Come and See (1985)

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Summary: A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

Release Date: July 10, 1987

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Writers: Stanley Kubrick

, Michael Herr

, Gustav Hasford

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: R

Production: Warner Bros., Natant, Stanley Kubrick Productions

Distributor: Warner Home Video, Creative Design, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 46,357,676

International: $ 1,151

They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)

Summary: A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.

Release Date: February 01, 2019

Genres: Documentary, History, War

Director: Peter Jackson

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: R

Production: House Productions, Trustees of the Imperial War Museum, London, WingNut Films

Distributor: Warner Bros.

Countries: United Kingdom, New Zealand

Language: English

Domestic: $ 17,956,913

International: $ 3,700,000

Don't Be a Sucker (1943)

Summary: Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States to recruit Nazi sympathizers from the ranks of American racists.

Release Date: July 04, 1943

Genres: History, Short, War

Runtime: 0 h 18 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: U.S. War Department

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Pictures, The Prelinger Archives

Country: United States

Language: English

Sisu (2022)

Summary: When an ex-soldier who discovers gold in the Lapland wilderness tries to take the loot into the city, German soldiers led by a brutal SS officer battle him.

Release Date: April 28, 2023

Genres: Action, War

Director: Jalmari Helander

Writer: Jalmari Helander

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: R

Production: Good Chaos, Stage 6 Films, Subzero Film Entertainment

Distributor: Lionsgate

Countries: Finland, United Kingdom, United States

Language: Finnish

Domestic: $ 7,265,622

International: $ 7,015,577

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Summary: A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.

Release Date: August 15, 1979

Genres: Drama, Mystery, War

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Writers: John Milius

, Francis Ford Coppola

, Michael Herr

Runtime: 2 h 27 min

MPAA: R

Production: American Zoetrope, Zoetrope Studios

Distributor: United Artists, Paramount Home Entertainment, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), MGM/UA Entertainment Company, MGM/UA Television Distribution, Philips, Miramax

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 31,500,000

Domestic: $ 96,042,913

International: $ 8,837,955

Casablanca (1942)

Summary: A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.

Release Date: January 23, 1943

Genres: Drama, Romance, War

Director: Michael Curtiz

Writers: Julius J. Epstein

, Howard Koch

, Murray Burnett

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Dominant Pictures Corporation, Associated Artists Productions (AAP), United Artists Television, VidAmerica, Magnetic Video, RCA (II), 20th Century Fox Video, MGM/UA Entertainment Company, CBS/Fox, Turner Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, TBS Superstation, Time-Life Video, The Criterion Collection, Warner Home Video, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 950,000

Domestic: $ 4,219,709

International: $ 500,440

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Summary: A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.

Release Date: June 21, 1930

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Lewis Milestone

Writers: Erich Maria Remarque

, Maxwell Anderson

, George Abbott

Runtime: 2 h 32 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Universal Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures

Distributor: Screen Gems, MCA Home Video, MCA/Universal Pictures, MCA/Universal Home Video, Universal Studios Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Universal Studios

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,200,000

Purple Sunset (2001)

Summary: A Soviet Russian lady officer, a Chinese peasant and a Japanese schoolgirl must walk their way out of a forest toward the end of World War II, despite their mutual distrust of one another.

Release Date: June 09, 2001

Genre: War

Director: Xiaoning Feng

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

Production: Beijing Forbidden City Film, Shanghai Paradise Film and Television Group

Country: China

Language: Chinese

Behind the Door (1919)

Summary: A German-American naval officer takes revenge against the German submarine commander who brutalized his wife.

Release Date: December 14, 1919

Genres: Drama, Thriller, War

Director: Irvin Willat

Writers: Gouverneur Morris

, Luther Reed

Runtime: 1 h 10 min

Production: Thomas H. Ince Corporation

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Flicker Alley

Country: United States

Language: English

Hitler: Beast of Berlin (1939)

Summary: Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With the aid of Gustav Schultz, Father Pommer, Anna Wahl and others, he is gleaning accurate information from foreign radio broadcasts a...

