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1. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
directed by Stanley Kubrick
featuring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, James Earl Jones
In 1964, with the Cuban Missile Crisis fresh in viewers' minds, the Cold War at its frostiest, and the hydrogen bomb relatively new and frightening, ... More
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2. Apocalypse Now (1979)
directed by Francis Ford Coppola
featuring Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Dennis Hopper
One of a cluster of late-1970s films about the Vietnam War, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now adapts the Joseph Conrad novella Heart of Darkness ... More
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3. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
directed by Stanley Kubrick
featuring Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood
Stanley Kubrick's return to filmmaking after a seven-year hiatus, this film crystallizes the experience of the Vietnam War by concentrating on a ... More
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4. The Deer Hunter (1978)
directed by Michael Cimino
featuring Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken
One of several 1978 films dealing with the Vietnam War (including Hal Ashby's Oscar-winning Coming Home), Michael Cimino's epic second feature The ... More
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5. Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)
directed by Francis Ford Coppola
featuring Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall
Francis Coppola had more than his share of production difficulties while shooting his epic-scale Vietnam War drama Apocalypse Now, including ... More
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6. The Thin Red Line (1998)
directed by Terrence Malick
featuring Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, James Caviezel, Ben Chaplin, George Clooney
The return of director Terrence Malick to feature filmmaking after a twenty year sabbatical, this World War II drama is an elegiac rumination on man ... More
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7. M*A*S*H (1970)
directed by Robert Altman
featuring Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Jo Ann Pflug, Robert Duvall, Roger Bowen, Gary Burghoff
Although he was not the first choice to direct it, the hit black comedy MASH established Robert Altman as one of the leading figures of Hollywood's ... More
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8. Cold Mountain (2003)
directed by Anthony Minghella
featuring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins, Brendan Gleeson, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Based on the novel by Charles Frazier, Anthony Minghella's star-studded Cold Mountain is a sweeping tale set in the final days of the American Civil ... More
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9. The Great Dictator (1940)
directed by Charles Chaplin
featuring Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell, Billy Gilbert
"This is the story of the period between two world wars--an interim during which insanity cut loose, liberty took a nose dive, and humanity was ... More
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10. Hair (1979)
directed by Milos Forman
featuring John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo, Nicholas Ray, Annie Golden
Milos Forman's adaptation of the tribal rock musical Hair stars John Savage as Claude, a quiet young man from the Midwest who becomes friendly with a ... More
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11. Paths of Glory (1957)
directed by Stanley Kubrick
featuring Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready, Wayne Morris
Adapting Humphrey Cobb's novel to the screen, director Stanley Kubrick and his collaborators Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson set out to make a ... More
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12. Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
directed by Oliver Stone
featuring Tom Cruise, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava, Kyra Sedgwick, Brian Larkin, Willem Dafoe
The second of three films by co-writer/director Oliver Stone to explore the effects of the Vietnam War (Platoon and Heaven and Earth are the others), ... More
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13. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
directed by Clint Eastwood
featuring Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shidou Nakamura
After bringing the story of the American soldiers who fought in the battle of Iwo Jima to the screen in his film Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood ... More
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14. Casualties of War (1989)
directed by Brian De Palma
featuring Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Don Harvey, John C. Reilly, John Leguizamo
Casualties of War was based on a New Yorker article by Daniel Lang. This, in turn, was inspired by a true incident which illustrated the dehumanizing ... More
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15. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
directed by Lewis Milestone
featuring Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Raymond Griffith, George "Slim" Summerville
One of the most powerful anti-war statements ever put on film, this gut-wrenching story concerns a group of friends who join the Army during World ... More
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16. King of Hearts (1966)
directed by Philippe de Broca
featuring Alan Bates, Genevičve Bujold, Jean-Claude Brialy, Julien Guiomar, Micheline Presle, Pierre Brasseur
The French/Italian/British King of Hearts (Le Roi de Coeur) takes place during World War I, but it might as well have been the Vietnamese conflict so ... More
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17. Kelly's Heroes (1970)
directed by Brian G. Hutton
featuring Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor, Donald Sutherland
Like M*A*S*H and Catch-22, both released the same year, this military comedy takes place in an earlier war but is really a thinly disguised treatise ... More
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18. Stalingrad (1992)
directed by Joseph Vilsmaier
featuring Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann, Jochen Nickel, Dana Vávrová
This German battlefield drama, released on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the climactic 1943 defeat of the Nazi forces at Stalingrad in ... More
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19. War, Inc. (2008)
directed by Joshua Seftel
featuring John Cusack, Hilary Duff, Marisa Tomei, Joan Cusack, Dan Aykroyd
An assassin posing as a trade-show producer fixes his crosshairs on a Middle Eastern oil minister while maintaining his cover by organizing a high ... More
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20. Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
directed by Richard Attenborough
featuring Ralph Richardson, Meriel Forbes, Wensley Pithey, Ruth Kettlewell, Ian Holm
Oh! What a Lovely War is an every-man-for-himself adaptation of Charles Chilton's 1963 play, as staged in London by Joan Littlewood. The tragedy of ... More
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21. Grand Illusion (1937)
directed by Jean Renoir
featuring Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich Von Stroheim, Marcel Dalio, Dita Parlo, Julien Carette
Frequently cited as both one of the greatest films about war and one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion is an often ... More
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22. City of Life and Death (2009)
directed by Lu Chuan
featuring Liu Ye, Gao Yuanyuan, Hideo Nakaizumi, Fan Wei, Jiang Yiyan, Ryu Kohata, Liu Bin, John Paisley, Beverly Peckous, Qin Lan, Sam Voutas
Within the scope of Asian history, few events carry the ugly and sickening connotations of the Rape of Nanking. Japanese forces invaded that Chinese ... More
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23. All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
directed by Delbert Mann
featuring Richard Thomas, Donald Pleasence, Patricia Neal, Ian Holm, Ernest Borgnine
Years after directing the classic Marty (1955), Delbert Mann became a creator of prestige TV movie projects, none more daunting than his adaptation ... More
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24. The Dawn Patrol (1938)
directed by Edmund Goulding
featuring Errol Flynn, David Niven, Basil Rathbone, Donald Crisp, Melville Cooper
This 1938 remake of Howard Hawks' 1930 film The Dawn Patrol is faithful to the original's basic plotline. The story is set during World War I; the ... More
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25. How I Won the War (1967)
directed by Richard Lester
featuring Michael Crawford, John Lennon, Roy Kinnear, Lee Montague, Jack MacGowran
Among the first of the late 60s anti-war films that reflected growing concern over the Vietnam War, How I Won the War takes a cold, dark look at the ... More
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