Top War Movies


The Top War Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top War List". Lists are calculated daily.

161. The Plainsman

Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Actors: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison, Charles Bickford, Porter Hall, John Miljan
Plot: Wild Bill Hickok helps protect a fort from Native American attacks, after they have gotten a hold of repeating rifles from gun-runners.

162. Burmese Harp, The ( Biruma no tategoto )

Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Actors: Rentaro Mikuni, Shôji Yasui, Jun Hamamura, Taketoshi Naitô, Shunji Kasuga, Kô Nishimura

163. Lebanon

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Hebrew
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Samuel Maoz
Actors: Yoav Donat, Michael Moshonov, Zohar Shtrauss, Itay Tiran, Oshri Cohen, Dudu Tassa

164. Objective, Burma!

Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Raoul Walsh
Actors: Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince, George Tobias, Henry Hull, Warner Anderson

165. Major Dundee

Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/War
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Actors: Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, James Coburn, Ben Johnson, Warren Oates, Jim Hutton

166. Triumph of the Will ( Triumph des Willens )

Year of Release: 1935
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Documentary/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Leni Riefenstahl
Actors: Adolf Hitler, Josef Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler, Viktor Lutze
Plot: Leni Riefenstahl's infamous documentary/propaganda film covering the Nazi party's 1934 rally in Nuremberg, Germany.

167. Inglorious Bastards ( Quel maledetto treno blindato )

Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Actors: Bo Svenson, Peter Hooten, Fred Williamson, Michael Pergolani, Jackie Basehart, Michel Constantin
Plot: Two officers (Bo Svenson, Ian Bannen) lead military misfits on a mission to steal a Nazi V-2 rocket gyroscope.

168. Hell's Angels

Year of Release: 1930
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Howard Hughes
Actors: Jean Harlow, Ben Lyon, James Hall, John Darrow, Frank Clarke, Lucien Prival
Plot: During WWI, two brothers with very different personalities enlist in the Airforce on England's side while fighting over a girl before they go to war.

169. Under Fire

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Actors: Nick Nolte, Ed Harris, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, Alma Martínez, Holly Palance

170. Night Train to Munich

Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Carol Reed
Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, James Harcourt
Plot: The Germans have taken Czechoslovakia and scientist Axel Bomasch, inventor of a new type of armor plating, manages to flee to England with his daughter, Anna. The relief is short-lived as Gestapo agents find them and take them back to Berlin. British secret service agent Gus Bennet is in pursuit, disguised as a German officer, must rescue the scientist even if it means starting a romance with Anna.

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