100 Greatest War Movies

Holy shit! I though I knew my war movies but have seen only 30 on this list.

1. Apocalypse Now - (1979, Francis Ford Coppola, V) (Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, M. Brando)

2. All Quiet on the Western Front - (1930, Lewis Milestone, WWI) (Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim)

3. Saving Private Ryan - (1998, Steven Spielberg, WWII) (Tom Hanks, Edward Burns)

4. Schindler's List - (1993, Steven Spielberg, WWII) (Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley)

5. Platoon - (1986, Oliver Stone, V) (Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen)

6. The Bridge on the River Kwai - (1957, David Lean, WWII) (Alec Guinness, William
Holden)

7. Patton - (1970, Franklin J. Schaffner, WWII) (George C. Scott, Karl Malden)

8. The Dirty Dozen - (1967, Robert Aldrich, WWII) (Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas)

9. The Longest Day - (1962,Ken Annakin, WWII) (John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum)

10. From Here to Eternity - (1953, Fred Zinnemann, WWII) (Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift)

11. Sergeant York - (1941, Howard Hawks, WWI) (Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan)

12. Full Metal Jacket - (1987, Stanley Kubrick, V) (Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin)

13. The Great Escape - (1963, John Sturges, WWII) (Steve McQueen, James Garner)

14. Das Boot - (1981, W. Ger. Wolfgang Peterson, WWII) (Jurgen Procnow)

15. The Deer Hunter - (1978, Michael Cimino, V) (Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep)

16. Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein, Odessa revolt-1905) (Alexander
Antonov)

17. A Bridge Too Far - (1977, Richard Attenborough, WWII) (Dirk Bogarde, Michael
Caine)

18. The Thin Red Line - (1998, Terrence Malick, WWII) (Sean Penn, Nick Nolte)

19. The Guns of Navarone - (1961, J. Lee Thompson, WWII) (Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn)

20. Open City - (1945, Roberto Rossellini, WWII) (Vito Annicchiarico, Nando Bruno)

21. Midway - (1976, Jack Smight, WWII) (Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, Toshiro Mifune)

22. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo - (1944, Mervyn LeRoy, WWII) (Van Johnson, Robert Walker)

