26 best war films of all time
For those who like action, drama and adrenaline, films about wars are a good request!
These productions customarily trace stories based on real conflicts and give us the dimension of two horrors practiced in search of power, territory and money.
Check out our selection of the best old and current war films that you shouldn't miss!
1. The Soldier that Didn't Exist (2021)
Esse é um war film based on real facts. Produced by Netflix and directed by John Madden, it takes place in World War II and tells about an eccentric strategy of an English judge and spy to dribble the Germans.
Or plano ficou known as Operation mincemeat It was intended to save the lives of thousands of people in two of the darkest periods of history.
No site Rotten Tomatoes has a long approval rating of 84%.
2. 1917 (2019)
Nominated for ten categories at the 2020 Oscars and winner of two, this production directed by Sam Mendes tackle World War I.
The narrative shows the saga of two English soldiers who receive a mission to warn their compatriots about the plans of a German attack that would place more than a thousand men in danger.
The story is based on stories that the director heard from his childhood, so it is possible that many portrayed facts may be real.
The film was highly acclaimed by critics and audiences, receiving 88% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.
3. Dunkirk (2017)
Directed by Christopher Nolan, this 2017 film shows an episode that occurred in the Second World War that was known as Dunkirk evacuation.
It shows a terrifying battle in which combatants from Belgium, France and England are being attacked by German troops.
Highly praised by critics, he was nominated for important awards such as Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe. No Rotten Tomatoes has a 92% approval rating.
4. inglorious bastards (2009)
Two great Quentin Tarantino films are inglorious bastards, released in 2009.
This brilliant ficção passes na Second World War and presents two stories that have as objective to revenge and assassination of important Nazi personalities.
Successo de bilheteria, critica e público, o longa-metragem conquistou prizes no Oscar, Globo de Oro e BAFTA. No Rotten Tomatoes have 100% approval.
5. Beasts of No Nation (2015)
This is a film by Cary Joji Fukunaga released in 2015. It goes to Africa and shows the harsh trajectory of Agu, a garoto who, apósficar orfão de pai, é forced to fight in a civil war in South Africa.
Besides its own atrocities of war, the film exhibits a psychological drama traced to the tone or theme of stolen childhood, showing the terrifying transformation of the protagonist into a soldier without scruples.
With positive reviews, mainly for the performances, it has long received some important awards and has a 91% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
6. The Destiny of a Nation (2018)
This is a story about Winston Churchill and behind the scenes of World War II. Joe Wright is assigned to direct and star and is lived by Gary Oldman.
The narrative shows the moment in which Churchill assumed the position of Prime Minister of Great Britain and the challenges that he faced in developing a peace treaty with Nazi Germany.
Gary Oldman won the Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe for Best Actor. Also, the production was also awarded in other important festivals.
7. Jojo Rabbit (2020)
Nessa comovente história, we accompany Jojo, a German boy living during the Second War.
The boy is 10 years old and has a fertile imagination. likewise, imagine Adolf Hitler as your friend, with whom he develops a close relationship.
Jojo clam is part of a nazist group, but everything is silent when he discovers that his mother harbors a Jewish girl in her house.
Directed by Taika Waititi, the film was nominated for six Oscar categories and won Best Adapted Film. No Rotten Tomatoes has an 80% approval rating.
8. Or Pianist (2002)
Or Pianist It is a film by Roman Polanski that portrays True story of the Polish musician Wladyslaw Szpilman.
He lived in Warsaw, in Poland, when the Nazi attacks took over his country, in 1939. Likewise, he testifies that his family and friends will be annihilated by the Germans and in a short time he fully realizes that he only needs to fight for survival. For this, he seeks shelter in abandoned properties in the city.
A comfortable film with a wonderful interpretation of Adrien Brody in the main role. Nominated for seven Oscars, I brought two statuettes home, as well as non-BAFTA awards and Palma de Ouro.
