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. The story of William Wallace whose passion and courage united the Scottish people in the struggle against a ruthless English king over six hundred years ago, at the start of the fourteenth century.
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.
Apocalypse Now
Army Captain Willard is sent upriver during the Vietnam War on a mission to "terminate" rogue Colonel Kurtz. As he travels through the insanity and absurdities of the American involvement in the war, he is more and more drawn to the jungle itself...
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.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Stanley Kubrick's classic black comedy about a group of war-eager military men who plan a nuclear apocalypse is both funny and frightening - and seems as relevant today as ever. Starring Peter Sellers, Sterling Hayden, Peter Sellers, George C. Scott and Peter Sellers!
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
April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
Grave of the Fireflies
Two orphaned siblings struggle to survive during wartime in what The New York Times calls "one of the most startling and moving animated films ever."