Best 10 Military Movies of All

Time

We Were Soldiers
(2002)

PG15 | 138 min | Action, Drama, History

Plot: The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War
and the soldiers on both sides that fought it
Director: Randall Wallace
Writers: Harold G. Moore (book) (as Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore) , Joseph L. Galloway
(book)
Stars: Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear

Saving Private Ryan

(1998)

PG15 | 169 min | Action, Drama, War

Plot: Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy
lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: Robert Rodat
Stars: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

PG18 | 116 min | Drama, War

Plot: A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam
War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody
street fighting in Hue.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Gustav Hasford (novel), Stanley Kubrick (screenplay)
Stars: Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio

Black Hawk Down

(2001)

PG15 | 144 min | Drama, History, Thriller

Plot: 123 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a
renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of
heavily-armed Somalis.
Director: Ridley Scott
Writer: Mark Bowden (book), Ken Nolan (screenplay)
Stars: Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

PG | 95 min | Comedy, War

Plot: An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of
politicians and generals frantically try to stop.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Stanley Kubrick (screenplay), Terry Southern (screenplay)
Stars: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden

Flags of Our Fathers

(2006)

PG15 | 135 min | Drama, History, War

Plot: The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at The Battle of Iwo Jima, a
turning point in WWII.
Director: Clint Eastwood
Writer: William Broyles Jr. (screenplay), Paul Haggis (screenplay)
Stars: Ryan Phillippe, Barry Pepper, Joseph Cross

All Quiet in the Western Front

(1930)

PG | 136 min | Drama, War

Plot: A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror
of World War I.
Director: Lewis Milestone
Writer: Erich Maria Remarque (by), Maxwell Anderson (adaptation)
Stars: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray

Platoon (1986)

PG15 | 120 min | Drama, War

Plot: A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the
horrors of war and the duality of man.
Director: Oliver Stone
Writer: Oliver Stone
Stars: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe

Das Boot (1981)

R | 149 min | Adventure, Drama, War

Plot: The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth, and
sheer terror.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Writer: Wolfgang Petersen (screenplay), Lothar G. Buchheim (novel)
Stars: Jrgen Prochnow, Herbert Grnemeyer, Klaus

To Hell and Back

(1955)

A | 106 min | Action, Biography, Drama

Plot: The true WWII story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in U.S.
history. The story is based on the autobiography of Audie Murphy who stars as
himself in the film.
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Writer: Gil Doud (screenplay), Audie Murphy (autobiography "To Hell And Back")
Stars: Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Charles Drake