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What War Movies to Watch Right Now

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1. Lawrence of Arabia (re-release)

Sep 20, 2002 • Rated PG

The 40th anniversary re-release of David Lean's 1962 masterpiece, starring Peter O'Toole in one of the most electrifying debuts in film history.

2. Casablanca

Jan 23, 1943 • Rated PG

A Casablanca, Morocco casino owner in 1941 shelters his former lover and her husband, a Czechoslovakian freedom fighter, from the Nazis.

3. Army of Shadows

Apr 28, 2006 • Rated Not Rated

Making its U.S. debut, Jean-Pierre Melville's 1969 Army of Shadows is an intimate epic of the French Resistance in WWII.

4. Pan's Labyrinth

Dec 29, 2006 • Rated R

Following a bloody civil war, young Ofelia enters a world of unimaginable cruelty when she moves in with her new stepfather, a tyrannical military officer. Armed with only her imagination, Ofelia discovers a mysterious labyrinth and meets a faun who sets her on a path to saving herself and her ailing mother. But soon, the lines between fantasy and reality begin to blur, and before Ofelia can turn back, she finds herself at the center of a ferocious battle between good and evil. [Warner Bros.]

5. Ran

Dec 20, 1985 • Rated R

An adaptation of William Shakespeare’s King Lear, Ran considers the disastrous consequences of Lord Hidetora Ichimonji’s (Tatsuya Nakadai) decision to split his kingdom among his three sons.

6. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Jan 29, 1964 • Rated Approved

Through a series of military and political accidents, a psychotic general - U.S. Air Force Commander Jack D. Ripper (Hayden) - triggers an ingenious, irrevocable scheme to attack Russia's strategic targets with nuclear bombs. The U.S. President (Sellers) and Dr. Strangelove (Sellers), a wheelchair-bound nuclear scientist who has bizarre ideas about man's future, work with the Soviet premier in a desperate effort to save the world.

7. Quo Vadis, Aida?

Mar 5, 2021 • Rated Approved

Bosnia, July 11th 1995. Aida is a translator for the United Nations in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations Aida has access to crucial information that she needs to interpret. What is at the horizon for her family and people - rescue or death? Which move should she take? [Super LTD]

8. Gone with the Wind

Jan 17, 1940 • Rated Approved

A Southern belle struggles with the devastation of the Civil War and Reconstruction. This classic won 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

9. Battleship Potemkin

Dec 5, 1926 • Rated TV-14

In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.

10. The Battle of Algiers

Jan 9, 2004 • Rated Not Rated

The Battle of Algiers re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafés, and French soldiers resort to torture to break the will of the insurgents. Shot on the streets of Algiers in documentary style, the film is a case study in modern warfare, with its terrorist attacks and the brutal techniques used to combat them.

11. The Hurt Locker

Jun 26, 2009 • Rated R

When a new sergeant, James (Jeremy Renner), takes over a highly trained bomb disposal team amidst violent conflict, he surprises his two subordinates, Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) and Eldridge (Brian Geraghty), by recklessly plunging them into a deadly game of urban combat. James behaves as if he's indifferent to death. As the men struggle to control their wild new leader, the city explodes into chaos, and James' true character reveals itself in a way that will change each man forever. [Summit Entertainment]

12. Zero Dark Thirty

Dec 19, 2012 • Rated R

For a decade, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the globe, devoted themselves to a single goal: to find and eliminate Osama bin Laden. [Columbia Pictures]

13. Dunkirk

Jul 21, 2017 • Rated PG-13

Dunkirk opens as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces. Trapped on the beach with their backs to the sea they face an impossible situation as the enemy closes in. [Warner Bros.]

14. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

Jul 26, 1989 • Rated Not Rated

A young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.

15. Apocalypse Now

Aug 15, 1979 • Rated R

During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.

16. Chimes at Midnight

Mar 17, 1967 • Rated Not Rated

The career of Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff (Orson Welles) as a roistering companion to young Prince Hal (Keith Baxter), circa 1400 to 1413.

17. The Best Years of Our Lives

Dec 25, 1946 • Rated Approved

Three World War II veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.

18. Platoon

Dec 19, 1986 • Rated R

A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

19. Apocalypse Now: Final Cut

Aug 15, 2019 • Rated R

Francis Ford Coppola's masterful 1979 Vietnam War epic was previously expanded in 2001 into Apocalypse Now Redux by adding back 49 minutes of excised footage. This 2019 version of the film clocks in midway between the two prior releases by including just some of that added footage. In addition, the entire film has been remastered in 4K.

20. Timbuktu

Jan 28, 2015 • Rated PG-13

Not far from Timbuktu, now ruled by the religious fundamentalists, Kidane lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima, his daughter Toya, and Issan, their twelve-year-old shepherd. In town, the people suffer, powerless, from the regime of terror imposed by the Jihadists determined to control their faith. Music, laughter, cigarettes, even soccer have been banned. The women have become shadows but resist with dignity. Every day, the new improvised courts issue tragic and absurd sentences. Kidane and his family are being spared the chaos that prevails in Timbuktu. But their destiny changes when Kidane accidentally kills Amadou, the fisherman who slaughtered his beloved cow. He now has to face the new laws of the foreign occupants.

21. Little Women

Nov 24, 1933 • Rated Passed

A chronicle of the lives of a group of sisters growing up in nineteenth-century America.

22. The Act of Killing

Jul 19, 2013 • Rated Not Rated

A documentary in which former Indonesian death squad leaders reenact their real-life mass-killings in various cinematic genres.

23. The Man Who Would Be King

Dec 16, 1975 • Rated PG

Two British former soldiers decide to set themselves up as Kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great.

24. Son of Saul

Dec 18, 2015 • Rated R

October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the corpse of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child’s body from the flames, find a rabbi to recite the mourner’s Kaddish and offer the boy a proper burial.

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