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  • Von Ryan's Express (1965)

    1. Von Ryan's Express

    19651h 57mApproved
    7.1 (16K)
    An American POW leads a group of mainly British prisoners to escape from the Germans in WWII.
    DirectorMark RobsonStarsFrank SinatraTrevor HowardRaffaella Carrà
  • Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Dana Andrews, Pier Angeli, Telly Savalas, Robert Shaw, Ty Hardin, James MacArthur, George Montgomery, Robert Ryan, and Barbara Werle in Battle of the Bulge (1965)

    2. Battle of the Bulge

    19652h 47mApproved
    6.8 (19K)
    A dramatization of Nazi Germany's final Western Front counterattack of World War II.
    DirectorKen AnnakinStarsHenry FondaRobert ShawRobert Ryan
  • Zulu (1964)

    3. Zulu

    19642h 18mApproved77Metascore
    7.7 (45K)
    Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift.
    DirectorCy EndfieldStarsStanley BakerJack HawkinsUlla Jacobsson
  • David Niven, Gregory Peck, and Anthony Quinn in The Guns of Navarone (1961)

    4. The Guns of Navarone

    19612h 38mNot Rated72Metascore
    7.5 (58K)
    A team of Allied saboteurs is assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
    DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsDavid NivenGregory PeckAnthony Quinn
  • Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, and Mary Ure in Where Eagles Dare (1968)

    5. Where Eagles Dare

    19682h 38mM63Metascore
    7.6 (66K)
    Allied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where the Nazis are holding American brigadier general George Carnaby prisoner, but that's not all that's really going on.
    DirectorBrian G. HuttonStarsRichard BurtonClint EastwoodMary Ure
  • Hornets' Nest (1970)

    6. Hornets' Nest

    19701h 50mR
    5.8 (1.2K)
    In 1944, during a sabotage mission, the sole surviving U.S. paratrooper is saved by a group of Italian orphans who later aid him in blowing up a vital enemy dam.
    DirectorsPhil KarlsonFranco CirinoStarsRock HudsonSylva KoscinaSergio Fantoni
  • Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, and Joan Leslie in Sergeant York (1941)

    7. Sergeant York

    19412h 14mApproved
    7.7 (21K)
    A Tennessee farmer and marksman is drafted in World War I, and struggles with his pacifist inclinations before becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes.
    DirectorHoward HawksStarsGary CooperWalter BrennanJoan Leslie
  • Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

    8. Letters from Iwo Jima

    20062h 21mR89Metascore
    7.8 (174K)
    The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
    DirectorClint EastwoodStarsKen WatanabeKazunari NinomiyaTsuyoshi Ihara
  • The Patriot (2000)

    9. The Patriot

    20002h 45mR63Metascore
    7.2 (305K)
    Peaceful farmer Benjamin Martin is driven to lead the Colonial Militia during the American Revolution when a sadistic British officer murders his son.
    DirectorRoland EmmerichStarsMel GibsonHeath LedgerJoely Richardson
  • Richard Attenborough, Steve McQueen, and James Garner in The Great Escape (1963)

    10. The Great Escape

    19632h 52mApproved86Metascore
    8.2 (270K)
    Allied officers in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II making a daring plan for a mass escape by hundreds of their men, hoping to draw German personnel and resources away from combat operations.
    DirectorJohn SturgesStarsSteve McQueenJames GarnerRichard Attenborough
  • Red Dawn (1984)

    11. Red Dawn

    19841h 54mPG-1353Metascore
    6.3 (67K)
    It is the dawn of World War III. In the western mountains of America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.
    DirectorJohn MiliusStarsPatrick SwayzeC. Thomas HowellLea Thompson
  • The Blue Max (1966)

    12. The Blue Max

    19662h 36mApproved
    7.1 (8K)
    A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.
    DirectorJohn GuillerminStarsGeorge PeppardJames MasonUrsula Andress
  • Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis in Top Gun (1986)

    13. Top Gun

    19861h 49mPG50Metascore
    7.0 (533K)
    The Top Gun Naval Fighter Weapons School is where the best of the best train to refine their elite flying skills. When hotshot fighter pilot Maverick is sent to the school, his reckless attitude and cocky demeanor put him at odds with the other pilots, especially the cool and collected Iceman.
    DirectorTony ScottStarsTom CruiseTim RobbinsKelly McGillis
  • Behind Enemy Lines (2001)

