Criteria: - These are the Greatest War Movies - 20th Century Conflicts, chosen for their
quality direction, script, cinematography, acting, storyline, originality, and success.
This list DOES NOT INCLUDE wars before 1900. (Civil War, Revolutionary War, Napoleons Wars, etc.)
Title - (Year, Director, War) (Main Actors) K=Korean War, V=Vietnam War
Last Updated 7-9-06
Newly added names are in RED
Edited By: Lew
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. Full Metal Jacket - (1987, Stanley Kubrick, V) (Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin) 13. The Great Escape - (1963, John Sturges, WWII) (Steve McQueen, James Garner) 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. Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein, Odessa revolt-1905) (Alexander Antonov) 17. A Bridge Too Far - (1977, Richard Attenborough, WWII) (Dirk Bogarde, Michael Caine) 18. The Thin Red Line - (1998, Terrence Malick, WWII) (Sean Penn, Nick Nolte) 19. The Guns of Navarone - (1961, J. Lee Thompson, WWII) (Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn) 20. Open City - (1945, Roberto Rossellini, WWII) (Vito Annicchiarico, Nando Bruno) 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. Stalag 17 - (1953, Billy Wilder, WWII) (William Holden, Otto Preminger) 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. Where Eagles Dare - (1969, Brian G. Hutton, WWII) (Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood) 27. Battle of Britain - (1969, Guy Hamilton, WWII) (Michael Caine, R. Shaw, Laurence Olivier) 28. The Story of G.I. Joe - (1945, William Wellman, WWII) (Robert Mitchum, Burgess Meredith) 29. The Desert Fox - (1951, Henry Hathaway, WWII) (James Mason, Richard Boone) 30. Paths Of Glory - (1957, Stanley Kubrick, WWI) (Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker) 31. Wings - (1927, William Wellman, WWI) (Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Gary Cooper) 32. Battleground - (1949, William Wellman, WWII) (Van Johnson, Ricardo Montalban) 33. In Harm's Way - (1965, Otto Preminger, WWII) (John Wayne, Kirk Douglas) 34. MacArthur - (1977, Joseph Sargent, WWII, K) (Gregory Peck, Ed Flanders) 35. Pork Chop Hill - (1959, Lewis Milestone, Korea) (Gregory Peck, George Peppard) 36. The Blue Max - (1966, John Guillermin, WWI) (George Peppard, James Mason) 37. The Desert Rats - (1953, Robert Wise, WWII) (Richard Burton, James Mason) 38. The Big Red One - (1980, Samuel Fuller, WWII) (Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine) 39. Battle of the Bulge - (1965, Ken Annakin, WWII) (Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw) 40. The Train - (1965, John Frankenheimer, WWII) (Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield) 41. Back to Bataan - (1944, Edward Dmytryk, WWII) (John Wayne, Anthony Quinn) 42. They Were Expendable - (1945, John Ford, WWII) (Robert Montgomery, John Wayne) 43. Guadalcanal Diary - (1943, Lewis Seiler, WWII) (Preston Foster, Anthony Quinn) 44. Closely Watched Trains - (1966, Czech., Jirí Menzel, WWII) (Vaclav Neckar, Jitka Bendova) 45. Sink the Bismarck - (1960, Lewis Gilbert,WWII) (Kenneth More, Dana Wynter) 46. The Dawn Patrol - (1938, Edmund Goulding, WWI) (Errol Flynn, David Niven) 47. Sahara - (1943, Zoltan Korda, WWII) (Humphrey Bogart, Lloyd Bridges) 48. Soldier of Orange - (1978, Netherlands, Paul Verhoeven, WWII) (Rutger Hauer) 49. In Which We Serve - (1942, Noel Coward, David Lean, WWII) (Noel Coward, John Mills) 50. The Young Lions - (1958, Edward Dmytryk, WWII) (Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift) 51. Battle Cry - (1955, Raoul Walsh, WWII) (Van Heflin, James Whitmore, Anne Francis) 52. The Boys in Company C - (1977, Sidney J. Furie, V) (Stan Shaw, Andrew Stevens) 53. To Hell and Back - (1955, Jesse Hibbs, WWII) (Audie Murphy, David Janssen) 54. Halls of Montezuma - (1950, Lewis Milestone, WWII) (Richard Widmark, Karl Malden) 55. The Lost Patrol - (1943, John Ford, WWI) (Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff) 56. Destination Tokyo - (1943, Delmer Daves, WWII) (Cary Grant, John Forsythe) 57. The Bridges at Toko-Ri - (1954, Mark Robson, K) (William Holden, Mickey Rooney) 58. The Fighting Sullivans - (1944, Lloyd Bacon, WWII) (Thomas Mitchell, Ward Bond) 59. Sands of Iwo Jima - (1949, Allan Dwan, WWII) (John Wayne, John Agar) 60. Flying Leathernecks - (1951, Nicholas