Top 100 War Movies List

#100 War Movie

Saints and Soldiers (2003) PG-13

Four American soldiers and one Brit fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.

Director:

Ryan Little

Writers:

Geoffrey Panos

Stars:

Corbin Allred, Alexander Polinsky, Kirby Heyborne

#99 War Movie

Midway (1976) PG

A dramatization of the battle that was heralded as the turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.

Director:

Jack Smight

Writers:

Donald S. Sanford

Stars:

Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn

#98 War Movie

Rio Lobo (1970) G

After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the traitor whose perfidy caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend.

Director:

Howard Hawks

Writers:

Burton Wohl, Leigh Brackett

Stars:

John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill

#97 War Movie

Glory (1989) R

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.

Director:

Edward Zwick

Writers:

Kevin Jarre, Lincoln Kirstein

Stars:

Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes

#96 War Movie

The Water Diviner (2014) R

An Australian man travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing sons.

Director:

Russell Crowe

Writers:

Andrew Knight, Andrew Anastasios

Stars:

Russell Crowe, Olga Kurylenko, Jai Courtney

#95 War Movie

Act of Valor (2012) R

An elite team of Navy SEALs embark on a covert mission to recover a kidnapped CIA agent.

Director:

Mike McCoy, Scott Waugh

Writers:

Kurt Johnstad

Stars:

Alex Veadov, Roselyn Sanchez, Nestor Serrano

#94 War Movie

Sahara (2005) PG-13

Master explorer Dirk Pitt goes on the adventure of a lifetime of seeking out a lost Civil War battleship known as the "Ship of Death" in the deserts of West Africa while helping a WHO doctor being hounded by a ruthless dictator.

Director:

Breck Eisner

Writers:

Clive Cussler, Thomas Dean Donnelly

Stars:

Matthew McConaughey, Penélope Cruz, Steve Zahn

#93 War Movie

Memphis Belle (1990) PG-13

In 1943, the crew of a B-17 based in UK prepares for its 25th and last bombing mission over Germany before returning home to the USA.

Director:

Michael Caton-Jones

Writers:

Monte Merrick

Stars:

Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan

#92 War Movie

The Flowers of War (2011) R

A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.

Director:

Yimou Zhang

Writers:

Heng Liu, Geling Yan

Stars:

Christian Bale, Ni Ni, Xinyi Zhang

#91 War Movie

Operation Crossbow (1965) PG-13

Allied agents attempt to infiltrate the Nazis' rocket research site.

Director:

Michael Anderson

Writers:

Duilio Coletti, Vittoriano Petrilli

Stars:

Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard

#90 War Movie

The Grey Zone (2001) R

A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkommando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews, find themselves in a moral grey zone.

Director:

Tim Blake Nelson

Writers:

Miklos Nyiszli, Tim Blake Nelson

Stars:

David Arquette, Velizar Binev, David Chandler

#89 War Movie

U-571 (2000) PG-13

A German submarine is boarded by disguised American submariners trying to capture their Enigma cipher machine.

Director:

Jonathan Mostow

Writers:

Jonathan Mostow

Stars:

Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel

#88 War Movie

The Guns of Navarone (1961)

A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel.

Director:

J. Lee Thompson

Writers:

Alistair MacLean, Carl Foreman

Stars:

David Niven, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn

#87 War Movie

The Dogs of War (1980) R

Mercenary James Shannon, on a reconnaissance job to the African nation of Zangaro, is tortured and deported. He returns to lead a coup.

Director:

John Irvin

Writers:

Gary DeVore, George Malko

Stars:

Christopher Walken, Tom Berenger, Colin Blakely

#86 War Movie

Fire Birds (1990) PG-13

The U.S. Government is willing to help any country that requires help in ridding themselves of drugs with support from the Army. Unfortunately, the drug cartels have countered that offer by hiring one of the best air-combat mercenaries and have armed him with a Scorpion attack helicopter. The army decides to send in its best people from its Apache Air Combat school.

Director:

David Green

Writers:

Step Tyner, John K. Swensson

Stars:

Nicolas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones, Sean Young

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#85 War Movie

The Flight of the Intruder (1991) PG-13

During the air war over Vietnam, a US Navy A-6 Intruder tactical bomber pilot schemes with a hardened veteran to make an unauthorized air strike on Hanoi.

Director:

John Milius

Writers:

Stephen Coonts, Robert Dillon

Stars:

Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe, Brad Johnson

#84 War Movie

The Great Raid (2005) R

Taking place towards the end of WWII, 500 American Soldiers have been entrapped in a camp for 3 years. Beginning to give up hope they will ever be rescued, a group of Rangers goes on a dangerous mission to try and save them.

Director:

John Dahl

Writers:

William B. Breuer, Hampton Sides

Stars:

Benjamin Bratt, Joseph Fiennes, James Franco

#83 War Movie

Flyboys (2006) PG-13

The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.

Director:

Tony Bill

Writers:

Phil Sears, Blake T. Evans

Stars:

James Franco, Jean Reno, Jennifer Decker

#82 War Movie

Jacknife (1989) R

A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister he lives with when she becomes involved romantically with the army buddy who reminds him of the tragic battle they both survived.

Director:

David Hugh Jones

Writers:

Stephen Metcalfe, Stephen Metcalfe

Stars:

Robert De Niro, Kathy Baker, Ed Harris

#81 War Movie

Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) R

Journalist Floyd from US, Michael Henderson from UK and their teams meet the beginning of Bosnian war in Sarajevo. During their reports they find an orphanage run by devoted Mrs. Savic near the front line. Henderson gets so involved in kids' problems that he decides to take on the children, Emira, illegally back to England. He is assisted by American aid worker Nina.

Director:

Michael Winterbottom

Writers:

Michael Nicholson, Frank Cottrell Boyce

Stars:

Stephen Dillane, Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei

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