The Top 100 War Movies of All Time

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The Top 100 War Movies of All Time
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
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25 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz PG -
53 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg R -
55 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick NR -
57 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg R -
58 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola R -
75 The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton NR -
77 Come and See 1985 Elem Klimov NR -
79 Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick R -
92 Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir NR -
100 Inglourious Basterds 2009 Quentin Tarantino R -
108 Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa NR -
112 A Matter of Life and Death 1946 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger PG -
168 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa R -
174 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean G -
176 Stalag 17 1953 Billy Wilder NR -
188 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges NR -
194 The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo NR -
210 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson R -
215 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean PG -
217 Grave of the Fireflies 1988 Isao Takahata NR -
218 Army of Shadows 1969 Jean-Pierre Melville NR -
244 Pan's Labyrinth 2006 Guillermo del Toro R -
261 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino R -
267 A Man Escaped 1956 Robert Bresson NR -
298 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone R -
380 Band of Brothers 2001 David Frankel, Mikael Salomon, Tom Hanks, David Leland, Richard Loncraine, David Nutter, Phil Alden Robinson, Tony To NR -
388 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks NR -
399 The African Queen 1951 John Huston NR -
416 The Dirty Dozen 1967 Robert Aldrich NR -
438 Patton 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner PG -
442 Rome, Open City 1945 Roberto Rossellini NR -
453 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone NR -
490 Oppenheimer 2023 Christopher Nolan R -
552 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann NR -
562 Au Revoir Les Enfants 1987 Louis Malle NR -
566 Ivan's Childhood 1962 Andrei Tarkovsky NR -
574 1917 2019 Sam Mendes R -
594 Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein NR -
595 Howl's Moving Castle 2004 Hayao Miyazaki PG -
597 Lifeboat 1944 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
650 The Cranes are Flying 1957 Mikhail Kalatozov NR -
666 Life Is Beautiful 1997 Roberto Benigni PG13 -
674 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming G -
723 The Pianist 2002 Roman Polanski R -
731 MASH 1970 Robert Altman R -
737 Das Boot 1981 Wolfgang Petersen PG -
780 Jojo Rabbit 2019 Taika Waititi PG13 -
793 The Hurt Locker 2008 Kathryn Bigelow R -
805 The Guns of Navarone 1961 J. Lee Thompson NR -
807 Dunkirk 2017 Christopher Nolan PG13 -
829 Black Hawk Down 2001 Ridley Scott R -
847 The Caine Mutiny 1954 Edward Dmytryk NR -
855 Kelly's Heroes 1970 Brian G. Hutton PG -
859 Empire of the Sun 1987 Steven Spielberg PG -
904 The Human Condition I: No Greater Love 1959 Masaki Kobayashi NR -
907 Napoléon 1927 Abel Gance NR -
925 Glory 1989 Edward Zwick R -
967 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki NR -
1010 Henry V 1989 Kenneth Branagh PG13 -
1018 Zulu 1964 Cy Endfield NR -
1027 Captain America: The First Avenger 2011 Joe Johnston PG13 -
1056 Forbidden Games 1952 René Clément NR -
1104 The Train 1964 John Frankenheimer NR -
1119 Mrs. Miniver 1942 William Wyler NR -
1149 Where Eagles Dare 1968 Brian G. Hutton PG -
1181 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Richard Attenborough R -
1220 Gallipoli 1981 Peter Weir PG -
1221 Three Kings 1999 David O. Russell R -
1242 The Last Samurai 2003 Edward Zwick R -
1247 Chimes at Midnight 1965 Orson Welles NR -
1268 Blood Diamond 2006 Edward Zwick R -
1300 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 Andrzej Wajda NR -
1320 Downfall 2004 Oliver Hirschbiegel R -
1341 Good Morning, Vietnam 1987 Barry Levinson R -
1348 Wings 1927 William A. Wellman NR -
1355 The Duellists 1977 Ridley Scott PG -
1394 The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer 1961 Masaki Kobayashi PG -
1418 Sergeant York 1941 Howard Hawks NR -
1434 The Big Parade 1925 King Vidor NR -
1442 Hacksaw Ridge 2016 Mel Gibson R -
1444 Wonder Woman 2017 Patty Jenkins PG13 -
1570 Joint Security Area 2000 Chan-wook Park NR -
1589 The Imitation Game 2014 Morten Tyldum PG13 -
1626 Waltz with Bashir 2008 Ari Folman R -
1633 Catch-22 1970 Mike Nichols R -
1634 Letters from Iwo Jima 2006 Clint Eastwood R -
1639 The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979 Rainer Werner Fassbinder R -
1642 The Ascent 1977 Larisa Shepitko NR -
1688 The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity 1959 Masaki Kobayashi PG -
1696 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1944 Preston Sturges NR -
1701 Fury 2014 David Ayer R -
1710 A Very Long Engagement 2004 Jean-Pierre Jeunet R -
1717 The Big Red One 1980 Samuel Fuller PG -
1725 Paisan 1946 Roberto Rossellini NR -
1781 Red Dawn 1984 John Milius PG13 -
1787 The Wind That Shakes the Barley 2006 Ken Loach NR -
1795 Closely Watched Trains 1966 Jirí Menzel NR -
1803 The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick R -
1817 The Patriot 2000 Roland Emmerich R -
1848 Salvador 1986 Oliver Stone R -

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