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WAR and ANTI-WAR
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Selection of Greatest War and Anti-War Films:
See this site's selection of Greatest War Movies (in five parts)
- Greatest War and Anti-War Films:
The Birth Of A Nation (1915)
Intolerance (1916)
- Hearts of the World (1918)
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
- America (1924)
- Battleship Potemkin (1925, USSR)
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The Big Parade (1925)
The General (1927)
- What Price Glory? (1926)
- Napoleon (1927, Fr.)
- Wings (1927)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
- The Dawn Patrol (1930)
- Hell's Angels (1930)
- The Lost Patrol (1934)
- The Informer (1935)
- The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
- La Grande Illusion/Grand Illusion (1937, Fr.)
- Alexander Nevsky (1938, USSR)
- The Dawn Patrol (1938)
- Beau Geste (1939)
- Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
- Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
- The Four Feathers (1939, UK)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
- The Rules of the Game (1939)
- The Fighting 69th (1940)
- Foreign Correspondent (1940)
- The Great Dictator (1940)
- Northwest Passage (1940)
- The Sea Hawk (1940)
- Waterloo Bridge (1940)
- Buck Privates (1941)
- Dive Bomber (1941)
- ...One of Our Aircraft is Missing (1941, UK)
- They Died With Their Boots On (1941)
- Sergeant York (1941)
- A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941)
- Across the Pacific (1942)
Casablanca (1942)
- The Flying Tigers (1942)
- In Which We Serve (1942)
- Mrs. Miniver (1942)
- Wake Island (1942)
- Went the Day Well? (1942)
- Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
- Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
- Air Force (1943)
- Bataan (1943)
- Crash Dive (1943)
- Cry Havoc (1943)
- Destination Tokyo (1943)
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
- Guadalcanal Diary (1943)
- Gung Ho! (1943)
- A Guy Named Joe (1943)
- The Human Comedy (1943)
- The Immortal Sergeant (1943)
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943, UK)
- The Lost Patrol (1943)
- Sahara (1943)
- So Proudly We Hail (1943)
- We Dive at Dawn (1943)
- Cover Girl (1944)
- The Fighting Seabees (1944)
- The Fighting Sullivans (1944)
- Henry V (1944, UK)
- Immortal Batallion (1944)
- Lifeboat (1944)
- Ministry of Fear (1944)
- Passage to Marseilles (1944)
- Pin-Up Girl (1944)
- Since You Went Away (1944)
- Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
- A Wing and a Prayer (1944)
- Anchors Aweigh (1945)
- Back to Bataan (1945)
- The Clock (1945)
- Objective, Burma! (1945)
- Open City (1945, It.)
- The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
- They Were Expendable (1945)
- A Walk in the Sun (1945)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
- Command Decision (1948)
- Battleground (1949)
- Home of the Brave (1949)
- Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
- Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
- The Men (1950)
- Three Came Home (1950)
The African Queen (1951)
- The Desert Fox (1951)
- Fixed Bayonets (1951)
- Flying Leathernecks (1951)
- Go For Broke! (1951)
- Operation Pacific (1951)
- The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
- The Steel Helmet (1951)
- Retreat, Hell (1952)
- The Desert Rats (1953)
- From Here to Eternity (1953)
- Stalag 17 (1953)
- The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954)
- The Caine Mutiny (1954)
- Battle Cry (1955)
- The Colditz Story (1955)
- Mister Roberts (1955)
- The Man Who Never Was (1955)
- To Hell and Back (1955)
- Attack! (1956)
- The Burmese Harp (1956) (Jp.)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- The Enemy Below (1957)
Paths Of Glory (1957)
- Dunkirk (1958, UK)
- In Love and War (1958)
- The Naked and the Dead (1958)
- Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)
- Torpedo Run (1958)
- Ballad of a Soldier (1959, USSR)
- The Horse Soldiers (1959)
- Pork Chop Hill (1959)
- The Alamo (1960)
- Spartacus (1960)
- El Cid (1961)
- The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- The Longest Day (1962)
- The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
- The Great Escape (1963)
- The Americanization of Emily (1964)
- Fail-Safe (1964)
- The Train (1964)
- A Yank in Viet-Nam (1964)
- Zulu (1964, UK)
- The Battle of Algiers (1965) (It.)
- The Battle of the Bulge (1965)
- In Harm's Way (1965)
- The Hill (1965)
- The Ipcress File (1965)
- Von Ryan's Express (1965)
- The Blue Max (1966)
- The Sand Pebbles (1966)
- The Dirty Dozen (1967)
- The Green Berets (1968)
- Hell in the Pacific (1968)
- War and Peace (1968, USSR)
- The Battle of Britain (1969, UK)
- Castle Keep (1969)
- Where Eagles Dare (1969)
- Kelly's Heroes (1970)
- M*A*S*H (1970)
- Patton (1970)
- Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
- Midway (1976)
- The Boys in Company C (1977)
- A Bridge Too Far (1977)
- Cross of Iron (1977)
- MacArthur (1977)
- Soldier of Orange (1977, Belg.)
- Coming Home (1978)
- The Deer Hunter (1978)
- Force 10 From Navarone (1978)
- Go Tell The Spartans (1978)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
- The Tin Drum (1979, W. Germ.)
- The Big Red One (1980)
- Breaker Morant (1980, Aust.)
- Kagemusha, The Shadow Warrior (1980, Jp.)
- Das Boot (1981, West Germ.)
- Gallipoli (1981)
- First Blood (1982)
- An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
- Uncommon Valor (1983)
- The Killing Fields (1984)
- Missing In Action (1984)
- Colonel Redl (1985, Hung/Aust/West Germ.)
- Rambo: First Blood, Part II (1985)
- Ran (1985, Jp.)
- Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
- Platoon (1986)
- Top Gun (1986)
- Full Metal Jacket (1987)
- Gardens of Stone (1987)
- Hamburger Hill (1987)
- No Way Out (1987)
- Bat 21 (1988)
- Rambo III (1988)
- Black Rain (1989) (Jp.)
- 84 Charlie Miopic (1989)
- Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
- Casualties of War (1989)
- Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
- Glory (1989)
- Henry V (1989)
- Europa, Europa (1990) (Ger.)
- The Hunt for Red October (1990)
- The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
- Patriot Games (1992)
- Gettysburg (1993)
- Heaven and Earth (1993)
Schindler's List (1993)
- Stalingrad (1993, Germ.)
- Clear and Present Danger (1994)
- Braveheart (1995)
- Crimson Tide (1995)
- Courage Under Fire (1996)
- Life is Beautiful (1998)
- Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- The Thin Red Line (1998)
- The Last Days (1999)
- Three Kings (1999)
- Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
- Black Hawk Down (2001)
- Enemy at the Gates (2001)
- Pearl Harbor (2001)
- Collateral Damage (2002)
- Hart's War (2002)
- The Sum of All Fears (2002)
- We Were Soldiers (2002)
- The Pianist (2002)
- Windtalkers (2002)
- Downfall (2004, Germ.)
- Voices of Iraq (2004)
- Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
- Home of the Brave (2006)
- Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)
- Grace is Gone (2007)
- In the Valley of Elah (2007)
- The Kingdom (2007)
- Lions for Lambs (2007)
- A Mighty Heart (2007)
- No End In Sight (2007)
- Redacted (2007)
- Rendition (2007)
- Stop-Loss (2008)
- The Hurt Locker (2009)
- Greatest War (Anti-War) (Black) Comedy Films:
Duck Soup (1933)
- Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
- Stalag 17 (1953)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
- Catch-22 (1970)
- M*A*S*H (1970)
- Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)