Thursday, November 10, 2005

Top War films

Top 100 war films as voted by the viewers of Channel 4
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01. Saving Private Ryan, 1998
02. Apocalypse Now, 1979
03. The Great Escape, 1963
04. Schindler's List, 1993
05. Full Metal Jacket, 1987
06. Platoon, 1986
07. A Bridge Too Far, 1977
08. Zulu, 1964
09. Black Hawk Down , 2001
10. The Bridge On The River Kwai, 1957
11. The Dam Busters, 1954
12. The Deer Hunter, 1978
13. Braveheart, 1995
14. The Guns Of Navarone, 1961
15. The Killing Fields, 1984
16. The Thin Red Line, 1998
17. Das Boot, 1981
18. Dr Strangelove, 1964
19. Born On The Fourth Of July, 1989
20. The Longest Day, 1962
21. Where Eagles Dare, 1968
22. M*A*S*H, 1974
23. Paths Of Glory, 1957
24. Gladiator, 2000
25. Spartacus, 1960
26. Ice Cold In Alex, 1958
27. The Dirty Dozen, 1967
28. Enemy At The Gates, 2001
29. Battle Of Britain, 1969
30. Casablanca, 1942
31. Good Morning, Vietnam, 1987
32. The Pianist, 2002
33. All Quiet On The Western Front, 1930
34. Kelly's Heroes, 1970
35. The Last Of The Mohicans, 1992
36. Henry V, 1944
37. Cross Of Iron, 1977
38. Salvador, 1986
39. Tora! Tora! Tora!, 1970
40. Lawrence Of Arabia, 1962
41. The Cruel Sea, 1953
42. Catch 22, 1970
43. Empire Of The Sun, 1987
44. Patton, 1970
45. 633 Squadron, 1964
46. Master And Commander, 2003
47. A Matter Of Life And Death, 1962
48. Gallipoli, 1981
49. Carve Her Name With Pride, 1958
50. Three Kings, 1999
51. A Town Like Alice, 1956
52. Hope And Glory, 1987
53. Troy, 2004
54. From Here To Eternity, 1953
55. Casualties Of War, 1989
56. Life Is Beautiful, 1997
57. In Which We Serve, 1942
58. Stalingrad, 1993
59. Reach For The Sky, 1956
60. The English Patient, 1996
61. La Grande Illusion, 1937
62. Ran, 1985
63. When The Wind Blows, 1986
64. The Battle Of Algiers, 1965
65. The General, 1927
66. Enigma, 2001
67. Napoleon, 1927
68. Glory, 1989
69. Went The Day Well?, 1942
70. Oh! What A Lovely War, 1969
71. Come And See, 1986
72. The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp, 1943
73. Ride With The Devil, 1999
74. Alexander Nevsky, 1938
75. Gone With The Wind, 1939
76. Sands Of Iwo Jima, 1949
77. The Charge Of The Light Brigade, 1936
78. Breaker Morant, 1980
79. Mrs Miniver, 1942
80. Land And Freedom, 1995
81. Love And Death, 1975
82. No Man's Land, 2001
83. Cromwell, 1970
84. The Caine Mutiny, 1954
85. To Be Or Not To Be, 1942
86. El Cid, 1961
87. Rome, Open City, 1945
88. Memphis Belle, 1990
89. Von Ryan's Express, 1965
90. Regeneration, 1997
91. Hell In The Pacific, 1968
92. The Birth Of A Nation, 1915
93. Europa, Europa, 1990
94. The Colditz Story, 1955
95. Welcome To Sarajevo, 1997
96. Cold Mountain, 2003
97. Lacombe Lucien, 1974
98. Big Red One, 1980
99. The Eagle Has Landed, 1977
100. Rambo: First Blood, Part II, 1985


