Highest Rated War
Weighted toward critics
- 1
Lawrence of Arabia
1962 · David Lean
92.28/8 sources
- 2
Schindler's List
1993 · Steven Spielberg
92.18/8 sources
- 3
Come and See
1985 · Elem Klimov
91.46/8 sources
- 4
The Battle of Algiers
1966 · Gillo Pontecorvo
90.98/8 sources
- 5
Apocalypse Now
1979 · Francis Ford Coppola
90.88/8 sources
- 6
Grave of the Fireflies
1988 · Isao Takahata
90.58/8 sources
- 6
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964 · Stanley Kubrick
90.58/8 sources
- 8
Army of Shadows
1969 · Jean-Pierre Melville
90.08/8 sources
- 8
The General
1926 · Clyde Bruckman
90.07/8 sources
- 10
Pan's Labyrinth
2006 · Guillermo del Toro
89.87/8 sources
- 11
Paths of Glory
1957 · Stanley Kubrick
89.38/8 sources
- 12
Napoleon
1927 · Abel Gance
89.26/8 sources
- 13
Grand Illusion
1937 · Jean Renoir
88.97/8 sources
- 13
The Great Dictator
1940 · Charlie Chaplin
88.97/8 sources
- 15
Battleship Potemkin
1925 · Sergei Eisenstein
88.67/8 sources
- 16
Rome, Open City
1945 · Roberto Rossellini
88.36/8 sources
- 17
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959 · Masaki Kobayashi
88.06/8 sources
- 18
Saving Private Ryan
1998 · Steven Spielberg
87.68/8 sources
- 19
Quo Vadis, Aida?
2021 · Jasmila Žbanić
87.58/8 sources
- 20
Au Revoir les Enfants
1987 · Louis Malle
87.37/8 sources
- 21
All Quiet on the Western Front
1930 · Lewis Milestone
87.18/8 sources
- 22
Gone with the Wind
1939 · Victor Fleming
87.08/8 sources
- 23
Barry Lyndon
1975 · Stanley Kubrick
86.98/8 sources
- 24
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 · David Lean
86.78/8 sources
- 24
The Ascent
1977 · Larisa Shepitko
86.76/8 sources
- 26
Das Boot
1981 · Wolfgang Petersen
86.68/8 sources
- 26
The Deer Hunter
1978 · Michael Cimino
86.68/8 sources
- 26
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1943 · Emeric Pressburger
86.67/8 sources
- 29
To Be or Not to Be
1942 · Ernst Lubitsch
86.58/8 sources
- 29
The Pianist
2002 · Roman Polanski
86.58/8 sources
- 31
The Shop on Main Street
1965 · Ján Kadár
86.37/8 sources
- 32
Chimes at Midnight
1965 · Orson Welles
85.97/8 sources
- 33
Threads
1985 · Mick Jackson
85.67/8 sources
- 34
Forbidden Games
1952 · René Clément
85.36/8 sources
- 35
Ivan's Childhood
1962 · Andrei Tarkovsky
85.17/8 sources
- 35
Platoon
1986 · Oliver Stone
85.18/8 sources
- 37
To Live
1994 · Zhang Yimou
85.06/8 sources
- 38
Duck Soup
1933 · Leo McCarey
84.98/8 sources
- 39
The Great Escape
1963 · John Sturges
84.58/8 sources
- 40
Ballad of a Soldier
1959 · Grigoriy Chukhray
84.46/8 sources
- 41
Son of Saul
2015 · László Nemes
84.38/8 sources
- 42
The Cranes Are Flying
1957 · Mikhail Kalatozov
84.18/8 sources
- 43
Shame
1968 · Ingmar Bergman
83.66/8 sources
- 43
Incendies
2010 · Denis Villeneuve
83.68/8 sources
- 43
Dunkirk
2017 · Christopher Nolan
83.68/8 sources
- 43
Lacombe, Lucien
1974 · Louis Malle
83.67/8 sources
- 47
Letters from Iwo Jima
2006 · Clint Eastwood
83.48/8 sources
- 48
Full Metal Jacket
1987 · Stanley Kubrick
83.38/8 sources
- 49
The Hurt Locker
2008 · Kathryn Bigelow
