41. Born on the Fourth of July
Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Oliver Stone
Actors: Tom Cruise, Tom Berenger, Kyra Sedgwick, Raymond J. Barry
Plot: Ron Kovic is a young man graduating high school during Vietnam war when he decides to enlist in the military. After his injury he is shocked with the treatment of war veterans but quickly learns the truths to the war as he fights for peace.
42. Army of Shadows ( armée des ombres, L' )
Year of Release: 1969
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Actors: Paul Meurisse, Lino Ventura, Simone Signoret, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Plot: A leader of the French resistance is betrayed and captured. After surviving his tormentors and escaping, he returns to Marseilles to find and execute the traitor.
43. Tin Drum, The ( Blechtrommel, Die )
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Actors: Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Katharina Thalbach
Plot: Based on one of the most important fiction works of the 20th Century, the Tin Drum follows the fortunes of Oskar Matzerath a gifted introvert who on his 3rd birthday (after receiving a tin drum as a present) decides to stop growing and refuses to join the adult society that he holds in contempt.Matzerath lives through one of the most turbulent periods of European history as he sees the rise of the Nazi regime, the fall of Danzig to the German Army,the Second World War and the fall again of Danzig this time to the Russians.
Oskar falls in love and discovers the heartbreak of the sudden death of his mother, all the while he continues to play his Tin Drum.
44. The Last Samurai
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Edward Zwick
Actors: Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Tony Goldwyn, John Koyama
Plot: After being captured by the same samurai who he was hired to kill, he falls in love with their culture and decides to fight with them until the end.
45. Shame ( Skammen )
Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Sigge Fürst, Gunnar Björnstrand
Plot: Ingmar Bergman's reflection on war and how the psychological impact affects a couple trying to live their lives on a rural island.
46. Forbidden Games ( Jeux interdits )
Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: René Clément
Actors: Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée, Laurence Badie
Plot: A young girl is orphaned during WWII and, breaking away from a group of refugees, finds herself with a peasant family - where she bonds with a young boy. Together they form their own ideas about the death that surrounds them - and the rituals involved - even if it is often at odds with the adults around them.
47. Stripes
Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ivan Reitman
Actors: Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, P.J. Soles
Plot: John Winger, a down-on-his luck New Yorker, convinces his friend to join to army with him to impress chicks and make money. Clowning through basic training, becoming the leader of a misfit platoon, Winger somehow manages to land a plum assignment manning a new urban assault vehicle in Italy.
48. Lifeboat
Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Hume Cronyn, Walter Slezak
Plot: Several survivors of a torpedoed ship find themselves in the same boat with one of the men who sunk it.
49. Sands of Iwo Jima
Year of Release: 1949
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Allan Dwan
Actors: John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara, Forrest Tucker
Plot: A group of marines get trained and sent to the island of Iwo Jima to fight in WW2.
50. Rescue Dawn
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Werner Herzog
Actors: Christian Bale, Jeremy Davies, Zach Grenier, Pat Healy
Plot: A Vietnam Fighter Pilot is shot down over Laos during the Vietnam War and he struggles to survive.
