100 Greatest War Movies

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Music Lists Greatest War Movies

Title - (Year, Director, War) (Main Actors) K=Korean

War, V=Vietnam War

1. Apocalypse Now - (1979, Francis Ford Coppola, V)

(Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, M. Brando)
2. All Quiet on the Western Front - (1930, Lewis
Milestone, WWI) (Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim)
3. Saving Private Ryan - (1998, Steven Spielberg,
WWII) (Tom Hanks, Edward Burns)
4. Schindler's List - (1993, Steven Spielberg, WWII)
(Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley)
5. Platoon - (1986, Oliver Stone, V) (Tom Berenger,
Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen)
6. The Bridge on the River Kwai - (1957, David Lean,
WWII) (Alec Guinness, William Holden)
7. Patton - (1970, Franklin J. Schaffner, WWII) (George
C. Scott, Karl Malden)
8. The Dirty Dozen - (1967, Robert Aldrich, WWII) (Lee
Marvin, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas)
9. The Longest Day - (1962,Ken Annakin, WWII) (John
Wayne, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum)
10. From Here to Eternity - (1953, Fred Zinnemann,
WWII) (Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift)
11. Sergeant York - (1941, Howard Hawks, WWI) (Gary
Cooper, Walter Brennan)
12. The Great Escape - (1963, John Sturges, WWII)
(Steve McQueen, James Garner)
13. Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein,
Odessa revolt-1905) (Alexander Antonov)
14. Das Boot - (1981, W. Ger. Wolfgang Peterson,
WWII) (Jurgen Procnow)
15. The Deer Hunter - (1978, Michael Cimino, V)
(Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep)
16. Full Metal Jacket - (1987, Stanley Kubrick, V)
(Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin)
17. Letters From Iwo Jima - (2006, Clint Eastwood,
WWII) (Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya)
18. A Bridge Too Far - (1977, Richard Attenborough,
WWII) (Dirk Bogarde, Michael Caine)
19. The Guns of Navarone - (1961, J. Lee Thompson,
WWII) (Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn)
20. Dunkirk - (2017, Christopher Nolan, WWII) (Fionn
Whitehead, Damien Bonnard)
21. Midway - (1976, Jack Smight, WWII) (Charlton
Heston, Henry Fonda, Toshiro Mifune)
22. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo - (1944, Mervyn LeRoy,
WWII) (Van Johnson, Robert Walker)
23. Open City - (1945, Roberto Rossellini, WWII) (Vito

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Annicchiarico, Nando Bruno)
24. Tora! Tora! Tora! - (1970, Richard Fleischer, WWII)
(Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten)
25. Black Hawk Down - (2001, Ridley Scott, Somalia)
(Ewan McGregor, Josh Hartnett)
26. The Thin Red Line - (1998, Terrence Malick, WWII)
(Sean Penn, Nick Nolte)
27. Stalag 17 - (1953, Billy Wilder, WWII) (William
Holden, Otto Preminger)
28. Battle of Britain - (1969, Guy Hamilton, WWII)
(Michael Caine, R. Shaw, Laurence Olivier)
29. The Desert Fox - (1951, Henry Hathaway, WWII)
(James Mason, Richard Boone)
30. The Story of G.I. Joe - (1945, William Wellman,
WWII) (Robert Mitchum, Burgess Meredith)
31. Paths Of Glory - (1957, Stanley Kubrick, WWI) (Kirk
Douglas, Ralph Meeker)
32. Wings - (1927, William Wellman, WWI) (Clara Bow,
Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Gary Cooper)
33. Battleground - (1949, William Wellman, WWII) (Van
Johnson, Ricardo Montalban)
34. In Harm's Way - (1965, Otto Preminger, WWII)
(John Wayne, Kirk Douglas)
35. MacArthur - (1977, Joseph Sargent, WWII, K)
(Gregory Peck, Ed Flanders)
36. Pork Chop Hill - (1959, Lewis Milestone, Korea)
(Gregory Peck, George Peppard)
37. The Big Parade - (1925, King Vidor, WWI) (John
Gilbert, Renée Adorée)
38. Where Eagles Dare - (1969, Brian G. Hutton, WWII)
(Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood)
39. 1917 - (2019, Sam Mendes, WWI) (Dean-Charles
Chapman, George MacKay, Daniel Mays)
40. The Desert Rats - (1953, Robert Wise, WWII)
(Richard Burton, James Mason)
41. Battle of the Bulge - (1965, Ken Annakin, WWII)
(Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw)
42. Hacksaw Ridge - (2016, Mel Gibson, WWII)
(Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington)
43. The Blue Max - (1966, John Guillermin, WWI)
(George Peppard, James Mason)
44. The Caine Mutiny - (1954, Edward Dmytryk, WWII)
(Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer)
45. The Train - (1965, John Frankenheimer, WWII) (Burt
Lancaster, Paul Scofield)
46. Back to Bataan - (1944, Edward Dmytryk, WWII)
(John Wayne, Anthony Quinn)
47. Many Wars Ago (aka Uomini Contro) - (1970,
Francesco Rosi, WWI) (Mark Frechette)
48. Guadalcanal Diary - (1943, Lewis Seiler, WWII)
(Preston Foster, Anthony Quinn)
49. The Big Red One - (1980, Samuel Fuller, WWII)

