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| 1. Air Force (year: 1943) |
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On December 6, 1941, a squadron of nine B-17 bombers takes off for Hickam Field, HI. The crew of the Mary Ann, including two new men, assistant radio ...
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| 2. 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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| 3. Apocalypse Now (year: 1979) |
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One of a cluster of late-1970s films about the Vietnam War, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now adapts the Joseph Conrad novella Heart of Darkness t ...
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| 4. 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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| 5. 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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| 6. Bang Rajan (year: 2000) |
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This historical drama from Thailand is based on one of the key historical events in that nation's history. In 1765, Siam (as Thailand was known at tha ...
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| 8. 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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| 9. Behind Enemy Lines (year: 1985) |
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| 10. 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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| 11. 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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| 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. Commando (year: 1962) |
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| 14. 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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| 15. 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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| 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. Enemy at the Gates (year: 2001) |
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A turning point in 20th century war history is the focus of this fact-based account of the 1942-1943 battle of Stalingrad, in which the Germans were f ...
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| 19. 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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| 20. Faith of My Fathers (year: 2005) |
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Faith of My Fathers tells the story of the young John McCain (Shawn Hatosy). The film charts McCain's early home life with his father, Admiral Jack Mc ...
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| 21. Five Graves to Cairo (year: 1943) |
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Billy Wilder's Five Graves to Cairo is the third take on Lajos Biro's theatrical tale of romance and espionage, Hotel Imperial. This time, the action ...
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| 22. 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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| 23. 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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| 24. 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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| 25. Force 10 from Navarone (year: 1978) |
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Force 10 From Navarone was a sequel to the 1961 blockbuster The Guns of Navarone and tells the tale of ten widely divergent WW II troubleshooters who ...
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| 26. 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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| 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. 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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| 29. 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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| 30. Kelly's Heroes (year: 1970) |
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Like M*A*S*H and Catch-22, both released the same year, this military comedy takes place in an earlier war but is really a thinly disguised treatise o ...
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| 31. 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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| 32. Kozara (year: 1963) |
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For a long time, virtually the only Yugoslavian-made films to reach American shores concerned the anti-German partisans of World War II. The title Koz ...
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| 33. 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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| 34. 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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| 35. 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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| 36. Navy Seals (year: 1990) |
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This exercise in patriotic, high-tech action centers on a select group of Navy commandos and their battles against a Middle East terrorist group. This ...
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| 37. None But the Brave (year: 1965) |
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Frank Sinatra took over the directors' chair for the first (and only) time in this unusual WWII drama. Lt. Kuroki (Tatsuya Mihashi) is the leader of a ...
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| 38. Operation Crossbow (year: 1965) |
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This big-budget, big-studio espionage film is set in the last years of World War II. George Peppard, Tom Courtenay and Jeremy Kemp parachute into Germ ...
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| 39. 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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| 40. Operation Pacific (year: 1951) |
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If one is a subscriber to cable TV's American Movie Classics, it is virtually impossible to avoid seeing the John Wayne starrer Operation Pacific; jud ...
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| 41. Patton (year: 1970) |
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In 1943 North Africa, George Patton (George C. Scott) assumes command of (and instills some much-needed discipline in) the American forces. Engaged in ...
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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. Podvig Razvedchika (year: 1947) |
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This Soviet espionage thriller was released in some markets as Secret Agent and The Scout's Exploit. Fedotov (Pavel Kadochnikov) is a WW II-era Russia ...
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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. 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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| 46. Saints and Soldiers (year: 2003) |
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A handful of fighting men must defy the odds to save their own lives and thousands of others in this drama set during World War II. In late 1944, a ba ...
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| 47. Saving Private Ryan (year: 1998) |
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Steven Spielberg directed this powerful, realistic re-creation of WWII's D-day invasion and the immediate aftermath. The story opens with a prologue i ...
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| 48. 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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| 49. 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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| 50. Stalingrad (year: 1989) |
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