War Movies

Top 100 War Movies:

(I have seen the 21 movies in bold.)

America (1924)
American Revolutionary War
    1. America (1924)
    2. Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
    3. Johnny Tremain (1957)
    4. 1776 (1972)
    5. The Patriot (2000)
    6. The Crossing (2000)
The Alamo (1960)
Texas Revolution & Mexican-American War
    1. Kit Carson (1940)
    2. Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier (1955)
    3. The First Texan (1956)
    4. Raiders of Old California (1957)
    5. The Alamo (1960) (2004)
    6. Frontier Uprising (1961)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
American Civil War
    1. Gone with the Wind (1939)
    2. The Red Badge of Courage (1951 & 1974)
    3. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
    4. North and South (1986)
    5. Glory (1989)
    6. Gettysburg (1993)
    7. Cold Mountain (2003)
    8. Lincoln (2012)
    9. Free State of Jones (2016)
    10. Harriet (2019)
Last of the Mohicans (1992)
American Indian Wars
    1. Hiawatha (1952)
    2. Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
    3. Dances with Wolves (1990)
    4. Last of the Mohicans (1992)
    5. Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
    6. Squanto: A Warrior’s Tale (1994)
    7. Windtalkers (2002)
    8. Hidalgo (2004)
    9. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)
    10. Hostiles (2017)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
World War I
    1. Wings (1927)
    2. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
    3. Mata Hari (1931)
    4. Grand Illusion (1937)
    5. A Farewell to Arms (1932)
    6. Sergeant York (1941)
    7. Paths of Glory (1957)
    8. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
    9. Gallipoli (1981)
    10. The Red Baron (2008)
    11. War Horse (2011)
    12. They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)
    13. 1917 (2019)
    14. All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
World War II – Europe
    1. Went the Day Well? (1942)
    2. To Be or Not to Be (1942)
    3. A Man Escaped (1956)
    4. The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
    5. The Great Escape (1963)
    6. Army of Shadows (1969)
    7. Patton (1970)
    8. Das Boot (1981)
    9. Stalingrad (1993)
    10. Schindler’s List (1993)
    11. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
    12. The Pianist (2002)
    13. The Imitation Game (2014)
    14. Dunkirk (2017)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
World War II – Pacific
    1. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
    2. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
    3. Midway (1976)
    4. MacArthur (1977)
    5. Empire of the Sun (1987)
    6. The Thin Red Line (1998)
    7. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
    8. Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
    9. Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
    10. Oppenheimer (2023)
M*A*S*H (1970)
Korean & Vietnam Wars
    1. M*A*S*H (1970)
    2. The Deer Hunter (1978)
    3. Apocalypse Now (1979)
    4. Platoon (1986)
    5. Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
    6. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
    7. Hamburger Hill (1987)
    8. Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
    9. We Were Soldiers (2002)
    10. The Post (2017)
Zulu (1963)
African Wars
    1. Zulu (1963) (South Africa)
    2. The Battle of Algiers (1966) (Algeria)
    3. Black Hawk Down (2001) (Somalia)
    4. Hotel Rwanda (2004) (Rwanda)
    5. Blood Diamond (2006) (Sierra Leone)
    6. The Last King of Scotland (2006) (Uganda)
    7. Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013) (South Africa)
    8. Virunga (2014) (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
    9. Beasts of No Nation (2015) (West Africa)
    10. Eye in the Sky (2015) (Kenya)
American Sniper (2014)
Middle Eastern Wars
    1. Three Kings (1999) (Gulf War)
    2. Jarhead (2005) (Iraq)
    3. The Hurt Locker (2008) (Iraq)
    4. Lebanon (2010) (Lebanon)
    5. Zero Dark Thirty (2012) (Pakistan)
    6. Argo (2012) (Iran)
    7. American Sniper (2014) (Iraq)
    8. Tangerines (2013) (Georgia)
    9. 12 Strong (2018) (Afghanistan)
    10. Beirut (2018) (Lebanon)