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War Movies
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Starring Brad PittChristoph WaltzMélanie Laurent
By Quentin Tarantino, 2009.
A Jewish cinema owner (Mélanie Laurent) in occupied Paris is forced to host a Nazi movie premiere, where a radical group of American Jewish soldiers called the Basterds, led by Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), plans to roll out a score-settling scheme. The face-off is about to go down -- that's if Col...
- Saving Private Ryan
Starring Tom HanksTom SizemoreMatt Damon
By Steven Spielberg, 1998.
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain Tom Hanks and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home. Steven Spielberg and cinematographer Janusz...
- Schindler's List
Starring Liam NeesonBen KingsleyRalph Fiennes
By Steven Spielberg, 1993.
Liam Neeson stars as Oskar Schindler, a greedy German factory owner made rich by exploiting cheap Jewish labor. But as World War II unfolds, he becomes an unlikely humanitarian, spending his entire fortune to help save 1,100 Jews from Auschwitz. Co-starring Ralph Fiennes, Steven Spielberg's...
- Full Metal Jacket
Starring Matthew ModineVincent D'OnofrioR. Lee Ermey
By Stanley Kubrick, 1987.
Marine recruits (including Matthew Modine and Vincent D'Onofrio) endure the grueling ordeal of basic training and later face the unrelenting Viet Cong during the 1968 Tet Offensive in this grim Stanley Kubrick drama, based on a novel by Gustav Hasford.
- Troy
Starring Brad PittEric BanaOrlando Bloom
By Wolfgang Petersen, 2004.
In 1193 B.C., Prince Paris of Troy (Orlando Bloom) kidnaps legendary beauty Helen (Diane Kruger) from her husband, King Menelaus of Sparta, setting the two nations on a collision course for war. The Greeks, including Achilles (Brad Pitt), marshal their entire armada, sail to Troy and begin a...
- The Hurt Locker
Starring Jeremy RennerAnthony MackieBrian Geraghty
By Kathryn Bigelow, 2008.
Kathryn Bigelow directs this gripping drama following one of the U.S. Army's elite EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) teams operating in the ferocious war zone of Iraq. As the squad identifies and dismantles improvised explosive devices and other bombs, they must also contend with the frayed nerves...
- Black Hawk Down
Starring Josh HartnettEric BanaEwan McGregor
By Ridley Scott, 2001.
Based on a true story. When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down. Facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground, the Americans suffer heavy casualties.
- Casablanca
Starring Humphrey BogartIngrid BergmanPaul Henreid
By Michael Curtiz, 1942.
In this Oscar-winning classic, American expat Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) plays host to gamblers, thieves and refugees at his Moroccan nightclub during World War II. But he never expected Isla (Ingrid Bergman) -- the woman who broke his heart -- to walk through that door.
- Glory
Starring Matthew BroderickMorgan FreemanDenzel Washington
By Edward Zwick, 1989.
Loosely based on the letters of Boston-born Union commander Col. Robert G. Shaw (Matthew Broderick), this Academy Award-winning war film follows the first group of African-Americans to serve in combat during the Civil War. The heroics of Shaw's volunteer regiment of black soldiers -- including a...
- The Patriot
Starring Mel GibsonHeath LedgerJoely Richardson
By Roland Emmerich, 2000.
Widower Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson) wants nothing more than to live in peace and farm his land. But when a cruel British officer (Jason Isaacs) brings the American Revolution to Benjamin's door and threatens what he cherishes most, the former war hero is forced to take action.
- Platoon
Starring Tom BerengerWillem DafoeCharlie Sheen
By Oliver Stone, 1986.
Chris Taylor is a young, naive American who gives up college and volunteers for combat in Vietnam. Upon arrival, he quickly discovers that his presence is quite nonessential, and is considered insignificant to the other soldiers, as he has not fought for as long as the rest of them and felt the...
- Apocalypse Now
Starring Marlon BrandoMartin SheenRobert Duvall
By Francis Ford Coppola, 1979.
One of a cluster of late-1970s films about the Vietnam War, Francis Ford Coppola 's Apocalypse Now adapts the Joseph Conrad novella Heart of Darkness to depict the war as a descent into primal madness.
- Stripes
Starring Bill MurrayHarold RamisJohn Candy
By Ivan Reitman, 1981.
Uncle Sam wants … Bill Murray? Yep. Murray stars as John Winger, an indolent sad sack who impulsively joins the Army after losing his job, car, girlfriend and apartment. For good measure, he cajoles his best friend (Harold Ramis) into enlisting, too. After making it through boot camp, the duo...
- The Thin Red Line
Starring Sean PennAdrien BrodyJames Caviezel
By Terrence Malick, 1998.
The return of director Terrence Malick to feature filmmaking after a twenty year sabbatical, this World War II drama is an elegiac rumination on man's destruction of nature and himself, based on James Jones ' semi-autobiographical novel, his follow-up to From Here to Eternity.
- M*A*S*H
Starring Elliott GouldDonald SutherlandTom Skerritt
By Robert Altman, 1970.
Although he was not the first choice to direct it, the hit black comedy MASH established Robert Altman as one of the leading figures of Hollywood's 1970s generation of innovative and irreverent young filmmakers.
- The Great Escape
Starring Steve McQueenJames GarnerRichard Attenborough
By John Sturges, 1963.
Based on a true story and brimming with tension, this epic yarn centers on an audacious plan by Allied officers -- who've escaped their Nazi captors time and again -- to stage a massive breakout from an ostensibly escape-proof German prison camp. The star-studded ensemble cast includes Richard...
- The Longest Day
Starring John WayneHenry FondaRobert Mitchum
By Bernhard Wicki, 1962.
With four directors and an all-star cast, this Academy Award-winning war epic from producer Darryl F. Zanuck chronicles World War II's harrowing D-Day invasion. Shot on the beaches of Normandy, France, the ambitious film attempts to cover the historic day from all perspectives, focusing on figures...
- Das Boot
Starring Jürgen ProchnowKlaus WennemannHerbert Gronemeyer
By Wolfgang Petersen, 1981.
Nominated for six Academy Awards, this edge-of-your-seat German-language triumph follows the trials of a German U-boat crew during World War II. Upon its restored re-release in 1997, an hour was added to the original film, which surprisingly augmented its impact.
- Ran
Starring Tatsuya NakadaiAkira TeraoJinpachi Nezu
By Akira Kurosawa, 1985.
Legendary Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa sets Shakespeare's classic tragedy "King Lear" against a samurai backdrop, re-envisioning the timeless story through the eyes of a warlord (Tatsuya Nakadai) who transfers his kingdom to his eldest son. When a power struggle ensues, incited by the warlord's...
- From Here to Eternity
Starring Burt LancasterMontgomery CliftDeborah Kerr
By Fred Zinnemann, 1953.
This gripping adaptation of James Jones's novel about army life in Hawaii in the idyllic days just before December 7, 1941, boasts one of the hottest love scenes in screen history: Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr rolling around in the sandy surf. All told, the film won eight Oscars, including...
- Paths of Glory
Starring Kirk DouglasRalph MeekerAdolphe Menjou
By Stanley Kubrick, 1957.
Adapting Humphrey Cobb's novel to the screen, director Stanley Kubrick and his collaborators Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson set out to make a devastating anti-war statement, and they succeeded above and beyond the call of duty.
