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72 Best War Movies To Watch

Welcome to Dongmakgol (2005)

8.1

Soldiers find and protect a slice of paradise in this surreal, heartfelt war comedy

The Forgotten Battle (2021)

7.0

The battle to win a supply port brings three lives to intertwine in this intense war drama

Timbuktu (2014)

7.4

A skillful, stunning depiction of the absurdities of occupation

City of Life and Death (2009)

7.8

A harrowing, in-depth depiction of one of the world’s worst wartime atrocities

Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)

8.5

Louis Malle remembers his heartbreaking childhood in this poignant period drama

They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)

7.8

Technique and historical wonder go hand in hand in Peter Jackson’s mesmerizing portrait of world war

Monos (2019)

8.0

Apocalypse Now on magic mushrooms

Incendies (2011)

9.9

Part melodrama, part war thriller, Incendies is gorgeous and heartbreaking from the first scene

Threads (1984)

8.5

The viscerally chilling Threads is the kind of film you only watch once

Cold War (2018)

9.2

A quiet Polish masterpiece with ravishing music and dazzling visuals

Quo Vadis Aida? (2020)

8.2

A difficult and alarmingly timely portrayal of the Srebrenica massacre

Farha (2021)

8.0

A brutal coming-of-age film set at the start of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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