7.2 /10
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.
Run Time: 2hr 14` . MMPA: . Release: 26 Oct 1970
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk , Elvira D'Amico , Vladimir Dostal
Producer: Dino De Laurentiis , Guglielmo Ambrosi , Richard C. Meyer
Stars: Rod Steiger , Christopher Plummer , Orson Welles , Jack Hawkins , Virginia McKenna , Dan O'Herlihy
7.2 /10
On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.
Run Time: 2hr 26` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 25 Dec 2011
Director: Steven Spielberg , Michael Stevenson , Adam Somner
Producer: Jina Jay , Solomon Artistes , Constantine Gregory
Stars: Jeremy Irvine , Peter Mullan , Emily Watson , Niels Arestrup , David Thewlis , Tom Hiddleston
7.2 /10
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.
Run Time: 2hr 34` . MMPA: R . Release: 24 Dec 2003
Director: Anthony Minghella , Derin Seale , Christo Morse
Producer: Lisa Mae Fincannon , Miura Kite , Tudor Cotovelea
Stars: Jude Law , Nicole Kidman , Renée Zellweger , Eileen Atkins , Brendan Gleeson , Philip Seymour Hoffman
7.2 /10
A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.
Run Time: 2hr 17` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 25 Dec 2014
Director: Kristin Witcombe , Joseph P. Reidy , Marieke Spence
Producer: James Ellis , Erwin Stoff , Matthew Barr
Stars: Jack O'Connell , Alex Russell , Domhnall Gleeson , Garrett Hedlund , MIYAVI , Finn Wittrock
7.2 /10
Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospital. Can his friend help him pull through?
Run Time: 2hr . MMPA: . Release: 14 Dec 1984
Director: Alan Parker , Alice Tompkins , Tom Davies
Producer: Juliet Taylor , Nancy Giebink , Rory Enke
Stars: Matthew Modine , Nicolas Cage , John Harkins , Sandy Baron , Karen Young , Bruno Kirby
7.2 /10
The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.
Run Time: 2hr 18` . MMPA: R . Release: 01 Mar 2002
Director: Randall Wallace , Frank Kostenko Jr. , Allen Kupetsky
Producer: Jim Lemley , Cathy Schweickhardt , Amanda Mackey
Stars: Mel Gibson , Greg Kinnear , Madeleine Stowe , Sam Elliott , Chris Klein , Keri Russell
7.1 /10
One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-out Berlin of the immediate post-war period, the Allies slowly bring law and order to bear on an occupied Germany. An American major is given the Furtwangler file, and is told to find everything he can and to prosecute the man ruthlessly. Tough and hard-nosed, Major Steve Arnold sets out to investigate a world of which he knows nothing.
Run Time: 1hr 48` . MMPA: . Release: 07 Mar 2002
Director: István Szabó
Producer: Heta Mantscheff , Yves Pasquier , Gillian Hawser
Stars: Harvey Keitel , Stellan Skarsgård , Moritz Bleibtreu , R. Lee Ermey , Birgit Minichmayr , Ulrich Tukur
7.1 /10
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
Run Time: 2hr 15` . MMPA: R . Release: 19 Oct 2006
Director: Clint Eastwood , Peter Dress , Mable Lawson-McCrary
Producer: Clint Eastwood , Phyliss Huffman , Steven Spielberg
Stars: Ryan Phillippe , Jesse Bradford , Adam Beach , John Benjamin Hickey , John Slattery , Barry Pepper
7.1 /10
A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.
Run Time: 2hr 36` . MMPA: PG . Release: 21 Jun 1966
Director: Derek Cracknell , John Guillermin , Helen Whitson
Producer: Stuart Lyons , René Dupont , Christian Ferry
Stars: George Peppard , James Mason , Ursula Andress , Jeremy Kemp , Karl Michael Vogler , Anton Diffring
7.1 /10
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
Run Time: 1hr 53` . MMPA: R . Release: 18 Aug 1989
Director: Brian De Palma , Michael Stevenson
Producer: Fred C. Caruso , Art Linson , Ray Freeborn
Stars: Michael J. Fox , Sean Penn , Don Harvey , John C. Reilly , John Leguizamo , Ving Rhames
7.1 /10
A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe will take them to a huge cache of stolen Kuwaiti gold hidden near their base, and they embark on a secret mission that's destined to change everything.
