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From peacetime to frontlines, from coming home to left behind: Rotten Tomatoes presents the 100 best-reviewed war movies of all time, ranked by Certified Fresh films first. — Alex Vo.
- American Sniper
U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) takes his sole...
- Che: Part Two
Seven years after his triumph in Cuba, Che (Benicio del...
- Flags of Our Fathers
In February and March of 1945, U.S. troops fight and win one...
- Eye in The Sky
A lieutenant general (Alan Rickman) and a colonel (Helen...
- A Man Escaped
Dec 16, 2023 Full Review Keith Garlington Keith & the Movies...
- Three Kings
Just after the end of the Gulf War, four American soldiers...
- Twelve O'Clock High
Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/10/24 Full...
- Gallipoli
Michael Blowen Boston Globe Gallipoli is a predictable war...
- Land of Mine
Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/24/24 Full...
- The Forgotten Battle
Rated 1.5/5 Stars • Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/14/24 Full...
- American Sniper
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The war movies on this list are ranked according to their success (awards & nominations), their popularity, and their cinematic greatness from a directing/writing perspective. To me, accuracy when making a Top 10/Top 100 all time list is extremely important.
Feb 14, 2024 · Survey the history of film to highlight the absolute best war movies of all time, including plenty of action, explosions, stunts and more.
- Apocalypse Now
- Patton
- All Quiet on The Western Front
- Air Force
- Paths of Glory
- We Were Soldiers
- Full Metal Jacket
- M*A*S*H
- Midway
- Dunkirk
War is indeed hell—and it certainly was hellish making this movie, according to almost everyone involved. Director Francis Ford Coppola lost nearly 100 pounds while filming this ferocious, Vietnam fever dream on location in the Philippines. Actor Martin Sheen suffered a heart attack during the middle of production, requiring the use of a body doubl...
George C. Scott’s booming, patriotic, five-star performance as WWII General George Patton, who commanded the U.S. Army in the Mediterranean, then in France and Germany, won an Oscar for his role—and the movie swept six others, including Best Picture and Best Director (for Franklin J. Schaffner, who had also directed Planet of the Apes, and would go...
The so-called “Great War,” World War I, is the subject of this classic film, a Hollywood production based on a novel about two idealistic young Germans who join the fight but have their patriotism bashed by the harsh realities of combat. Explicitly depicting loss of limbs and death, it was one of the most violent films of its time, made without mus...
During Hollywood’s golden age, movie-mogul Howard Hawks churned out just about every kind of film—comedies, gangster dramas, sci-fi, film noir, westerns. And this historical war epic, released in the middle of World War II, was his rah-rah rallying cry for the red, white and blue with its tale of an Air Force bomber crew (John Ridgely, Arthur Kenne...
Director Stanley Kubrick’s searing, deeply unsettling drama about what happens in the aftermath of a World War I suicide mission is a film-buff classic, depicting how war is monstrous in many ways. Kirk Douglas plays a French colonel tasked with mounting a hopeless courtroom defense of three innocent soldiers chosen to take the fall for a failed as...
Inspired by the bestselling book by Lieutenant General Harold G. Moore and journalist Joseph L. Galloway, director Randall Wallace’s fact-based drama crunches down on the corn and the clichés about courage under fire and acts of valor. However, it effectively puts human faces on the men who fought on both sides of a savage major battle at the begin...
Welcome to Vietnam, Kubrick-style. This fiercely profane, finely tuned anti-war opus (taking its title from the casing of the rifle bullets used by servicemen) about how the military turns young men into killing machines stars Matthew Modineas “Private Joker,” a wisecracking young recruit who observes firsthand the dehumanizing effects the war has ...
This classic comedy by director Robert Altman set during the Korean War and, as such, is a war movie. Yet the war is completely in the background as the staff of a “mobile army surgical hospital” uses humor and hijinks to keep their sanity as the horrors of the conflict unfold around them. Ring Lardner Jr. won an Oscar for the screenplay; the cast ...
Hollywood pulled out its A-list—and one of its new theatrical audio tricks, the seat-shaking Sensurround—for this all-hands-on-deck dramatization of the battle of Midway, a turning point in World War II in the Pacific. The international cast, a mix of veteran movie lions and eager young cubs includes Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glen...
Maybe you already knew about the 1940 evacuation of the port city of Dunkirk in France. It was a “miraculous” rescue of vastly outnumbered and overwhelmed Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbors before they could be slaughtered by the Germans. If you didn’t—or even if you did—director Christopher Nolan’s masterful, widely acclaimed, tri-part, ...
- Stalag 17 (1953) Director Billy Wilder expertly combines drama, violence and humor in “Stalag 17,” a 1953 classic about a prisoner-of-war camp in WWII.
- War and Peace (1966) This masterful Napoleonic epic directed by Sergei Bondarchuk marked a watershed moment in the history of Soviet cinema, releasing in four installments between 1966 and 1967 after a production that spanned 6 years.
- The Big Parade (1925) A greatly influential silent film in the war genre, “The Big Parade,” from director King Vidor, follows an American solider named James Apperson as he is sent to France to fight in World War I. While overseas, he falls in love with a French girl and faces head-on the horrors of trench warfare.
- Braveheart (1995) A triple- threat for Mel Gibson – he directed, produced and starred in the 1995 war epic — “Braveheart” follows 13 century Scottish warrior Sir William Wallace as he leads the fight for Scottish independence from England.
Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.
Jun 8, 2024 · From Wings to Saving Private Ryan to Dunkirk, this is Collider's ranking of the best war movies ever made.