    14. Behind Enemy Lines

    20011h 46mPG-1349Metascore
    6.4 (117K)
    A disillusioned navigator, shot down over war-torn Bosnia, goes on the run from the local military as well as an assassin, while his commanding officer risks all to save him.
    DirectorJohn MooreStarsGene HackmanOwen WilsonGabriel Macht
  • Robert Mitchum and Curd Jürgens in The Enemy Below (1957)

    15. The Enemy Below

    19571h 38mApproved
    7.4 (13K)
    During WWII an American destroyer discovers a German U-boat, and in the ensuing duel the American captain must draw upon all his experience to defeat the equally experienced German commander.
    DirectorDick PowellStarsRobert MitchumCurd JürgensDavid Hedison
  • The Train (1964)

    16. The Train

    19642h 13mApproved80Metascore
    7.8 (21K)
    In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.
    DirectorJohn FrankenheimerStarsBurt LancasterPaul ScofieldJeanne Moreau
  • Richard Burton, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, John Wayne, Sean Connery, Sal Mineo, Eddie Albert, Richard Beymer, Red Buttons, Jeffrey Hunter, Roddy McDowall, Rod Steiger, Robert Wagner, Paul Anka, Arletty, Mel Ferrer, Steve Forrest, Gert Fröbe, Fabian, Jean-Louis Barrault, Bourvil, Ray Danton, Irina Demick, Leo Genn, Henry Grace, John Gregson, Paul Hartmann, Werner Hinz, Curd Jürgens, Alexander Knox, Peter Lawford, Christian Marquand, Kenneth More, Edmond O'Brien, Ron Randell, Madeleine Renaud, Robert Ryan, Tommy Sands, Richard Todd, Tom Tryon, Peter van Eyck, and Stuart Whitman in The Longest Day (1962)

    17. The Longest Day

    19622h 58mG75Metascore
    7.7 (61K)
    The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.
    DirectorsKen AnnakinAndrew MartonGerd OswaldStarsJohn WayneRobert RyanRichard Burton
  • A Bridge Too Far (1977)

    18. A Bridge Too Far

    19772h 55mPG63Metascore
    7.4 (65K)
    Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.
    DirectorRichard AttenboroughStarsSean ConneryRyan O'NealMichael Caine
  • Humphrey Bogart in Sahara (1943)

    19. Sahara

    19431h 37mApproved
    7.5 (11K)
    After the fall of Tobruk in 1942, during the Allied retreat in the Libyan desert, an American tank picks-up a motley group of survivors but they face advancing Germans and a lack of water.
    DirectorZoltan KordaStarsHumphrey BogartBruce BennettJ. Carrol Naish
  • Jim Belushi in Sahara (1995)

    20. Sahara

    19951h 46mPG-13TV Movie
    6.7 (3.8K)
    An American tank crew retreating from Tobruk in the Libyan desert picks up a motley crew of stragglers while fleeing a Nazi battalion. They must defend an abandoned fortress with an almost dry well. Remake of the 1943 Bogart classic.
    DirectorBrian Trenchard-SmithStarsJim BelushiAlan David LeeSimon Westaway
  • The Beast of War (1988)

    21. The Beast of War

    19881h 51mR
    7.3 (11K)
    A Soviet tank and its warring crew become separated from their patrol and lost in an Afghan valley with a group of vengeance-seeking rebels on their tracks.
    DirectorKevin ReynoldsStarsGeorge DzundzaJason PatricSteven Bauer
  • Mel Gibson in Braveheart (1995)

    22. Braveheart

    19952h 58mR68Metascore
    8.3 (1.1M)
    Scottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England.
    DirectorMel GibsonStarsMel GibsonSophie MarceauPatrick McGoohan
  • Randall 'Tex' Cobb and Kelly Junkerman in Uncommon Valor (1983)

    23. Uncommon Valor

    19831h 45mR38Metascore
    6.3 (13K)
    Ten years after his son went M.I.A. in Vietnam, U.S. Marine retired Colonel Jason Rhodes assembles a private rescue team to find Americans held in P.O.W. camps in Laos.
    DirectorTed KotcheffStarsGene HackmanPatrick SwayzeRobert Stack
  • Andrew Garfield in Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

    24. Hacksaw Ridge

    20162h 19mR71Metascore
    8.1 (643K)
    World War II American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, serving during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot.
    DirectorMel GibsonStarsAndrew GarfieldSam WorthingtonLuke Bracey
  • All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)

    25. All Quiet on the Western Front

    19792h 30mPGTV Movie
    7.1 (11K)
    A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
    DirectorDelbert MannStarsRichard ThomasErnest BorgnineDonald Pleasence

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