Which do you think is the best war movie? War movies can not only take people back to history, but also make people cherish their peaceful and quiet lives more. This article provides a list of the top 10 war movies, including: Bloodbath Hacksaw Ridge, Dunkirk, 1917, Schindler’s List, Soldier’s Row, Saving Private Ryan, Bridge on the River Kwai, etc. Which of these war movies do you like the most?
10.U-571
U-571 is an action-drama war film directed by Jonathan Mostow and starring Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, and Harvey .
The film is based on historical evidence and tells the story of the Allies who, during World War II, reconnoitered a damaged German submarine, U-571, in the North Atlantic and were sending a distress signal to the Germans, so the Allies quickly and secretly converted a warship into a German repair ship and prepared to use the repair of U-571 as a cover to forcibly seize the ship’s code-decoding machine.
9.Parton
Patton” is a historical film produced by 20th Century Fox Film Corporation in 1970, which was directed by Franklin Svena and starred George C. Scott, Karl Morden and James Edwards.
The film mainly introduces the story of 1943 in North Africa, the British and American Allied forces were nicknamed “Desert Fox” Rommel led by the German counter-attack, launched a massive battle, the results of the U.S. forces were defeated badly into a difficult situation.
The film was released in 1970 and won seven awards, including Best Picture, Best Screenplay and Best Director at the 43rd Academy Awards.
8.Schindler’s List
Schindler’s List” is a war film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes and Albus Davies. The film was released on November 30, 1993 in Washington, D.C., and was officially released in the U.S. on December 15, 1993.
Based on the novel of the same name by Australian novelist Thomas Kenneally, the film tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a German in Poland who hires more than 1,100 Jews to work in his factory during World War II and helps them escape the slaughter.
In 1994, the film won seven awards, including Best Picture at the 66th Academy Awards .
7.The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Bridge on the River Kwai is a war film from Columbia Pictures, directed by David Lean and starring William Holden and Alec Guinness.
The film was released in the UK on October 2, 1957 and won the 30th Academy Award for Best Picture and the 15th Golden Globe Award for Best Picture in the Drama category in 1958.
6.Enemy at the Gates
Enemy at the Gatesis a film written and directed by French director Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Jude Law and Ed Harris, and released in China in 2001. The film is based on the 1973 documentary novel of the same name written by author William Craig.
The film tells the story of the legendary Soviet Red Army sniper Vasily Zaitsev and the top German sharpshooter, Major Coney, in a life-or-death battle during the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II.
5. 1917
1917 is a war film directed by Sam Mendes and starring George MacKay, Dean Charles Chapman, Colin Firth, Benedict Cumberbatch and Mark Strong. The film was released in the U.S. on January 10, 2020 .
The film is set in the First World War and tells the story of 2 British soldiers, who travel against the grain to save 1600 of their comrades, crossing life and death with a mission to achieve.
4.Ran
Ran is a war film directed by Akira Kurosawa and co-starring Tatsuya Nakashiro, Satoshi Terao, Shinpachi Nezu and Daisuke Takashi. The film was released in Japan on June 1, 1985.
The film is inspired by Shakespeare’s “King Lear” and is based on a fable from the Warring States period in Japan, which tells the story of a fictional Ichimono family that comes to an end due to fratricide.
3.Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan is directed by Steven Spielberg and co-stars Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore and Matt Damon. The film was released in the United States on July 24, 1998.
The film depicts the four sons of the Ryan family who fought on the front lines after the Normandy landings, except for Private James Ryan, the youngest son of the 101st Airborne Division, who is still unaccounted for, the other three sons have been killed in various places within two weeks. The U.S. Army Chief of Staff, General Marshall, was informed of the incident and, for humanitarian reasons, ordered a team of eight men to find Private James Ryan in the middle of a sea of men and bullets and return him safely to his home base.
On December 17, 2014, the film was selected for the 2014 U.S. “National Treasure Film” list.
2. Dunkirk
Dunkirk is directed by Christopher Nolan and stars Finn Whitehead, Tom Green Carney, Jack Loudon, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, James D’Arcy and others. The film was released in the U.S. on July 21, 2017.
The film is based on the historical event of World War II “The Great Retreat from Dunkirk”, when 400,000 British and French troops were surrounded by enemy forces on the beaches of Dunkirk, facing the enemy’s approaching desperate situation, they had to fight for their fate.
On March 5, 2018, the film won the 90th Academy Awards for Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Effects and Best Editing .
1.Hacksaw Ridge
Hacksaw Ridge is directed by Mel Gibson and stars Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer, Hugo Weaving, Rachel Griffiths, and Vince Vaughn .
The film is based on the true story of Private Desmond Dawes, a World War II medic who refused to carry weapons into battle and saved 75 of his comrades with his bare hands during the Battle of Okinawa.
The film was released in the U.S. on November 04, 2016 .
In December 2016, “Blood on Hacksaw Ridge” was selected as a 2016 American Film Institute Top Ten Movie.
On February 27, 2017, it won the Best Sound Effects Award at the 89th Academy Awards .
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