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100 Greatest War Films The folks at Channel 4, the British television channel responsible for a good deal of the renaissance of British film during the 1990s, have put together a couple of genre lists. Their 100 Greatest War Films is a highly varied list and, possibly deliberately, seems to include almost every war there has ever been. The original page is long gone, so here's an archive copy at the Wayback Machine (archive.org). The List # Title Year Director IMDb 1 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg IMDb 2 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola IMDb 3 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges IMDb 4 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg IMDb 5 Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick IMDb 6 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone IMDb 7 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Richard Attenborough IMDb 8 Zulu 1964 Cy Endfield IMDb 9 Black Hawk Down 2001 Ridley Scott IMDb 10 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean IMDb 11 The Dam Busters 1955 Michael Anderson IMDb 12 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino IMDb 13 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson IMDb 14 The Guns of Navarone 1961 J. Lee Thompson IMDb 15 The Killing Fields 1984 Roland Joffé IMDb 16 The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick IMDb 17 Das Boot 1981 Wolfgang Petersen IMDb 18 Dr. Strangelove 1964 Stanley Kubrick IMDb 19 Born on the Fourth of July 1989 Oliver Stone IMDb 20 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin & Andrew Marton IMDb 21 Where Eagles Dare 1968 Brian G. Hutton IMDb 22 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman IMDb 23 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick IMDb 24 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott IMDb 25 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick IMDb 26 Ice Cold in Alex 1958 J. Lee Thompson IMDb 27 The Dirty Dozen 1967 Robert Aldrich IMDb 28 Enemy at the Gates 2001 Jean-Jacques Annaud IMDb 29 The Battle of Britain 1969 Guy Hamilton IMDb 30 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz IMDb 31 Good Morning, Vietnam 1987 Barry Levinson IMDb 32 The Pianist 2002 Roman Polanski IMDb 33 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone IMDb 34 Kelly's Heroes 1970 Brian G. Hutton IMDb 35 The Last of the Mohicans 1992 Michael Mann IMDb 36 Henry V 1944 Laurence Olivier IMDb 37 Cross of Iron 1977 Sam Peckinpah IMDb 38 Salvador 1986 Oliver Stone IMDb 39 Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970 Richard Fleischer & Kinja Fukasaku IMDb 40 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean IMDb 41 The Cruel Sea 1953 Charles Frend IMDb 42 Catch-22 1970 Mike Nichols IMDb 43 Empire of the Sun 1987 Steven Spielberg IMDb 44 Patton 1970 Franklin J Schaffner IMDb 45 633 Squadron 1964 Walter Grauman IMDb 46 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 2003 Peter Weir IMDb 47 A Matter of Life and Death 1946 Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger IMDb 48 Gallipoli 1981 Peter Weir IMDb 49 Carve Her Name with Pride 1958 Lewis Gilbert IMDb 50 Three Kings 1999 David O. Russell IMDb 51 A Town Like Alice 1956 Jack Lee IMDb 52 Hope and Glory 1987 John Boorman IMDb 53 Troy 2004 Wolfgang Petersen IMDb 54 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann IMDb 55 Casualties of War 1989 Brian De Palma IMDb 56 Life is Beautiful 1997 Roberto Benigni IMDb 57 In Which We Serve 1942 Noel Coward & David Lean IMDb 58 Stalingrad 1993 Joseph Vilsmaier IMDb 59 Reach for the Sky 1956 Lewis Gilbert IMDb 60 The English Patient 1996 Anthony Minghella IMDb 61 Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir IMDb 62 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa IMDb 63 When the Wind Blows 1986 Jimmy T Murakami IMDb 64 The Battle of Algiers 1965 Gillo Pontecorvo IMDb 65 The General 1926 Buster Keaton IMDb 66 Enigma 2001 Michael Apted IMDb 67 Napoleon 1927 Abel Gance IMDb 68 Glory 1989 Ed Zwick IMDb 69 Went the Day Well? 1942 Alberto Cavalcandi IMDb 70 Oh! What a Lovely War 1969 Richard Attenborough IMDb 71 Come and See 1985 Elem Klimov IMDb 72 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger IMDb 73 Ride with the Devil 1999 Ang Lee IMDb 74 Alexander Nevsky 1938 Sergei Eisenstein IMDb 75 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming IMDb 76 Sands of Iwo Jima 1949 Allen Dwan IMDb 77 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936 Michael Curtiz IMDb 78 'Breaker' Morant 1980 Bruce Beresford IMDb 79 Mrs. Miniver 1942 William Wyler IMDb 80 Land and Freedom 1995 Ken Loach IMDb 81 Love and Death 1975 Woody Allen IMDb 82 No Man's Land 2001 Danis Tanovic IMDb 83 Cromwell 1970 Ken Hughes IMDb 84 The Caine Mutiny 1954 Edward Dmytryk IMDb 85 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch IMDb 86 El Cid 1961 Anthony Mann IMDb 87 Rome, Open City 1945 Roberto Rossellini IMDb 88 Memphis Belle 1990 Michael Caton-Jones IMDb 89 Von Ryan's Express 1965 Mark Robson IMDb 90 Regeneration 1997 Gillies MacKinnon IMDb 91 Hell in the Pacific 1968 John Boorman IMDb 92 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D. W. Griffith IMDb 93 Europa Europa 1990 Agnieszka Holland IMDb 94 The Colditz Story 1955 Guy Hamilton IMDb 95 Welcome to Sarajevo 1997 Michael Winterbottom IMDb 96 Cold Mountain 2003 Anthony Minghella IMDb 97 Lacombe Lucien 1974 Louis Malle IMDb 98 The Big Red One 1980 Samuel Fuller IMDb 99 The Eagle Has Landed 1976 John Sturges IMDb 100 Rambo: First Blood Part II 1985 George P. Cosmatos IMDb

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