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The Young Lions
The Young Lions (1958) is Edward Dmytryk's Twentieth Century-Fox WWII drama adapted from Irwin Shaw's 1948 novel, starring Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and Dean Martin as three soldiers, one German and two Americans, converging at a concentration camp.
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.
They Were Expendable
They Were Expendable: 1945 John Ford MGM war film, from William L. White's book, starring Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed as PT-boat crews defending the Philippines, 1941-1942.
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is MGM's 1944 Mervyn LeRoy war drama starring Spencer Tracy and Van Johnson, adapted from Doolittle Raider Ted Lawson's book, with a Special Effects Oscar and Dalton Trumbo screenplay.
To Hell and Back (film)
To Hell and Back (1955) is a Universal biographical war film directed by Jesse Hibbs in which Audie Murphy plays himself, based on his 1949 autobiography; it was Universal's most profitable release until Jaws (1975).
Tunes of Glory
Tunes of Glory is a 1960 Ronald Neame drama adapted by James Kennaway from his 1956 novel, starring Alec Guinness as Jock Sinclair and John Mills as Basil Barrow in a peacetime Scottish regimental power struggle, Oscar-nominated for screenplay and York's film debut.
Vámonos con Pancho Villa!
¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa! (Let's Go with Pancho Villa!) is Fernando de Fuentes's 1935 Mexican film, third of his Revolution Trilogy, about peasants who join Villa's División del Norte and are destroyed, with a censored ending restored in 1973.
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.
Wake Island (1942 film)
Wake Island (1942) is a John Farrow Paramount war film with Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, and William Bendix, dramatizing the December 1941 defense of Wake Atoll; it earned four Oscar nominations and founded the WWII combat film genre.
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.
Yesterday's Enemy
Yesterday's Enemy (昨日の敵) is a 1959 Hammer war film directed by Val Guest, starring Stanley Baker as Captain Langford, who executes hostages in Burma to extract intelligence, and was nominated for four BAFTAs.
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.