51. Defiance
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Edward Zwick
Actors: Daniel Craig, Jamie Bell, Liev Schreiber, George MacKay, Tomas Arana, Mark Margolis
Plot: Three Jewish brother escape from Poland as the Nazis invade. They join forces with the Russian resistance in an attempt to build a village to house themselves and others being pursued and persecuted.
52. Lifeboat
Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Hume Cronyn, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, Henry Hull
Plot: Several survivors of a torpedoed ship find themselves in the same boat with one of the men who sunk it.
53. Restrepo
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger
Actors: Juan 'Doc Restrepo, Dan Kearney, LaMonta Caldwell, Aron Hijar, Misha Pemble-Belkin, Miguel Cortez
Plot: A pair of documentary filmmakers spent one year with the Second Platoon - a group stationed in one of the most strategically important and deadly valleys in Afghanistan.
54. The Train
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Frankenheimer
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon, Michel Simon, Albert Rémy
Plot: A railroad boss and the French Resistance join forces in Paris during the
German occupation, to thwart the Germans' plan.
55. 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, Toby Huss
Plot: A Vietnam Fighter Pilot is shot down over Laos during the Vietnam War and he struggles to survive.
56. Flags of Our Fathers
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey, John Slattery, Barry Pepper
Plot: One picture taken at Iwo Jima changed the way the American Public viewed the WWII. The three survivors of the event must cope with being labeled heroes while living with the reality of what truly happened.
57. The English Patient
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Anthony Minghella
Actors: Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Kristin Scott Thomas, Colin Firth
Plot: Towards the end of WWII a burn victim is tended to by a nurse who learns
of his romantic story as he tries to recover from a mysterious accident.
58. Sisu
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Finnish
Genre: Action/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jalmari Helander
Actors: Jorma Tommila, Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan, Mimosa Willamo, Onni Tommila, Arttu Kapulainen
Plot: In the waning days of WWII, a Finnish prospector comes across a wealth of gold only to have it stolen by a brutal SS officer. But this is no ordinary man and the Nazis soon realize that even though the odds may seem in their favor this one-man army will wage a bloody battle to the bitter end to get his gold back.
59. The Hill
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sidney Lumet
Actors: Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Ossie Davis, Alfred Lynch, Roy Kinnear
Plot: In a British disciplinary camp in the middle of the Libyan desert, Staff
Sergeant Williams delights in persecuting his prisoners by constantly
making them climb a man-made hill in the middle of the camp. Five new
prisoners arrive and will deal with authority in their own ways.
60. Two Women ( ciociara, La )
Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Actors: Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi, Andrea Checchi, Pupella Maggio
Plot: An Italian woman and her teenage daughter are alone in the waning days of WWII. They are trying to survive; trying to find a safe place. They are both raped by allied Moroccan soldiers and left to die.
