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War movies worth watching
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items There are so many more movies about war, but take a look to my list, it'll be worth your time. WW2, Vietnam War or even Roman Empire, GWOT...Comedy, Drama, Historical events...and more
Terrence Malick was the director of this great movie, and it's one of the most deeply philosophical films. It reflects a meditation about man, nature, and violence. Cast: Sean Penn, Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte, Elias Koteas, and Woody Harrelson …A great...
The Thin Red Line
This movie is one of the best ever made about D-Day, featuring a star-studded cast and accurate historical depiction of events. John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Sean Connery…what else can I say? You may watch colorized or original version as you wish.
The Longest Day
Do you want the best war movies? Here it is, but it's not a good movie, it's a masterwork sent to you by Kubrick. It's among the most powerful antiwar films ever made. Kirk Douglas acts as a French colonel serving in World War I who goes head-to-head...
Paths of Glory
Another fantastic director in one of his masterworks (and he had a few…). David Lean become this film in one of the most revered movies of all time. Peter O'Toole became an instant star in his first leading role as the dashing, slightly mad T.E. Lawr...
Lawrence of Arabia
Yes!Another collaboration between Kirk Douglas and Stanley Kubrick, but what a film! If you like HIstory, specially Roman Empire, you should watch this!
Spartacus (1960)
Addicted to Global War On Terror? Do you remember Afghanistan? This is your film. For a decade, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the globe, devoted themselves to a single goal: to find and eliminate Osam...
Zero Dark Thirty [Blu-ray] [4K UHD]
Sorry, another Stanley Kubrick's film! But what a film! It follows smart-aleck Private Davis (Matthew Modine), quickly christened "Joker" by his foul-mouthed drill sergeant (R. Lee Ermey), and pudgy Private Lawrence (Vincent D'Onofrio), nicknamed "Go...
Full Metal Jacket
Peter Weir directs this epic, riveting movie featuring electrifying performances by Mel Gibson and Mark Lee. Two patriotic young army enlistees, drawn into the ill-planned and disastrous Battle of Gallipoli during World War I. A fantastic Mel Gibson ...
Gallipoli
"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Europe and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of P...
Patton
Oliver Stone made a fantastic movie, including some of his experiences fighting in Vietnam. Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) leaves his university studies to enlist in combat duty in Vietnam in 1967. Once he's on the ground in the middle of battle, his i...
Platoon
Cimino made a masterwork and it's one of my favourites movies. The Deer Hunter follows a group of Pennsylvania steelworkers from their blue-collar lives, hunting in the woods of the Alleghenies, to the hells of Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. ...
The Deer Hunter
Tom Cruise delivers a riveting and unforgettable portrayal of Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic in Oliver Stone's masterpiece . Based on a true story, the acclaimed film follows Kovic from a zealous teen who eagerly volunteered for the Vietnam War, to an emb...
Born on the Fourth of July
A cult movie, Tarantino was heavil influenced by this movie when he directed Inglorious Bastards. A company of misfits in WW2…I let you draw conclussions…
The Dirty Dozen [Blu-ray]
Based on the true story of a war waged in Mogadishu by the high tech Black Hawk helicopters and the US Army Rangers and Deltas. Amazon.com Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down conveys the raw, chaotic urgency of ground-force battle in a worst-case scenario. With exacting detail, the film re-creates the American siege of the Somalian city of Mogadishu in October 1993, when a 45-minute mission...
Black Hawk Down
Another GWOT movie, it tells the incredible tale of four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level al-Qaeda operative. The four men must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy a...
Lone Survivor
Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Catherine McCormack. Legendary Scotsman William Wallace leads an army against Edward I of England and a horde of medieval English oppressors, at the same time fighting for the woman he loves. Mel Gibson d...
Braveheart
Hey, It's Tarkovsky's! Ivan’s Childhood is a poetic journey through the shards and shadows of one boy’s war-ravaged youth. Moving back and forth between the traumatic realities of World War II and serene moments of family life before the conflict beg...
Ivan's Childhood
Michael Caine stars in this epic story of the battle of Rorke's Drift, on January 22nd 1879, where a small force of British troops found themselves completely outnumbered by Zulu warriors in Natal, South Africa. Having already destroyed a large Briti...
Zulu
It is 1942 and the German submarine fleet is heavily engaged in the so called "Battle of the Atlantic" to harass and destroy English shipping. With better escorts of the Destroyer Class, however, German U-Boats have begun to take heavy losses. "Das B...
Das Boot
Another film about commandos in WW2. Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn and David Niven are Allied saboteurs assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescu...
The Guns of Navarone
Kelly's Heroes presents the classic WWII action-comedy in high-definition. Starring Clint Eastwood, a group of misfit soldiers embarks on a daring mission behind enemy lines to steal a hidden cache of Nazi gold.
Kelly's Heroes
Mel Gibson and Randall Wallace, the star and writer of Braveheart, reunite for this action-packed war movie that features explosive battle sequences, thrilling aerial photography and unforgettable military heroes who fought for their country, their l...
We Were Soldiers
The Allies launch Operation Market Garden to invade Germany and end the war. The plan involves a British and American paratrooper force taking a highway into Germany, allowing British ground troops to enter enemy territory. However, the operation is ...
A Bridge Too Far
Based on the true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise) and his assassination plot targeting Adolph Hitler. A good movie, well manufactured.
Valkyrie
Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows Swoff (Gyllenhaal) from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, where he sports a sniper rifle through Middle East deserts that provide no cover from the heat or Iraqi soldiers. Swoff an...
Jarhead
One of the most influential political films in history, The Battle of Algiers, by Gillo Pontecorvo, vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on bo...
The Battle of Algiers
Relive the drama, conflict and power of one of the most influential anti-war films ever made, All Quiet on the Western Front. When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during World War I, they are assigned to the Western Front where t...
All Quiet on the Western Front
By December, 1944 the Allies believe that the Nazi Army is on the brink of total collapse. But the Germans counterattack, pushing the American Army back in a bloody offensive. Now in a battle that could decide the outcome of the war, victory or defea...
Battle of the Bulge
A young Russian soldier is torn between conscience and country when Russian tanks invade Afghanistan. After being left for dead by his commander, he joins the rebels as they attack the Russian invaders.
The Beast