83.28/8 sources
- 50
Ashes and Diamonds
1958 · Andrzej Wajda
82.97/8 sources
- 50
Kagemusha
1980 · Akira Kurosawa
82.98/8 sources
- 52
Underground
1995 · Emir Kusturica
82.78/8 sources
- 53
1917
2019 · Sam Mendes
82.58/8 sources
- 53
Alexander Nevsky
1938 · Sergei Eisenstein
82.56/8 sources
- 55
Patton
1970 · Franklin J. Schaffner
82.48/8 sources
- 55
No Man's Land
2001 · Danis Tanović
82.47/8 sources
- 55
Stalag 17
1953 · Billy Wilder
82.48/8 sources
- 58
Downfall
2004 · Oliver Hirschbiegel
82.28/8 sources
- 58
To Have and Have Not
1945 · Howard Hawks
82.28/8 sources
- 60
Timbuktu
2014 · Abderrahmane Sissako
82.18/8 sources
- 61
City of Life and Death
2009 · Lu Chuan
81.98/8 sources
- 62
The Train
1964 · John Frankenheimer
81.68/8 sources
- 63
Fail Safe
1964 · Sidney Lumet
81.47/8 sources
- 64
Macbeth
1971 · Roman Polanski
81.36/8 sources
- 64
Spartacus
1960 · Stanley Kubrick
81.38/8 sources
- 64
The Hill
1965 · Sidney Lumet
81.37/8 sources
- 67
Two Women
1960 · Vittorio De Sica
81.27/8 sources
- 68
The Search
1948 · Fred Zinnemann
81.06/8 sources
- 69
The Great War
1959 · Mario Monicelli
80.96/8 sources
- 69
The Killing Fields
1984 · Roland Joffé
80.97/8 sources
- 71
Paisan
1946 · Roberto Rossellini
80.86/8 sources
- 72
All Quiet on the Western Front
2022 · Edward Berger
80.67/8 sources
- 72
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
1944 · Preston Sturges
80.66/8 sources
- 74
Inglourious Basterds
2009 · Quentin Tarantino
80.58/8 sources
- 74
Henry V
1989 · Kenneth Branagh
80.57/8 sources
- 76
Hotel Rwanda
2004 · Terry George
80.48/8 sources
- 77
The Breadwinner
2017 · Nora Twomey
80.37/8 sources
- 78
M*A*S*H
1970 · Robert Altman
79.87/8 sources
- 79
Seven Beauties
1975 · Lina Wertmüller
79.76/8 sources
- 79
Bullet in the Head
1990 · John Woo
79.76/8 sources
- 81
From Here to Eternity
1953 · Fred Zinnemann
79.68/8 sources
- 81
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
2006 · Ken Loach
79.68/8 sources
- 83
Hope and Glory
1987 · John Boorman
79.56/8 sources
- 84
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2003 · Peter Weir
79.48/8 sources
- 85
Beasts of No Nation
2015 · Cary Joji Fukunaga
79.28/8 sources
- 85
Devils on the Doorstep
2001 · Jiang Wen
79.28/8 sources
- 87
The Thin Red Line
1998 · Terrence Malick
79.08/8 sources
- 88
In This Corner of the World
2016 · Sunao Katabuchi
78.97/8 sources
- 88
War for the Planet of the Apes
2017 · Matt Reeves
78.98/8 sources
- 90
Glory
1989 · Edward Zwick
78.88/8 sources
- 91
The English Patient
1996 · Anthony Minghella
78.68/8 sources
- 92
Shanghai Express
1932 · Josef von Sternberg
78.57/8 sources
- 92
Closely Watched Trains
1966 · Jiří Menzel
78.57/8 sources
- 94
Land and Freedom
1995 · Ken Loach
78.46/8 sources
- 95
They Were Expendable
1945 · John Ford
78.26/8 sources
- 95
A Hidden Life
2019 · Terrence Malick
78.28/8 sources
- 97
Beanpole
2019 · Kantemir Balagov
78.18/8 sources
- 98
Lifeboat
1944 · Alfred Hitchcock
78.08/8 sources
- 99
Zulu
1964 · Cy Endfield
77.97/8 sources
- 100
Kajaki
2014 · Paul Katis
77.87/8 sources