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
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
Plot: A hard nosed controversial general is shown in this WW 2 movie about how to win battles and look good doing it.
13. Beasts of No Nation
Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
Director: Cary Fukunaga
Actors: Idris Elba, Ama Abebrese, Abraham Attah, Richard Pepple
Plot: Follows the life of Agu, a child soldier forced into fighting a civil war in an African nation.
14. 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
Plot: A crew in a U-Boat during World War II suffers a meltdown.
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
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
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
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
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
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. 1917
Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Mendes
Actors: Richard Madden, Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Strong, Andrew Scott
Plot: Two young, British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given and important, and seemingly impossible task - deliver a message deep in the heart of enemy territory in order to stop their own men, including Blake's brother, from walking into a deadly trap.
