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93 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
54855 votes

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Summary: British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.

Release Date: December 14, 1957

Genres: Adventure, Drama, War

Director: David Lean

Writers: Pierre Boulle

, Carl Foreman

, Michael Wilson

Runtime: 2 h 41 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Horizon Pictures (II)

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, RCA (II), RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Domestic: $ 27,200,000

International: $ 530

93 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
16118 votes

Farewell My Concubine (1993)

Summary: Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.

Release Date: October 15, 1993

Genres: Drama, Romance, Music

Director: Kaige Chen

Writers: Pik-Wah Lee

, Wei Lu

Runtime: 2 h 51 min

MPAA: R

Production: Beijing Film Studio, Tomson Films, China Film Co-Production Corporation

Countries: China, Hong Kong

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

Domestic: $ 5,549,086

International: $ 1,897,998

91 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
3243 votes

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)

Summary: A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.

Release Date: September 20, 1985

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Paul Schrader

Writers: Paul Schrader

, Leonard Schrader

, Chieko Schrader

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: R

Production: Zoetrope Studios, Filmlink International, Lucasfilm, M Company, Toho Film (Eiga) Co. Ltd., Tristone Entertainment Inc.

Distributor: Warner Bros., The Criterion Collection

Countries: United States, Japan

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 437,547

International: $ 132,449

90 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
60396 votes

Empire of the Sun (1987)

Summary: A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II.

Release Date: December 25, 1987

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writers: Tom Stoppard

, J.G. Ballard

, Menno Meyjes

Runtime: 2 h 33 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Amblin Entertainment, Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Warner Home Video, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 35,000,000

Domestic: $ 22,238,696

International: $ 425

88 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
5298 votes

Nanking (2007)

Summary: Through readings of historical account by actors and the testimony of survivors, the events of the Nanjing Massacre are recounted.

Release Date: July 03, 2007

Genres: Biography, History, War

Directors: Bill Guttentag

, Dan Sturman

Writers: Bill Guttentag

, Dan Sturman

, Elisabeth Bentley

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: R

Production: HBO Documentary Films, Purple Mountain Productions, HBO Documentary

Distributor: THINKFilm

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 161,182

International: $ 1,405,066

86 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
341191 votes

Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

Summary: The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

Release Date: February 02, 2007

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Clint Eastwood

Writers: Iris Yamashita

, Paul Haggis

, Tadamichi Kuribayashi

Runtime: 2 h 21 min

MPAA: R

Production: Dreamworks Pictures, Warner Bros., Malpaso Productions, Amblin Entertainment

Distributor: Warner Bros., Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 19,000,000

Domestic: $ 13,756,082

International: $ 54,917,146

86 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
3778 votes

City of Life and Death (2009)

Summary: In 1937, Japan occupied Nanjing, the Chinese capital. There was a battle and subsequent atrocities against the inhabitants, especially those who took refuge in the International Security Zone.

Release Date: April 22, 2009

Genres: Drama, History, War

Director: Chuan Lu

Writer: Chuan Lu

Runtime: 2 h 12 min

MPAA: R

Production: China Film Group Corporation (CFGC), Chuan Films, Jiangsu Broadcasting System

Countries: China, Hong Kong

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 122,558

International: $ 10,564,758

84 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
1452 votes

King Rat (1965)

Summary: Fast-talking wheeler-dealer Corporal King is stuck in a Malaysian P.O.W. camp during World War II and uses bribery and larceny to take de-facto control of the camp.

Release Date: October 27, 1965

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Bryan Forbes

Writers: James Clavell

, Bryan Forbes

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Coleytown

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Columbia Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

83 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
15360 votes

The Good the Bad the Weird (2008)

Summary: The story of two outlaws and a bounty hunter in 1940s Manchuria and their rivalry to possess a treasure map while being pursued by the Japanese army and Chinese bandits.

Release Date: July 17, 2008

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Director: Kim Jee-woon

Writers: Kim Jee-woon

, Min-suk Kim

Runtime: 2 h 10 min

MPAA: R

Production: Barunson E&A, CJ E&M Film Financing & Investment Entertainment & Comics, CJ Entertainment, Barunson E&A, CJ E&M Film Financing & Investment Entertainment & Comics, Grimm Pictures, Stone Comics Entertainment

Country: South Korea

Language: Korean

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 128,486

International: $ 44,132,723

80 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
148876 votes

The Thin Red Line (1998)

Summary: Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.

Release Date: January 15, 1999

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Terrence Malick

Writers: James Jones

, Terrence Malick

Runtime: 2 h 50 min

MPAA: R

Production: Fox 2000 Pictures, Geisler-Roberdeau, Phoenix Pictures

Distributor: The Criterion Collection, Tubi TV

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 52,000,000

Domestic: $ 36,400,491

International: $ 61,726,074

79 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
6573 votes

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)

Summary: During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.

