The Best War Movies Ever | Ranker 

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best movies about war, battles, and military conflicts. These films recreate some of the most significant events in world history from a variety of perspectives and with a variety of purposes and intentions. Some top war films attempt to recreate as realistically as possible the events that they depict, either from an omniscient perspective permitted by historical study or from the point of view of the soldiers and civilians involved in the conflict itself. Ridley Scott\'s Black Hawk Down, for example, was both praised in its time and heavily criticized for bringing a "you are there" sense of realism - and little outside or cultural perspective - to a recreation of the Battle of Mogadishu. The best war movies of all time differ widely in their handling of the subject matter, but they all strike a chord with viewers now and in the time when they came out.

Some of the greatest war films use war as a backdrop to look at larger issues - such as man\'s inhumanity to man or the crippling impact of post-traumatic stress - or just as a meditation on war itself. Still other films like Glory and Band of Brothers examine the personal drama of a few individuals, and mine it for larger insights about the meaning of war and the impact that violence has on individual human lives.

Finally, some war films - particularly those made during the classic Hollywood era - are simply adventure films with war providing a compelling setting and situation. The Great Escape, for example, remains a classic not because of its grand ideas about the nature of war, but because it is a ceaselessly entertaining spectacle. No matter what type of film, there\'s no denying that these are certainly the best war movies ever.

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Gerard Butler, Michael Fassbender, Lena Headey

George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Paul Frees

Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, James Garner

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Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken

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Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Pete Postlethwaite

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Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins, Robert Redford

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Evangeline Lilly, Ralph Fiennes, Jeremy Renner

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Olivia de Havilland, Gregory Peck, David Niven

John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, Richard Jaeckel

Michael Caine, Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins

Omar Sharif, Peter O\'Toole, Alec Guinness

Robert Duvall, Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould

George Clooney, John Travolta, Sean Penn

Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou, Richard Anderson

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