Top 10s War
Saving Private Ryan
Set during WWII, this is the story of a group of U.S. soldiers who risk everything to go behind enemy lines and retrieve a paratrooper.
Inglourious Basterds
Soldiers seek Nazi scalps in German-occupied France.
Braveheart
Romance, intrigue, heroism and the desperate battle for nothing less than the freedom of Scotland.
Full Metal Jacket
Through the eyes of an 18-year-old recruit--from his first days in the seeming hell of Marine Corps boot camp as his superiors try to strip of him his individuality and re-create him as a Marine, to the hell of the 1968 Tet offensive, Kubrick reveals the damage done to the collective human soul by the inhumanity of war. Based on the novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford.
Casablanca
American expat Rick Blaine owns a nightclub in Casablanca, frequented by refugees desperate to escape German domination. Despite the ever-present human misery, Rick manages to remain uninvolved in World War II now raging across Europe and Northern Africa. But all that changes when his ex-lover, Ilsa Lund, walks through the front door of Rick's club. Rick must now choose between a life with the woman he loves and becoming the hero that the world needs.
Pan's Labyrinth
Spain, 1944. Ofelia, a 10-year-old obsessed with fairy tales, moves with her pregnant mother to join her stepfather, a Fascist officer stationed in the mountains. Soon Ofelia discovers an overgrown labyrinth in the forest. There she meets Pan, an ancient satyr who claims to know her secret destiny.
Platoon
A young grunt in the Vietnam war gets an up-close look at good vs. evil as he struggles for survival against an elusive enemy and within his platoon.
Fury
A grizzled tank commander makes tough decisions as he and his crew fight their way across Germany in April, 1945.
Grave of the Fireflies
Two orphans fight for survival in post-World War II Japan, but society is harsh and they struggle with finding food and escaping the hardships of war.
Jojo Rabbit
A fanatical Nazi youth with Adolf Hitler as an imaginary friend is stunned to meet the young Jewish girl his mother has been hiding.