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(Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine)
50. Sink the Bismarck - (1960, Lewis Gilbert,WWII)
(Kenneth More, Dana Wynter)
51. They Were Expendable - (1945, John Ford, WWII)
(Robert Montgomery, John Wayne)
52. Closely Watched Trains - (1966, Czech., Jirí Menzel,
WWII) (Vaclav Neckar, Jitka Bendova)
53. The Dawn Patrol - (1938, Edmund Goulding, WWI)
(Errol Flynn, David Niven)
54. The Dam Busters (1955, Michael Anderson, WWII)
(Michael Redgrave, Richard Todd)
55. American Sniper (2014, Clint Eastwood, Iraq)
(Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller)
56. Sahara (1943, Zoltan Korda, WWII) (Humphrey
Bogart, Lloyd Bridges)
57. Flags of Our Fathers (2006, Clint Eastwood, WWII)
(Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford)
58. In Which We Serve (1942, Noel Coward, David
Lean, WWII) (Noel Coward, John Mills)
59. The Young Lions (1958, Edward Dmytryk, WWII)
(Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift)
60. Battle Cry (1955, Raoul Walsh, WWII) (Van Heflin,
James Whitmore, Anne Francis)
61. Soldier of Orange (1978, Netherlands, Paul
Verhoeven, WWII) (Rutger Hauer)
62. Halls of Montezuma (1950, Lewis Milestone, WWII)
(Richard Widmark, Karl Malden)
63. The Fighting Sullivans (1944, Lloyd Bacon, WWII)
(Thomas Mitchell, Ward Bond)
64. The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954, Mark Robson, K)
(William Holden, Mickey Rooney)
65. Destination Tokyo (1943, Delmer Daves, WWII)
(Cary Grant, John Forsythe)
66. Kelly's Heroes (1970, Brian G. Hutton, WWII) (Clint
Eastwood, Donald Sutherland)
67. The Bridge at Remagen (1969, John Guillermin,
WWII) (George Segal, Robert Vaughn)
68. Fury (2014, David Ayer, WWII) (Brad Pitt, Shia
LaBeouf, Logan Lerman)
69. Sands of Iwo Jima (1949, Allan Dwan, WWII) (John
Wayne, John Agar)
70. To Hell and Back (1955, Jesse Hibbs, WWII) (Audie
Murphy, David Janssen)
71. Von Ryan's Express (1965, Mark Robson, WWII)
(Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard)
72. The Lost Patrol (1943, John Ford, WWI) (Victor
McLaglen, Boris Karloff)
73. Wake Island (1942, John Farrow, WWII) (Robert
Preston, Macdonald Carey)
74. The Boys in Company C (1977, Sidney J. Furie, V)
(Stan Shaw, Andrew Stevens)
75. Objective, Burma! (1945, Raoul Walsh, WWII) (Errol

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Flynn, Henry Hull)
76. Twelve O'Clock High (1949, Henry King, WWII)
(Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe)
77. Operation Pacific (1951, George Waggner, WWII)
(John Wayne, Patricia Neal)
78. Gallipoli (1981, Australia, Peter Weir, WWI) (Mel
Gibson, Mark Lee)
79. Flying Leathernecks (1951, Nicholas Ray, WWII)
(John Wayne, Robert Ryan)
80. Memphis Belle (1990, Michael Caton-Jones, WWII)
(Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz)
81. Run Silent, Run Deep (1958, Robert Wise, WWII)
(Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster)
82. The Tuskegee Airmen (1995, Robert Markowitz,
WWII) (Laurence Fishburne, Allen Payne)
83. Kanal (1957, Andrzej Wajda, WWII) (Wienczyslaw
Glinski)
84. Courage Under Fire (1996, Edward Zwick, Iraq'91)
(Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan)
85. The Sand Pebbles (1966, Robert Wise, China
uprising 1926) (Steve McQueen)
86. 633 Squadron (1964, Walter Grauman, WWII) (Cliff
Robertson, Harry Andrews)
87. Casualties of War (1989, Brian De Palma, V) (Sean
Penn, Michael J. Fox)
88. War Horse (2011, Steven Spielberg, WWI) (Jeremy
Irvine, Emily Watson)
89. Cross of Iron (1977, Sam Peckinpah, WWII) (James
Coburn, James Mason)
90. Force 10 From Navarone (1978, Guy Hamilton,
WWII) (Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford)
91. Hell Is For Heroes (1962, Don Siegel WWII) (Steve
McQueen, James Coburn)
92. Too Late the Hero (1969, Robert Aldrich, WWII)
(Michael Caine, Denholm Elliott)
93. Merrill's Marauders (1962, Samuel Fuller, WWII)
(Jeff Chandler, Ty Hardin, Claude Akins)
94. Enemy at the Gates (2001, Jean-Jacques Annaud
WWII) (Joseph Fiennes, Ed Harris)
95. A Midnight Clear (1992, Keith Gordon, WWII) (Ethan
Hawke, Gary Sinise)
96. Dunkirk (1958, Leslie Norman, WWII) (John Mills,
Richard Attenborough)
97. The Monuments Men (2014, George Clooney,
WWII) (George Clooney, Matt Damon)
98. The Green Berets (1968, Ray Kellogg, V) (John
Wayne, David Janssen)
99. Heartbreak Ridge (1986, Clint Eastwood, Grenada)
(Clint Eastwood, Mario Van Peebles)
100. The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944, Cecil B. DeMille,
WWII) (Gary Cooper, Laraine Day)

