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The English Patient (film)
The English Patient (1996) is Anthony Minghella's adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize novel, produced by Saul Zaentz with Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche; it won nine Oscars including Best Picture.
The Fifth Seal
The Fifth Seal (Az ötödik pecsét) is Zoltán Fábri's 1976 Hungarian war drama, adapted from Ferenc Sánta's novel, in which five men in 1944 Budapest face a tyrant-or-slave moral dilemma under Arrow Cross rule; it won the 1977 Moscow Golden Prize.
The Fortune Code (富贵兵团)
The Fortune Code (富貴兵團, Code of Fortune) is a 1989/1990 Hong Kong Lunar New Year action comedy directed by Kent Cheng, written by Wong Jing and Barry Wong, about agents rescuing the 'God of Wealth' who holds a Swiss-bank password for US$400,000 in resistance funds.
The Great Escape (film)
The Great Escape (1963) is John Sturges' United Artists war drama adapted from Paul Brickhill's book about the 76-man March 1944 breakout from Stalag Luft III, starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough, famous for McQueen's fictional motorcycle fence jump.
The Green Berets (film)
The Green Berets is a 1968 American war film directed by John Wayne and Ray Kellogg, based on Robin Moore's novel, which portrays U.S. Special Forces in Vietnam.
The Heroes of Telemark
The Heroes of Telemark is a 1965 British war film directed by Anthony Mann, starring Kirk Douglas and Richard Harris, dramatizing the Norwegian Operation Gunnerside sabotage of the Vemork heavy water plant.
The Heroic Ones (十三太保)
The Heroic Ones (十三太保) is a 1970 Shaw Brothers martial-arts film directed by Chang Cheh with David Chiang and Ti Lung, about Li Keyong's thirteen adopted sons destroyed by Zhu Wen's scheming; it earned HK$1,395,310 in Hong Kong.
The Inglorious Bastards
The Inglorious Bastards is the English title of Quel maledetto treno blindato, a 1977 Italian war film by Enzo G. Castellari starring Bo Svenson and Fred Williamson, the title source for Tarantino's 2009 Inglourious Basterds.
The Sand Pebbles (film)
The Sand Pebbles (1966) is Robert Wise's epic war drama, adapted from Richard McKenna's novel, starring Steve McQueen as gunboat machinist Jake Holman on China's Yangtze River in 1926; eight Oscar nominations, $30 million gross.
The Sea Wolves
The Sea Wolves (1980), directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, is a war film based on James Leasor's Boarding Party about Operation Creek, the 1943 Calcutta Light Horse raid on German radio ships in neutral Goa, starring Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, and David Niven.
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
The Secret of Santa Vittoria is Stanley Kramer's 1969 comedy-drama, based on Robert Crichton's bestseller, in which Anthony Quinn's mayor hides a million bottles of wine from occupying Germans; it won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy.
The Shop on Main Street
The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze), 1965 Czechoslovak film by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos; carpenter becomes Aryan controller of a Jewish widow's shop in 1942 Slovakia; first Eastern European Oscar winner, Best Foreign Language Film.
The Taebaek Mountains (태백산맥)
The Taebaek Mountains (태백산맥) is Im Kwon-taek's 1994 film adapting Jo Jung-rae's ten-volume novel about left-right conflict from liberation to the Korean War; it passed censorship amid bomb threats, drew 500,000 Seoul admissions, and competed at Berlin 1995.
The Thin Red Line (1998 film)
The Thin Red Line (1998) is Terrence Malick's war film adapted from James Jones's 1962 Guadalcanal novel, starring Sean Penn, Jim Caviezel, and Nick Nolte; Golden Bear winner with seven Oscar nominations, compared with Saving Private Ryan.
The Wild Geese
The Wild Geese is a 1978 British action film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, starring Richard Burton, Roger Moore, and Richard Harris as mercenaries hired to rescue a deposed African president, based on Daniel Carney's novel and advisor Mad Mike Hoare, re-released in 4K in 2025.
They Fought for Their Country (Они сражались за Родину)
They Fought for Their Country (Они сражались за Родину) is a 1975 Mosfilm two-part war drama by Sergei Bondarchuk, adapted from Sholokhov's unfinished novel, depicting a Soviet regiment's July 1942 retreat fighting toward Stalingrad; it drew 40.6 million viewers and won Karlovy Vary and RSFSR State Prize honors.
Von Ryan's Express
Von Ryan's Express is a 1965 Twentieth Century-Fox World War II film directed by Mark Robson, starring Frank Sinatra as Colonel Ryan leading Allied POWs' train escape from Italy, adapted from David Westheimer's 1964 novel.
War and Peace (film series)
War and Peace (Война и мир) is Sergei Bondarchuk's four-part 1965–1967 Mosfilm adaptation of Tolstoy's novel, the most expensive Soviet film, Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, distinct from the 1956 Vidor, 1972 BBC, and 2016 BBC versions.
Welcome to Sarajevo
Welcome to Sarajevo is a 1997 war drama by Michael Winterbottom, written by Frank Cottrell Boyce from Michael Nicholson's book Natasha's Story, starring Stephen Dillane and Woody Harrelson as journalists in the 1992 siege of Sarajevo; it competed at Cannes 1997 and grossed $334,319.
Where Eagles Dare
Where Eagles Dare (1968) is a British-American WWII espionage film directed by Brian G. Hutton, written by Alistair MacLean, starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood as commandos rescuing a general from the Alpine Schloss Adler.
Wreaths at the Foot of the Mountain (高山下的花环)
Wreaths at the Foot of the Mountain (高山下的花环) is Xie Jin's 1984 Shanghai Film Studio war drama adapted from Li Cunbao's novella about the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War; it won Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers awards and drew 150 million admissions.
Years of Embers
Years of Embers (وقائع سنين الجمر, also rendered Chronicle of the Years of Fire) is a 1974 Algerian film by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina tracing the roots of the Algerian Revolution; it won the 1975 Palme d'Or.
Zulu (1964 film)
Zulu (1964) is Cy Endfield's British epic war film about the 1879 defence of Rorke's Drift, starring Stanley Baker and Michael Caine, scored by John Barry, shot in Technirama in apartheid South Africa, and a major British box office hit.
Zulu Dawn
Zulu Dawn (1979), directed by Douglas Hickox and written by Cy Endfield and Anthony Story, is a prequel to Zulu (1964) depicting the British defeat by the Zulu army at the Battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, starring Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole, and John Mills.