From peacetime to frontlines, from coming home to left behind: Rotten Tomatoes presents the 100 best-reviewed war movies of all time, ranked by Certified Fresh films first.

The war movies on this list are ranked according to their success (awards & nominations), their popularity, and their cinematic greatness from a directing/writing perspective.

Best War Movies of All Time Movies with war plot in any form (dramas, action and adventures, post-war dramas, anti-war films, war comedies, civil wars, historical epics, militaristic films, historical conflicts, guerrilla warfare, e.t.c.) and other movies with wartime background or sub-plot.

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For this list, we’ve compiled films that span the historical and fictional gamut, from both World Wars, to Vietnam, to the so-called War on Terror, to imaginary interplanetary conflict.

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Jan 26, 2024 · Experience epic battles of courage, conflict, and profound human stories on the front lines of cinema's top war movies of all time.

Nov 22, 2024 · Great war movies ask viewers to consider and understand the actual experience of war. Here we ranked the 50 best, including the new Steve McQueen movie ‘Blitz.’

Jun 29, 2023 · This diverse collection of classic films about people in conflict are worthy of being called the 100 best war movies ever made.

Dec 22, 2023 · It’s because of this that today, we’re here to honor the best war movies that make up the canon, from movies about Pearl Harbor and Vietnam to great films about World War I …