11. Black Hawk Down
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Josh Hartnett, Tom Sizemore, Ewan McGregor, William Fichtner, Eric Bana, Ewen Bremner
Plot: Based on the sololian rescue mission in which US Black Hawk helicopters were shot down.
12. Patton
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Actors: George C. Scott, Morgan Paull, Karl Malden, Stephen Young, Michael Strong, Frank Latimore
Plot: A hard nosed controversial general is shown in this WW 2 movie about how to win battles and look good doing it.
13. Das Boot
Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Thriller/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Actors: Jürgen Prochnow, Bernd Tauber, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge
Plot: A crew in a U-Boat during World War II suffers a meltdown.
14. Beasts of No Nation
Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
Director: Cary Fukunaga
Actors: Idris Elba, Ama Abebrese, Abraham Attah, Richard Pepple, Opeyemi Fagbohungbe
Plot: Follows the life of Agu, a child soldier forced into fighting a civil war
in an African nation.
15. The Dirty Dozen
Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Action
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Aldrich
Actors: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassevetes, Telly Savalas
Plot: A U.S. Major with a history of insubordination is given charge of a dozen convicted murderers to train for a dangerous mission to go behind German lines to assassinate a slew of officers on the eve of D-Day.
16. Letters from Iwo Jima
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: War/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Hiroshi Watanabe, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shido Nakamura
Plot: The battle of Iwo Jima as taught from the Japanese point of view using culture as the difference between Americans and Japanese.
17. Grave of the Fireflies ( Hotaru no haka )
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/War
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Isao Takahata
Actors: Rhoda Chrosite, J. Robert Spencer, Veronica Taylor, Amy Jones, Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi
Plot: During WWII, a brother and his young sister are forced to survive on their
own after their mother is killed in an air raid and they shun their other
relatives.
18. Battle of Algiers,The ( Battaglia di Algeri, La )
Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: War/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Actors: Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Samia Kerbash, Fusia El Kader, Yacef Saadi, Ugo Paletti
Plot: An accurate account of the bloodiest revolutions known to man.
19. The Thin Red Line
Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Terrence Malick
Actors: James Caviezel, John Cusack, Ben Chaplin, Adrien Brody, Nick Nolte, Sean Penn
Plot: In Japan, a group of soldiers are commanded to take several key places of the Japanese islands while also experiencing the down time of war - takes place during WWII.
20. All Quiet on the Western Front ( Im Westen nichts Neues )
Year of Release: 2022
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Edward Berger
Actors: Daniel Brühl, Felix Kammerer, Joe Weintraub, Sebastian Hülk, Albrecht Schuch, Anton von Lucke
Plot: Follows a group of young, idealistic germans who quickly enlist during WWI whose lives are shattered by the brutal reality of the war.
