Home / Movies / Best War Movies The 25 best war movies, ranked by critics Ranked by Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Tomatometer), then Metacritic score. Only movies with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 70% or higher make the list. Scores as recorded in Wikidata.
1 Rotten Tomatoes 100% · Metacritic 83
Directed by Mstyslav Chernov
2 Rotten Tomatoes 98% · Metacritic 95
Directed by Steven Spielberg
3 Das Boot 1981
Rotten Tomatoes 98% · Metacritic 85
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen
4 Rotten Tomatoes 97% · Metacritic 95
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
5 Ran 1985
Ran (1985) Rotten Tomatoes 96% · Metacritic 97
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
6 Rotten Tomatoes 96% · Metacritic 91
Directed by László Nemes
7 Pan's Labyrinth 2006
Rotten Tomatoes 95% · Metacritic 98
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
8 Rotten Tomatoes 95% · Metacritic 85
Directed by Roman Polanski
9 Rotten Tomatoes 95% · Metacritic 78
Directed by Edward Zwick
10 Rotten Tomatoes 94% · Metacritic 91
Directed by Steven Spielberg
11 Rotten Tomatoes 94% · Metacritic 82
Directed by Matt Reeves
12 Rotten Tomatoes 93% · Metacritic 92
Directed by Jonathan Glazer
13 Aliens 1986
Rotten Tomatoes 93% · Metacritic 84
Directed by James Cameron
14 Rotten Tomatoes 93% · Metacritic 84
Directed by Danis Tanović
15 Rotten Tomatoes 93% · Metacritic 76
Directed by Patty Jenkins
16 Dunkirk 2017
Rotten Tomatoes 92% · Metacritic 94
Directed by Christopher Nolan
17 Patton 1970
Rotten Tomatoes 92% · Metacritic 86
Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
18 Zero Dark Thirty 2012
Rotten Tomatoes 91% · Metacritic 95
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
19 Apocalypse Now 1979
Rotten Tomatoes 91% · Metacritic 94
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
20 Rotten Tomatoes 91% · Metacritic 89
Directed by Clint Eastwood
21 Bridge of Spies 2015
Rotten Tomatoes 91% · Metacritic 81
Directed by Steven Spielberg
22 Rotten Tomatoes 91% · Metacritic 81
Directed by Andrzej Wajda
23 Lincoln 2012
Rotten Tomatoes 90% · Metacritic 87
Directed by Steven Spielberg
24 Downfall 2004
Rotten Tomatoes 90% · Metacritic 82
Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel
25 Rotten Tomatoes 90% · Metacritic 78
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
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