Time Out's 50 Greatest WWII Movies.

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50 Greatest WWII films, ranked in order of greatness, by Time Out.

http://www.timeout.com/film/features/show-feature/8366/

There are more than 50 because a few were ties.

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  1. 1.
    Come and See
    by Elem Klimov

  2. 2.
    The Thin Red Line
    by Terrence Malick

  3. 3.
    Das Boot - The Director's Cut
    by Wolfgang Petersen

  4. 4.

  5. 5.
    Went the Day Well?

  6. 6.
    Kanal

  7. 7.

  8. 8.
    Cross of Iron (Widescreen Special Edition)
    by Sam Peckinpah

  9. 9.
    Open City
    by Roberto Rossellini

  10. 10.
    A Matter of Life and Death [Region 2]
    by Emeric Pressburger

  11. 11.
    Grave of the Fireflies (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Isao Takahata

  12. 12.
    Hell in the Pacific
    by John Boorman

  13. 13.
    The Dirty Dozen
    by Robert Aldrich

  14. 14.
    To Be or Not to Be
    by Ernst Lubitsch

  15. 15.
    Hangmen Also Die
    by Fritz Lang

  16. 16.
    Shoah
    by Claude Lanzmann

  17. 17.
    LISTEN TO BRITAIN, 1942

  18. 18.
    Fires Were Started
    by Humphrey Jennings

  19. 19.
    Attack
    by Robert Aldrich

  20. 21.
    The Bridge on the River Kwai
    by David Lean

  21. 22.
    Saving Private Ryan (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

  22. 23.
    ?
    Paratroop Command (1955)

  23. 24.
    Battle of Britain

  24. 25.
    Schindler's List (Widescreen Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

  25. 26.
    Kelly's Heroes
    by Brian G. Hutton

  26. 27.
    Night and Fog (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alain Resnais

  27. 28.
    Soldier of Orange

  28. 29.
    Black Book
    by Paul Verhoeven

  29. 30.
    Casablanca (Snap Case)
    by Michael Curtiz

  30. 31.
    Mephisto
    by István Szabó

  31. 32.
    The Great Escape (2-Disc Collector's Set)
    by John Sturges

  32. 34.
    Downfall [DVD]
    by Oliver Hirschbiegel

  33. 35.
    ?
    Millions Like Us (1943)
    by Frank Lauder, Sidney Gilliat

  34. 36.
    The Cranes are Flying (The Criterion Collection)
    by Mikhail Kalatozov

  35. 37.
    Letters from Iwo Jima

  36. 38.
    Flags of Our Fathers (Widescreen Edition)
    by Clint Eastwood

  37. 39.
    Germany, Pale Mother
    by Helma Sanders-Brahms

  38. 40.
    Where Eagles Dare

  39. 41.
    Europa (The Criterion Collection)
    by Lars von Trier

  40. 42.
    A Walk In The Sun (Restored)
    by Lewis Milestone

  41. 43.
    The Pianist

  42. 44.
    The Inglorious Bastards
    by Enzo G. Castellari

  43. 45.
    Mr. Klein
    by Joseph Losey

  44. 46.
    Hannibal Brooks
    by Michael Winner

  45. 47.
    Days of Glory (Indigenes)
    by Rachid Bouchareb

  46. 48.
    The Dam Busters
    by Michael Anderson

  47. 49.
    Empire of the Sun (Snap Case Packaging)
    by Steven Spielberg

  48. 50.
    Triumph of the Will (Special Edition)
    by Leni Riefenstahl

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Comments

Thanks for the list, C+P! — 2 years ago

Definitely not your usual war movies list!

I am shocked that I haven’t seen even half yet, although most are on my Netflix queue.




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