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Add your ratings here: "War movies"
Rate the best war films ( 62 movies)
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United States - 1979
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- During the Vietnam War, the young American Captain Willard is given the assignment to hunt down and kill one of his own: Colonel Kurtz who has apparently gone insane, ...
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United States - 1986
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- In PLATOON, Oliver Stone draws on his experience as an infantryman in Vietnam to convey the brutality of guerrilla warfare: the heat of the jungle, the brushes with such ...
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United States - 1998
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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 Kingdom - 1987
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- A group of recruits trains in Parris Island. Sergeant Hartman, relentless and brutal, has the mission to train them until they become tough enough to fight the enemy. But ...
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United States - 2014
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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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- 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 - 2016
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- WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history ...
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United States - 1957
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- Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas) is the commander of the battle-decimated 701st Infantry Regiment of the French Army, dug in along the Western Front in a stalemated WWI. It is ...
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United States - 2001
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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 States - 2014
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- Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history. But there was much more to him than his skill as a sharpshooter. U.S. Navy SEAL Kyle is ...
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United Kingdom - 1957
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- British POWs in Burma are employed by the Japanese to build a bridge; meanwhile, British agents seek to destroy it. After surrendering his unit to the Japanese. Colonel ...
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United Kingdom - 1961
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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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United States - 1967
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- An Army Major who likes to butt heads with his superiors, is being "given" a new assignment, to train 12 men who are either sentenced to death or life imprisonment, to go ...
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United States - 2008
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- The Hurt Locker is an intense portrayal of elite soldiers who have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world: disarming bombs in the heat of combat. In Iraq, when a new ...
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China - 2009
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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
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- 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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- 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 - 2013
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- Based on the failed June 28, 2005 mission "Operation Red Wing." Four members of SEAL Team 10, were tasked with the mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader, ...
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Japan - 1988
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- A Japanese boy of 14 and his 4 year old sister, attempt to seek refuge from the atrocities of World War II in the small city of Kobe. In post-World War II Japan, a ...
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Germany - 1993
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- In the spring of 1942 German troops advanced deep into the Soviet Union, en route to Stalingrad. Hitler, seriously misjudging the tenacity of the Red Army, was convinced ...
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United States - 1978
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- It follows a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the cool hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. This war ...
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United States - 2011
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- A look at how a couple's romance is affected by the Bosnian Civil War in the 1990s.
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United States - 2009
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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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Poland - 2004
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- A volunteer soldier plummets to his death. A photograph is taken and sent by courier to a huge man, who adds it to his macabre collection.
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China - 2011
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- 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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- 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 States - 1970
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- "Patton" is a three-dimensional bronze bust of World War II field general George S. Patton (George C. Scott) who wrote poetry, fired pistols at strafing fighter planes, ...
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Germany - 2013
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- TV Miniseries (2013). 3 Episodes. It tells the story of five German friends, aged around 20, on their different paths through Nazi Germany and World War II. Level-headed, ...
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United Kingdom - 1977
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- 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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Czechoslovakia - 1946
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- A comic story of a legendary chimney-cleaner who, with the help of a spring, became the terror of the SS troops occupying Prague during World War II.
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Germany - 2004
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- Berlin, april 1945. The war is almost over. Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara), the final stenographer for Adolf Hitler (Bruno Ganz), tells of the Nazi dictator's final ...
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United States - 2001
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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 - 1987
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- Though the anti-war sentiments of Hamburger Hill come through loud and clear, the film is squarely on the side of those courageous, much-maligned Americans who fought and ...
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United Kingdom - 2007
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- On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) sees her older sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley) strip off her clothes and plunge ...
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United States - 1989
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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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- 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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United States - 1958
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- The destiny of two soldiers during World War II. The German officer Christian approves less and less of the war, while the American GI Ackerman climbs the military hierarchy.
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United States - 1957
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- Set during the Battle of Atlantic during the Second World War, "The Enemy Below" tells the story of the cat and mouse Destroyer escort/U-Boat hunt. For the Americans, a ...
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South Korea - 2004
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- 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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Soviet Union (USSR) - 1985
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- During WWII, a Belarusian boy is thrust into the atrocities of war, fighting with a hopelessly unequipped Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces. ...
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United States - 2006
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- The Battle of Iwo Jima, fought in the winter of 1945 on a rocky island south of Japan, brought a ferocious slice of hell to earth: in a month's time, more than 22,000 ...
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United States - 2006
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- Letters From Iwo Jima is a recreation of the events that transpired during the American invasion of Iwo Jima during World War II, as told from the Japanese perspective. ...
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United States - 2002
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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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- 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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Israel - 2008
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- One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts. The two ...
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United States - 2008
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- Pampered action superstar Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller) is cast in the biggest, most expensive war movie ever produced. He sets out to Southeast Asia with a "Who's Who" of ...
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United States - 1942
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- Donald Duck has a nightmare that he lives in Germany slaving under the Nazi regime.
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Japan - 1959
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- During the Second World War, Kaji, a japanese pacifist, tries to avoid military service by accepting a job as a supervisor in the mines of Manchuria, in occupied ...
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Japan - 1959
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- Second World War. Forced to join the japanese army, Kaji is sent to Manchuria. There, he becomes friends with a soldier who sympathizes with communism. After a visit from ...
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Japan - 1961
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- The protagonist is the pacifistic Kaji. Strong-armed into the Japanese military during World War II, Kaji has reluctantly learned to kill on the battlefields. Upon his ...
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France - 1952
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- The story focuses on Paulette (Brigitte Fossey), a five-year-old refugee from Paris taken in by a peasant family after her parents are killed during a bombardment of a ...
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United States - 2016
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- 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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Soviet Union (USSR) - 1962
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- The film is centered around a 12 year old Russian boy, Ivan, whose parents died at the hands of Germans invading Russia during the Second World War. In striving ...
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United States - 1971
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- A young American soldier, hit by a shell on the last day of the First World War, lies in a hospital bed, a quadruple amputee who has lost his eyes, ears, mouth and nose. ...
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United States - 1925
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- 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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United Kingdom - 1964
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- Convinced that the Russians have infiltrated America's "vital essence", the crazed Ripper gives the go code to the 843rd bomb wing to attack Russia, setting in motion a ...
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United States - 2010
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- A 10-part mini-series from the creators of "Band of Brothers" set in the midst of World War II, following three US Marines in the Pacific, during America's battle with ...
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Belarus - 2010
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- A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Russian troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days.
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Japan - 1959
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- It is the Philipines, 1945. The Japanese Imperial Army has been reduced to a ragtag mob hiding in the jungles. Among them is Pvt. Tamura. The situation goes from bad to ...
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