9. To Batalha of Algiers (1966)
To Batalha of Algiers It is an old war film that has become a classic. It is directed by Gillo Pontecorvo and it is a co-production between Algeria and Italy.
The plot takes place in Algeria and shows the events of the late 50s and beginning of the 60s during the Algerian War of Independence. Tracing real events, display in a brilliant manner or drama of the Algerian people fighting against the French occupation of the territory
The film was the winner of the Grand Prize of the Venice Festival, in addition to winning other important awards and being nominated for three Oscar categories.
10. Mad Max Road of Fury (2015)
Scientific fiction and action are the marks of this embarrassing film directed by George Miller and that happens in one dystopian future.
Next we see Max Rockatansky, a lonely man who ends up joining a group of rebels who cross the desert. The intention of them is to flee from the city in which they live, commanded by the tyrant Immortan, who starts a war to hunt them down.
Critically acclaimed, he won six no-Oscar categories in 2016.
11. The Game of Imitation (2014)
In this film directed by Morten Tyldum, we accompany a group of agents of the British government during the Second War that fears mission to decipher a secret code of the Nazi troops. The code was used to communicate with submarines.
The leader is an energetic young man with problems relating to others and, despite his intelligence, he will have to strive to establish an assertive and empathetic communication with the team if they want to be successful missão.
Bem aceito pela critique, o longa recebeu o Oscar de Melhor Roteiro Adaptado em 2015.
12. 300 (2006)
War films that were shown in antiquity are also very inciting.
Directed by Zack Snyder, 300 They have as background the Battle of Thermopylae, which occurred during the Persian Wars. We show you the plot Spartans, commanded by King Leônidas, against the Persians, under the command of Xerxes, lived by Rodrigo Santoro.
A success of bilheteria, the long won several prizes and stood out for its visual effects.
13. To Schindler's List (1993)
This exciting production narrates Oskar Schindler true story, a German donated from a factory and member of the Nazi Party.
Pretending to be on the side of two Nazis in World War II, he manages, together with his wife Emilie Schindler, to save the lives of more than a thousand Jewish people. The strategy was to hide them in his factory.
Based on the book Schindler's Ark, from 1982, the film directed by Steven Spielberg and was a success, awarded in seven Oscar categories in 1994, as well as at BAFTA and Golden Globe.
14. A Story of Love and Fury (2013)
This incredible Brazilian animation by Luiz Bolognesi achieves to present you some important conflicts that occurred in Brazil Since the invasion, two Portuguese in burying indigenous people have been fighting for water in a dystopian future.
Here we accompany the trajectory of a man who lives for 600 years - incarnating in various ways - and fights among the indigenous people, after the Balaiada, in Maranhão, will continue to face a military regime and, in the future, will participate in a war for water.
Well received by the public and by critics, it was nominated for the Oscar for Melhor Animação in 2014.
15. Rome, Open City (1945)
em Rome, Open City, directed by Italian Roberto Rossellini, we accompanied a group of people during the Nazi occupation in Rome, in 1944.
One of two revolutionaries, Giorgio Manfredi, has been close to the Nazis and can help other people to hide. Over time it became a reference to Italian cinema, drawing a neorealist approach.
Awarded at the Cannes Film Festival, he also received an Oscar nomination.
16. Tumulus two Vagalumes (1988)
esse classic of japanese animation é um dos mais comoventes films on war já feitos. It was launched in 1988 and directed by Isao Takahata.
The story is inspired by a story of the same name from 1967, which recounts some experiences of its writer, Akiyuki Nosaka.
The plot takes place in Kobe, not Japan. Nela we witnessed trajectory of two soldiers who fight to escape from the barbarism of the Second War.
The reception of this exquisite work was very positive and does not present Rotten Tomatoes 100% approval.
17. Brave Heart (1995)
Mel Gibson directs and atua nesse film of medieval war past in the thirteenth century.
The newly married William Wallace sees his life transformed when, on his first night next to his wife, the English soldiers assassinate the young man.
