Best historical war films - Charts
Best historical war films
1. Night and Fog (1956)
France, Documentary / Short
Directed by: Alain Resnais
Cast: Michel Bouquet, Reinhard Heydrich
2. Braveheart (1995)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Mel Gibson
Cast: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau
3. Black Hawk Down (2001)
USA / UK, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor
4. They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)
UK / New Zealand, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Peter Jackson
5. Shoah (1985)
France, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Claude Lanzmann
Cast: Claude Lanzmann, Richard Glazar
6. Bitva o Ostravsko 1945 (2019)
Czech Republic, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Jaroslav Korytář
7. The Great Escape (1963)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: John Sturges
Cast: Steve McQueen, James Garner
9. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster
10. Shake Hands with the Devil (2007)
Canada, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Roger Spottiswoode
Cast: Roy Dupuis, Deborah Kara Unger
12. Barry Lyndon (1975)
UK, Drama / War
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson
13. The Longest Day (1962)
USA, War / Action
Directed by: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton
Cast: Eddie Albert, Paul Anka
14. Waltz with Bashir (2008)
Israel / France, Animation / Documentary
Directed by: Ari Folman
Cast: Ari Folman, אורי סיון
16. Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
Australia / USA, Biography / War
Directed by: Mel Gibson
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Vince Vaughn
17. Europa Europa (1990)
Germany / France, Drama / War
Directed by: Agnieszka Holland
Cast: Marco Hofschneider, Julie Delpy
20. Land of Mine (2015)
Denmark / Germany, War / Historical
Directed by: Martin Zandvliet
Cast: Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann
22. The Killing Fields (1984)
UK, Drama / War
Directed by: Roland Joffé
Cast: Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor
23. A Bridge Too Far (1977)
USA / UK, War / Drama
Directed by: Richard Attenborough
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, James Caan
24. Waterloo (1970)
Italy / Soviet Union, Drama / Action
Directed by: Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk
Cast: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer
25. Enemy at the Gates (2001)
USA / Germany, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Cast: Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes
27. All My Loved Ones (1999)
Czech Republic / Slovakia, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Matej Mináč
Cast: Josef Abrhám, Libuše Šafránková
28. Valkyrie (2008)
USA / Germany, War / Historical
Directed by: Bryan Singer
Cast: Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh
29. Spartacus (1960)
USA, War / Historical
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier
31. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
USA, War / Historical
Directed by: Peter Weir
Cast: Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany
32. Downfall (2004)
Germany / Austria, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara
33. City of Life and Death (2009)
China / Hong Kong, Drama / War
Directed by: Chuan Lu
Cast: Ye Liu, Yuanyuan Gao
34. The Last Days (1998)
USA, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: James Moll
Cast: Adolf Hitler, Hans Frank
35. 1900 (1976)
Italy / France, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci
Cast: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu
36. Battle of Britain (1969)
UK, War / Drama
Directed by: Guy Hamilton
Cast: Harry Andrews, Michael Caine
37. The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: George Stevens
Cast: Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut
38. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
USA / Japan, War / Action
Directed by: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku
Cast: Martin Balsam, Sō Yamamura
39. Into the White (2012)
Norway / Sweden, Action / Drama
Directed by: Petter Næss
Cast: Florian Lukas, David Kross
40. The Long Road to War (2018)
Serbia, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Miloš Škundrić
Cast: Lothar Hobelt, Dominic Lieven
41. Michael Collins (1996)
UK / Ireland, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Neil Jordan
Cast: Ian Hart, Julia Roberts
42. Korczak (1990)
Poland / Germany, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Wojciech Pszoniak, Ewa Dalkowska
43. Unknown Soldier (2017)
Finland / Belgium, War / Drama
Directed by: Aku Louhimies
Cast: Eero Aho, Johannes Holopainen
44. Richard III (1955)
UK, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Laurence Olivier
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Cedric Hardwicke
45. Dunkirk (2017)
UK / Netherlands, Action / War
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Fionn Whitehead, Tom Hardy
46. Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (1972)
Japan, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Kinji Fukasaku
Cast: Kanemon Nakamura, Sachiko Hidari
47. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya
48. The King (2019)
UK / Hungary, Drama / Historical
Directed by: David Michôd
Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Joel Edgerton
49. The Captain (2017)
Germany / France, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Robert Schwentke
Cast: Max Hubacher, Milan Peschel
50. Henry V (1989)
UK, Historical / Drama
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Derek Jacobi, Kenneth Branagh
51. Honour and Glory (1968)
Czechoslovakia, Historical / Drama
Directed by: Hynek Bočan
Cast: Rudolf Hrušínský, Blanka Bohdanová
52. The Liberation of Auschwitz (1985)
West Germany, Documentary / Historical
53. Fortress of War (2010)
Belarus / Russia, Drama / Action
Directed by: Aleksandr Kott, Denis Skvortsov
Cast: Alexei Kopashov, Pavel Derevyanko
54. The Goebbels Experiment (2005)
Germany / UK, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Lutz Hachmeister
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Udo Samel
55. Habermann's Mill (2010)
Czech Republic / Germany, Drama / War
Directed by: Juraj Herz
Cast: Mark Waschke, Karel Roden
57. The Leopard (1963)
Italy / France, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale
58. Rose (2011)
Poland, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Wojciech Smarzowski
Cast: Marcin Dorocinski, Agata Kulesza
59. Anthropoid (2016)
UK / Czech Republic, Historical / Thriller
Directed by: Sean Ellis
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan
60. Fighter in the Wind (2004)
South Korea, War / Historical
Directed by: Yoon-ho Yang
Cast: Dong-geun Yang, Doo-hong Jeong
61. The Dam Busters (1955)
UK, War / Drama
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Cast: Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave
62. The Atomic Cafe (1982)
USA, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Kevin Rafferty, Jayne Loader
Cast: Lyndon B. Johnson, Harry S. Truman
66. Julius Caesar (1970)
UK, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Stuart Burge
Cast: Charlton Heston, Jason Robards
67. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)
Malta / Morocco, Action / Drama
Directed by: Michael Bay
Cast: John Krasinski, James Badge Dale
68. K-19 (2002)
USA / UK, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow
Cast: Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson
69. Cromwell (1970)
UK, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Ken Hughes
Cast: Richard Harris, Alec Guinness
70. In This Corner of the World (2016)
Japan, Animation / War
Directed by: Sunao Katabuchi
Cast: のん, Mayumi Shintani
72. Nanking (2007)
USA, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Stephen Dorff
73. The White Bird Marked with Black (1970)
Soviet Union / Ukraine, Drama / War
Directed by: Yuriy Ilyenko
74. Gettysburg (1993)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Ronald F. Maxwell
Cast: Tom Berenger, Martin Sheen
75. Les Svíb (2012)
Czech Republic, Short / War
Directed by: Ondřej Hejna
Cast: Martin Šesták, Radek Balcárek
76. Napoleon (1927)
France / Czechoslovakia, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Abel Gance
Cast: Albert Dieudonné, Antonin Artaud
77. Barefoot Gen (1983)
Japan, Animation / Drama
Directed by: Mori Masaki
Cast: Junji Nishimura, Takeshi Aono
79. Kapò (1959)
Italy / France, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Gillo Pontecorvo
Cast: Susan Strasberg, Laurent Terzieff
80. Darkest Hour (2017)
USA / UK, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Joe Wright
Cast: Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas
81. Austerlitz Advent (2017)
Czech Republic, Short / Drama
Directed by: Josef Abrhám ml.
Cast: Radek Holub, Jiří Lábus
82. Tank Battles (2002)
UK, Documentary / War
83. The Bloody Hundredth (2024)
USA, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Laurent Bouzereau, Mark Herzog
Cast: Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg
84. Beneath Hill 60 (2010)
Australia, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Jeremy Sims
Cast: Brendan Cowell, Steve Le Marquand
85. Is Paris Burning? (1966)
France / USA, Drama / War
Directed by: René Clément
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer
86. Trenches: Battleground WWI (2006)
USA, Documentary / War
87. The Gleiwitz Case (1961)
East Germany, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Gerhard Klein
Cast: Hannjo Hasse, Herwart Grosse
88. Outlaw King (2018)
UK / USA, Action / Drama
Directed by: David Mackenzie
Cast: Chris Pine, Aaron Taylor-Johnson
89. Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
UK, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast: Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman
90. Lost Children (1956)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Miloš Makovec
Cast: Gustáv Valach, Stanislav Fišer
92. Viva Zapata! (1952)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Cast: Marlon Brando, Jean Peters
93. The Round Up (2010)
France / Germany, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Rose Bosch
Cast: Jean Reno, Mélanie Laurent
95. The Shadow in My Eye (2021)
Denmark, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Ole Bornedal
Cast: Alex Høgh Andersen, Danica Curcic
96. A Battle of Wits (2006)
Hong Kong / China, Historical / Action
Directed by: Jacob Cheung
Cast: Andy Lau, Siu-hou Chin
97. Testament of Youth (2014)
UK, Drama / Biography
Directed by: James Kent
Cast: Alicia Vikander, Taron Egerton
98. The New One-Armed Swordsman (1971)
Hong Kong, Action / Drama
Directed by: Cheh Chang
Cast: David Chiang Da-wei, Lung Ti
99. The Forest of the Hanged (1964)
Romania, Drama / War
Directed by: Liviu Ciulei
Cast: Victor Rebengiuc, Liviu Ciulei
100. Man of War (2008)
Norway / Germany, War / Historical
Directed by: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
Cast: Aksel Hennie, Agnes Kittelsen