292 articles
The Flowers of War (金陵十三钗)
The Flowers of War (金陵十三钗) is Zhang Yimou's 2011 war drama adapted from Yan Geling's novel about courtesans shielding schoolgirls during the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, starring Christian Bale, China's 2011 box-office champion and Oscar submission.
The Forgotten Battle
The Forgotten Battle (De slag om de Schelde) is a 2020 Dutch-Belgian WWII drama by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. about three young people during the Battle of the Scheldt, 1944; a €14 million Netflix hit and Golden Calf winner.
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 Founding of an Army (建军大业)
The Founding of an Army (建军大业), 2017 Chinese historical drama directed by Andrew Lau, third of the founding trilogy; depicts the 1927 Nanchang Uprising and PLA founding, starring Liu Ye, Zhu Yawen, Ou Hao; 133 minutes, released 27 July 2017.
The Four Feathers (2002 film)
The Four Feathers (2002) is Shekhar Kapur's sixth film adaptation of A.E.W. Mason's 1902 novel, starring Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Kate Hudson, and Djimon Hounsou; a $80 million Paramount/Miramax epic that grossed $18.3M in the US.
The Front Line (고지전)
The Front Line (고지전) is a 2011 South Korean war film directed by Jang Hun, set in 1953 during the final phase of Korean War armistice negotiations.
The Great Battle (안시성) (film)
The Great Battle (안시성) is a 2018 South Korean action historical film by Kim Kwang-sik about the 88-day siege of Ansi Fortress in 645 AD, starring Zo In-sung as Yang Man-chun; it drew about 5.44 million admissions, ranking second among 2018 Korean films.
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 Greatest Beer Run Ever
The Greatest Beer Run Ever is a 2022 Peter Farrelly comedy-drama on Apple TV+, starring Zac Efron, Russell Crowe, and Bill Murray, based on John "Chickie" Donohue's 2020 memoir about delivering Pabst Blue Ribbon to friends in 1967 Vietnam.
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 Monuments Men
The Monuments Men is a 2014 American war drama directed by George Clooney, based on Robert M. Edsel's book, following Allied art experts rescuing works stolen by the Nazis.
The Outpost (2020 film)
The Outpost (2020) is a Rod Lurie war film adapted from Jake Tapper's 2012 book, dramatizing the Battle of Kamdesh at Combat Outpost Keating, Afghanistan, starring Scott Eastwood, Orlando Bloom, and Caleb Landry Jones; released on VOD July 3, 2020.
The Patriot (2000 film)
The Patriot (2000) is a Roland Emmerich Revolutionary War drama written by Robert Rodat, starring Mel Gibson as Benjamin Martin and Heath Ledger as Gabriel, released June 28, 2000, grossing $113.3M US, and noted for its historical-accuracy controversies.
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.