Revolted, the Scotsman initiates a plan of revenge and leads a group of men to fight against the English King Edward I, which begins a battle for the freedom of Scotland.
The film, critically and publicly acclaimed, received five Oscar statuettes, including Best Film and Best Direction.
18. Olga (2004)
The life of Olga Benário, German communist militant of Jewish origin, is portrayed in a Brazilian production directed by Jayme Monjardim.
Olga is persecuted by the Nazis and, to take refuge in Moscow, prepares herself militarily. She receives the mission to accompany and protect the Brazilian revolutionary Luiz Carlos Prestes on his return to Brazil.
During the trip the two of them fell apart. Later, in Brazil, Olga is pregnant for 7 months and then sent to Germany by the government of Getúlio Vargas.
The approval tax of Olga no site Rotten Tomatoes is 91%.
19. The Rescue of Private Ryan (1998)
Winner in five Oscar categories in 1999, including Best Film, The rescue of Private Ryan, directed by Steven Spielberg, tells an episode of the Second War. HE passed in Normandy, on June 6, 1944, date that was known as "D-Day".
The narrative shows Captain Miller, lived by Tom Hanks, in an important mission to save the life of one of his soldiers.
Considered innovative, this production entered the US National Film Registry for being an important cultural and historical work.
20. Life is beautiful (1997)
This is a beautiful Italian film about the Second World War, we see the dedication of a country to try to transform the cruel reality of two concentration camps in a kind of "jumper" for his son.
Using his imagination, Guido (Roberto Benigni), creates a new scenario for Giosué, seeking to protect the two Nazi traumas and horrors.
Directed by Roberto Benigni, the long was highly acclaimed and won the Oscar de Melhor Filme Estrangeiro in 1999.
21. Lawrence da Arabia (1962)
This production was made for the United Kingdom and the United States and was directed by David Lean and was inspired by the life of T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935).
Passed during to World War I, shows episodes in which Lawrence helped the Arabs in the fight against the Turkish invasions.
The film was highly praised, becoming an epic classic of adventure and war with a strong biographical character. No Rotten Tomatoes has a 94% approval rating.
22. spartacus (1960)
Directed by Stanley Kubrick, this epic of North American cinema was based on the romance of the same name, by Howard Fast, published in 1951.
Spartacus, enslaved from birth by the Roman Empire, is sentenced to death, but sees his fate change when he is saved by Batiatus, a gladiator trainer.
likewise, he He becomes a gladiator and ends up leading a slave revolt against or empire
Launched in 1960, it received four Oscar statuettes the following year.
23. Gloria Feita de Sangue (1958)
The First World War is portrayed in this film by Stanley Kubrick and starring Kirk Dlouglas.
Paul Mireau is a French general who, in an insane decision, orders his soldiers to carry out a suicide attack against the Germans. Colonel Dax then buys the brigade as a general, which results in a tense clash.
The long-length film is well-accepted by critics and has a 96% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
24. Carlitos in the trenches (1918)
As original title of Shoulder ArmsThis is one of the first productions by Charles Chaplin, released in 1918.
The film is a review World War I and shows the story of a soldier who ends up recognized as a hero and receives a daring mission to combat the enemies.
Humorously, Chaplin manages to draw a serious issue for the screens of cinema at a time when these issues were not addressed in this way.
25. Apocalypse Now (1979)
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, this classic from the end of the 1970s addresses Vietnam War. With strong images of attacks on innocents and destruction of nature, the film can be seen as a denunciation of barbarism.
The plot shows Captain Benjamin Willard, an American officer on a mission to exterminate an enemy.
Apocalypse Now He received many awards, including the Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe.
26. Troia (2004)
Assassinated by director Wolfgang Petersen, it is a co-production between the USA, Malta and the United Kingdom. troia It happens in 1193 a. c. and shows to legendary Tróia War, started after Paris kidnapped Helen from her husband Menelau.
Traz Brad Pitt was not cast and was nominated for the category of best figure at the Oscar of 2005.
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