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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 Great War (1959 film)
La grande guerra (The Great War) is Mario Monicelli's 1959 Italian-French war comedy-drama with Alberto Sordi and Vittorio Gassman, produced by Dino De Laurentiis; the first realistic Italian film on World War I, it shared the 1959 Venice Golden Lion-equivalent prize.
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 Guns of Navarone (film)
The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 J. Lee Thompson war film produced by blacklisted Carl Foreman from Alistair MacLean's novel, starring Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn as saboteurs destroying German guns on a fictional Aegean island; seven Oscar nominations, Best Special Effects win.
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 Horse Soldiers
The Horse Soldiers is John Ford's 1959 Civil War film starring John Wayne, William Holden, and Constance Towers, loosely based on Harold Sinclair's 1956 novel about Grierson's 1863 Mississippi cavalry raid and Newton Station.
The Human Condition I
The Human Condition I (人間の條件 第1・2部, No Greater Love) is Masaki Kobayashi's 1959 Shochiku war drama, first of six parts adapted from Junpei Gomikawa's novel, starring Tatsuya Nakadai as Kaji, a labor manager in wartime Manchuria; it won Venice's San Giorgio and Pasinetti prizes.
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (人間の條件 第1部純愛篇/第2部激怒篇)
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (人間の條件 第1部純愛篇/第2部激怒篇) is Masaki Kobayashi's 1959 Shochiku film, first installment of the six-part antiwar epic adapted from Junpei Gomikawa's novel, starring Tatsuya Nakadai as Kaji, a Manchurian mine labor supervisor conscripted after defying a military execution.
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (人間の条件 第三・四部) is Masaki Kobayashi's 1959 second installment of his six-part adaptation of Gomikawa Junpei's novel, following Kaji (Tatsuya Nakadai) through army brutality in Manchuria; 178 minutes, released 20 November 1959.
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 Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a 1943 British Technicolor film by Powell and Pressburger (The Archers), starring Roger Livesey, Anton Walbrook, and Deborah Kerr, about General Clive Wynne-Candy; Churchill tried to suppress it, and it is now ranked among the greatest British films.
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is a 1935 Paramount adventure film directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, and Richard Cromwell as British officers in colonial India; seven Oscar nominations, one win.
The Longest Day (film)
The Longest Day (1962), Darryl F. Zanuck's black-and-white D-Day epic based on Cornelius Ryan's book, directed by Annakin, Marton, and Wicki, starring John Wayne; two Oscars, biggest hit of 1962.
The Lost Patrol
The Lost Patrol (1934) is John Ford's RKO pre-Code war film, remaking Philip MacDonald's novel Patrol, starring Victor McLaglen and Boris Karloff, with a Max Steiner score later reused in Casablanca.
The Purple Heart
The Purple Heart is a 1944 Twentieth Century-Fox war drama directed by Lewis Milestone, starring Dana Andrews, dramatizing the fictional trial of captured Doolittle Raid fliers, made against a War Department atrocity-film ban.
The Red Detachment of Women (红色娘子军)
The Red Detachment of Women (红色娘子军) is a 1961 color feature by director Xie Jin, written by Liang Xin for Tianma Film Studio, starring Zhu Xijuan as Wu Qionghua; it won the first Hundred Flowers Best Feature Film award and inspired the 1964 model ballet.
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 Steel Helmet
The Steel Helmet (1951) is Samuel Fuller's Korean War film, the first American feature about that war, made for $104,000 in ten days, starring Gene Evans and James Edwards, and controversial for its treatment of racism and war crimes.
The Story of G.I. Joe
The Story of G.I. Joe (1945), also released as G.I. Joe, is William Wellman's war drama based on Ernie Pyle's Here Is Your War and Brave Men, starring Burgess Meredith and Robert Mitchum, a four-time Oscar nominee and 2009 National Film Registry selection.
The Sullivans (1944 film)
The Sullivans, retitled The Fighting Sullivans, is Lloyd Bacon's 1944 Twentieth Century-Fox drama about the five Sullivan brothers killed aboard USS Juneau at Guadalcanal, which changed Navy sibling-assignment policy and inspired Saving Private Ryan.
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 Way Ahead
The Way Ahead (1944), aka The Immortal Battalion, is a Carol Reed British war film starring David Niven, written by Eric Ambler and Peter Ustinov, expanded from the Army training film The New Lot, following conscripts trained and deployed to North Africa.
The Way to the Stars
The Way to the Stars (1945), also released as Johnny in the Clouds, is a British war drama directed by Anthony Asquith from a Terence Rattigan screenplay, starring Michael Redgrave and John Mills at an RAF bomber base from 1940 onward.
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.
The Wooden Horse
The Wooden Horse (1950) is a British black-and-white POW escape film directed by Jack Lee, adapted by Eric Williams from his novel about the real Stalag Luft III tunnel escape hidden under a vaulting horse, starring Leo Genn, David Tomlinson, and Anthony Steel.