Best war biopics - Charts
Best war biopics
1. The Pianist (2002)
France / Poland, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Roman Polański
Cast: Adrien Brody, Emilia Fox
2. Braveheart (1995)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Mel Gibson
Cast: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau
3. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
UK / USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Terry George
Cast: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo
4. Persepolis (2007)
France / USA, Animation / Drama
Directed by: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
UK, Adventure / War
Directed by: David Lean
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness
6. Waltz with Bashir (2008)
Israel / France, Animation / Documentary
Directed by: Ari Folman
Cast: Ari Folman, אורי סיון
7. Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
Australia / USA, Biography / War
Directed by: Mel Gibson
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Vince Vaughn
10. Spartacus (1960)
USA, War / Historical
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier
11. Downfall (2004)
Germany / Austria, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara
13. El Cid (1961)
Italy / USA, Romance / War
Directed by: Anthony Mann
Cast: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren
14. The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: George Stevens
Cast: Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut
15. Michael Collins (1996)
UK / Ireland, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Neil Jordan
Cast: Ian Hart, Julia Roberts
16. Korczak (1990)
Poland / Germany, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Wojciech Pszoniak, Ewa Dalkowska
17. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
Germany, Drama / War
Directed by: Marc Rothemund
Cast: Julia Jentsch, Alexander Held
18. Patton (1970)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast: George C. Scott, Karl Malden
19. Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
USA, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Barry Levinson
Cast: Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker
20. Heaven & Earth (1993)
USA / France, Drama / War
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Cast: Hiep Thi Le, Tommy Lee Jones
22. The King (2019)
UK / Hungary, Drama / Historical
Directed by: David Michôd
Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Joel Edgerton
23. Run Boy Run (2013)
Germany / France, Drama / War
Directed by: Pepe Danquart
Cast: Andrzej Tkacz, Kamil Tkacz
24. Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Cast: Tom Cruise, Willem Dafoe
25. Henry V (1989)
UK, Historical / Drama
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Derek Jacobi, Kenneth Branagh
26. The Wind Rises (2013)
Japan, Animation / War
Directed by: Hayao Miyazaki
Cast: Hideaki Anno, Miori Takimoto
27. The Goebbels Experiment (2005)
Germany / UK, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Lutz Hachmeister
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Udo Samel
28. Anthropoid (2016)
UK / Czech Republic, Historical / Thriller
Directed by: Sean Ellis
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan
29. Salvador (1986)
USA / UK, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Cast: James Woods, Jim Belushi
31. American Sniper (2014)
USA, Biography / Action
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller
32. Cromwell (1970)
UK, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Ken Hughes
Cast: Richard Harris, Alec Guinness
33. Abel Gance's Napoleon (1927)
France / Czechoslovakia, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Abel Gance
Cast: Albert Dieudonné, Antonin Artaud
34. Darkest Hour (2017)
USA / UK, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Joe Wright
Cast: Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas
35. Lone Survivor (2013)
USA, War / Biography
Directed by: Peter Berg
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch
36. The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
USA, War / Drama
Directed by: William A. Wellman
Cast: Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum
37. Goodbye, Children (1987)
France / West Germany, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Louis Malle
Cast: Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö
38. Outlaw King (2018)
UK / USA, Action / Drama
Directed by: David Mackenzie
Cast: Chris Pine, Aaron Taylor-Johnson
39. Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
UK, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast: Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman
40. Lion of the Desert (1981)
Libya / USA, War / Drama
Directed by: Moustapha Akkad
Cast: Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed
41. Viva Zapata! (1952)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Cast: Marlon Brando, Jean Peters
43. Testament of Youth (2014)
UK, Drama / Biography
Directed by: James Kent
Cast: Alicia Vikander, Taron Egerton
44. Man of War (2008)
Norway / Germany, War / Historical
Directed by: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
Cast: Aksel Hennie, Agnes Kittelsen
46. The Sun Behind the Moon (2001)
Iran / France, Drama / War
Directed by: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Cast: Nelofer Pazira, Hassan Tantai
47. Megan Leavey (2017)
USA, Biography / Drama
Directed by: Gabriela Cowperthwaite
Cast: Kate Mara, Tom Felton
48. Broken Promise (2009)
Slovakia / Czech Republic, Drama / War
Directed by: Jiří Chlumský
Cast: Samuel Spišák, Peter Oszlík
49. Heroes of War (2007)
China / Hong Kong, War / Drama
Directed by: Xiaogang Feng
Cast: Hanyu Zhang, Chao Deng
50. Unbroken (2014)
USA, War / Biography
Directed by: Angelina Jolie
Cast: Jack O'Connell, Domhnall Gleeson
51. The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France (1944)