Top rated war films from IMDB.
Rank Rating Title
1 8.8 Schindler's List (1993)
2 8.6 Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
3 8.5 Paths of Glory (1957)
4 8.5 Hotel Rwanda (2004)
5 8.5 Apocalypse Now (1979)
6 8.4 The Pianist (2002)
7 8.4 Untergang, Der (2004)
8 8.4 Ballada o soldate (1959)
9 8.4 Boot, Das (1981)
10 8.4 Voyna i mir (1968)
11 8.4 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
12 8.3 The General (1927)
13 8.3 The Great Escape (1963)
14 8.3 Vita è bella, La (1997)
15 8.3 Saving Private Ryan (1998)
16 8.3 Voces inocentes (2004)
17 8.3 Skammen (1968)
18 8.2 Campanadas a medianoche (1965)
19 8.2 Braveheart (1995)
20 8.2 Kumonosu jô (1957)
21 8.2 Stalag 17 (1953)
22 8.2 Battaglia di Algeri, La (1965)
23 8.2 Full Metal Jacket (1987)
24 8.1 Patton (1970)
25 8.1 Andrey Rublyov (1969)
26 8.1 The Message (1976)
27 8.1 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
28 8.1 Grande illusion, La (1937)
29 8.1 The Deer Hunter (1978)
30 8.1 To Be or Not to Be (1942)
31 8.1 The African Queen (1951)
32 8.1 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
33 8.1 Glory (1989)
34 8.1 Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925)
35 8.1 Hotaru no haka (1988)
36 8 Platoon (1986)
37 8 Taegukgi hwinalrimyeo (2004)
38 8 Gone with the Wind (1939)
39 8 Spartacus (1960)
40 8 Mister Roberts (1955)
41 7.9 Letyat zhuravli (1957)
42 7.9 Un long dimanche de fiançailles (2004)
43 7.9 Roma, città aperta (1945)
44 7.9 The Caine Mutiny (1954)
45 7.9 Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage (2005)
46 7.9 Barry Lyndon (1975)
47 7.9 To Have and Have Not (1944)
48 7.9 The Cruel Sea (1953)
49 7.9 Henry V (1989)
50 7.9 A Walk in the Sun (1945)


Top War films conflict
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American Revolutionary War
the Patriot1. The Patriot
2. The Crossing
3. The American Revolution – Boxed DVD Set (A&E)
4. 1776

American Civil War
Glory1. Glory
2. Dances With Wolves
3. Gettysburgh
4. Cold Mountain
5. Gone With the Wind
6. Andersonville
7. The Hunley
8. Ironclads
9. Birth of a Nation
10. Ken Burns' Civil War

World War I
Sergeant York1. Sergeant York
2. A Very Long Engagement
3. Galipoli
4. Legends of the Fall
5. The Lost Battalion
6. African Queen
7. Zeppelin
8. All Quiet on the Western Front
9. A Farewell to Arms
10. The Dawn Patrol

World War II
The European Front
Savng Private Ryan1. Saving Private Ryan
2. Band of Brothers
3. Schindler's List
4. The Longest Day
5. Patton
6. Das Boot
7. Casablanca
8. Where Eagles Dare
9. The Great Escape
10. The Guns of Navarrone

The Pacific Theater
Tora Tora Tora1. Tora! Tora! Tora!
2. Empire of the Sun
3. From Here to Eternity
4. The Great Raid
5. The Thin Red Line
6. The Bridge On the River Kwai
7. 30 Seconds Over Tokyo
8. Midway
9. PT 109
10. Sands of Iwo Jima

Korea
MASH1. M*A*S*H
2. Macarthur
3. Manchurian Candidate
4. Pork Chop Hill
5. The Bridges at Toko-Ri

Viet Nam
Platoon1. Platoon
2. Full Metal Jacket
3. The Deer Hunter
4. Apocalypse Now
5. The Quiet American
6. Born on the Fourth of July
7. Good Morning Vietnam
8. We Were Soldiers
9. Gardens of Stone
10. Birdy

Various Wars, Conflicts and Peacetime Battles
Braveheart1. Braveheart
2. Black Hawk Down
3. No Man's Land
4. Three Kings
5. Stripes
6. Ben Hur
7. The Sand Pebbles
8. The 13th Warrior
9. Star Wars
10. Gladiator

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