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101. Three Kings (1999, David O. Russell, Iraq'91)

(George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg)
102. Jarhead (2005, Sam Mendes, Desert Storm)
(Jamie Foxx, Jake Gyllenhaal)
103. The Naked and the Dead (1958, Raoul Walsh,
WWII) (Aldo Ray, Cliff Robertson)
104. Operation Crossbow (1965, Michael Anderson,
WWII) (George Peppard, Sophia Loren)
105. King Rat (1965, Bryan Forbes, WWII) (George
Segal, Denholm Elliott)
106. Stalingrad (1992, Joseph Vilsmaier, WWII)
(Dominique Horwitz)
107. Torpedo Run (1958, Joseph Pevney, WWII) (Glenn
Ford, Ernest Borgnine)
108. A Walk in the Sun (1945, Lewis Milestone, WWII)
(Dana Andrews, Lloyd Bridges)

10 Greatest Civil War Movies

1. Glory - (1989, Edward Zwick) (Matthew Broderick,

Denzel Washington)
2. Gettysburg - (1993, Ronald F. Maxwell) (Martin
Sheen, Tom Berenger)
3. North and South - (1985, Richard T. Heffron, TV)
(Patrick Swayze, James Read)
4. The Red Badge of Courage - (1951, John Huston)
(Audie Murphy, Bill Mauldin)
5. Shenandoah - (1965, Andrew V. McLaglen) (James
Stewart, Doug McClure)
6. Gone With the Wind - (1939, Victor Fleming) (Clark
Gable, Vivien Leigh)
7. Andersonville - (1996, John Frankenheimer, TV)
(Frederic Forrest, William H. Macy)
8. Ride With The Devil - (1999, Ang Lee) (Tobey
Maguire, Skeet Ulrich)
9. Gods and Generals - (2003, Ronald F. Maxwell)
(Jeff Daniels, Robert Duvall)
10. The Horse Soldiers - (1959, John Ford) (John
Wayne, William Holden)

18 Greatest Comedy/Satire War Movies

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 1. M*A*S*H - (1970, Robert Altman, K) (Elliott Gould,
Donald Sutherland)
2. Dr. Strangelove - (1964, Stanley Kubrick, Cold War)
(Peter Sellers, George C. Scott)
3. Mister Roberts - (1955, John Ford, WWII) (Henry
Fonda, James Cagney)
4. Catch-22 - (1970, Mike Nichols, WWII) (Alan Arkin,
Richard Benjamin)
5. Operation Petticoat - (1959, Blake Edwards, WWII)
(Cary Grant, Tony Curtis)
6. Good Morning, Vietnam - (1987, Barry Levinson, V)
(Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker)
7. Stripes - (1981, Ivan Reitman, Cold War) (Bill
Murray, Harold Ramis)
8. Private Benjamin - (1980, Howard Zieff) (Goldie
Hawn, Eileen Brennan)
9. Tropic Thunder - (2008, Ben Stiller) (Ben Stiller,
Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr.)
10. The Secret War of Harry Frigg - (1968, Jack Smight,
WWII) (Paul Newman, Sylva Koscina)
11. Operation Petticoat - (1959) (Cary Grant, Tony
Curtis, Gavin MacLeod)
12. Top Secret! - (1984, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker,
David Zucker, WWII) (Val Kilmer)
13. How I Won the War - (1967, Richard Lester, WWII)
(Michael Crawford, John Lennon)
14. What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? - (1966, Blake
Edwards, WWII) (James Coburn)
15. McHale's Navy - (1964, Edward J. Montagne Jr.,
WWII) (Ernest Borgnine, Tim Conway)
16. Wake Me When It's Over - (1960, Mervyn LeRoy,
WWII) (Ernie Kovacs, Dick Shawn)
17. Sailor Beware - (1951, Hal Walker, WWII) (Dean
Martin, Jerry Lewis)
18. Operation Snatch - (1962, Robert Day, WWII) (Terry-
Thomas, Lionel Jeffries)

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