Best War Movies/War Film

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Filmaffinity's Ranking of the best War Movies in the history of film with +1000 votes

Paths of Glory (1957)
- 8.4
  57,598
- Stanley Kubrick
- Kirk Douglas, George Macready, Adolphe Menjou ...
1
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)
- 8.3
  2,715
- Masaki Kobayashi
- Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Yusuke Kawazu ...
2
Apocalypse Now (1979)
- 8.2
  109,363
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall ...
3
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
- 8.2
  124,530
- Stanley Kubrick
- Matthew Modine, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey ...
4
Rome, Open City (1945)
- 8.1
  17,760
- Roberto Rossellini
- Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero ...
5
The Human Condition II: The Road to Eternity (1959)
- 8.1
  2,817
- Masaki Kobayashi
- Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Kei Sato ...
6
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
- 8.0
  3,570
- Masaki Kobayashi
- Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Ineko Arima ...
7
Ran (1985)
- 8.0
  28,946
- Akira Kurosawa
- Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu ...
8
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
- 8.0
  42,155
- Isao Takahata
- Animation
9
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
- 8.0
  6,574
- Gillo Pontecorvo
- Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Brahim Haggiag ...
10
The Deer Hunter (1978)
- 8.0
  51,139
- Michael Cimino
- Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep ...
11
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- 8.0
  48,507
- David Lean
- Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Alec Guinness ...
12
Napoleon (1927)
- 8.0
  3,050
- Abel Gance
- Albert Dieudonné, Gina Manès, Edmond Van Daële ...
13
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
- 8.0
  29,313
- Sergei M. Eisenstein
- Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov ...
14
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
- 7.9
  49,491
- Stanley Kubrick
- Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden ...
15
I Am Cuba (1964)
- 7.9
  2,618
- Mikhail Kalatozov
- Luz María Collazo, Raúl García, Jean Bouise ...
16
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- 7.8
  50,795
- David Lean
- William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins ...
17
The Ascent (1977)
- 7.8
  1,716
- Larisa Shepitko
- Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergei Yakovlev ...
18
The Train (1964)
- 7.8
  6,812
- John Frankenheimer
- Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau ...
19
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
- 7.8
  7,458
- Lewis Milestone
- Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray ...
20
The Big Parade (1925)
- 7.8
  1,744
- King Vidor
- John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth ...
21
Come and See (1985)
- 7.8
  8,533
- Elem Klimov
- Alexei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius ...
22
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
- 7.8
  158,394
- Quentin Tarantino
- Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Mélanie Laurent ...
23
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- 7.8
  143,084
- Steven Spielberg
- Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns ...
24
Forbidden Games (1952)
- 7.8
  3,980
- René Clément
- Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée ...
25
Ivan's Childhood (1962)
- 7.8
  7,490
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Yevgeni Zharikov ...
26
The Boat (1981)
- 7.7
  23,876
- Wolfgang Petersen
- Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann ...
27
1917 (2019)
- 7.7
  52,365
- Sam Mendes
- George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Mark Strong ...
28
Shame (1968)
- 7.7
  3,376
- Ingmar Bergman
- Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Sigge Fürst ...
29
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
- 7.7
  39,869
- Robert Aldrich
- Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes ...
30

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