Top War Movies


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

251. Five Graves to Cairo

Year of Release: 1943
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Billy Wilder
Actors: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim, Peter van Eyck, Fortunio Bonanova
Plot: A lone British man hides among the French inhabitants in a North African
village as Rommel's troops advance.

252. Hangmen Also Die!

Year of Release: 1943
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart, Nana Bryant

253. The Man Who Never Was

Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ronald Neame
Actors: Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, Stephen Boyd, Josephine Griffin, Laurence Naismith

254. Prisoners of the Sun ( Blood Oath )

Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stephen Wallace
Actors: Bryan Brown, George Takei, Terry O'Quinn, Russell Crowe, Deborah Kara Unger, John Bach

255. Virunga

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Orlando von Einsiedel

256. Mine

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fabio Guaglione, Fabio Resinaro
Actors: Armie Hammer, Annabelle Wallis, Tom Cullen, Clint Dyer, Geoff Bell, Juliet Aubrey
Plot: After a botched assassination, a marine finds himself stranded in a hostile desert territory and, to make matters worse, in an area filled with 33 million blast mines, he has inadvertently stepped on one. With 52 hours until a convoy is set to extract him, without food or water, he will have to survive harsh conditions while staying glued to the spot, putting all his skills to the test.

257. Destination Tokyo

Year of Release: 1943
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Delmer Daves
Actors: Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale, John Ridgely, Dane Clark, Warner Anderson

258. Battleship

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/War
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Peter Berg
Actors: Liam Neeson, Taylor Kitsch, Alexander SkarsgÄrd, Rihanna, Brooklyn Decker, Peter MacNicol
Plot: A fleet of ships comes across an armada of unknown origins and finds itself pitted against this dangerous force whose only goal is destruction.

259. Charlotte Gray

Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Actors: Cate Blanchett, James Fleet, Rupert Penry-Jones, Abigail Cruttenden, Charlotte McDougall, Robert Hands

260. How I Won the War

Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard Lester
Actors: Michael Crawford, John Lennon, Roy Kinnear, Lee Montague, Jack MacGowran, Michael Hordern
Plot: Told in flashbacks, Lieutenant Earnest Goodbody comes from a lower-class background with little eduction, ineptly leads a group of misfit soldiers during WWII.

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