10 Best Military War Movies

From peacetime to the frontlines, from returning home to being abandoned: we present to you the top-reviewed best war movies of all time.

War has an impact on our history, present, and future. That is why it continues to thrill filmmakers and moviegoers alike. War stories show the genuine essence of humanity during its darkest hours. A war film might be passionately humanitarian, revolutionary, or critical of the leaders who lead us into warfare.

The 10 best military movies ever filmed are listed here below. It contains several classics as well as a few non-traditional picks to widen your ideas of what a war movie may be like.

10 Best War Movies

Hollywood is naturally filled with war films meant to both inspire and educate. So lets dive in to the best of movies about military and war.

American Sniper

American Sniper is our number one in the list of best war movies to watch, it tells a story about Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper), a U.S. Navy SEAL, who takes his single responsibility to defend his friends to heart and becomes one of the most lethal snipers in American history. Not only does his perfect precision save numerous lives, but it also makes him a hot target for militants. Kyle conducts four tours of service in Iraq, despite considerable risk and his effort to be a decent husband and father to his family back home. Nevertheless, when he goes home, he discovers that he is unable to leave the battle behind.

Lone Survivor

Navy SEALs Marcus Luttrell (Mark Wahlberg), Michael Murphy (Taylor Kitsch), Danny Dietz (Emile Hirsch), and Matthew “Axe” Axelson (Ben Foster) travel to Afghanistan in 2005 on a reconnaissance operation to assassinate Taliban commander Ahmad Shah. Despite being seen by goatherds, Luttrell and his squad decide not to kill them.

Nevertheless, one of the Afghans notifies a group of Taliban fighters about the invaders, resulting in a brutal confrontation in which the SEALs were badly outnumbered and outgunned. Lone Survivor is a very captivating war movie.

Fury

Fury is one of the best in military movies. In Fury, the Allies are making their final drive in the European theater in April 1945. Don “Wardaddy” Collier (Brad Pitt), a battle-hardened Army sergeant, leads a Sherman tank and a five-man crew on a dangerous mission inside enemy lines. Wardaddy and his soldiers confront incredible odds as they attempt to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany, despite being hopelessly outnumbered, outgunned, and commanded by an inexperienced soldier (Logan Lehrman).

Land Of Mine

In the best war movies we have Land of Mine which leverages an often-overlooked chapter from World War II’s aftermath to deliver a hard-hitting narrative whose period setting conceals its timeless reflections about bloodshed and redemption.

Editor’s Recommended

Hacksaw Ridge

Hacksaw Ridge is a war movie that tells a true story of Pfc. Desmond T. Doss (Andrew Garfield) who received the Congressional Medal of Honor despite declining to use guns during WWII for religious reasons.

Doss was recruited and ridiculed by his fellow troops for his antiwar attitude, but he went on to win respect and affection for his bravery, generosity, and compassion after risking his life to save 75 men in the Battle of Okinawa without firing a shot. One of the best war movies you shouldn’t miss.

Inglourious Basterds

It marks the beginning of Germany’s occupation of France. Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) gathers a group of Jewish troops to perform violent acts of retaliation against the Nazis, including the removal of their scalps.

He and his soldiers join up with Bridget von Hammersmark, a German actress and undercover operative, to bring down the leaders of the Third Reich. Their paths cross with theater owner Shosanna Dreyfus, who is out to avenge the Nazis’ killing of her family. A fascinating war movie to watch to get a glimpse of both brutality and comedy.

Restrepo

In this unnarrated war movie about a US unit in Afghanistan, photographer Tim Hetherington and reporter Sebastian Junger let the facts of combat speak for themselves. The troops of Second Platoon, Battle Company, 173rd Airborne Brigade are close to the point of exhaustion after months of alternating idleness and combat. The squad names an outpost in the distant Korengal Valley after doctor Juan “Doc” Restrepo when he died.

Eye in the Sky

Col. Katherine Powell, a military commander in charge of a counter-terrorism operation in Kenya, finds her duty intensify when a girl enters the kill zone, sparking a worldwide debate over the consequences of modern warfare.

All Quiet on the Western Front

This is an English-language war movie (produced in the United States) based on a novel by German author Erich Maria Remarque. The film depicts a group of German schoolboys who are persuaded to enlist at the start of World War One by their strong nationalistic instructor.

The story is recounted solely through the eyes of young German recruits, highlighting the sorrow of war through the eyes of humans. When the boys watch murder and mutilation all around them, any notions they had about “the enemy” and the conflict’s “rights and wrongs” fade away, leaving them outraged and confused.

This is demonstrated in a scenario in which Paul brutally wounds a French soldier and then weeps bitterly as he struggles for his life while trapped in a shell crater with the body. The film is about miseries and hopelessness, as well as the gap between the notion of battle and its reality. A must watch for military movies lovers!

Dunkirk

Germany pushed into France in May 1940, trapping British forces on the beaches of Dunkirk. Troops were carefully and systematically evacuated from the beach under air and ground cover from British and French forces, utilizing every suitable naval and civilian vessel that could be located. In this war movie, 330,000 French, British, Belgian, and Dutch men were successfully evacuated at the end of this heroic operation.

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