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| 1. All Quiet on the Western Front (year: 1979) |
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Years after directing the classic Marty (1955), Delbert Mann became a creator of prestige TV movie projects, none more daunting than his adaptation of ...
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| 2. Andersonville (year: 1996) |
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Made for the TNT cable channel, this lengthy docudrama records the harrowing conditions at the Confederacy's most notorious prisoner-of-war camp. The ...
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| 3. Back to Bataan (year: 1945) |
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Edward Dmytryk's Back to Bataan stars John Wayne as Colonel Joe Madden. After General MacArthur decides to follow his order and leave the Philippines, ...
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| 4. Band of Brothers (year: 2001) |
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Executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks for HBO, Band of Brothers is a ten-part miniseries based on the book Band of Brothers: E Company, ...
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| 5. Battle for Haditha (year: 2007) |
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The fate of two cultures becomes locked on a tragic collision course in director Nick Broomfield's dramatization of the events that led to the massacr ...
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| 6. Beaufort (year: 2007) |
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The title of Joseph Cedar's war drama Beaufort refers to the name of a fortress held by Israeli troops, during that country's contentious occupation o ...
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| 7. Behind Enemy Lines (year: 1985) |
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| 8. Black Book (year: 2006) |
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Filmmaker Paul Verhoeven returned to the Netherlands after more than twenty years of success in Hollywood to direct this epic-scale war drama based on ...
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| 9. Black Hawk Down (year: 2001) |
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A quickly forgotten chapter in United States military history is relived in this harrowing war drama from director Ridley Scott, based on a series of ...
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| 10. Buffalo Soldiers (year: 1997) |
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| 12. Cold Mountain (year: 2003) |
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Based on the novel by Charles Frazier, Anthony Minghella's star-studded Cold Mountain is a sweeping tale set in the final days of the American Civil W ...
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| 13. Courage Under Fire (year: 1996) |
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A soldier discovers how elusive the truth can be in this first major film about America's role in the Gulf War. Lt. Col. Nathaniel Serling (Denzel Was ...
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| 14. Das Boot (year: 1981) |
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Das Boot is one of the most gripping and authentic war movies ever made. Based on an autobiographical novel by German World War II photographer Lothar ...
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| 15. Day Zero (year: 2007) |
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Three men come face to face with their concerns about war when they're drafted in this independent drama set in the near future. As the United States ...
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| 16. Days of Glory (year: 2006) |
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Director Rachid Bouchareb teams with screenwriter Olivier Morelle to offer a revealing look at the brave contributions made by North African soldiers ...
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| 17. Empire of the Sun (year: 1987) |
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Based on J.G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, Empire of the Sun stars Christian Bale as a spoiled young British boy, living with his wealthy family ...
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| 18. Escape from Sobibor (year: 1987) |
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During WWII, Sobibor was a notorious Nazi death camp. This gripping, fact-based drama chronicles the courage of an inmate who managed the largest esca ...
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| 19. Exodus (year: 1960) |
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Produced and directed by Otto Preminger, Exodus is a 212-minute screen adaptation of the best-selling novel by Leon Uris. The film is concerned with t ...
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| 20. Fateless (year: 2005) |
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One young man's devastating voyage through the Holocaust sets the stage for this powerful drama. Gyorgy "Gyurka" Koves (Marcell Nagy) is a 1 ...
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| 21. Flags of Our Fathers (year: 2006) |
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Clint Eastwood's adaptation of the non-fiction book Flags of Our Fathers concerns the lives of the men in the famous picture of soldiers raising the A ...
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| 22. Flyboys (year: 2006) |
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As World War I rages in Europe and Allied forces in France, Italy, and England find their resolve quickly diminishing due to the overwhelming force of ...
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| 23. Flying Leathernecks (year: 1951) |
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The Technicolor adventure epic Flying Leathernecks offers two things that film cultists can never get enough of: star John Wayne and director Nicholas ...
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| 24. Friendly Fire (year: 1979) |
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| 25. Full Metal Jacket (year: 1987) |
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Stanley Kubrick's return to filmmaking after a seven-year hiatus, this film crystallizes the experience of the Vietnam War by concentrating on a group ...
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| 26. Grave of the Fireflies (year: 1988) |
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Grave of the Fireflies opens on an evening in 1945, after Japan's surrender at the end of World War II; and in a train station, the young Seita dies a ...
