English-language war films

Avatar is a 2009 epic science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron. It features an ensemble cast including Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sigourney Weaver. It is the first in the Avatar film series. It is set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are colonizing Pandora, a lush habitable moon, in order to mine the valuable mineral unobtanium. The expansion of the mining colony threatens the existence of a local tribe of Na'vi, a humanoid species indigenous to Pandora. The title of the film refers to an "avatar", which is a genetically engineered Na'vi body remotely operated from the brain of a human, and which is used to interact with the Na'vi.

1942 film directed by Michael Curtiz

1977 film directed by George Lucas

1999 film directed by George Lucas

1998 animated film directed by Barry Cook and Tony Bancroft

1980 American epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner

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.

1957 film directed by David Lean

1996 film directed by Roland Emmerich

Avatar: The Way of Water is a 2022 American epic science fiction film directed by James Cameron and written by Cameron, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. It is the second installment in the Avatar film series and the sequel to Avatar (2009). Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña and Stephen Lang reprise their roles from the first film, with Sigourney Weaver returning in an additional role and Kate Winslet joining the cast. The plot follows Jake Sully, a human-Na'vi hybrid, and his family on the habitable moon Pandora. Hunted by RDA forces, they flee to an oceanic region to seek refuge with the Metkayina clan.

1960 film directed by Stanley Kubrick

2017 film directed by Rian Johnson

2009 film directed by McG

2016 film directed by Gareth Edwards

2014 film directed by David Ayer

1970 film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner

1988 film directed by Peter MacDonald

2006 film by Clint Eastwood

2000 film directed by Roland Emmerich

2003 film directed by Anthony Minghella

1997 film directed by Paul Verhoeven

1957 film directed by Stanley Kubrick

1962 war film

2017 film directed by Matt Reeves

1961 US film by Stanley Kramer

2008 film by Dave Filoni

2002 film directed by Randall Wallace

2012 film directed by Peter Berg

1971 film directed by Robert Stevenson

2023 film directed by Gareth Edwards

1967 UK-US film directed by Robert Aldrich

1944 film by Howard Hawks

2016 film directed by Oliver Stone

1984 film directed by John Milius

2008 film directed by Edward Zwick

2007 film directed by Doug Lefler

2019 film directed by Roland Emmerich

2012 science-fiction comedy film by Timo Vuorensola

1943 US partly-animated Disney film

2003 film by Antoine Fuqua

2013 film directed by Peter Berg

1986 film by Clint Eastwood

1941 biographical film directed by Howard Hawks

1953 film by Billy Wilder

2010 film directed by Neil Marshall

1984 film by Joseph Zito

1983 film directed by Nicholas Meyer

1976 film by John Sturges

1970 film directed by Ted Post

1949 film by Henry King

1958 film directed by Edward Dmytryk

1969 British film by Guy Hamilton

1969 film by Veljko Bulajić

2012 war film directed by Dan Bradley

Windtalkers is a 2002 American war film directed and co-produced by John Woo, starring Nicolas Cage and Adam Beach, with Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich, Mark Ruffalo, and Christian Slater in supporting roles. It is based on the real story of code talkers from the Navajo nation during World War II.

1965 film by Ken Annakin

1964 film directed by Cy Endfield

2016 film directed by Sean Ellis

2021 film directed by Chris McKay

1996 film directed by Edward Zwick