Top War Movies


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

211. Operation Pacific

Year of Release: 1951
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Waggner
Actors: John Wayne, Patricia Neal, Ward Bond, Scott Forbes, Philip Carey, Paul Picerni

212. Dead of Night ( Deathdream )

Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/War
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Bob Clark
Actors: John Marley, Lynn Carlin, Richard Backus, Henderson Forsythe , Anya Ormsby, Jane Daly
Plot: A soldier turns up alive in the family house, after he was declared dead. Filmed during the war, it painfully reiterate the drama of soldiers gone, never to come back.

213. The Outpost

Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Rod Lurie
Actors: Orlando Bloom, Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones, Jacob Scipio, Milo Gibson, Jack Kesy

214. J'Accuse!

Year of Release: 1919
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Abel Gance
Actors: Romuald Joubé, Séverin-Mars, Maryse Dauvray, Maxime Desjardins, Angèle Guys, Mancini

215. Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Ryan Little
Actors: Corbin Allred, David Nibley, Jasen Wade, Lincoln Hoppe, Nichelle Aiden, Curt Doussett
Plot: A trio of allied paratroopers, trapped behind enemy lines, finds themselves helping a group of French resistance fighters in a prison break to free their captive freedom fighters.

216. A Farewell to Arms

Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Frank Borzage
Actors: Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Philips, Jack La Rue, Mary Forbes
Plot: A ambulance driver and a nurse fall in love amidst the fighting during WWI and will do everything in their power to stay together.

217. This Above All

Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anatole Litvak
Actors: Tyrone Power, Joan Fontaine, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce, Gladys Cooper

218. Redacted

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Brian De Palma
Actors: Rob Devaney, Ty Jones, Mike Figueroa, Izzy Diaz, Patrick Carroll, Kel O'Neill

219. Overlord

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Julius Avery
Actors: Wyatt Russell, Jovan Adepo, Mathilde Ollivier, Pilou Asbæk, John Magaro, Iain De Caestecker
Plot: On the eve of D-Day, paratroopers are sent behind enemy lines in hopes of disrupting Nazi forces before the main attack. One group of Americans are sent to a Nazi-occupied village but when they arrive, they realize there is a much more sinister plan at work - supernatural and wholly evil.

220. Hart's War

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Actors: Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell, Terrence Howard, Cole Hauser, Marcel Iures, Linus Roache
Plot: During WWII, fourth-generation Army Col. William McNamara finds himself
leading a group of POWs in a brutal German camp. Trying to instill hope
where there is little to be found he finds a chance to escape when a black
POW is accused of murdering another man. Enlisting former law student and
now-lieutenant Thomas W. Hart he sets his plan in motion - but soon
realizes it may come with too high of cost.

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