23. Stalag 17 - (1953, Billy Wilder, WWII) (William Holden, Otto Preminger)

24. Black Hawk Down - (2001, Ridley Scott, Somalia) (Ewan McGregor, Josh Hartnett)

25. Where Eagles Dare - (1969, Brian G. Hutton, WWII) (Richard Burton, Clint
Eastwood)

26. Battle of Britain - (1969, Guy Hamilton, WWII) (Michael Caine, R. Shaw, Laurence Olivier)

27. The Story of G.I. Joe - (1945, William Wellman, WWII) (Robert Mitchum, Burgess Meredith)

28. The Desert Fox - (1951, Henry Hathaway, WWII) (James Mason, Richard Boone)

29. Paths Of Glory - (1957, Stanley Kubrick, WWI) (Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker)

30. Wings - (1927, William Wellman, WWI) (Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Gary
Cooper)

31. Battleground - (1949, William Wellman, WWII) (Van Johnson, Ricardo Montalban)

32. In Harm's Way - (1965, Otto Preminger, WWII) (John Wayne, Kirk Douglas)

33. MacArthur - (1977, Joseph Sargent, WWII, K) (Gregory Peck, Ed Flanders)

34. Pork Chop Hill - (1959, Lewis Milestone, Korea) (Gregory Peck, George Peppard)

35. The Blue Max - (1966, John Guillermin, WWI) (George Peppard, James Mason)

36. The Desert Rats - (1953, Robert Wise, WWII) (Richard Burton, James Mason)

37. The Big Red One - (1980, Samuel Fuller, WWII) (Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine)

38. Battle of the Bulge - (1965, Ken Annakin, WWII) (Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw)

39. The Train - (1965, John Frankenheimer, WWII) (Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield)

40. Back to Bataan - (1944, Edward Dmytryk, WWII) (John Wayne, Anthony Quinn)

41. They Were Expendable - (1945, John Ford, WWII) (Robert Montgomery, John Wayne)

42. Guadalcanal Diary - (1943, Lewis Seiler, WWII) (Preston Foster, Anthony Quinn)

43. Closely Watched Trains - (1966, Czech., Jirí Menzel, WWII) (Vaclav Neckar, Jitka
Bendova)

44. Sink the Bismarck - (1960, Lewis Gilbert,WWII) (Kenneth More, Dana Wynter)

45. The Dawn Patrol - (1938, Edmund Goulding, WWI) (Errol Flynn, David Niven)

46. Sahara - (1943, Zoltan Korda, WWII) (Humphrey Bogart, Lloyd Bridges)

47. Soldier of Orange - (1978, Netherlands, Paul Verhoeven, WWII) (Rutger Hauer)

48. In Which We Serve - (1942, Noel Coward, David Lean, WWII) (Noel Coward, John Mills)

49. The Young Lions - (1958, Edward Dmytryk, WWII) (Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift)

50. Battle Cry - (1955, Raoul Walsh, WWII) (Van Heflin, James Whitmore, Anne Francis)

51. The Boys in Company C - (1977, Sidney J. Furie, V) (Stan Shaw, Andrew Stevens)

52. To Hell and Back - (1955, Jesse Hibbs, WWII) (Audie Murphy, David Janssen)

53. Halls of Montezuma - (1950, Lewis Milestone, WWII) (Richard Widmark, Karl Malden)

54. The Lost Patrol - (1943, John Ford, WWI) (Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff)

55. Destination Tokyo - (1943, Delmer Daves, WWII) (Cary Grant, John Forsythe)

56. The Bridges at Toko-Ri - (1954, Mark Robson, K) (William Holden, Mickey Rooney)

57. The Fighting Sullivans - (1944, Lloyd Bacon, WWII) (Thomas Mitchell, Ward Bond)

58. Sands of Iwo Jima - (1949, Allan Dwan, WWII) (John Wayne, John Agar)

59. Flying Leathernecks - (1951, Nicholas Ray, WWII) (John Wayne, Robert Ryan)

60. Kelly's Heroes - (1970, Brian G. Hutton, WWII) (Clint Eastwood, Donald Sutherland)

61. The Bridge at Remagen - (1969, John Guillermin, WWII) (George Segal, Robert Vaughn)

62. Operation Pacific - (1951, George Waggner, WWII) (John Wayne, Patricia Neal)

63. Memphis Belle - (1990, Michael Caton-Jones, WWII) (Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz)

64. The Caine Mutiny - (1954, Edward Dmytryk, WWII) (Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer)

65. Von Ryan's Express - (1965, Mark Robson, WWII) (Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard)

66. Wake Island - (1942, John Farrow, WWII) (Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey)

67. Courage Under Fire - (1996, Edward Zwick, Iraq'91) (Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan)

68. Objective, Burma! - (1945, Raoul Walsh, WWII) (Errol Flynn, Henry Hull)

69. Twelve O'Clock High - (1949, Henry King, WWII) (Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe)

70. Run Silent, Run Deep - (1958, Robert Wise, WWII) (Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster)

71. Gallipoli - (1981, Australia, Peter Weir, WWI) (Mel Gibson, Mark Lee)

72. The Tuskegee Airmen - (1995, Robert Markowitz, WWII) (Laurence Fishburne, Allen
Payne)

73. 633 Squadron - (1964, Walter Grauman, WWII) (Cliff Robertson, Harry Andrews)

74. Cross of Iron - (1977, Sam Peckinpah, WWII) (James Coburn, James Mason)

75. Kanal - (1957, Andrzej Wajda, WWII) (Wienczyslaw Glinski)

76. Force 10 From Navarone - (1978, Guy Hamilton, WWII) (Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford)

77. Casualties of War - (1989, Brian De Palma, V) (Sean Penn, Michael J. Fox)

78. The Sand Pebbles - (1966, Robert Wise, China uprising 1926) (Steve McQueen)

79. Hell Is For Heroes - (1962, Don Siegel WWII) (Steve McQueen, James Coburn)

80. Too Late the Hero - (1969, Robert Aldrich, WWII) (Michael Caine, Denholm Elliott)

81. A Rumor of War - (1980, Richard T. Heffron, V) (Brad Davis, Brian Dennehy)

82. A Midnight Clear - (1992, Keith Gordon, WWII) (Ethan Hawke, Gary Sinise)

83. Three Kings - (1999, David O. Russell, Iraq'91) (George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg)

84. Dunkirk - (1958, Leslie Norman, WWII) (John Mills, Richard Attenborough)

85. Tora! Tora! Tora! - (1970, Richard Fleischer, WWII) (Martin Balsam, Joseph
Cotten)

86. Behind Enemy Lines - (2001, John Moore, Bosnia) (Owen Wilson, Gene Hackman)

87. The Story of Dr. Wassell - (1944, Cecil B. DeMille, WWII) (Gary Cooper, Laraine
Day)

88. The Green Berets - (1968, Ray Kellogg, V) (John Wayne, David Janssen)

89. Windtalkers - (2002, John Woo, WWII) (Nicolas Cage, Christian Slater)

90. Enemy at the Gates - (2001, Jean-Jacques Annaud WWII) (Joseph Fiennes, Ed Harris)

91. Operation Crossbow - (1965, Michael Anderson, WWII) (George Peppard, Sophia
Loren)

92. The Naked and the Dead - (1958, Raoul Walsh, WWII) (Aldo Ray, Cliff Robertson)

93. King Rat - (1965, Bryan Forbes, WWII) (George Segal, Denholm Elliott)

94. Stalingrad - (1992, Joseph Vilsmaier, WWII) (Dominique Horwitz)

95. Torpedo Run - (1958, Joseph Pevney, WWII) (Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine)

96. Mosquito Squadron - (1970, Boris Sagal, WWII) (David McCallum, Charles Gray)

97. Heartbreak Ridge - (1986, Clint Eastwood, Grenada) (Clint Eastwood, Mario Van Peebles)

98. A Walk in the Sun - (1945, Lewis Milestone, WWII) (Dana Andrews, Lloyd Bridges)

99. Castle Keep - (1969, Sydney Pollack, WWII) (Burt Lancaster, Peter Falk)

100. U-571 - (2000, Jonathan Mostow, WWII) (Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton)