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1. Saving Private 7.0/10
Ryan (1998)
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behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers
have been killed in action. (169 mins.)
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A Special-Ops commander leads his team into the Nigerian
jungle in order to rescue a doctor who will only join them if Biography (2) Drama (36)
they agree to save 70 refugees too. (121 mins.) Fantasy (1) History (14)
Director: Antoine Fuqua
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Stars: Bruce Willis, Cole Hauser, Monica Bellucci, Eamonn Walker
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3. Gallipoli (1981)
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Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when User Rating
they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during
World War I. (110 mins.) Release Year
Director: Peter Weir
Stars: Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr, Harold Hopkins
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5. Jarhead (2005)
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Based on former Marine Anthony Swofford's best-selling 2003

book about his pre-Desert Storm experiences in Saudi Arabia
and about his experiences fighting in Kuwait. (125 mins.)
Director: Sam Mendes
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Lucas Black, Scott MacDonald
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6. Beneath Hill 60 (2010)

In 1916, the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company is tunneling

beneath German fortifications and bunkers to detonate massive
explosive charges. (122 mins.)
Director: Jeremy Hartley Sims
Stars: Brendan Cowell, Harrison Gilbertson, Steve Le Marquand, Gyton
Grantley
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7. The Patriot (2000)

Peaceful farmer Benjamin Martin is driven to lead the Colonial

Militia during the American Revolution when a sadistic British
officer murders his son. (165 mins.)
Director: Roland Emmerich
Stars: Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson, Jason Isaacs
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8. Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)

A drama about the fate of brothers forced to fight in the Korean

War. (140 mins.)
Director: Je-gyu Kang
Stars: Dong-gun Jang, Bin Won, Eun-ju Lee, Hyeong-jin Kong
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9. Platoon (1986)

A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when

confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
(120 mins.)
Director: Oliver Stone
Stars: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Keith David
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10. Downfall (2004)

Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the
Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of
WWII. (156 mins.)
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Stars: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Köhler
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11. The Hurt Locker (2008)

During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army

bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his
maverick way of handling his work. (131 mins.)
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Stars: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce
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Windtalkers (2002)

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Two U.S. Marines in WWII are assigned to protect Navajo

Marines who use their native language as an unbreakable radio
cypher. (134 mins.)
Director: John Woo
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich
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13. Defiance (2008)

Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into

the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance
fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect
themselves and about 1,000 Jewish non-combatants. (137
mins.)
Director: Edward Zwick
Stars: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, Alexa Davalos
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14. Green Zone (2010)

Discovering covert and faulty intelligence causes a U.S. Army

officer to go rogue as he hunts for Weapons of Mass
Destruction in an unstable region. (115 mins.)
Director: Paul Greengrass
Stars: Matt Damon, Jason Isaacs, Greg Kinnear, Igal Naor
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15. Breaker Morant (1980)

Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing

prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes
committed by their superior officers. (107 mins.)
Director: Bruce Beresford
Stars: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown
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16. Zulu (1964)

Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at

Rorke's Drift. (138 mins.)
Director: Cy Endfield
Stars: Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth
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17. Battle of Britain (1969)

In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle

vs. the Nazi Germany Air Force for control of British air space
to prevent a Nazi invasion of Britain. (132 mins.)
Director: Guy Hamilton
Stars: Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews, Curd Jürgens
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300 (2006)

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18. King Leonidas of Sparta and a force of 300 men fight the
Persians at Thermopylae in 480 B.C. (117 mins.)
Director: Zack Snyder
Stars: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham, Dominic West
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19. Stalingrad (1993)

A depiction of the brutal battle of Stalingrad, the Third Reich's

'high water mark', as seen through... (134 mins.)
Director: Joseph Vilsmaier
Stars: Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann, Sebastian Rudolph,
Dana Vávrová
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20. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp

commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's
construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while
oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it. (161 mins.)
Director: David Lean
Stars: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa
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21. We Were Soldiers (2002)

The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the
Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it. (138
mins.)
Director: Randall Wallace
Stars: Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear, Sam Elliott
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22. Braveheart (1995)

When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English

soldier who tried to rape her, William Wallace begins a revolt
and leads Scottish warriors against the cruel English tyrant
who rules Scotland with an iron fist. (178 mins.)
Director: Mel Gibson
Stars: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Angus Macfadyen
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23. Memphis Belle (1990)

It's May 1943 at a US Army Air Corps base in England. The four
officers and six enlisted men of the Memphis Belle... (107
mins.)
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Stars: Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan, D.B. Sweeney
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Act of Valor (2012)

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24. An elite team of Navy SEALs embark on a covert mission to

recover a kidnapped CIA agent. (110 mins.)
Director: Mouse McCoy, Scott Waugh
Stars: Alex Veadov, Roselyn Sanchez, Nestor Serrano, Rorke Denver
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25. Top Gun (1986)

As students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons

school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot
learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not
taught in the classroom. (110 mins.)
Director: Tony Scott
Stars: Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer
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26. Enemy at the Gates (2001)

A Russian sniper and a German sniper play a game of

cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad. (131 mins.)
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Stars: Jude Law, Ed Harris, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz
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27. Das Boot (1981)

The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom,

filth, and sheer terror. (149 mins.)
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann,
Hubertus Bengsch
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28. G.I. Jane (1997)

A female Senator succeeds in enrolling a woman into Combined

Reconnaissance Team training where everyone expects her to
fail. (125 mins.)
Director: Ridley Scott
Stars: Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft, Jason Beghe
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29. U-571 (2000)

A German submarine is boarded by disguised American

submariners trying to capture their Enigma cipher machine.
(116 mins.)
Director: Jonathan Mostow
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Jon Bon Jovi
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The Lost Battalion (2001 TV Movie)

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30. Fact-based war drama about an American battalion of over

500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lines in the
Argonne Forest in October 1918 France during the closing
weeks of World War I. (92 mins.)
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Stars: Ricky Schroder, Phil McKee, Jamie Harris, Jay Rodan
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31. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance

against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a
remote cemetery. (161 mins.)
Director: Sergio Leone
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè
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32. Pearl Harbor (2001)

Pearl Harbor follows the story of two best friends, Rafe and
Danny, and their love lives as they go off to join the war. (183
mins.)
Director: Michael Bay
Stars: Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, William Lee Scott
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33. Inglourious Basterds (2009)

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to

assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers
coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.
(153 mins.)
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Stars: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, Mélanie Laurent
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34. The Thin Red Line (1998)

Terrence Malick's adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical

1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the
second World War. (170 mins.)
Director: Terrence Malick
Stars: Jim Caviezel, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Elias Koteas
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35. Cold Mountain (2003)

In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded

soldier embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold
Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart. (154
mins.)
Director: Anthony Minghella
Stars: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins
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Atonement (2007)

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36. Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably

changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older
sister's lover of a crime he did not commit. Based on the British
romance novel by Ian McEwan. (123 mins.)
Director: Joe Wright
Stars: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Brenda Blethyn, Saoirse Ronan
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37. Full Metal Jacket (1987)

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the

Viet Nam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot
camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue. (116 mins.)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Stars: Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Baldwin
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38. Valkyrie (2008)

A dramatization of the 20 July assassination and political coup

plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against
Hitler during World War II. (121 mins.)
Director: Bryan Singer
Stars: Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy, Carice van Houten, Kenneth Branagh
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39. The Dirty Dozen (1967)

A US Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to

train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of
German officers in World War II. (150 mins.)
Director: Robert Aldrich
Stars: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes
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40. The Longest Day (1962)

The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied
and German points of view. (178 mins.)
Director: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton
Stars: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Richard Burton, Henry Fonda
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41. All Quiet on the Western Front (1979 TV Movie)

A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the

soul-destroying horror of World War I. (150 mins.)
Director: Delbert Mann
Stars: Richard Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Ian Holm
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