Run Time: 1hr 54` . MMPA: R . Release: 27 Sep 1999
Director: David O. Russell , Haley McLane , Dan Bradley
Producer: Larry Hand , Charles Roven , Salah Salea
Stars: George Clooney , Mark Wahlberg , Ice Cube , Spike Jonze , Cliff Curtis , Nora Dunn
7.1 /10
A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.
Run Time: 1hr 53` . MMPA: PG / R . Release: 22 Jan 1980
Director: Lewis Teague , Arne Schmidt , Todd Corman
Producer: Roni Ya'ackov , Gene Corman , Barbara Miller
Stars: Lee Marvin , Mark Hamill , Robert Carradine , Bobby Di Cicco , Kelly Ward , Stéphane Audran
7.1 /10
A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.
Run Time: 1hr 47` . MMPA: R . Release: 09 Aug 2008
Director: Phil Neilson , Ben Stiller , Mark Cotone
Producer: Elizabeth Chodar , Francine Maisler , Lauren Grey
Stars: Ben Stiller , Jack Black , Robert Downey Jr. , Tom Cruise , Nick Nolte , Jay Baruchel
7.1 /10
Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.
Run Time: 1hr 57` . MMPA: NR . Release: 23 Jun 1965
Director: William Kaplan , Mark Robson , Eli Dunn
Producer: Saul David , Harry Caplan
Stars: Frank Sinatra , Trevor Howard , Raffaella Carrà , Brad Dexter , Sergio Fantoni , John Leyton
7.1 /10
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.
Run Time: 2hr 1` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 25 Dec 2008
Director: Bryan Singer , Gabriella Gobber , Jeffrey Wetzel
Producer: Roger Mussenden , Melissa Kostenbauder , Caitlin McKenna
Stars: Tom Cruise , Kenneth Branagh , Bill Nighy , Terence Stamp , Tom Wilkinson , Carice van Houten
7.1 /10
In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
Run Time: 2hr 4` . MMPA: R . Release: 23 Nov 2016
Director: Jo Tew , Robert Zemeckis , Annie Penn
Producer: Diego Betancor , Nina Gold , Helen Seery
Stars: Brad Pitt , Marion Cotillard , Jared Harris , Simon McBurney , Lizzy Caplan , Daniel Betts
7.1 /10
A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation.
Run Time: 2hr 1` . MMPA: R . Release: 24 Jun 1970
Director: Mike Nichols , John M. Jordan , Ronald R. Grow
Producer: Martin Ransohoff , Jack Corrick , Joe L. Cramer
Stars: Alan Arkin , Martin Balsam , Richard Benjamin , Art Garfunkel , Jack Gilford , Buck Henry
7.1 /10
When his helicopter goes down during his fourth tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marine Sam Cahill is presumed dead. Back home, brother Tommy steps in to look over Sam’s wife, Grace, and two children. Sam’s surprise homecoming triggers domestic mayhem.
Run Time: 1hr 45` . MMPA: R . Release: 02 Dec 2009
Director: Jim Sheridan , Joe Camp III , Nye Heron
Producer: Jon Feltheimer , Lindsay Simon , Avy Kaufman
Stars: Tobey Maguire , Natalie Portman , Jake Gyllenhaal , Sam Shepard , Bailee Madison , Mare Winningham
7.1 /10
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.
Run Time: 2hr 17` . MMPA: R . Release: 31 Dec 2008
Director: Edward Zwick , Jayne-Ann Tenggren
Producer: Gail Stevens , Annija Tetere , Victoria Thomas
Stars: Daniel Craig , Liev Schreiber , Jamie Bell , Alexa Davalos , Allan Corduner , Mark Feuerstein
7.1 /10
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.
Run Time: 2hr 12` . MMPA: R . Release: 25 Oct 1996
Director: Neil Jordan
Producer: Redmond Morris , Susie Figgis , Lynn Goldman
Stars: Liam Neeson , Aidan Quinn , Stephen Rea , Alan Rickman , Julia Roberts , Ian Hart
