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Best War Movies of the 20th Century
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
RDrama, War2h49Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.
Casablanca (1942)
PGDrama, Romance, War1h42A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Not RatedAnimation, Drama, War1h29A young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.
Apocalypse Now (1979)
RDrama, Mystery, War2h27A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
Paths of Glory (1957)
TV-PGDrama, War1h28After refusing to attack an enemy position, a general accuses the soldiers of cowardice and their commanding officer must defend them.
The Great Dictator (1940)
GComedy, Drama, War2h05Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
RDrama, War1h56A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
ApprovedDrama, War2h59In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazis judged for war crimes.
Ran (1985)
RAction, Drama, War2h42In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
Platoon (1986)
RDrama, War2h00Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
PGAdventure, Drama, War2h41British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors, not knowing that the allied forces are planning to destroy it.
The Deer Hunter (1978)
RDrama, War3h03An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
PGDrama, Romance, War3h13The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
ApprovedDrama, Romance, War2h50Three World War II veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
Patton (1970)
PGBiography, Drama, War2h52The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Not RatedAction, Adventure, War2h30During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.
From Here to Eternity (1953)
PassedDrama, Romance, War1h58In Hawaii in 1941, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second-in-command are falling in love.
Legends of the Fall (1994)
RDrama, Romance, War2h13In the early 1900s, three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of Montana are affected by betrayal, history, love, nature, and war.
The Thin Red Line (1998)
RDrama, War2h50Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
PGDrama, History, War2h55Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.
MASH (1970)
PGComedy, Drama, War1h56The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
The English Patient (1996)
RDrama, Romance, War2h42At the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
RBiography, Drama, War2h25The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
RDrama, War2h10Hard-nosed, hard-living Marine Gunnery Sergeant Tom Highway (Clint Eastwood) clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.
Stripes (1981)
RComedy, War1h46Two friends who are dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun.