9 /10
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Run Time: 3hr 15` . MMPA: R . Release: 15 Dec 1993
Director: Steven Spielberg , Nada Pinter
Producer: Branko Lustig , Magdalena Szwarcbart , Steven Spielberg
Stars: Liam Neeson , Ben Kingsley , Ralph Fiennes , Caroline Goodall , Jonathan Sagall , Embeth Davidtz
8.6 /10
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 John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.
Run Time: 2hr 49` . MMPA: R / PG-13 . Release: 24 Jul 1998
Director: Ana Maria Quintana , Steven Spielberg , Daisy Cummins
Producer: Steven Spielberg , Simon Burgess , George Marshall
Stars: Tom Hanks , Tom Sizemore , Edward Burns , Matt Damon , Barry Pepper , Adam Goldberg
8.5 /10
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
Run Time: 2hr 30` . MMPA: R . Release: 17 Sep 2002
Director: Caroline Veyssière , Roman Polanski , Anna Zenowicz
Producer: Robert Benmussa , Vanessa Baker , Celestia Fox
Stars: Adrien Brody , Thomas Kretschmann , Frank Finlay , Maureen Lipman , Emilia Fox , Ed Stoppard
8.4 /10
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Run Time: 2hr 33` . MMPA: R . Release: 02 Aug 2009
Director: Carlos Fidel , Quentin Tarantino , Martin Kitrosser
Producer: Lloyd Phillips , Gregor Wilson , Pilar Savone
Stars: Brad Pitt , Mélanie Laurent , Christoph Waltz , Eli Roth , Michael Fassbender , Diane Kruger
8.4 /10
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
Run Time: 2hr 27` . MMPA: R . Release: 19 May 1979
Director: Larry J. Franco , Francis Ford Coppola , Tony Brandt
Producer: Fred Roos , Vic Ramos , Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Martin Sheen , Frederic Forrest , Albert Hall , Laurence Fishburne , Sam Bottoms , Marlon Brando
8.4 /10
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Run Time: 2hr 5` . MMPA: NR . Release: 15 Oct 1940
Director: Charlie Chaplin , Wheeler Dryden
Producer: Alfred Reeves , Charlie Chaplin , Kathleen Pryor
Stars: Charlie Chaplin , Paulette Goddard , Jack Oakie , Reginald Gardiner , Henry Daniell , Billy Gilbert
8.3 /10
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Run Time: 1hr 57` . MMPA: R . Release: 26 Jun 1987
Director: Chris Thompson , Stanley Kubrick , Ken Shane
Producer: Mike Fenton , Philip Kohler , Stanley Kubrick
Stars: Matthew Modine , Adam Baldwin , Vincent D'Onofrio , R. Lee Ermey , Dorian Harewood , Arliss Howard
8.3 /10
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
Run Time: 2hr 57` . MMPA: R . Release: 24 May 1995
Director: Matt Earl Beesley , Paul Gray , Mel Gibson
Producer: Patsy Pollock , Manus Hingerty , Julia Duff
Stars: Mel Gibson , Catherine McCormack , Sophie Marceau , Patrick McGoohan , Angus Macfadyen , Brendan Gleeson
8.3 /10
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.
Run Time: 3hr 48` . MMPA: PG . Release: 11 Dec 1962
Director: Barbara Cole , David Lean , Michael Stevenson
Producer: Douglas Twiddy , Luke Mendes , Sam Spiegel
Stars: Peter O'Toole , Alec Guinness , Anthony Quinn , Jack Hawkins , Omar Sharif , José Ferrer
8.2 /10
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
Run Time: 3hr 53` . MMPA: G . Release: 15 Dec 1939
Director: Victor Fleming , B. Reeves Eason , Ralph Slosser
Producer: David O. Selznick , Fred Schuessler , Raymond A. Klune
Stars: Vivien Leigh , Clark Gable , Olivia de Havilland , Leslie Howard , Hattie McDaniel , Thomas Mitchell
8.2 /10
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.
Run Time: 2hr 53` . MMPA: NR . Release: 03 Jul 1963
Director: John Sturges , Jack N. Reddish , John Franco
Producer: Allen K. Wood , James Clavell , John Sturges
Stars: Steve McQueen , James Garner , Richard Attenborough , James Donald , Charles Bronson , Donald Pleasence
8.2 /10
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.
Run Time: 1hr 59` . MMPA: R . Release: 25 Dec 2019
Director: Sam Mendes , Joey Coughlin , Nicoletta Mani
Producer: Sam Mendes , Ricardo Marco Budé , Lucy Amos
Stars: George MacKay , Dean-Charles Chapman , Mark Strong , Andrew Scott , Richard Madden , Claire Duburcq
8.2 /10
This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya during the second Italo-Senussi War. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives.
Run Time: 2hr 53` . MMPA: PG . Release: 17 Apr 1981
Director: Moustapha Akkad , Glenn Randall Jr. , Miguel Gil
Producer: Syd Cain , June Bordcosh , Paola Roli
Stars: Anthony Quinn , Rod Steiger , Oliver Reed , Irene Papas , Raf Vallone , John Gielgud
8.1 /10
An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.
Run Time: 3hr 5` . MMPA: PG . Release: 18 Dec 1975
Director: Stanley Kubrick , Brian W. Cook , David Tomblin
Producer: Stanley Kubrick , Bernard Williams , Jan Harlan
Stars: Ryan O'Neal , Marisa Berenson , Patrick Magee , Hardy Krüger , Diana Körner , Gay Hamilton
8.1 /10
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
Run Time: 2hr . MMPA: R . Release: 19 Dec 1986
Director: Oliver Stone , Pepito Diaz , Susan Malerstein
Producer: A. Kitman Ho , John Kerr , Ooty Moorehead
Stars: Tom Berenger , Willem Dafoe , Charlie Sheen , Forest Whitaker , Francesco Quinn , John C. McGinley
8.1 /10
A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in love with the same woman. But all three are different men upon their return.
Run Time: 3hr 3` . MMPA: R . Release: 08 Dec 1978
Director: Michael Cimino , June Samson
Producer: Michael Deeley , M.R. Boonyalak Sukawasdi , Frank Ernst
Stars: Robert De Niro , Christopher Walken , John Cazale , John Savage , Meryl Streep , George Dzundza
8.1 /10
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Run Time: 2hr 19` . MMPA: R . Release: 07 Oct 2016
Director: Mel Gibson , Sophie Fabbri-Jackson , Mic Rodgers
Producer: Lawrence Bender , Buddy Patrick , Lenny Kornberg
Stars: Andrew Garfield , Sam Worthington , Vince Vaughn , Teresa Palmer , Luke Bracey , Hugo Weaving
8.1 /10
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.
Run Time: 2hr 1` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 22 Dec 2004
Director: Terry George , Lionel Steketee , A. Kitman Ho
Producer: Terry George , Martin Katz , Sally French
Stars: Don Cheadle , Sophie Okonedo , Nick Nolte , Fana Mokoena , Joaquin Phoenix , Jean Reno
8.1 /10
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
Run Time: 2hr 51` . MMPA: NR . Release: 25 Dec 1946
Director: William Wyler , Jonathan C. Boyle
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Stars: Fredric March , Myrna Loy , Dana Andrews , Teresa Wright , Virginia Mayo , Cathy O'Donnell
8.1 /10
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
Run Time: 2hr 41` . MMPA: PG . Release: 11 Oct 1957
Director: David Lean , Ted Sturgis , A. B. Raj
Producer: Sam Spiegel
Stars: William Holden , Alec Guinness , Jack Hawkins , Sessue Hayakawa , James Donald , Geoffrey Horne
