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One and Eight
One and Eight (一个和八个, Yige he bage), 1983 Chinese war film by Zhang Junzhao, first work of the Fifth Generation, based on Guo Xiaochuan's 1957 poem, shot by Zhang Yimou, censored and released 1984.
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing is a 1942 British black-and-white war film, the first made under The Archers by Powell and Pressburger, about an RAF bomber crew smuggled home from occupied Holland by the Dutch resistance.
Platoon (film)
Platoon (1986) is Oliver Stone's Vietnam War film, based on his 1967-68 infantry service, starring Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, and Willem Dafoe; it won four Oscars including Best Picture and grossed $137.9 million.
Play Dirty (1969 film)
Play Dirty (1969) is a British war film directed by André de Toth, starring Michael Caine and Nigel Davenport as officers leading a criminal patrol to destroy a Nazi fuel depot in WWII North Africa; de Toth's final film, a box-office loss later reappraised.
Pork Chop Hill (1959 film)
Pork Chop Hill (1959) is Lewis Milestone's Korean War drama starring Gregory Peck as Lt. Joe Clemons, based on S.L.A. Marshall's book about the April 1953 battle during Panmunjom truce talks, released by United Artists.
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Lepa sela lepo gore) is a 1996 Serbian war drama by Srđan Dragojević about Serb soldiers trapped in a Bosnian tunnel, based on a true 1992 incident, Serbia's 1996 Oscar candidate.
PT 109 (film)
PT 109 (1963) is a Warner Bros. war drama directed by Leslie H. Martinson, starring Cliff Robertson as Lt. John F. Kennedy; the first theatrical film about a sitting U.S. president, released June 19, 1963.
Railway Guerrilla
Railway Guerrilla (铁道游击队) is a 1956 Shanghai Film Studio war film directed by Zhao Ming, adapted from Liu Zhixia's 1954 novel about the real Lunan Railway Brigade raiding Japanese trains in Shandong; famous for its song 'Playing My Beloved Tu Pipa'.
Ran (乱) (film)
Ran (乱, 'chaos') is Akira Kurosawa's 1985 France–Japan epic transposing King Lear to Sengoku Japan, starring Tatsuya Nakadai; his most expensive Japanese film, with Takemitsu's score, painted storyboards, and a 2015 4K restoration.
Red Angel (赤い天使)
Red Angel (赤い天使, Akai tenshi) is Masumura Yasuzo's 1966 Daiei black-and-white war drama, adapted from Arima Yoriyoshi's novel, starring Ayako Wakao as nurse Sakura Nishi in 1939 China; released October 1, 1966, 95 minutes, R-rated.
Red Cherry (红樱桃)
Red Cherry (红樱桃, Hong ying tao) is a 1995 Chinese war drama directed by Ye Daying about Chinese orphans in WWII Soviet Russia; China's biggest 1995 domestic hit, Golden Rooster Best Picture, based partly on Zhu Min.
Red Sorghum (红高粱)
Red Sorghum (红高粱) is Zhang Yimou's 1987 directorial debut, adapted from Mo Yan's novellas, starring Gong Li and Jiang Wen; it won the 1988 Berlin Golden Bear, the first top A-festival prize for a Chinese director.
Run Silent, Run Deep
Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) is a Robert Wise WWII submarine drama starring Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster, adapted from Edward L. Beach's 1955 novel, premiered aboard USS Perch.
Sahara (1943 film)
Sahara (1943) is a Columbia Pictures World War II film directed by Zoltan Korda, starring Humphrey Bogart as tank commander Sgt. Joe Gunn defending a desert well; based on The Thirteen and MacDonald's Patrol, remade in 1953 and 1995.
Salvador (film)
Salvador (1986) is Oliver Stone's drama, co-written with photojournalist Richard Boyle, about a burned-out American reporter (James Woods) in El Salvador's civil war; two Oscar nominations, $4.5M budget, Hemdale production.
