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
  24. 24.
    Ran (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa
  25. 25.
    The Best Years of Our Lives
    by William Wyler
  26. 26.
    The Great War (La grande guerra [Non-US Format, PAL Region2])
    by Mario Monicelli
  27. 27.
    The Battle of Algiers (The Criterion Collection)
    by Gillo Pontecorvo
  28. 28.
    Hotel Rwanda
    by Terry George
  29. 29.
    Come and See

  30. 30.
    The Deer Hunter

  31. 31.
    Andrei Rublev (The Criterion Collection)
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy
  32. 32.
    Platoon
    by Oliver Stone
  33. 33.
    Grand Illusion (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean Renoir
  34. 34.
    Open City
    by Roberto Rossellini
  35. 35.
    Gone With the Wind

  38. 38.
    Devils on the Doorstep
    by Wen Jiang
  39. 39.
    Stalag 17
    by Billy Wilder
  40. 40.
    The Dawns Here Are Quiet
    by Stanislav Rostotsky
  41. 41.
    To Be or Not to Be
    by Ernst Lubitsch
  42. 42.
    Incendies (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
    by Denis Villeneuve
  43. 43.
    A Man Escaped
    by Robert Bresson
  44. 44.
    The Cranes are Flying (The Criterion Collection)
    by Mikhail Kalatozov
  45. 45.
    Ivan's Childhood - Criterion Collection
    by Andrei Tarkovsky
  46. 46.
    All Quiet on the Western Front (Universal Cinema Classics)
    by Lewis Milestone
  47. 47.
    Battleship Potemkin [Blu-ray]
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein
  48. 48.
    The Lion In Winter
    by Anthony Harvey
  49. 49.
    Fires on the Plain - Criterion Collection
    by Kon Ichikawa
  50. 50.
    The Shop On Main Street (The Criterion Collection)
    by Elmar Klos
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Created by tykechandler on Dec 25, 2006.
 

Comments

kirkcoco

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.

Oct 10, 01:49PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

mizoguchi

Untitled — 5 years ago

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

Dec 25, 02:56PM | 1 comment | Reply to this



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