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| 27. Hamburger Hill (year: 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 Amer ...
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| 28. Heartbreak Ridge (year: 1986) |
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Having spent much of his directorial career emulating Don Siegel and John Ford, Clint Eastwood borrows a page from the catalogue of Sam Fuller in Hear ...
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| 29. Hell Is for Heroes (year: 1962) |
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Don Siegel's only war film and unfortunately his only teaming with Steve McQueen, an actor whose rebellious persona jibed well with the director's vis ...
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| 30. In the Valley of Elah (year: 2007) |
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When a model soldier who recently returned to the U.S. from the front lines of Iraq goes AWOL, his veteran father enlists the aid of a dedicated polic ...
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| 31. Intimate Enemies (year: 2007) |
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The brutal legacy of the Algerian war forms the heart of filmmaker Florent Emilio Siri's stark period drama concerning a young French soldier confront ...
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| 32. Jarhead (year: 2005) |
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A young man gets a crash course in the madness of war in this fact-based drama from director Sam Mendes. Anthony "Swoff" Swofford (Jake Gyll ...
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| 33. Katưn (year: 2008) |
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Celebrated Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda takes the helm for this Oscar-nominated drama detailing the harrowing events surrounding the 1940 massacre o ...
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| 34. Kedma (year: 2002) |
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Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai directed this historical drama based on a true story of the conflict between Jewish refugees and Palestinians on the eve ...
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| 35. Ko To Tamo Peva (year: 1980) |
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Also known as Who's That Singing Over There?, this bittersweet 1980 comedy was released in its native Yugoslavia as Ko To Tamo Peva. The time is 1941: ...
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| 36. Letters from Iwo Jima (year: 2006) |
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After bringing the story of the American soldiers who fought in the battle of Iwo Jima to the screen in his film Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood ...
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| 37. Memphis Belle (year: 1990) |
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Unabashedly sentimental, this war film was produced by David Putnam in partnership with Catherine Wyler, whose father William Wyler directed an acclai ...
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| 38. Mission of the Shark (year: 1991) |
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When a top secret naval mission leads to the torpedoing of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at the end of WWII, it began one of the most scandalous court-marti ...
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| 39. My Boy Jack (year: 2007) |
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Actor/writer David Haig pens and stars in this war drama tracing author Rudyard Kipling's search for his seventeen year old son after the boy is repor ...
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| 40. Operation Daybreak (year: 1976) |
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Also titled The Price of Freedom, Operation Daybreak is a retelling of the terrible consequences attending the assassination of Nazi-occupation leade ...
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| 41. Pan's Labyrinth (year: 2006) |
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Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro returns to the phantasmagorical cinema that defined such early fare as Cronos and The Devil's Backbone with this ...
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| 42. Platoon (year: 1986) |
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Oliver Stone's breakthrough as a director, Platoon is a brutally realistic look at a young soldier's tour of duty in Vietnam. Chris Taylor (Charlie Sh ...
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| 43. Prisoner of the Mountains (year: 1996) |
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Political rivals, divided by a bloody war, are forced to come to terms with one another in this drama, which was adapted from Leo Tolstoy's short stor ...
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| 44. Redacted (year: 2007) |
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Director Brian De Palma turns his lens on the Iraq war with this "fictional documentary" about the experience of U.S. soldiers involved in t ...
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| 45. Rosenstrasse (year: 2003) |
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German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta directs the war drama Rosenstrasse, based on the plight of "mixed marriages" between Jewish men and n ...
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| 46. Rules of Engagement (year: 2000) |
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In this drama, two U.S. Marines who stood side by side on the field of battle are reunited in a court of law. Attorney Hayes Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones) ...
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| 47. Schindler's List (year: 1993) |
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Based on a true story, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List stars Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunit ...
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| 48. Soldier of Change (year: 2006) |
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Heath Freeman (Tru Calling, ER) heads an all-star cast including Clifton Davis (Any Given Sunday) Ben Vereen (Roots), Stacey Dash (Renaissance Man) an ...
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| 49. South Pacific (year: 1958) |
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Producer/director Joshua Logan's long-awaited filmization of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Pulitzer Prize winning musical South Pacific was not the clas ...
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| 50. Stalag 17 (year: 1953) |
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The scene is a German POW camp, sometime during the mid-1940s. Stalag 17, exclusively populated by American sergeants, is overseen by sadistic command ...
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