Sands of Iwo Jima
Sands of Iwo Jima (Heltene fra Iwo Jima) is a 1949 Republic Pictures war film directed by Allan Dwan, starring John Wayne as Sergeant Stryker; shot at Camp Pendleton with Marine cooperation, it earned four Oscar nominations and nearly $4 million in domestic rentals.
Sanjuro (椿三十郎)
Sanjuro (椿三十郎, Tsubaki Sanjuro) is Akira Kurosawa's 1962 Toho samurai film, a sequel to Yojimbo starring Toshiro Mifune and Tatsuya Nakadai, famous for its brief final duel and blood-spray ending.
Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan (1998) is Steven Spielberg's World War II drama starring Tom Hanks and Matt Damon, written by Robert Rodat, famous for its Omaha Beach opening and winner of five Oscars including Best Director.
Savior (film)
Savior (Serbian: Spasitelj) is a 1998 American war drama directed by Predrag Antonijevic, starring Dennis Quaid as Joshua Rose, an American mercenary for Serb forces in Bosnia, with Nastassja Kinski, Stellan Skarsgard, and Natasa Ninkovic; produced by Oliver Stone, it grossed only about $14,328.
Seven Beauties
Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze) is Lina Wertmüller's 1975 Italian comedy-drama starring Giancarlo Giannini as a Neapolitan survivor of Fascism and a Nazi camp; it earned four Oscar nominations, making Wertmüller the first woman nominated for Best Director.
Shame (1968 film)
Shame (Skammen) is Ingmar Bergman's 1968 Swedish black-and-white antiwar drama starring Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow as musicians caught in a civil war on a Baltic island.
Shangganling (上甘岭)
Shangganling (上甘岭, Battle on Shangganling Mountain) is a 1956 Changchun Film Studio war film directed by Sha Meng and Lin Shan, the first Chinese feature film on the Korean War, famous for the song "My Motherland" and its 2020 4K restoration.
So Proudly We Hail!
So Proudly We Hail! (1943) is a Paramount World War II drama directed by Mark Sandrich, starring Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, and Veronica Lake as Army nurses on Bataan and Corregidor, with four Oscar nominations.
Spartacus (film)
Spartacus (1960): Stanley Kubrick epic starring and produced by Kirk Douglas, from Howard Fast's novel, scripted by blacklisted Dalton Trumbo; $12 million, four Oscars, blacklist-breaking credit, 1991 restoration.
The 300 Spartans
The 300 Spartans is a 1962 Rudolph Maté epic for Twentieth Century-Fox starring Richard Egan as Leonidas at Thermopylae; shot on location in Greece, it inspired Frank Miller's graphic novel 300.
The 7th Dawn
The 7th Dawn (第七の暁) is a 1964 Lewis Gilbert adventure drama starring William Holden, Capucine, Susannah York, and Tetsuro Tamba, adapted from Michael Keon's novel The Durian Tree and set during the Malayan Emergency.
The Alamo (1960 film)
The Alamo (1960) is John Wayne's only film as director, an epic Western in which he stars as Davy Crockett. Budgeted at $7.5 million but costing $12 million, it earned six Oscar nominations, winning Best Sound.
The Americanization of Emily
The Americanization of Emily is a 1964 black-and-white satirical anti-war romantic comedy directed by Arthur Hiller, written by Paddy Chayefsky from William Bradford Huie's novel, starring James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas, and James Coburn, released by MGM.
The Ascent (Восхождение)
The Ascent (Восхождение) is Larisa Shepitko's 1976 Soviet black-and-white war drama based on Vasil Bykov's novella Sotnikov, about two captured partisans in 1942 Belorussia; it won the 1977 Berlin Golden Bear, the only Soviet film to do so.
The Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge is Ken Annakin's 1965 Cinerama war film, released by Warner Bros. December 16, 1965, starring Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, and Robert Ryan, filmed in Spain and widely criticized for historical inaccuracy.