pilot and an American fighter pilot wash up on a small pacific island and are forced to work together to survive.

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