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.

Escape to Athena (1979)

The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017)

Treasure of the Amazon (1985)

3 Days in Malay (2023)

Hanover Street (1979)

In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)

Operation Seawolf (2022)

Head in the Clouds (2004)

Red Scorpion (1988)

Nomad: The Warrior (2005)

The Guard of Auschwitz (2018)

Leningrad (2009)

Bullets of Justice (2020)

Beginning of the Great Revival (2011)

Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS (1975)

Biggles (1986)

Recon (2019)

Blade: The Iron Cross (2020)

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016)

The Trench (1999)

Sniper: Reloaded (2011)

Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia (2009)

The Green Berets (1968)

The Last Drop (2006)

Revolution (1985)

Come Out Fighting (2023)

Princess of Mars (2009)

300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

5 Days of War (2011)

Good Kill (2015)

Dauntless: The Battle of Midway (2019)

Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985)

The Monuments Men (2014)

She Devils of the SS (1973)

Valley of the Wolves: Iraq (2006)

WarHunt (2022)

Legionnaire (1998)

Age of Heroes (2011)

Home of the Brave (2006)

Alexander (2004)

1941 (1979)

The Conqueror (1956)

War Pigs (2015)

Iron Eagle II (1988)

Company of Heroes (2013)

Red Sands (2009)

Dad's Army (2016)

The Last Legion (2007)

Valiant (2005)

Best Defense (1984)

Air Strike (2018)

War Machine (2017)

Captain America (1990)