Release Date: October 08, 1939

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Sam Newfield

Writers: Shepard Traube

, Fred Myton

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Producers Pictures Corporation

Distributor: Producers Distributing Corporation (PDC) (III), Alpha Video Distributors, Sinister Cinema

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 100,000

Kelly's Heroes (1970)

Summary: A group of U.S. soldiers sneaks across enemy lines to get their hands on a secret stash of Nazi treasure.

Release Date: June 23, 1970

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, War

Director: Brian G. Hutton

Writer: Troy Kennedy-Martin

Runtime: 2 h 24 min

MPAA: GP

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Katzka-Loeb, Avala Film, The Warriors Company

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), CBS, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Countries: United States, Yugoslavia

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

Domestic: $ 5,200,000

The Dirty Dozen (1967)

Summary: During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.

Release Date: October 22, 1967

Genres: Action, Adventure, War

Director: Robert Aldrich

Writers: Nunnally Johnson

, Lukas Heller

, E.M. Nathanson

Runtime: 2 h 30 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), MKH, MKH, Seven Arts Productions

Distributor: CBS, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Creative Design, Warner Home Video, HBO Max

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,400,000

Best Defense (1984)

Summary: A military weapons engineer struggles to do his job responsibly, while a hapless tank commander has to live with the consequences in combat years later.

Release Date: July 20, 1984

Genres: Comedy, War

Director: Willard Huyck

Writers: Robert Grossbach

, Gloria Katz

, Willard Huyck

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: R

Production: Cinema Group Ventures, Paramount Pictures

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Paramount Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000

Domestic: $ 19,265,302

The More the Merrier (1943)

Summary: During the World War II housing shortage in Washington, two men and a woman share a single apartment and the older man plays Cupid to the other two.

Release Date: May 20, 1943

Genres: Comedy, Romance, War

Director: George Stevens

Writers: Robert Russell

, Frank Ross

, Richard Flournoy

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Columbia Pictures

Distributor: Screen Gems, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Private Benjamin (1980)

Summary: A sheltered young high-society woman joins the United States Army on a whim and finds herself in a trickier situation than she ever expected.

Release Date: October 10, 1980

Genres: Comedy, War

Director: Howard Zieff

Writers: Nancy Meyers

, Charles Shyer

, Harvey Miller

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: R

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Z Channel, Home Box Office (HBO), Movie Channel, ON-TV, Showtime Networks, CBS, HBO Max, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 9,500,000

Domestic: $ 69,847,348

The McConnell Story (1955)

Summary: A Korean War fighter pilot hero returns home to test fly the new Sabre jets despite his wife's uneasiness regarding his job.

Release Date: December 02, 1955

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Gordon Douglas

Writers: Ted Sherdeman

, Sam Rolfe

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 3,500,000

1941 (1979)

Summary: Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor.

Release Date: December 14, 1979

Genres: Action, Comedy, War

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writers: Robert Zemeckis

, Bob Gale

, John Milius

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Columbia Pictures, A-Team, A-Team

Distributor: Universal Pictures, DiscoVision, MCA Videodisc Inc., American Broadcasting Company (ABC), MCA/Universal Home Video, Universal Studios Home Video, Columbia TriStar Television

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 35,000,000

Domestic: $ 31,755,742

International: $ 60,700,000

The Passage (1979)

Summary: During World War II, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees while being pursued by a sadistic German.

Release Date: May 11, 1979

Genres: Action, Drama, War

Director: J. Lee Thompson

Writers: Bruce Nicolaysen

, Stephen Oliver

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: R

Production: Hemdale, Passage Films, Passage Films, Monday Films, Monday Films

Distributor: CBS, Viacom, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Scorpion Releasing

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,101,186