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.
Quo Vadis, Aida? (2021)
The Patriot (2000)
Pressure (2026)
A Very Long Engagement (2004)
Forbidden Games (1952)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
Kelly's Heroes (1970)
The King (2019)
Persian Lessons (2020)
First They Killed My Father (2017)
Duck Soup (1933)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025)
The English Patient (1996)
Justice Society: World War II (2021)
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Saga of Tanya the Evil: The Movie (2019)
Zulu (1964)
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero (2018)
Suite Française (2015)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
Midway (2019)
White Bird (2023)
Casualties of War (1989)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Anthropoid (2016)
The Duellists (1977)
Warfare (2025)
A Hidden Life (2019)
Little Boy (2015)
Conspiracy (2001)
At War for Love (2016)
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024)
Twice Born (2012)
Promise at Dawn (2017)
The Hill (1965)
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Eye in the Sky (2015)
Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to? (1973)
The Last Metro (1980)
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Devotion (2022)
Tom Clancy's Without Remorse (2021)
Cold Mountain (2003)
71: Into the Fire (2010)
Kanal (1957)
Rescue Dawn (2007)
Firebird (2021)
Tears of the Sun (2003)
Wings (1927)
Welcome to Dongmakgol (2005)
Tolkien (2019)
Gallipoli (1981)
Henry V (1989)
Uri: The Surgical Strike (2019)
Dear John (2010)
The Beguiled (1971)
Heartbreak Ridge (1986)