Best War Movies
War films carry the genre's heaviest questions: what combat does to people, and what it's for. From definitive front-line epics to quieter stories of aftermath and resistance, this list ranks the best by rating and popularity. Find where each streams and track the ones you've seen.
Schindler's List (1993)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
The Pianist (2002)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Incendies (2010)
1917 (2019)
The Imitation Game (2014)
Come and See (1985)
Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Das Boot (1981)
Braveheart (1995)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Downfall (2004)
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The General (1926)
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Land of Mine (2015)
Innocent Voices (2005)
See You Up There (2017)
The Last Samurai (2003)
Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)
Fury (2014)
Emancipation (2022)
The Woman King (2022)
A Bag of Marbles (2017)
Dunkirk (2017)
American Sniper (2014)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
To Live (1994)
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
The Great War (1959)
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Lone Survivor (2013)
Two Women (1960)
The Longest Day (1962)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
My Way (2011)
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
Where Eagles Dare (1968)
War Horse (2011)
The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022)
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
The Hurt Locker (2008)
The Flowers of War (2011)
The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)