Ray, WWII) (John Wayne, Robert Ryan) 61. Kelly's Heroes - (1970, Brian G. Hutton, WWII) (Clint Eastwood, Donald Sutherland) 62. The Bridge at Remagen - (1969, John Guillermin, WWII) (George Segal, Robert Vaughn) 63. Operation Pacific - (1951, George Waggner, WWII) (John Wayne, Patricia Neal) 64. Memphis Belle - (1990, Michael Caton-Jones, WWII) (Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz) 65. The Caine Mutiny - (1954, Edward Dmytryk, WWII) (Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer) 66. Von Ryan's Express - (1965, Mark Robson, WWII) (Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard) 67. Wake Island - (1942, John Farrow, WWII) (Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey) 68. Courage Under Fire - (1996, Edward Zwick, Iraq'91) (Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan) 69. Objective, Burma! - (1945, Raoul Walsh, WWII) (Errol Flynn, Henry Hull) 70. Twelve O'Clock High - (1949, Henry King, WWII) (Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe) 71. Run Silent, Run Deep - (1958, Robert Wise, WWII) (Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster) 72. Gallipoli - (1981, Australia, Peter Weir, WWI) (Mel Gibson, Mark Lee) 73. The Tuskegee Airmen - (1995, Robert Markowitz, WWII) (Laurence Fishburne, Allen Payne) 74. 633 Squadron - (1964, Walter Grauman, WWII) (Cliff Robertson, Harry Andrews) 75. Cross of Iron - (1977, Sam Peckinpah, WWII) (James Coburn, James Mason) 76. Kanal - (1957, Andrzej Wajda, WWII) (Wienczyslaw Glinski) 77. Force 10 From Navarone - (1978, Guy Hamilton, WWII) (Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford) 78. Casualties of War - (1989, Brian De Palma, V) (Sean Penn, Michael J. Fox) 79. The Sand Pebbles - (1966, Robert Wise, China uprising 1926) (Steve McQueen) 80. Hell Is For Heroes - (1962, Don Siegel WWII) (Steve McQueen, James Coburn) 81. Too Late the Hero - (1969, Robert Aldrich, WWII) (Michael Caine, Denholm Elliott) 82. A Rumor of War - (1980, Richard T. Heffron, V) (Brad Davis, Brian Dennehy) 83. A Midnight Clear - (1992, Keith Gordon, WWII) (Ethan Hawke, Gary Sinise) 84. Three Kings - (1999, David O. Russell, Iraq'91) (George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg) 85. Dunkirk - (1958, Leslie Norman, WWII) (John Mills, Richard Attenborough) 86. Behind Enemy Lines - (2001, John Moore, Bosnia) (Owen Wilson, Gene Hackman) 87. The Story of Dr. Wassell - (1944, Cecil B. DeMille, WWII) (Gary Cooper, Laraine Day) 88. The Green Berets - (1968, Ray Kellogg, V) (John Wayne, David Janssen) 89. Windtalkers - (2002, John Woo, WWII) (Nicolas Cage, Christian Slater) 90. Enemy at the Gates - (2001, Jean-Jacques Annaud WWII) (Joseph Fiennes, Ed Harris) 91. Operation Crossbow - (1965, Michael Anderson, WWII) (George Peppard, Sophia Loren) 92. The Naked and the Dead - (1958, Raoul Walsh, WWII) (Aldo Ray, Cliff Robertson) 93. King Rat - (1965, Bryan Forbes, WWII) (George Segal, Denholm Elliott) 94. Jarhead - (2005, Sam Mendes, Desert Storm) (Jamie Foxx, Jake Gyllenhaal) 95. Stalingrad - (1992, Joseph Vilsmaier, WWII) (Dominique Horwitz) 96. Torpedo Run - (1958, Joseph Pevney, WWII) (Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine) 97. Heartbreak Ridge - (1986, Clint Eastwood, Grenada) (Clint Eastwood, Mario Van Peebles) 98. A Walk in the Sun - (1945, Lewis Milestone, WWII) (Dana Andrews, Lloyd Bridges) 99. Castle Keep - (1969, Sydney Pollack, WWII) (Burt Lancaster, Peter Falk) 100. U-571 - (2000, Jonathan Mostow, WWII) (Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton)
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. Top Secret! - (1984, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker, WWII) (Val Kilmer) 10. The Secret War of Harry Frigg - (1968, Jack Smight, WWII) (Paul Newman, Sylva Koscina) 11. McHale's Navy - (1964, Edward J. Montagne Jr., WWII) (Ernest Borgnine, Tim Conway) 12. How I Won the War - (1967, Richard Lester, WWII) (Michael Crawford, John Lennon) 13. What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? - (1966, Blake Edwards, WWII) (James Coburn) 14. Wake Me When It's Over - (1960, Mervyn LeRoy, WWII) (Ernie Kovacs, Dick Shawn) 15. Sailor Beware - (1951, Hal Walker, WWII) (Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis) 16. Operation Snatch - (1962, Robert Day, WWII) (Terry-Thomas, Lionel Jeffries)
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