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  • Jean-Pierre Cassel, Paul Meurisse, Simone Signoret, and Lino Ventura in Army of Shadows (1969)

    1. Army of Shadows

    19692h 25mNot Rated99Metascore
    8.1 (28K)
    An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.
    DirectorJean-Pierre MelvilleStarsLino VenturaPaul MeurisseJean-Pierre Cassel
  • Johnny in the Clouds (1945)

    2. Johnny in the Clouds

    19451h 27m
    7.3 (1.7K)
    The wartime daily routine on a British bomber base in southeastern England is revealed through the eyes of newly arrived Flying Officer Peter Penrose (Sir John Mills).
    DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsMichael RedgraveJohn MillsRosamund John
  • Odette (1950)

    3. Odette

    19501h 45m
    6.8 (1.1K)
    During WW2, a French woman living in England volunteers to work for British Intelligence in Nazi-occupied France.
    DirectorHerbert WilcoxStarsAnna NeagleTrevor HowardMarius Goring
  • Robert Mitchum, Guy Madison, Dorothy McGuire, and Bill Williams in Till the End of Time (1946)

    4. Till the End of Time

    19461h 45mApproved65Metascore
    6.7 (1.7K)
    Drama about former WW2 Marines readjusting to civilian life and dealing with their mental and physical traumas.
    DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsDorothy McGuireRobert MitchumGuy Madison
  • Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1956)

    5. Pursuit of the Graf Spee

    19561h 59mNot Rated
    6.6 (5.2K)
    In the first major naval battle of World War II, the British Navy must find and destroy a powerful German warship.
    DirectorsMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsJohn GregsonAnthony QuaylePeter Finch
  • Aleksey Kravchenko in Come and See (1985)

    6. Come and See

    19852h 22mNot Rated
    8.3 (114K)
    After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.
    DirectorElem KlimovStarsAleksey KravchenkoOlga MironovaLiubomiras Laucevicius
  • Cross of Iron (1977)

    7. Cross of Iron

    19771h 59mR64Metascore
    7.4 (31K)
    German commander Hauptmann Stransky places a squad in extreme danger after Sergeant Rolf Steiner refuses to lie for him.
    DirectorSam PeckinpahStarsJames CoburnMaximilian SchellJames Mason
  • Gregory Peck in Twelve O'Clock High (1949)

    8. Twelve O'Clock High

    19492h 12mApproved
    7.7 (16K)
    A tough-as-nails general takes over a B-17 bomber unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape.
    DirectorHenry KingStarsGregory PeckHugh MarloweGary Merrill
  • Corinne Orr, Ayano Shiraishi, Tsutomu Tatsumi, J. Robert Spencer, Emily Neves, and Adam Gibbs in Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

    9. Grave of the Fireflies

    19881h 28mNot Rated94Metascore
    8.5 (356K)
    A young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.
    DirectorIsao TakahataStarsTsutomu TatsumiAyano ShiraishiAkemi Yamaguchi
  • Ivan's Childhood (1962)

    10. Ivan's Childhood

    19621h 35mNot Rated
    8.0 (42K)
    During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.
    DirectorsAndrei TarkovskyEduard AbalovStarsNikolay BurlyaevValentin ZubkovEvgeniy Zharikov
  • Mark Hamill and Lee Marvin in The Big Red One (1980)

    11. The Big Red One

    19801h 53mR77Metascore
    7.1 (22K)
    A hardened sergeant and the four core members of his infantry unit try to survive World War II as they move from battle to battle throughout Europe.
    DirectorSamuel FullerStarsLee MarvinMark HamillRobert Carradine
  • Fort Graveyard (1965)

    12. Fort Graveyard

    19652h 12m
    7.5 (336)
    In 1945, Japanese Army Sergeant Kosugi and a platoon of young green recruits must retake and defend a fort occupied by the Chinese forces.
    DirectorKihachi OkamotoStarsToshirô MifuneMakoto SatôReiko Dan
  • Noël Coward in In Which We Serve (1942)

    13. In Which We Serve

    19421h 55mNot Rated
    7.2 (6.8K)
    This "story of a ship", the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft.
    DirectorsNoël CowardDavid LeanStarsNoël CowardJohn MillsBernard Miles
  • Alain Delon in Mr. Klein (1976)

