Top War Movies


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

311. Bombardier

Year of Release: 1943
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard Wallace
Actors: Eugene L. Eubank, Pat O'Brien, Randolph Scott, Anne Shirley, Robert Ryan, Walter Reed

312. Ana-ta-han ( Anatahan )

Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Actors: Akemi Negishi, Tadashi Suganuma, Kisaburo Sawamura, Shôji Nakayama, Jun Fujikawa, Hiroshi Kondô

313. Time Limit

Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Karl Malden
Actors: Richard Basehart, Richard Widmark, Dolores Michaels, June Lockhart, Carl Benton Reid, Martin Balsam

314. Sea of Sand ( Desert Patrol )

Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Guy Green
Actors: Richard Attenborough, John Gregson, Michael Craig, Vincent Ball, Percy Herbert, Barry Foster

315. Swastika

Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Philippe Mora
Actors: Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Göring, Benito Mussolini

316. El Alamein: In the Line of Fire

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Enzo Monteleone
Actors: Paolo Briguglia, Pierfrancesco Favino, Luciano Scarpa, Emilio Solfrizzi, Thomas Trabacchi, Giuseppe Cederna
Plot: War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa.

317. Free Men ( hommes libres, Les )

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ismaël Ferroukhi
Actors: Tahar Rahim, Michael Lonsdale, Mahmud Shalaby, Lubna Azabal, Christopher Buchholz, Farid Larbi
Plot: An Algerian immigrant strikes up an unlikely friendship with a Jewish man in Paris during WWII and that because of that bond, he finds himself involved with the resistance movement.

318. Captains of the Clouds

Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Curtiz
Actors: James Cagney, Dennis Morgan, Brenda Marshall, Alan Hale, George Tobias, Reginald Gardiner
Plot: A bunch of excellent pilots enter into the Royal Canadian Air Force during WW2... for different reasons, though.

319. The Big Lift

Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Seaton
Actors: Montgomery Clift, Paul Douglas, Cornell Borchers, Bruni Löbel, O.E. Hasse, Captain Dante V. Morel

320. The Devil's Arithmetic

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Donna Deitch
Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Brittany Murphy, Mimi Rogers, Louise Fletcher, Paul Freeman, Shelly Skandrani
Plot: Powerful TV-movie about holocaust, from the modern Jewish teenage girl's perspective.

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