Classic War Movies
# Enemy at the Gates
Year: 2001 | Country: US
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Cast: Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins
Synopsis
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
# Dunkirk
Year: 2017 | Country: GB
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Fionn Whitehead, Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy
Synopsis
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
# Life Is Beautiful
Year: 1997 | Country: IT
Director: Roberto Benigni
Cast: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano, Sergio Bini Bustric
Synopsis
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.
# 1917
Year: 2019 | Country: IN
Director: Sam Mendes
Cast: George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Mark Strong, Andrew Scott, Richard Madden
Synopsis
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.
# Black Hawk Down
Year: 2001 | Country: GB
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Eric Bana, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore, William Fichtner
Synopsis
When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground.
# Hacksaw Ridge
Year: 2016 | Country: Australia, China, United Kingdom, United States of America
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Synopsis
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional
# All Quiet on the Western Front
Year: 2022 | Country: DE
Director: Edward Berger
Cast: Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Aaron Hilmer, Moritz Klaus, Adrian Grünewald
Synopsis
Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
# Full Metal Jacket
Year: 1987 | Country: GB
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood
Synopsis
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
# Apocalypse Now
Year: 1979 | Country: US
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Albert Hall, Frederic Forrest, Laurence Fishburne
Synopsis
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
# Saving Private Ryan
Year: 1998 | Country: United States of America
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Vin Diesel, Tom Sizemore, Barry Pepper
Synopsis
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating
# Schindler's List
Year: 1993 | Country: United States of America
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall
Synopsis
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.