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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 Siege of Jadotville (film)
The Siege of Jadotville is a 2016 Richie Smyth war drama, a Netflix release starring Jamie Dornan as Commandant Pat Quinlan, depicting the 1961 siege of Ireland's A Company, 35th Battalion, in Katanga, based on Declan Power's book.
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 Sword: Rebirth of the Red Wolf
The Sword: Rebirth of the Red Wolf (칼: 고두막한의 검, Kal: Godumakhanui Geom) is a 2027 South Korean historical action film by Kim Han-min, starring Park Bo-gum as amnesiac slave-gladiator Chil-seong in 668 AD Goguryeo, set for summer 2027 release by Redice Entertainment.
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 Volunteers: The Battle of Life and Death
The Volunteers: The Battle of Life and Death (志愿军：存亡之战) is Chen Kaige's 2024 Chinese war film, second in his Korean War trilogy, dramatizing the 1951 Battle of Cheorwon; it earned RMB 1.206 billion and topped the 2024 National Day box office.
The Volunteers: To the War (志愿军：雄兵出击)
The Volunteers: To the War (志愿军：雄兵出击), also known as The Great War, is a 2023 Chen Kaige war film, first of the Volunteers trilogy, covering China's decision to enter the Korean War and the first and second campaigns, with about 868 million yuan box office.
The Warlords (投名状)
The Warlords (投名状, Tau ming chong) is Peter Chan's 2007 Chinese-Hong Kong war epic starring Jet Li, Andy Lau, and Takeshi Kaneshiro, based on the Qing-era assassination of general Ma Xinyi; it won 8 Hong Kong Film Awards.
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 Wind That Shakes the Barley (film)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley is Ken Loach's 2006 Palme d'Or-winning war drama starring Cillian Murphy and Pádraic Delaney as brothers divided by the Irish War of Independence and Civil War; Loach's biggest commercial success.
The Woman King
The Woman King is a 2022 American historical action epic directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, starring Viola Davis as General Nanisca, leader of Dahomey's all-female Agojie warriors in 1823.
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.
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).
Togo (film)
Togo (2019) is a Disney+ original adventure drama directed by Ericson Core, starring Willem Dafoe as musher Leonhard Seppala and his lead sled dog Togo during the 1925 serum run to Nome, Alaska; removed from Disney+ in 2024.
Tomorrow, When the War Began (film)
Tomorrow, When the War Began is a 2010 Australian action-adventure film directed by Stuart Beattie, adapted from John Marsden's novel about teenagers resisting an invasion of Australia.
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.
Turtles Can Fly
Turtles Can Fly (Lakposhtha hâm parvaz mikonand) is a 2004 Kurdish-language war drama by Iranian Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi, the first feature made in post-Saddam Iraq, set in a refugee camp before the 2003 US invasion and winner of San Sebastián's Golden Shell.
U-571 (film)
U-571 (2000) is a Jonathan Mostow submarine thriller starring Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, and Harvey Keitel, in which American sailors steal an Enigma machine from a German U-boat, a role historically played by the British.
Uprising (2024 film)
Uprising (전,란) is a 2024 South Korean action war film directed by Kim Sang-man, written by Shin Chul and Park Chan-wook, starring Gang Dong-won and Park Jeong-min as friends turned enemies during the Imjin War; released on Netflix October 11, 2024.
Uri: The Surgical Strike (उरी: द सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक)
Uri: The Surgical Strike (उरी: द सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक) is Aditya Dhar's 2019 Hindi war film on the 2016 Uri attack and India's cross-LoC strike, starring Vicky Kaushal; it earned about Rs 106.84 crore in ten days and four National Film Awards.