IMDB Top 50 - War

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Top 50 "War" movies as voted by the users of the Internet Movie Database.

Updated: October 10th, 2011

  1. 1.
    Schindler's List
    by Steven Spielberg

  2. 2.
    Human Condition III - A Soldier's Prayer
    by Masaki Kobayashi

  3. 3.
    Apocalypse Now
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  4. 4.
    Paths of Glory
    by Stanley Kubrick

  5. 5.
    Saving Private Ryan
    by Steven Spielberg

  6. 6.
    Human Condition I - No Greater Love
    by Masaki Kobayashi

  7. 7.
    Lawrence of Arabia
    by David Lean

  8. 8.
    The Pianist 3 Disc Limited Soundtrack Edition
    by Roman Polanski

  9. 9.
    Das Boot - The Director's Cut
    by Wolfgang Petersen

  10. 10.
    Human Condition II - The Road to Eternity
    by Masaki Kobayashi

  11. 11.
    Life is Beautiful
    by Roberto Benigni

  12. 12.
    The Great Dictator (2 Disc Special Edition)
    by Charles Chaplin

  13. 13.
    The General
    by Clyde Bruckman

  14. 14.
    The Bridge on the River Kwai
    by David Lean

  15. 15.
    The Ascent (1977)
    by Larisa Shepitko

  16. 16.
    Full Metal Jacket

  17. 17.
    The Big Parade
    by King Vidor

  18. 18.
    Pan's Labyrinth
    by Guillermo del Toro

  19. 19.
    Downfall [DVD]
    by Oliver Hirschbiegel

  20. 20.
    Braveheart
    by Mel Gibson

  21. 21.
    Grave of the Fireflies (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Isao Takahata

  22. 22.
    The Great Escape
    by John Sturges

  23. 24.
    Ran (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  24. 25.
    The Best Years of Our Lives
    by William Wyler

  25. 26.
    The Great War (La grande guerra [Non-US Format, PAL Region2])
    by Mario Monicelli

  26. 27.
    The Battle of Algiers (The Criterion Collection)
    by Gillo Pontecorvo

  27. 28.
    Hotel Rwanda
    by Terry George

  28. 29.
    Come and See

  29. 30.
    The Deer Hunter

  30. 31.
    Andrei Rublev (The Criterion Collection)
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy

  31. 32.
    Platoon
    by Oliver Stone

  32. 33.
    Grand Illusion (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean Renoir

  33. 34.
    Open City
    by Roberto Rossellini

  34. 35.
    Gone With the Wind

  35. 38.
    Devils on the Doorstep
    by Wen Jiang

  36. 39.
    Stalag 17
    by Billy Wilder

  37. 40.
    The Dawns Here Are Quiet
    by Stanislav Rostotsky

  38. 41.
    To Be or Not to Be
    by Ernst Lubitsch

  39. 42.
    Incendies (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
    by Denis Villeneuve

  40. 43.
    A Man Escaped
    by Robert Bresson

  41. 44.
    The Cranes are Flying (The Criterion Collection)
    by Mikhail Kalatozov

  42. 45.
    Ivan's Childhood - Criterion Collection
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

  43. 46.
    All Quiet on the Western Front (Universal Cinema Classics)
    by Lewis Milestone

  44. 47.
    Battleship Potemkin [Blu-ray]
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

  45. 48.
    The Lion In Winter
    by Anthony Harvey

  46. 49.
    Fires on the Plain - Criterion Collection
    by Kon Ichikawa

  47. 50.
    The Shop On Main Street (The Criterion Collection)
    by Elmar Klos

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Created by tykechandler on Dec 25, 2006.
 

Comments

Updated 10/10/11 — 17 weeks ago

Added:

The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

The Human Condition II: The Road to Eternity

The Ascent

The Great War

The Dawns Here Are Quiet

Incendies

The Lion in Winter

The Cranes Are Flying

A Man Escaped

Removed:

Casablanca

The War Game

Mihai Viteazul

Barefoot Gen

Au Revoir Les Enfants

Taegukgi

Throne of Blood

The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Patton

And of course, the list order is updated.


Untitled — 5 years ago

Is that the right version of All Quiet on the Western Front? Shouldn’t it be the Milestone classic?




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