Channel 4 compiled a list of the 100 best war films from votes made by viewers. The list will make you wonder what classifies as a war film, for example Schindler’s List while depicting the horrors of the holocaust does not show the actual World War 2 conflict between the German and Allied forces. Foreign language cinema gets little representation as masterpieces such as The Grand Illusion, Ran and Come and See are all outside the top 60.
1. Saving Private Ryan
2. Apocalypse Now (1979)
3. The Great Escape
4. Schindler’s List
5. Full Metal Jacket
6. Platoon
7. A Bridge Too Far
8. Zulu
9. Black Hawk Down
10. The Bridge On The River Kwai
11. The Dam Busters
12. The Deer Hunter
13. Braveheart
14. The Guns Of Navarone
15. The Killing Fields
16. The Thin Red Line
17. Das Boot
18. Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
19. Born On The Fourth Of July (1989)
20. The Longest Day (1962)
21. Where Eagles Dare (1968)
22. M*A*S*H (1974)
23. Paths Of Glory (1957)
24. Gladiator (2000)
25. Spartacus (1960)
26. Ice Cold In Alex (1958)
27. The Dirty Dozen (1967)
28. Enemy At The Gates (2001)
29. Battle Of Britain (1969)
30. Casablanca (1942)
31. Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
32. The Pianist (2002)
33. All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
34. Kelly’s Heroes (1970)
35. The Last Of The Mohicans (1992)
36. Henry V (1944)
37. Cross Of Iron (1977)
38. Salvador (1986)
39. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
40. Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)
41. The Cruel Sea (1953)
42. Catch 22 (1970)
43. Empire Of The Sun (1987)
44. Patton (1970)
45. 633 Squadron (1964)
46. Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World (2003)
47. A Matter Of Life And Death (1946)
48. Gallipoli (1981)
49. Carve Her Name With Pride (1958)
50. Three Kings (1999)
51. A Town Like Alice (1956)
52. Hope And Glory (1987)
53. Troy (2004)
54. From Here To Eternity (1953)
55. Casualties Of War (1989)
56. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
57. In Which We Serve (1942)
58. Stalingrad (1993)
59. Reach For The Sky (1956)
60. The English Patient (1996) 61. The Grand Illusion (1937)
62. Ran (1985)
63. When The Wind Blows (1986)
64. The Battle Of Algiers (1965)
65. The General (1927)
66. Enigma (2001)
67. Napoleon (1927)
68. Glory (1989)
69. Went The Day Well? (1942)
70. Oh! What A Lovely War (1969)
71. Come And See (1986)
72. The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp (1943)
73. Ride With The Devil (1999)
74. Alexander Nevsky (1938)
75. Gone With The Wind (1939)
76. Sands Of Iwo Jima (1949)
77. The Charge Of The Light Brigade (1936)
78. Breaker Morant (1980)
79. Mrs Miniver (1942)
80. Land And Freedom (1995)
81. Love And Death (1975)
82. No Man’s Land (2001)
83. Cromwell (1970)
84. The Caine Mutiny (1954)
85. To Be Or Not To Be (1942)
86. El Cid (1961)
87. Rome, Open City (1945)
88. Memphis Belle (1990)
89. Von Ryan’s Express (1965)
90. Regeneration (1997)
91. Hell In The Pacific (1968)
92. The Birth Of A Nation (1915)
93. Europa, Europa (1990)
94. The Colditz Story (1955)
95. Welcome To Sarajevo (1997)
96. Cold Mountain (2003)
97. Lacombe Lucien (1974)
98. The Big Red One (1980)
99. The Eagle Has Landed (1977)
100. Rambo: First Blood, Part II (1985)