    14. Mr. Klein

    19762h 3mPG
    7.5 (10K)
    In German-occupied Paris, an immoral art dealer, Robert Klein, leads a life of luxury, until a copy of a Jewish newspaper brings him to the attention of the police, linking him with a mysterious doppelgänger. Will Mr. Klein clear his name?
    DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsAlain DelonJeanne MoreauFrancine Bergé
  • Léon Morin, Priest (1961)

    15. Léon Morin, Priest

    19611h 57mNot Rated
    7.5 (6K)
    Set during occupied France, a faithless woman finds herself falling in love with a young priest.
    DirectorJean-Pierre MelvilleStarsJean-Paul BelmondoEmmanuelle RivaIrène Tunc
  • Stanley Baker and Jack Hawkins in The Cruel Sea (1953)

    16. The Cruel Sea

    19532h 6mApproved
    7.4 (5.8K)
    The World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers.
    DirectorCharles FrendStarsJack HawkinsDonald SindenJohn Stratton
  • Orders to Kill (1958)

    17. Orders to Kill

    19581h 33m
    7.1 (832)
    American agent faces an engrossing moral dilemma when he is parachuted into France to eliminate a suspected traitor in the French Resistance.
    DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsEddie AlbertPaul MassieLillian Gish
  • Gregory Peck and Tamara Toumanova in Days of Glory (1944)

    18. Days of Glory

    19441h 26mApproved
    6.1 (1.5K)
    A heroic guerrilla group fights back against impossible odds during the 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union.
    DirectorJacques TourneurStarsGregory PeckTamara ToumanovaAlan Reed
  • Virginia McKenna and Alain Saury in Carve Her Name with Pride (1958)

    19. Carve Her Name with Pride

    19581h 59mNot Rated
    7.2 (2K)
    During World War II, a recently widowed young woman is recruited to work as a spy in France.
    DirectorLewis GilbertStarsVirginia McKennaPaul ScofieldJack Warner
  • Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Virginia Mayo, and Teresa Wright in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

    20. The Best Years of Our Lives

    19462h 50mApproved93Metascore
    8.1 (75K)
    Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American Midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
    DirectorWilliam WylerStarsMyrna LoyDana AndrewsFredric March
  • Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (1972)

    21. Under the Flag of the Rising Sun

    19721h 36m
    8.0 (1.2K)
    One woman's search to find the truth about her husband's death in World War II.
    DirectorKinji FukasakuStarsTetsurô TanbaSachiko HidariShinjirô Ebara
  • Robert Mitchum, William 'Billy' Benedict, Wally Cassell, Dorothy Coonan Wellman, Yolanda Lacca, Jimmy Lloyd, Burgess Meredith, William Murphy, John R. Reilly, and Freddie Steele in Story of G.I. Joe (1945)

    22. Story of G.I. Joe

    19451h 48mApproved
    7.2 (4.1K)
    At the close of WWII, Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle travels with, and reports on, the U.S. Army's 77th Infantry Division during their liberation of Italy.
    DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsBurgess MeredithRobert MitchumFreddie Steele
  • Western Approaches (1944)

    23. Western Approaches

    19441h 23m
    7.0 (218)
    A wartime film, made under the auspices of the Crown Film Unit, serving as a tribute to the Merchant Navy. During WWII, they kept the lifeline to America and the Commonwealth open so that this little island could fight on. Even as late as 1943/4 when this was made, the convoys still provided vital essential supplies as well as the materiel necessary to take the fight into Europe. This film dramatizes the experiences of many merchant seamen.
    DirectorPat JacksonStarsEric FullertonDuncan MacKenzieW. Kerr
  • Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Peter O'Toole, José Ferrer, and Jack Hawkins in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

    24. Lawrence of Arabia

    19623h 47mPG100Metascore
    8.3 (332K)
    The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
    DirectorDavid LeanStarsPeter O'TooleAlec GuinnessAnthony Quinn
  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

    25. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    19432h 43mApproved93Metascore
    8.0 (18K)
    From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.
    DirectorsMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsRoger LiveseyDeborah KerrAnton Walbrook

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