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These are my favorite WW2 movies. dubya dubya deuce was a tough one. The good guys won and these are the movies to remind us of that.

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Rank   Name Release Directed by Genre(s) Actor(s)
  1. 1
    1998
    Steven Spielberg
    Drama, History, Action, War
    Paul Giamatti, Dennis Farina, Demetri Goritsas, Steve Griffin, Julian Spencer, Markus Napier, Tom Hanks, Vin Diesel, Barry Pepper, Nathan Fillion, Daniel Cerqueira, Tom Sizemore, Matt Damon, Ian Porter, Giovanni Ribisi, Jeremy Davies, Adam Shaw, Bryan Cranston, Gary Sefton, Rolf Saxon, Dylan Bruno, Edward Burns, Ted Danson, William Marsh, Anna Maguire , Max Martini, Adam Goldberg, Joerg Stadler, Marc Cass More
  2. 2
    1967
    Robert Aldrich
    Action, War
    Richard Jaeckel, Robert Webber, Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes, Robert Ryan, Donald Sutherland, Ernest Borgnine, Jim Brown, Clint Walker, George Kennedy, Ralph Meeker, Telly Savalas, Trini López More
  3. 3
    1957
    David Lean
    Drama, Adventure, War
    Ann Sears, M. R. B. Chakrabandhu, William Holden, John Boxer, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Peter Williams, Harold Goodwin, André Morell, Geoffrey Horne, Percy Herbert, Keiichiro Katsumoto, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Heihachirô Ôkawa More
  4. 4
    2001
    Jean-Jacques Annaud
    Drama, Period piece, Thriller, Action, Romance Film, Historical fiction, War, Suspense More
    Ivan Shvedoff, Joseph Fiennes, Sophie Rois, Ed Harris, Hans Martin Stier, Matthias Habich, Dana Cebulla, Ron Perlman, Eva Mattes, Gabriel Thomson, Jude Law, Mario Bandi, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins, Robert Stadlober, Dan van Husen More
  5. 5
    1942
    Michael Curtiz
    Drama, Black-and-white, Romance Film, War, Romantic drama, Drama Film, Airplanes and airports More
    John Qualen, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Dooley Wilson, Paul Panzer, Helmut Dantine, Humphrey Bogart, Leonid Kinskey, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Lou Marcelle, Madeleine LeBeau, Conrad Veidt, S.Z. Sakall, Joy Page More
  6. 6
    1970
    Franklin Schaffner
    Drama, Biography, Action, Action/Adventure, Biographical film, War, Epic, New Hollywood More
    Carey Loftin, Douglas O. Williams, Abraxas Aaran, Richard Münch, Ed Binns, Don Bassman, Michael Strong, George C. Scott, Albert Dumortier, Karl Michael Vogler, Siegfried Rauch, Michael Bates, Stephen Young, Gerald Flood, Karl Malden, Frank Latimore, Morgan Paull, Jack Gwillim, John Barrie, Tim Considine More
  7. 7
    2009
    Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth
    Drama, Thriller, Action/Adventure, Black comedy, War
    Maggie Cheung, Samuel L. Jackson, Omar Doom, Diane Kruger, B. J. Novak, Daniel Brühl, Julie Dreyfus, Til Schweiger, Sylvester Groth, Samm Levine, Christian Berkel, Quentin Tarantino, Mike Myers, Christoph Waltz, Mélanie Laurent, Michael Fassbender, Ludger Pistor, Rod Taylor, Gedeon Burkhard, Brad Pitt, Jacky Ido, Enzo G. Castellari, Paul Rust, Jana Pallaske, Eli Roth, Léa Seydoux More
  8. 8
    1963
    John Sturges
    Drama, History, Action, Adventure, War
    Robert Graf, Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Hannes Messemer, James Donald, Gordon Jackson, John Leyton, Donald Pleasence, Angus Lennie, Nigel Stock, Richard Attenborough, David McCallum, James Garner, Charles Bronson, Jud Taylor More
  9. 9
    1990
    Michael Caton-Jones
    Drama, War, Airplanes and airports
    Matthew Modine, Reed Diamond, David Strathairn, Tate Donovan, Sean Astin, Harry Connick, Jr., Courtney Gains, John Lithgow, Ben Browder, Eric Stoltz, D. B. Sweeney, Billy Zane, Neil Giuntoli More
  10. 10
    1995
    Robert Markowitz, Robert Markowitz
    Drama, Action, War
    Laurence Fishburne, Vivica A. Fox, Mekhi Phifer, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Courtney B. Vance, John Lithgow, Allen Payne, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Andre Braugher, Christopher McDonald More
  11. 11
    1991
    Joe Johnston
    Fantasy, Period piece, Family, Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, Action/Adventure, Superhero movie, Airplanes and airports More
    Billy Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Lauter, Paul Sorvino, Timothy Dalton, Tiny Ron Taylor, Jon Polito, Alan Arkin, Terry O'Quinn, Melora Hardin More
  12. 12
    2011
    Joe Johnston
  13. 13
    1981
    Steven Spielberg
    Action, Adventure, Action/Adventure, Airplanes and airports, New Hollywood More
    Anthony Higgins, William Hootkins, George Harris, Pat Roach, Bill Reimbold, Vic Tablian, Denholm Elliott, Don Fellows, Ronald Lacey, Alfred Molina, Karen Allen, Harrison Ford, Paul Freeman, Wolf Kahler, John Rhys-Davies More
  14. 14
    1989
    Steven Spielberg
    Action, Adventure
    Paul Maxwell, Richard Young, Kevork Malikyan, Pat Roach, Denholm Elliott, Julian Glover, Alison Doody, Michael Byrne, Alex Hyde-White, Harrison Ford, River Phoenix, Isla Blair, Robert Eddison, Alexei Sayle, Sean Connery, John Rhys-Davies More
  15. 15
    1981
    Wolfgang Petersen
    Drama, History, Thriller, Action/Adventure, War, World cinema
    Erwin Leder, Jürgen Prochnow, Bernd Tauber, Jan Fedder, Claude-Oliver Rudolph, Klaus Wennemann, Herbert Grönemeyer, Joachim Bernhard, Oliver Stritzel, Hubertus Bengsch, Heinz Hoenig, Martin May, Ralf Richter, Martin Semmelrogge, Uwe Ochsenknecht More
  16. 16
    2000
    Jonathan Mostow
    Thriller, Action, Action/Adventure, War
    Derk Cheetwood, Dave Power, Bill Paxton, Jon Bon Jovi, TC Carson, Jack Noseworthy, Robin Askwith, Erik Palladino, Matthew McConaughey, Will Estes, David Keith, Harvey Keitel, Thomas Kretschmann, Tom Guiry, Matthew Settle, Jake Weber More

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