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.
Ice Cold in Alex (1958)
One Shot (2021)
El Cid (1961)
Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (2019)
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest Is the Sea of Stars (1988)
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Overture to a New War (1993)
All the Moons (2020)
Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
Kesari (2019)
Memphis Belle (1990)
Hope and Glory (1987)
Three Kings (1999)
John Rabe (2009)
Macross: Do You Remember Love? (1984)
In Darkness (2011)
Red Tails (2012)
15 Minutes of War (2019)
Five Came Back (2017)
Outlaws - For Greater Glory (2012)
Young Washington (2026)
Hornblower: The Even Chance (1998)
The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
The French Revolution (1989)
A Perfect Day (2015)
Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
Lore (2012)
55 Days at Peking (1963)
The Dam Busters (1955)
Kannathil Muthamittal (2002)
The Four Feathers (1939)
Weekend at Dunkirk (1964)
I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
Flame & Citron (2008)
Violent Summer (1959)
Beneath Hill 60 (2010)
The Patience Stone (2013)
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)
Chess Story (2021)
Alone in Berlin (2016)
The Four Days of Naples (1962)
The Night Porter (1974)
The Final Countdown (1980)
The Last Train (2006)
Beau Geste (1939)
Hot Shots! (1991)
Days of Glory (2006)
Amrum (2025)
Sometimes in April (2005)
This Land Is Mine (1943)
Che: Part Two (2008)
The Four Feathers (2002)
Far from Men (2015)
Man Hunt (1941)
The Big Red One (1980)
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Warsaw 44 (2014)
Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
War and Peace (1956)
King and Country (1964)