Take the Tour: "War movies"
Rate the best war films (62 movies)
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United States - 1998
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- Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore ...
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- James Ryan (Matt Damon), who has parachuted into France during the Allied invasion of Europe, has just lost three brothers in combat. Government policy dictates that he ...
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United States - 2014
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- Brad Pitt, Logan Lerman ...
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- April, 1945, the 2nd World War is almost over. A battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind ...
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United States - 1998
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- Cast:
- Sean Penn, Jim Caviezel ...
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- 1942, Guadalcanal. US soldiers land on the island, hoping to take it back from the Japanese. At first, they encounter no resistance. C for Charlie company ventures into ...
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United States - 2001
- Director:
- Stephen Ambrose (Creator) ...
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- TV Miniseries (2001). 10 Episodes. This is the story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division from their initial training starting to the end of ...
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United Kingdom - 1961
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- Gregory Peck, David Niven ...
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- During WWII, British Intelligence in the Middle East sends six men to the Aegean island of Navarone to destroy guns manned by the Germans. Consistently interesting war ...
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China - 2009
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- Ye Liu, Gao Yuanyuan ...
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- Year 1937. Japanese troops have entered China's temporary capital, where their cruel occupation will be known as "The Rape of Nanjing." Shot in wide lens black-and-white, ...
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United States - 1962
- Director:
- Ken Annakin ...
- Cast:
- John Wayne, Robert Mitchum ...
- Synopsis:
- England in June 1944. Unseasonal storms. Allied troops are massed ready for the invasion of France, some already on the boats. The Normandy beaches will be their ...
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United Kingdom - 2001
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- Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes ...
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- During the WWII battle of Stalingrad, two snipers, Russian Vasily Zaytsev and a German, are locked in a battle of wills and marksmanship, while the Russian is boosted to ...
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United States - 2009
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- Cast:
- Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz ...
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- During the time of WWII, U.S. soldiers who are about to be executed, are offered a chance at reprieve. It all begins in German-occupied France, where Shoshanna Dreyfus ...
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China - 2011
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- Cast:
- Christian Bale, Ni Ni ...
- Synopsis:
- In 1937 China, during the second Sino-Japanese war, a mortician, John (Christian Bale) arrives at a Catholic church in Nanjing to prepare a priest for burial. Upon ...
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United States - 1970
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- Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura ...
- Synopsis:
- In 1941 the Japanese are at odds with the United States on a number of issues which they are attempting to resolve via their Washington embassy. In case this diplomacy ...
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United Kingdom - 1977
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- Sean Connery, Edward Fox ...
- Synopsis:
- Richard Attenborough‘s star–studded re–telling of the allies‘ attempts to capture several bridges in Germany during World War II, in a campaign called operation Market Garden.
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United States - 2001
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- Cast:
- Josh Hartnett, Eric Bana ...
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- In October, 1993, an elite group of U.S. soldiers landed in Somalia to capture two officers from the Somali warlord. They were lowered by Black Hawk helicopters which ...
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United Kingdom - 1977
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- Cast:
- James Coburn, James Mason ...
- Synopsis:
- Director Sam Peckinpah's only war movie, "Cross of Iron", is filmed from the perspective of German soldiers lost in a hopeless cause on World War II's Eastern Front. ...
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United States - 1945
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- Cast:
- Errol Flynn, James Brown ...
- Synopsis:
- A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but ...
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United States - 1957
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- Cast:
- Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray ...
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- In Korea, on 6 September 1950, Lieutenant Benson's platoon finds itself isolated in enemy-held territory after a retreat. Soon they are joined by Sergeant Montana, whose ...
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United States - 1989
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- Cast:
- Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn ...
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- Eriksson (Michael J. Fox), a young american soldier, arrives in Vietnam and is assigned to a unit of men who have been in the jungle for many months. Their sergeant Tony ...
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United States - 1930
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- Cast:
- Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim ...
- Synopsis:
- A realistic anti-war epic based on the pacifist novel by Erich Maria Remarque. Seven German youths enthusiastically join the German army after a professor preaches the ...
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South Korea - 2004
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- Cast:
- Jang Dong-gun, Won Bin ...
- Synopsis:
- Jin-Tae (Jang Dong-Gun) shines shoes hoping to save money to send his younger brother Jin-Seok (Won Bin) to university. Their mother runs a noodle shop wishing the best ...
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United States - 2002
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- Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach ...
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- During World War II, U.S. Marine Joe Enders (Cage) is assigned to protect Ben Yahzee (Beach) -- a Navajo code talker, the Marines' new secret weapon against the Japanese. ...
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United States - 2001
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- Cast:
- Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett ...
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- World War II has taken the world by storm, and Europe is feeling its efforts. Back in the United States, however, peace and traquility prevail as the people refuse to get ...
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United States - 2016
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- Cast:
- Felicity Jones, Diego Luna ...
- Synopsis:
- Jyn Erso, a Rebellion soldier and criminal, is about to experience her biggest challenge yet when Mon Mothma sets her out on a mission to steal the plans for the Death ...
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United States - 1925
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- Cast:
- John Gilbert, Renée Adorée ...
- Synopsis:
- The film follows, three men Bull, Slim and Jim (Gilbert). Jim is a rich man's son who has never had a days work in his life. When WWI one breaks out and all his friends ...
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