American war drama films

1942 film directed by Michael Curtiz

1993 film directed by Steven Spielberg

1939 film directed by Victor Fleming

Braveheart is a 1995 American epic historical war drama film directed and produced by Mel Gibson, who portrays Scottish warrior Sir William Wallace in the First War of Scottish Independence. The film also stars Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Catherine McCormack and Angus Macfadyen. The story is inspired by Blind Harry's 15th century epic poem The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace and was adapted for the screen by Randall Wallace.

1998 film directed by Steven Spielberg

1979 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola

Oppenheimer is a 2023 epic biographical thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. It follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who helped develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II. Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the film dramatizes Oppenheimer's studies, his direction of the Los Alamos Laboratory and his 1954 security hearing. Cillian Murphy stars as Oppenheimer, alongside Robert Downey Jr. as the United States Atomic Energy Commission member Lewis Strauss. The ensemble supporting cast includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh.

Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 black comedy war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It stars an ensemble cast including Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger, and Mélanie Laurent. The film tells an alternate history story of two converging plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's leadership at a Paris cinema—one through a British operation largely carried out by a team of Jewish American soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Pitt), and another by French Jewish cinema proprietor Shosanna Dreyfus (Laurent) who seeks to avenge her murdered family. Both are pitted against Hans Landa (Waltz), an SS colonel with a fearsome reputation.

1962 film directed by David Lean

2004 film by Wolfgang Petersen

1957 film directed by David Lean

1996 film directed by Anthony Minghella

2008 film directed by Kathryn Bigelow

2005 film by Ridley Scott

1986 film directed by Oliver Stone

2017 film by Christopher Nolan

1987 film by Stanley Kubrick

2014 film directed by Morten Tyldum

1978 film directed by Michael Cimino

1930 film directed by Lewis Milestone

1953 film by Fred Zinnemann

2019 film by Sam Mendes

2016 film directed by Mel Gibson

2004 film by Oliver Stone

1975 film directed by Stanley Kubrick

2012 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2001 film by Michael Bay

2014 film directed by Clint Eastwood

1998 film by Terrence Malick

1927 film by William A. Wellman, Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast

1970 film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner

2001 film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud

2005 film directed by Andrew Niccol

1987 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2006 film by Clint Eastwood

2011 film directed by Steven Spielberg

1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler

1942 film by William Wyler

2000 film directed by Roland Emmerich

2004 film directed by Antoine Fuqua

1997 film by Jean-Jacques Annaud

1992 film directed by Michael Mann

1963 American film by John Sturges

2008 film by Baz Luhrmann

2008 US-UK film directed by Mark Herman

1989 film directed by Oliver Stone

2003 film directed by Peter Weir

2023 film directed by Ridley Scott

2014 film by George Clooney

1943 film by Sam Wood

2014 film by Brian Percival

1989 film directed by Edward Zwick

1944 film by Howard Hawks

1971 film by Dalton Trumbo

2016 film by Robert Zemeckis

2001 film by John Moore

2004 film by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

2010 film by Lasse Hallström

2005 film directed by Sam Mendes

1956 film directed by King Vidor