Best War Films of All Time (20th Anniversary)

Best War Film of All Time of All Time (20th Anniversary)

Winner

  • Gone with the Wind (1939)

Nominated

  • 1917 (2019)
  • American Sniper (2014)
  • Apocalypse Now (1979)
  • Casablanca (1942)
  • Cold Mountain (2003)
  • Darkest Hour (2017)
  • The Deer Hunter (1978)
  • Dunkirk (2017)
  • Empire of the Sun (1987)
  • Full Metal Jacket (1987)
  • The Hurt Locker (2008)
  • The Imitation Game (2014)
  • Inglourious Basterds (2009)
  • Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  • The Patriot (2000)
  • Platoon (1986)
  • Saving Private Ryan (1998)
  • The Thin Red Line (1998)
  • Unbroken (2014)

Best Film About the American Revolutionary War of All Time (20th Anniversary)

Winner

  • 1776 (1972)

Nominated

  • All for Liberty (2009)
  • America (1924)
  • The Crossing (2000)
  • The Devil’s Disciple (1959)
  • Don’t Wanna Slave No More (1997)
  • Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
  • John Paul Jones (1959)
  • Johnny Tremain (1957)
  • Lafayette (1962)
  • Mary Silliman’s War (1994)
  • The Patriot (2000)
  • The Scarlet Coat (1955)
  • Sleepy Hollow (1999)
  • The Time of Their Lives (1946)

Best Films About the American Civil War of All Time (20th Anniversary)

Winner

  • Lincoln (2012)

Nominated

  • Cold Mountain (2003)
  • Gangs of New York (2002)
  • The General (1926)
  • Gettysburg (1993)
  • Glory (1989)
  • Gods and Generals (2003)
  • Gone with the Wind (1939)
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
  • The Horse Soldiers (1959)
  • How the West Was Won (1962)
  • The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
  • The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
  • Ride with the Devil (1999)
  • Sommersby (1993)

Best Film About World War I of All Time (20th Anniversary)

Winner

  • 1917 (2019)

Nominated

  • All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
  • The Big Parade (1925)
  • A Farewell to Arms (1932)
  • Flyboys (2006)
  • Gallipoli (1981)
  • The Great Dictator (1940)
  • Journey’s End (2017)
  • Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  • The Lost Patrol (1934)
  • Mata Hari (1931)
  • Sargeant York (1941)
  • They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)
  • War Horse (2011)
  • Wings (1927)

Best Film About World War II of All Time (20th Anniversary)

Winner

  • Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Nominated

  • Atonement (2007)
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  • Casablanca (1942)
  • Darkest Hour (2017)
  • The Dirty Dozen (1967)
  • Dunkirk (2017)
  • Empire of the Sun (1987)
  • The English Patient (1996)
  • Europa Europa (1990)
  • From Here to Eternity (1953)
  • The Great Escape (1963)
  • The Imitation Game (2014)
  • The Inglorious Bastards (1978)
  • The Longest Day (1962)
  • Paragraph 175 (2000)
  • The Pianist (2002)
  • Schindler’s List (1993)
  • Sophie’s Choice (1982)
  • To Be or Not To Be (1983)

Best Films About the Korean War of All Time (20th Anniversary)

Winner

  • M*A*S*H (1970)

Nominated

  • The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954)
  • The Hook (1963)
  • The Long Way Home (2015)
  • MacArthur (1977)
  • The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
  • Men in War (1957)
  • Pork Chop Hill (1959)
  • The Steel Helmet (1951)
  • War Hunt (1962)

Best Films About the Vietnam War of All Time (20th Anniversary)

Winner

  • Hair (1979)

Nominated

  • Across the Universe (2007)
  • Apocalypse Now (1979)
  • Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
  • Coming Home (1978)
  • Da 5 Bloods (2020)
  • The Deer Hunter (1978)
  • Easy Rider (1969)
  • Full Metal Jacket (1987)
  • Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
  • Hamburger Hill (1987)
  • Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
  • The Killing Fields (1984)
  • Platoon (1986)
  • Swimming to Cambodia (1987)

Other Historical War Films of All Time (20th Anniversary)

Winner

  • A Tale of Two Cities (1958)

Nominated

  • 300 (2007)
  • Ben Hur (1959)
  • Cleopatra (1963)
  • The Devil’s Own (1997)
  • Doctor Zhivago (1965)
  • El Cid (1961)
  • Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
  • Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)
  • Fire Over England (1937)
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
  • Gladiator (2000)
  • Hotel Rwanda (2004)
  • The Killing Fields (1984)
  • The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
  • Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
  • Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
  • The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
  • Private Benjamin (1980)
  • Reds (1981)
  • Spartacus (1960)
  • Stripes (1981)
  • Taps (1981)
  • Troy (2004)
  • WarGames (1983)

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