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

  2. 2.
    The Thin Red Line
    by Terrence Malick

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

  4. 5.
    Went the Day Well?

  5. 6.
    Kanal

  6. 7.

  7. 8.
    Cross of Iron (Widescreen Special Edition)
    by Sam Peckinpah

  8. 9.
    Open City
    by Roberto Rossellini

  9. 10.
    A Matter of Life and Death [Region 2]
    by Emeric Pressburger

  10. 11.
    Grave of the Fireflies (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Isao Takahata

  11. 12.
    Hell in the Pacific
    by John Boorman

  12. 13.
    The Dirty Dozen

  13. 14.
    To Be or Not to Be
    by Ernst Lubitsch

  14. 15.
    Hangmen Also Die
    by Fritz Lang

  15. 16.
    Shoah
    by Claude Lanzmann

  16. 17.
    LISTEN TO BRITAIN, 1942

  17. 18.
    Fires Were Started
    by Humphrey Jennings

  18. 19.
    Attack
    by Robert Aldrich

  19. 21.
    The Bridge on the River Kwai
    by David Lean

  20. 22.
    Saving Private Ryan (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

  21. 23.
    ?
    Paratroop Command (1955)

  22. 24.
    Battle of Britain

  23. 25.
    Schindler's List (Widescreen Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

  24. 26.
    Kelly's Heroes
    by Brian G. Hutton

  25. 27.
    Night and Fog (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alain Resnais

  26. 28.
    Soldier of Orange

  27. 29.
    Black Book

  28. 30.
    Casablanca (Snap Case)
    by Michael Curtiz

  29. 31.
    Mephisto
    by István Szabó

  30. 32.
    The Great Escape (2-Disc Collector's Set)
    by John Sturges

  31. 34.
    Downfall [DVD]
    by Oliver Hirschbiegel

  32. 35.
    ?
    Millions Like Us (1943)
    by Frank Lauder, Sidney Gilliat

  33. 36.
    The Cranes are Flying (The Criterion Collection)
    by Mikhail Kalatozov

  34. 37.
    Letters from Iwo Jima

  35. 39.
    Germany, Pale Mother
    by Helma Sanders-Brahms

  36. 40.
    Where Eagles Dare

  37. 41.
    Europa (The Criterion Collection)
    by Lars von Trier

  38. 42.
    A Walk In The Sun (Restored)
    by Lewis Milestone

  39. 43.
    The Pianist

  40. 44.
    The Inglorious Bastards
    by Enzo G. Castellari

  41. 45.
    Mr. Klein
    by Joseph Losey

  42. 46.
    Hannibal Brooks
    by Michael Winner

  43. 47.
    Days of Glory (Indigenes)
    by Rachid Bouchareb

  44. 48.
    The Dam Busters
    by Michael Anderson

  45. 49.
    Empire of the Sun (Snap Case Packaging)
    by Steven Spielberg

  46. 50.
    Triumph of the Will (Special Edition)
    by Leni Riefenstahl

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Created by crimeandpunishment on Aug 10, 2009.
 

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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