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.
The Alamo (1960)
Lee (2024)
Number 24 (2024)
The Battleship Island (2017)
Lion of the Desert (1981)
The Outpost (2020)
Outlaw King (2018)
Escape to Victory (1981)
Resistance (2020)
Senso (1954)
General Della Rovere (1959)
How the West Was Won (1962)
Seven Beauties (1975)
Once Upon a Time in the Middle East (2026)
Halo Legends (2010)
Sergeant York (1941)
Taking Chance (2009)
The Silence of the Sea (1949)
Game of Thrones - Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms (2017)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Salvador (1986)
Is Paris Burning? (1966)
Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
The Chinese Widow (2017)
Everybody Go Home! (1960)
Max Manus: Man of War (2008)
Free State of Jones (2016)
Ethel & Ernest (2016)
Rakka (2017)
'71 (2014)
The Admiral: Roaring Currents (2014)
The Front Line (2011)
Michael Collins (1996)
Tropic Thunder (2008)
Von Ryan's Express (1965)
Overlord (2018)
Many Wars Ago (1970)
The Breath (2009)
Che: Part One (2008)
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
Fatal Mission (1990)
The Beast (1988)
Savior (1998)
The Painted Bird (2019)
Southern Comfort (1981)
Mister Roberts (1955)
Shanghai Express (1932)
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009)
Soldier of Orange (1977)
Jarhead (2005)
Sympathy for the Devil (2019)
Into the White (2012)
Coming Home (1978)
Paradise Now (2005)
Battle of Britain (1969)
Palestine 36 (2025)
Sisters in Arms (2019)
Battle of the Bulge (1965)
Against the Sun (2014)
Taxi for Tobruk (1961)