Release Date: September 02, 1983

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Nagisa Ôshima

Writers: Lourens van der Post

, Nagisa Ôshima

, Paul Mayersberg

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: R

Production: National Film Trustee Company, Antares-Nova, Recorded Picture Company (RPC), Broadbank Investments

Distributor: Universal Pictures, Artisan Entertainment, Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, MCA Home Video, MCA/Universal Home Video

Countries: United Kingdom, New Zealand, Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 2,306,560

International: $ 46,780

79 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
47 votes

The Eight Hundred (2020)

Summary: In 1937, 800 Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.

Release Date: August 28, 2020

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Director: Guan Hu

Writers: Guan Hu

, Rui Ge

, Kun Hu

Runtime: 2 h 29 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Beijing Diqi Yinxiang Entertainment, Huayi Brothers Media, The Seventh Art Pictures, Tencent Pictures

Distributor: CMC Pictures, Look Film

Country: China

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 80,000,000

Domestic: $ 372,755

International: $ 461,048,804

77 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
992 votes

My Way (2011)

Summary: In World War II-era Korea, rival runners, one Korean (Jang Dong-gun) and one Japanese (Joe Odagiri), go to war together against the Soviets.

Release Date: December 22, 2011

Genres: Action, Drama, War

Director: Kang Je-kyu

Writers: Kang Je-kyu

, Justin Byung-in Kim

, Na-hyun Kim

Runtime: 2 h 17 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Directors, SK Planet, CJ Entertainment

Distributor: Well Go USA Entertainment, Tubi TV

Country: South Korea

Language: Korean

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000,000

Domestic: $ 70,177

International: $ 16,583,311

74 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
6847 votes

Shin Godzilla (2016)

Summary: Japan is plunged into chaos upon the appearance of a giant monster.

Release Date: July 29, 2016

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Directors: Hideaki Anno

, Shinji Higuchi

Writers: Hideaki Anno

, Ishirô Honda

, Takeo Murata

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Cine Bazar, Khara Corporation, Toho Company

Distributor: Crunchyroll, FUNimation Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Franchise: Godzilla

Domestic: $ 1,918,403

International: $ 76,134,742

74 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
912 votes

John Rabe (2009)

Summary: A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.

Release Date: April 02, 2009

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Florian Gallenberger

Writers: Florian Gallenberger

, John Rabe

, Erwin Wickert

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

Production: Odeon Fiction, EOS Entertainment, Majestic Filmproduktion, Canal+, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF), FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), France 2 Cinéma, Huayi Brothers & Taihe Film Investment, Lunaris Film, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Pampa Production, RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, Rai Cinema, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)

Distributor: Strand Releasing

Countries: France, China, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Belgium

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 67,519

International: $ 1,417,146

70 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
53488 votes

Unbroken (2014)

Summary: After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.

Release Date: December 25, 2014

Genres: Action, Drama, Biography

Director: Angelina Jolie

Writers: Joel Coen

, Ethan Coen

, Richard LaGravenese

Runtime: 2 h 17 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: 3 Arts Entertainment, Jolie Pas, Legendary Entertainment

Distributor: Universal Pictures, KVH Media Group

Countries: United States, Japan

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 65,000,000

Domestic: $ 115,637,895

International: $ 45,821,402

70 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
765 votes

The Great Raid (2005)

Summary: Taking place towards the end of WWII, 500 American Soldiers have been entrapped in a camp for 3 years. Beginning to give up hope they will ever be rescued, a group of Rangers goes on a dangerous mission to try and save them.

Release Date: August 12, 2005

Genres: Action, Drama, War

Director: John Dahl

Writers: William B. Breuer

, Hampton Sides

, Carlo Bernard

Runtime: 2 h 12 min

MPAA: R

Production: Miramax, Marty Katz Productions, Lawrence Bender Productions

Countries: United States, Australia

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 80,000,000

Domestic: $ 10,167,373

International: $ 610,002

69 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
268052 votes

Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

Summary: The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in World War II.

Release Date: October 20, 2006

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Clint Eastwood

Writers: William Broyles Jr.

, Paul Haggis

, James Bradley

Runtime: 2 h 15 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Dreamworks Pictures, Warner Bros., Amblin Entertainment, Malpaso Productions

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, HBO Max, Paramount Home Entertainment, Paramount+

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 90,000,000

Domestic: $ 33,602,376

International: $ 32,297,873

69 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
795 votes

Flying Tigers (1942)

Summary: Capt. Jim Gordon's command of the famed American volunteer fighter group in China is complicated by the recruitment of an old friend who is a reckless hotshot.

Release Date: October 08, 1942

Genres: Action, Drama, Romance

Director: David Miller

Writers: Kenneth Gamet

, Barry Trivers

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Republic Pictures (I), Polyphony Digital

Distributor: Republic Pictures (I), Hollywood Television Service, NTA Home Entertainment, Republic Pictures Home Video, Olive Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 3,270,000

67 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
2100 votes

Bataan (1943)

Summary: In 1942, in the Bataan peninsula of the Philippines, a ragtag American unit commanded by Sergeant Bill Dane attempts to blow-up a bridge in order to slow the Japanese advance.

Release Date: April 15, 1944

Genres: Action, Drama, War

Director: Tay Garnett