UK, Drama / War
Directed by: Laurence Olivier
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Leslie Banks
52. John Rabe (2009)
France / China, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Florian Gallenberger
Cast: Ulrich Tukur, Daniel Brühl
53. Admiral Yamamoto (2011)
Japan, Biography / Historical
Directed by: 成島出
Cast: Kōji Yakusho, Hiroshi Tamaki
54. Velikij polkovoděc Georgij Žukov (1995)
Russia, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Yuriy Ozerov
Cast: Fritz Diez, Mikhail Ulyanov
55. V2. Escape from Hell (2021)
Russia, Biography / War
Directed by: Тимур Бекмамбетов, Sergey Trofimov
Cast: Pavel Priluchnyy, Pavel Chinaryov
56. Reach for the Sky (1956)
UK, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Lewis Gilbert
Cast: Kenneth More, Muriel Pavlow
57. The Soul Keeper (2002)
Italy / France, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Roberto Faenza
Cast: Iain Glen, Emilia Fox
58. Battle for Sevastopol (2015)
Russia / Ukraine, Biography / Drama
Directed by: Сергей Мокрицкий
Cast: Yulia Peresild, Evgeniy Tsyganov
59. The Railway Man (2013)
Australia / UK, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Jonathan Teplitzky
Cast: Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman
60. A Hidden Life (2019)
USA / UK, Drama / War
Directed by: Terrence Malick
Cast: August Diehl, Valerie Pachner
61. The Sullivans (1944)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Anne Baxter, Thomas Mitchell
62. Heart of Fire (2008)
Germany / Italy, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Luigi Falorni
Cast: Letekidan Micael, Solomie Micael
65. Mussolini: Ultimo atto (1974)
Italy, Biography / Drama
Directed by: Carlo Lizzani
Cast: Rod Steiger, Franco Nero
66. Kilo Two Bravo (2014)
UK, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Paul Katis
Cast: Mark Stanley, Malachi Kirby
67. Behold a Pale Horse (1964)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Fred Zinnemann
Cast: Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn
68. The Silent Enemy (1958)
UK, War / Action
Directed by: William Fairchild
Cast: Laurence Harvey, Dawn Addams
69. Che: Part One (2008)
Spain / France, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Julia Ormond
71. Spitfire (1942)
UK, Biography / Drama
Directed by: Leslie Howard
Cast: Leslie Howard, David Niven
72. Edith Stein: The Seventh Chamber (1996)
Hungary / Italy, Biography / Drama
Directed by: Márta Mészáros
73. Jinnah (1998)
UK / Pakistan, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Jamil Dehlavi
Cast: Christopher Lee, James Fox
74. The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Mark Robson
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Curd Jürgens
75. Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Roland Joffé
Cast: Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz
76. To Hell and Back (1955)
USA, War / Action
Directed by: Jesse Hibbs
Cast: Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson
77. Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977)
West Germany / France, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Cast: Harry Baer, Hellmut Lange
78. Lucie Aubrac (1997)
France, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Claude Berri
Cast: Carole Bouquet, Daniel Auteuil
79. A Woman in Berlin (2008)
Germany / Poland, Drama / War
Directed by: Max Färberböck
Cast: Nina Hoss, Evgeniy Sidikhin
80. Colette (2013)
Czech Republic / Slovakia, Biography / War
Directed by: Milan Cieslar
Cast: Clémence Thioly, Jiří Mádl
81. Operation Finale (2018)
USA, Biography / War
Directed by: Chris Weitz
Cast: Oscar Isaac, Ben Kingsley
84. Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan (2007)
Kazakhstan / Germany, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Sergey Bodrov
Cast: 浅野忠信, Амаду Мамадаков
85. The Night Overtake Me (1985)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / War
Directed by: Juraj Herz
Cast: Jana Dolanská, Jana Brejchová
86. Zoya (2020)
Russia, Biography / Adventure
Directed by: Leonid Plyaskin
Cast: Anastasiya Mishina, Wolfgang Cerny
87. The Desert Fox (1951)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Henry Hathaway
Cast: James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke
88. Napoleon (2023)
USA / UK, Historical / War
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby
89. Sergeant York (1941)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Howard Hawks
Cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan
90. The Puppetmaster (1993)
Taiwan, Drama / War
Directed by: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Cast: Giong Lim, Tien-lu Li
92. The Rising: Ballad Of Mangal Pandey (2005)
India, Drama / War
Directed by: Ketan Mehta
Cast: Aamir Khan, Rani Mukherjee
93. Hitler (1962)
USA, Biography / War
Directed by: Stuart Heisler
Cast: Richard Basehart, Cordula Trantow
94. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016)
USA, Biography / Comedy
Directed by: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Cast: Tina Fey, Margot Robbie
95. Attack from the Sea (1953)
Soviet Union, Biography / Drama
Directed by: Mikhail Romm
Cast: Ivan Pereverzev, Mikhail Nazvanov
96. A Call to Spy (2019)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Lydia Dean Pilcher
Cast: Sarah Megan Thomas, Stana Katic
97. Karl May (1974)
West Germany, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Cast: Helmut Käutner, Kristina Söderbaum
98. MacArthur (1977)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Gregory Peck, Nicolas Coster
99. Alexander (2004)
USA / Germany, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Cast: Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie
100. Joan of Arc (1948)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Victor Fleming
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer